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Germany defeated the United States, 1-0, in Thursday’s highly-anticipated World Cup match in a rain-soaked Recife, Brazil.

John Brooks scored on a header in the 86th minute, and the United States beat Ghana, 2-1, in the teams' first game of 2014 FIFA World Cup play at Natal, Brazil on Monday.

The World Cup is bound to captivate an excited global audience, but chances are it can't provide the oohs and ahhs this commercial does.

You know the stereotype that soccer fans are violent? Well, a recent match in Brazil has done nothing to dispute that.

One of the most popular sports around the world, soccer (or should we say, football) is super fun to watch. And any soccer fan knows that the only thing more amusing than a sick goal is an epic soccer fail. Check out some great GIFs of what can only be described as total fails. You've never seen soccer like this before!

Everyone knows you can’t use your hands in soccer, but that’s causing quite a stir in New York City.

In the heat of athletic competition, high school athletes can lose their cool from time to time. That's exactly what happened to one high school soccer player in Utah who decided to knee her opponent right in the face.

It is always the most nail biting moment of any sports competition and the event has even begun. 11 year-old Harper Gruzins got her first taste of national media attention and just how mean it can be. See the video of what she did!

Eighteen-year-old Brianna Amat of Pinckney, Michigan is a former soccer player who found her stellar kicking skills were better utilized on the varsity football team. During Friday night’s game, she was called from the locker room at half-time to accept a crown. The popular senior had been voted Pinckney High School’s homecoming queen.

A squirrel ran onto the field at a women’s soccer match this weekend in what was either an attempt to either make the team or ask one of the women out on a date. If it’s the former, he didn’t help his cause by running around in circles and then laying down. If it was the latter, well he was darn adorable, so one of the ladies might say yes.

The legendary passion of the European soccer fan isn’t just for the young, apparently. This aged spectator at a Dutch Second Division (minor league) match was so irate that the ref had showed the home team six yellow cards in a four-to-three loss that he stormed the pitch with his mobility scooter and then twice rammed into the offending official.  Checking out the low-speed assault below. Read M

Viviana Angulo, a sideline reporter in Costa Rica, ended her interview with soccer player Wilson Munoz by dropping trou, turning around, and asking Munoz to autograph her thonged-bottom.