Repeat offender!

For more info on the general failure of FIFA, there's this quick read on Grantland. He comes up with an alternative World XI that is not only much more cosmopolitan than the official offering, it's superior. I like that the writer took it a different direction and included Gervinho. Gervinho's primary skill as a footballer is to haunt my nightmares by blowing chances for my favorite team. So that was funny in a sharp-kick-in-the-balls sort of way.

I already posted this video but it was taken down. So here it is again.
Yes it's an injury time goal in a friendly where his team was already up a couple goals, but it's still quite good.



Unrelated:Alabama spanked Notre Dame for the "National Championship" in the NFL's minor leagues. I had read somewhere that Notre Dame led the country in graduation rate. Any time a school leads the country in graduation rate and they're playing an elite SEC school that doesn't give a shit about graduating players you can safely bet SEC team to cover. Athletes will kick the hell out of student-athletes almost every time.