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A Severed Pig's Head, a Friend's Dead Body and Other Things Not to Bring to a Soccer Game
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsYou can add the dead guy at a pro game in Colombia last weekend to a list of crazy behavior by soccer fans at games. In the now infamous story, fans in Colombia stole the body of a murdered friend from a funeral home and took his corpse to the stadium to cheer on their favorite team -- a whole new twist on Pro Zombie Soccer. Christopher Jacome, 17, was shot and killed on Saturday while playing soccer in his local park. The following day, friends took his coffin and carried it into the 42,000-capacity General Santander Stadium in Cucuta for a match between Cucuta Deportivo and Envigado. It ...
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Soccer Player Apologizes for Kicking and Killing Owl [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsA soccer player is trying to convince fans in Colombia that he gives a hoot after kicking and killing an owl that was a mascot for a rival team. Luis Moreno, a defender for the Deportivo Pereira team, booted a live owl that landed on the field during a game over the weekend, The Telegraph reports. The bird -- which had been stunned after being hit by the soccer ball moments before -- was a mascot for the Atletico Junior squad. Fans of Atletico Junior have been calling Moreno a "murderer," and the Panamanian player may face legal ramifications for kicking the bird. "My family is very ...
Buffalo Billionaire to Sponsor Ragtag British Soccer Team
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsAn American billionaire is spending part of his family fortune saving a lowly English soccer team from possible extinction. Bob Rich has bought into the Bedlington Terriers, a team near the Scottish border that competes in the ninth tier of English soccer in front of about 60 fans. The 70-year-old native of Buffalo, N.Y., and chairman of frozen food giant Rich Products Corp. became interested in the Terriers when he discovered he was a descendant of a Lord of Bedlington, according to The New York Times. Americans investing in top English soccer clubs is not new. Malcolm Glazer owns ...
Opinion: What Can Soccer Teach Us About Fighting Terrorism?
By Lionel Beehner - AOL NewsYou have to hand it to the Russian government. Just as the United States scrapped its widely mocked color-coded threat-level system, Duma lawmakers have adopted a near replica in response to a suicide bombing at the Domodedovo Airport that killed 40 people. Moscow has not grasped the sheer inanity of such a ridiculous system. Like American lawmakers after 9/11, they seem to be more interested in creating the appearance of being tough on terrorism than in actually keeping Russians safe and secure. But could such efforts actually make them, and us, less safe? Consider what Israeli scientists ...
Space Fashion Beams Down to Brazil
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsIt may be 2011, but at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil this past weekend, it looked more like the year 2111 with a flock of futuristic fashions hitting the runway. One of the spaciest high-fashion ensembles on the catwalk came from Brazilian fashion house Amapo, owned by eclectic young designers Carolina Gold and Pitty Taliani. A pale, slightly disheveled model strutted her stuff wearing a dress covered in metallic 3-D prisms that appeared to have been made from some sort of shiny and sturdy cardboard material. ...
Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska: 5 Facts on the Playboy Model Who's Running a Polish Soccer Team
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIzabela Lukomska-Pyzalska, a former Playboy cover star, has been tapped to run the Warta Poznan soccer team. The news has rippled far beyond Poznan, an industrial city in western Poland. Its soccer club has been struggling and is third from last in its division. Surge Desk has five facts about the model who's trying to get her team back in the game. 1. She's tough Polish soccer players and their fans are a notoriously macho lot. But Lukomska-Pyzalska says she's not worried, since she's worked in the real estate and construction industry for the past five years. "That's hardly a woman's ...
No Sex for Gays at Qatar World Cup? Was FIFA Chief Joking?
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Gay soccer fans unsure about attending the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal, should rest assured that they can attend the games ... as long as they refrain from sex, that is. That's according to FIFA chief Sepp Blatter, who stuck his foot in his mouth at a press conference in Johannesburg when he suggested jokingly that gays would be welcome at the games but should "refrain from any sexual activities" while in Qatar. Blatter did say that he wanted the World Cup to be inclusive. "We don't want racism, we don't want any discrimination. What we want to do is ...
Qatari Parents Name New Daughter 'Fifa' After World Cup Bid Win
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(Dec. 13) -- Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup has inspired soccer-crazy local parents to name their new daughter after the sport's world governing body. The new parents named their baby daughter "Fifa" in tribute to the Federation Internationale de Football Association, soccer's Swiss-based top administrative organization. The unnamed mother told local newspaper Al Raya she gave birth to baby Fifa on Dec. 2, the same day Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup. Osama Faisal, AP Qataris react in the streets of Doha on Dec. 2 after the announcement that Qatar will host ...
Qatar: Pros and Cons of the 2022 World Cup Site
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 2) -- The small Middle Eastern nation of Qatar has beat out Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States to win hosting rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the FIFA Executive Committee announced today. Shortly after the news broke, fans and sports analysts around the world began debating the wisdom of the decision letting Qatar, a nation of fewer than 2 million people, play host to the world's most popular sporting event. Surge Desk offers a look at key points being discussed across the Web. The lay of the land Qatar is about the same geographic size as Rhode Island, and the ...
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