Category Archives: Soccer

Drunk Referee in a soccer match

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Maybe someone spiked his water bottle with vodka and he just didn’t give a shit.

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Referee Sergei Shmolik was helped off the field with back pain while officiating a Belarus league match, but later was shown to be drunk.

In TV footage shown Wednesday on Russian television, Shmolik staggered as he was helped off the field at the end of Saturday’s match.

The Belarusian sports Web site Presball reported that the crowd in Vitebsk stadium, where the local team was hosting Naftan, was amused with the referee’s strange behavior through the second half.

Shmolik was hardly moving by the end of the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw, officiating from the central circle by the end of the game.

Presball said Shmolik got help after the match but later was taken to the hospital for a test, which showed high levels of alcohol in his system.

The Belarus football federation said Shmolik’s case will be subject to a disciplinary committee.

I have decided to coach a kids soccer team

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So, I have finally lost my mind. I have decided to take up coaching. I made a promise to myself 8 years ago that when my son turned 8, I would coach his soccer team. Well, here we are. I haven’t coached in 13 years. My last coaching stint was an assistant coach for the Saint John High soccer team and that was as a goalkeeper coach. I am looking forward to this though as it will have me spending more time with Alexander and I will have to remember not to be hard on him. I remember watching coach/son relationships and they were usually pretty ugly.

I can remember when I was 16 and we lost a game 1-0 and the coach turned around to his son and said, “It’s your fault.”

The son replied, “how could that be my fault? I wasn’t even on the field when they scored.”

The coaches response was classic, “Well, if you were playing better, then I would not had to take you off and they would not have scored.”

Alexander and Dad 2004 Alexander 2007

First soccer riot on Canadian soil

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What is a world soccer event without a soccer riot? Most of the time, it’s drunken fans causing the fights. This time around, it was undisciplined Chilean team members after a 3-0 defeat to South American soccer power and nemesis Argentina.

“All of a sudden, we looked over and there was a big brawl that breaks out, between four or five people,” Denette said. “Next thing you know, the bus just unloads and there’s eight, 10 players come off the bus and there’s just fists flying everywhere, between the cops, the security guards, a couple of ladies were involved that were security.

“It looked like a big dogfight. People throwing fists and cops with their billy clubs out and then all of a sudden it got out of control and a police officer grabbed his Taser gun and Tasered someone — I don’t know if he was a player or if he was part of the team. As soon as that happened, it got even worse.”

A window of the bus carrying Chile’s team was smashed and the bus was later towed away.

“We heard this big bang … it was just commotion after commotion after commotion,” Denette said.

Article from CBC.ca

Greek fan dies in soccer violence, fan clubs suspended

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And Greeks wonder why they never get to host any soccer events. Ah, maybe it’s cause your fans are lunatics!

Greece suspends fan clubs after violence
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – All Greek soccer supporters’ clubs were suspended Tuesday, and league organizers escaped with a warning after last week’s deadly fan violence.

The measures were announced by the government following clashes between fans of Greece’s two largest clubs – Panathinaikos and Olympiakos. Thursday’s violence left one fan dead and prompted a two-week ban on all professional team sport matches.

“This will remain in effect … until a new law is approved, and measures allowing surveillance cameras at stadiums and all match-ticket sales to identifiable with individual fans,” deputy minister for sport Giorgos Orfanos said.

Those measures are due to take effect next season – a year later than originally planned.

“We have all decided to join the fight against violence in sport. The government is determined to see these measures through,” Orfanos said.

League organizers also agreed to stop distributing tickets directly to supporters’ clubs and to help authorities shut down fan organizations operating without a license.

Similar restrictions were imposed on basketball and volleyball clubs.

Clubs had been threatened with playing for the rest of the season in empty stadiums unless they complied, local media reports said.

The government imposed the two-week ban on all professional team sports Friday after fans from Panathinaikos and Olympiakos were involved in bloody clashes a day earlier outside a women’s volleyball game.

Both clubs have teams in soccer, basketball and other sports, and rival supporters in the past have clashed at various sporting events.

Panathinaikos fan Michalis Filopoulos, 25, died while he was being transported to a hospital after sustaining multiple stab wounds and head injuries from blows with a baseball bat.

Eighteen fans were arrested after the clashes, 12 under blanket felony charges that include murder. The six other suspects were arrested on lesser charges, and five of them have been released pending trial.

League organizers said they agreed with the crackdown on supporters’ clubs.

“Everything must change, we’re all in agreement on that,” PAS Giannina Alexis Kouyias chairman said. “There will be a new legal framework which will not allow for this kind of violent behaviour to develop … Something must be done to jolt the public.”

When Goalkeepers Score

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From 70 yards away, goalkeeper Robinson takes a free kick. The defender at the other end dummies the play (acts like he will clear the ball but doesn’t) psyching out his own keeper and the ball goes into the net.

This was Robinson’s second English Premier League goal. Here is the first.

And who could forget his international Own Goal (Scored on himself.)

FIFA: No player can wear a head scarf on the field

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I can remember a player had to either change his boxers or get off the field because the boxers were not part of the uniform. If they had been the same colour as the shorts or top, they would have been okay. Like most sports, soccer is strict about the uniform. I am glad to see FIFA stand their ground

TSN : SOCCER – Canadas Sports Leader
MANCHESTER, England AP – Soccers legislators have ruled that no player can wear a head scarf on the field.

The International Football Association Board was asked at its annual meeting Saturday to adjudicate on a decision to ban an 11-year-old Ottawa Muslim girl from playing in a tournament near Montreal last weekend because she was wearing a head scarf.