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Marco Asensio, a soccer player for Real Madrid, sat out a 3-0 win against APOEL Nicosia with an infected pimple caused by shaving his legs. The man sat out a professional sporting event, for which I assume he is paid millions of dollars, or Euros or whatever, because shaving his legs caused an infection. Shaving his legs is the reason for him missing a game. Shaving his legs!
From Sport Bible:
The 21-year old sensation missed training earlier this week and was not available for selection for Real’s 3-0 win over APOEL Nicosia at the Bernabeu last night because of a “pimple… which stopped him pulling up his socks,” as per Zinedine Zidane prior to the game.
Madrid-based outlet ABC followed up by reporting that the RCD Mallorca youth product suffered the pimple as a result of shaving his legs, which sent social media into overdrive as a result.
The one saving grace for soccer in this story is a little self-awareness and embarrassment on behalf of all soccer people from one of their own. Roy Keane, former professional soccer player and I guess some kind of soccer analyst, thinks this is as ridiculous as the rest of us do.
When his colleague, another former soccer player named Lee Dixon, admitted that leg shaving was even around back in his playing days, Keane was visibly ashamed.
I feel you, Roy.
Former San Francisco 49er Ronnie Lott had his broken pinky finger amputated in 1986 just so he could finish the season in lieu of season-ending surgery to have it repaired. Just cut it right off. And this guy is sitting out because of an infected pimple from shaving his legs.
Soccer..
[via Sport Bible]
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“Wait, so you’re telling me I can make wayyy more money than most other professional sports athletes, receive global fame outside of the US, and not have to fuck up my body that will leave me crippled and borderline retarded later in life and all I have to do is be able to handle being called a pussy for the length of my career after the insult has been overplayed already?….yeah I’ll have me some if that all day”
What you said has literally nothing to do with this guy missing a game for shaving his legs and getting an infection
You’re right. It’s about the implication and the aura of soccer’s reputation around here particularly in the comments in the past and under this column
You’re a fucking joke.
I know dude, that’s the whole point to all of this. Stay woke and whatnot
Soccer is worthless, besides for playing Fifa and drunkenly cheering on Team USA in the World Cup.
I’ll drunkenly cheer on Team USA in anything
I’ll defend soccer, as a whole, as it will forever be my favorite sport to play. That being said, I just can’t defend the guys that represent it at the highest level… the flopping, the whining, it’s all just getting ridiculous
Should’ve had Dr. Pimple Popper on the scene…
Never thought I’d see Roy Keane referenced on PGP, from a fellow proud Irishman
@Will how can you be a hockey fan and respect soccer players?
I obviously don’t respect stuff like this, but if you’ve ever watched Roy Keane (who the quote in this is from), you’d understand a bit more.
Keanos f*cking magic! He wears a magic hat!
Meanwhile, Alabama has a guy get shot in the leg on Sunday, and plays in a top 5 matchup in less than a week..
I don’t care how many people call me unenlightened, I will never see the appeal in soccer
Not sure who to make fun of as a group more, soccer players or European “men”.
I used to shave my legs/arms until the love of my life told me I looked and felt like a giant squid. Although it is 2017, so maybe she feels differently now