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By SEAN RUBIO
Welcome to Monday's installment of SBI's Recommended Reading. Today we are truly world-wide, with stories coming in from Peru to Ghana. Sit back, relax, and take some time out of your Monday to embrace some stories from this past weekend:
Ball-boys running amok in Argentina in two separate incidents [Reuters UK]
Swine flu leaves Mexican soccer stadiums empty [AP]
Impossible 45-meter slide-tackle goal from Karlsruhe's Sebastian Langkamp [YouTube]
The San Martin phenomenon – A small club getting attention in Peru [BBC Sport]
A stylistic analysis of the "Panenka" – the soft chip penalty kick [The Run Of Play]
Ghana coach has his eye on Nyarko [Chicago Tribune]
Happy to see the continued rise of FC United? Prefer a hard driven penalty to a Panenka? Glad to see more young MLS talent getting interest from their national teams?
Share your thoughts below.
that slide tackle goal was crazy! Always cool when you score and you had no intention of it!!
Ditto above
great stuff!!! i love this new section of the blog… always something interesting.
A. Ruiz, funny stuff.
I love those types of goals. The ball moved almost all the way across the goal.
Ives,
I just wanted to say great job on this site. I’ve been following it for about a year now and it just keeps getting better! I really like this new Recommended Reading section. Great stuff!
LOL, yeah why would Nyarko want to play with Ghana over the US. Michael Essien……..pffft, who the **** is that?
I like the Panenka. Not every time, for variety – it’s the spice.
That goal is why I love soccer. You just never know…
FC United goin’ to the ship!!!!
Re: Prefer a hard driven penalty to a Panenka?
Yes.
I thought Nyarko said that he would play for Ghana only if he knew certain the USMNT would never call him up.
Nyarko is gonna be a star. He just needs to realize that he can be the Number 1 option and doesn’t have to pander to McGod and Blanco when it comes to touches.
I remember Jason Cundy scoring a similar goal for Spurs some years ago. It was even further away than that.
Ives, Breaking News: Mexico cancels the rest of the CONCACAF U-17 Championships. Semifinals were supposed to be played Wednesday. However, everyone has qualified already so there’s no reason to risk the players:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/27/AR2009042702411.html
Canada failed to qualify again