People who don't get soccer always start by saying it's boring because nobody ever scores, because too many games end 1-nil, because there are long, long stretches where it looks like nothing is going on except a lot of pointless kicking of the ball back and forth.
As one of my wittier non-soccer-getting friends likes to call the sport: Hey, Kick Me The Ball.
Of course, he's a baseball fan, which compels me to point out that all of the above also describes many of Max Scherzer's starts for the Nationals. Lots of 1-nils when Scherzer gets the ball, too, and lots of nothing going on but guys swinging and missing.
At any rate ... I used to think soccer was Hey, Kick Me The Ball, too.
Then Toni Kroos of Germany comes along and does this.
Yeah. That's just ... yeah.
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