Sporting Kansas City defeated the New York Red Bulls 2-1 in the U.S. Open Cup final on Wednesday night at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. The result really was never in question, not because KC was playing at home or had won two of the last five Cups, but because Kei Kamara.
Move aside Sydney Leroux and Dom Dwyer, Jozy Altidore and Sloane Stephens are the new hot couple in American sports.
The two childhood friends have reportedly been dating for at least a couple months and both had big wins on Saturday. Stephens won her first grand slam by taking down Madison Keys 6-3, 6-0 in the U.S. Open. Altidore scored a brace in Toronto FC’s 4-0 victory over San Jose.
Ahh summer. Warm sunshine, no school, beaches, vacations, international B teams competing for second-rate trophies and, of course, weddings.
It’s wedding season in the soccer world and trophy husbands are being tied down by women left and right.
Lionel Messi is tying the knot (and eating empanadas) on Friday, so a couple English Premier League stars got hitched this past weekend so as not to be overshadowed by he-who-overshadows-everything in soccer.
The image of football players at wild parties with crazy girls is reinforced every generation. What few of us might know, however, is that this image does not fit every star player. Off the field, the nicest footballers in the world maintain lasting romances with girlfriends and wives. They form couples, even in adolescence, when they were still in youth teams. The most popular player today, Lionel Messi met his wife Antonella Roccuzzo when he was just a promising young boy from the lowland areas of Argentina.
Exeter City's David Wheeler owes his girlfriend some flowers and chocolates and other assorted gifts for what happened this weekend before, during and after Exeter's League Two match against Northampton Town.
Wheeler sent an errant warm-up shot into the stands, where it hit his girlfriend, Alice Woodyatt, breaking her wrist.
Here's the crazy part: she stayed to watch the whole match before going to the doctor.
Do you remember where you were when Brazil won the 1994 World Cup? I was three years old, so I could have been anywhere, literally anywhere in my house. However that’s not important, because Brazilian legend Romario knows exactly where he was: on the pitch, lifting the trophy. And as charming as it is to reminisce about his 5 goal performance in that tournament, we need to stick to our original question, because Dixie Pratt has no idea where she was when Brazil won the World Cup in 1994.
OK. We know what you're thinking. What do the Instagram accounts of the wives and girlfriends of famous soccer players have to do with actual soccer?
To this we say, who cares? We've scoured the social-sphere to find the best-of-the-best when it comes to the beautiful wives and girlfriends of the top soccer players in the world - and, who knows, maybe if you follow one of these ladies on Instagram, from time to time you'll catch a photo of a famous player as well.