Euro 2016: The IceMan Cometh – And Conquereth

Fairy tales and Heartbreak in Nice at the Allianz Riviera. Giant Killer and Cinderella stories abound!

Golden Foot Voting

For those of you interested in voting for random football awards, you still can for the Golden Foot aka Best Player of the Year Award until August 31, 2014.

World Cup 2014: Movie-Inspired Posters of World Cup Stars

Cristiano Ronaldo
Superpower: Balance. Power. Vision. The quickest in the game. A one-on-one and free kick specialist. And one of the top 2 players of the world.
Position: Forward

Digitally Inspired Media, an India-based marketing and advertising agency, has created eight graphic posters in honour of eight 2014 World Cup Stars.

Nike Football: The Last Game

I love this great animation from Nike’s “Risk Everything” campaign featuring both Ronaldos (Original Recipe & Crispy), Neymar, Wayne Rooney, Zlatan, Timmy Howard, David Luiz,  Iniesta and Franck Ribery.  Especially the part with their “post-football” careers. I got some major giggle fits over that.

– Lozil

Wednesday Training & More From The Galaxy 11 Crew

The boys got themselves in some rather acrobatic positions today. Iker was hopping mini hurdles while Casemiro & Illara practiced their high kicks.

Nike Soccer: Winner Stays

Nike released this fantastic video today that features Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr., Wayne Rooney, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Gerard Piqué, Gonzalo Higuaín, Mario Götze, Eden Hazard, Thiago Silva, Andrea Pirlo, David Luiz, Andrés Iniesta, Thibaut Courtois, Tim Howard and in a cameo, Irina Shayk. It’s absolutely fantastic. Enjoy!

– Lozil

Saturday Bits & Bobs: Missing Marcelo, Happy Families & PDA

I’ve been missing Marcelo a lot lately. It’s going to suck to see our boys divided on the pitch tomorrow but such is the nature of national team duty.

Fantastic Footy Artists….

Cristiano Ronaldo By Richard Swarbrick (@RikkiLeaks)

I stumbled over a gallery of fantastic footy art over on the Telegraph last week. Banding together under the name of Fantasista, the artists will be having an opening (location TBA) this spring in Central London. You canvisit their website or follow them on Twitter for more details. When available, the artist’s Twitter handle has been included so that you can check out some of their other work.

The Daily Drool – Drool Amnesty: Wayne Rooney

And so it begins… Welcome to the First Annual Drool Amnesty! As we originally said in our call for suggestions: “We all have a player we secretly have the hots for and hate ourselves for it. It may be team affiliation, general craziness, horrible personality, whatever… But during Drool Amnesty, feel free to love unconditionally, without shame or judgement.”

So we begin with Manchester United’s Wazza, who was a suggestion by quite a few of you! He’s the particular love of watishista and Brooklyn  Sweaty Shanks Pena member J-9, so I absolutely had to feature him. She loves him despite the Shrek comparisons, hookers and hair plugs. That, my friends, is the essence of Drool Amnesty. And of course, he sure can play pretty.

UPDATED: The Daily Drool – Epic Bromance Month: Cristiano Ronaldo & Wayne Rooney

This is another ‘back in the day’ bromance but these two will be meeting up again in the Champions League. They make a rather odd couple don’t they? Pretty Boy & Shrek. But they both play like a house on fire.