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Toddler Has Serious Soccer Skills, Gets a Professional Contract [Video]

Cue Mr. Show references: After this video of a one-and-a-half-year-old named Baerke van der Meij expertly kicking balls into a toybox went viral on YouTube last week, Dutch football club Venlose Voetbal Vereniging (VVV) offered him a “symbolic” professional contract. (As a younger lad — though not that much younger — his grandfather had played in the VVV as well.) The VVV made the following statement on the subject: “The toddler’s favourite position has not yet been determined. However, we can speak of a right-footed player with a very good kicking technique, perseverance and, importantly: football genes via his grandfather.”

(via TDW)

Psychic Octopus Predicts German World Cup Results

We’re not sure where to begin with this one. So the Oberhausen Sea Life Aquarium in Germany has an octopus named Paul. When they want to know if Germany will win a football game, they lower a couple of flag festooned boxes with mussels in them into his tank. Then they see which one he eats out of first.

Actually, the thing that made us really angry about this one is that Psychic Paul doesn’t alliterate, but apparently in German it does.

So. From the BBC:

Paul has so far correctly predicted all of Germany’s results in South Africa.

His keepers say he correctly predicted 80% of Germany’s results during the 2008 European Championship.

I just… I… Hrg.

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18 Awesome 2010 World Cup Promotions

The 2010 World Cup officially begins this morning, with Mexico’s match against South Africa kicking off at 10:00am EDT. But the road to the tournament has been long: Not only have the players been going through rigorous training and conditioning for months, but teams, countries, and companies have held some pretty out-there promotions, encompassing tech, design, and adorable soccer-playing animals.

After the jump, 18 of the 2010 World Cup’s coolest promotions:

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Google’s Nifty World Cup Easter Egg


The 2010 FIFA World Cup doesn’t officially kick off until Friday, June 11th, but it looks like Google is already ramping up for the games. If you search for the phrase ‘world cup’ on Google, in addition to returning a schedule of upcoming mascots and a notice as to which teams are playing in which groups, the usual “Goooooooooogle” at the bottom of the page is replaced with a more soccer-friendly “Gooooooooooal!”

But ‘World cup’ isn’t the only search that reveals this small Easter egg:

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