Owner Forces Losing Czech Team to Take Polygraph
The owner of the Brno soccer club in the Czech first division is, to say the least, frustrated with the way his team has been playing so far this year, and he wants answers for its poor performance on the pitch.
Thus Roman Pros, Brno’s boss, has demanded that players take a lie-detector test to see if they have been deliberately losing matches.
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The Attack of the Pitch Invader Like No Other
Some people begin their workday by well … doing real work: cleaning offices, painting houses, arranging important meetings. We begin ours by reporting on a Brazilian soccer match last weekend between Sao Paulo and Santos which had to be delayed slightly to clear the pitch of a cross-dressing invader.
Make Soccer Viewable, End Diving
Some sports fans in the North America debunk soccer as a boring sport in which a game, if fans are lucky, might end 1-0.
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A Soccer Hedge Fund
According to HedgeCo.net, a new hedge fund has opened that will spend its money only in soccer-related investments.
The London Nominees Football Fund has $40 million in its coffers that it intends to direct towards soccer-related investments: clubs, players, brands and franchises.
Soccer notables Bryan Robson and Carlos Alberto Torres are on board to lend their expertise to the fund.
The report states that: “Up until now, the football industry has been highly specialized and is difficult for the average investor to participate in.”
Goalkeeper Scores A Goal
Yes, as we near the start of the World Cup next week in Germany, we must
admit that soccer has a proclivity to produce an abundance of matches
which end in 0-0, or 1-0 if you’re lucky. (Not that our classic pastime of baseball is much better, especially with its tendency to show a heck of a lot more commercials.)
Martinez scored what must go down in the record books as one of the highlights
in the centuries-long history of soccer. During the 66th minute of the
match, Martinez launches a rocket from his own penalty area.
Two seconds later it descends in opposing territory
and bounces over the outstretched arms of Martinez’s counterpart
Tomasz Kuszczak. The shot gave Colombia a 2-0 lead, and they
would eventually win the game 2-1.
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