soccer
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Welcome to the Kings League, Gerard Piqué’s New Soccer ‘Circus’ Going Viral on Twitch
Getting to the Cupra Arena, home of Gerard Piqué’s Kings League, to see a face-off between a Twitch streamer and a former Real Madrid goalkeeper requires patience and a prayer. Patience because there’s a chance you’ll end up driving in circles in the middle of nowhere, and a prayer that your taxi driver won’t get…
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Premier League Soccer Teams Are Running Out of Private Jets
Over in Europe they have a different version of football where you actually use your feet to play the game. In England, the top league in this crazy sport, which you might call “soccer”, is The Premier League, and it’s facing a dire challenge right now: a shortage of private planes.
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What’s the Hardest Olympic Sport?
Let’s stipulate, first, that no Olympic sport is easy. Relaxing, kicking back, lounging around — these are not activities that will lead you to the Olympic Village. If I was an Olympian, I’d probably take issue with some physically deteriorated internet writer telling me that softball’s a relative breeze. Which is fair. But — granted…
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Heading A Soccer Ball Can Worsen Cognition For Up To 24 Hours, Study Finds
A new study of soccer players seems to show that repeated mild blows to the head can affect athletes’ brain function, at least temporarily. It found evidence that players perform worse on simple tests of eye coordination and cognition right after heading a ball than players who simply kick it around, for up to 24…