The week’s most absurd soccer moments

By Sam Patterson

We legitimately cringed when Laura Bassett’s poor touch in stoppage time sent Japan to the World Cup final. [source: /u/DannyOcean148]

When Portugal’s Sporting introduced Jorge Jesus as its new manager, there should have been a collective sigh of relief that he wouldn’t be taking over warm-up dancer duties as well. Bonus points for the terrifying lion. [source: reddit]

Carlos Zambrano went for broke on the back of Chile’s Charles Aranguíz. [source: streamable]

Jeison Murillo showed why he’s a center back for Colombia and not their iceman penalty taker. [source: youtube]

Turin can expect a rise in the amount of children needing psychiatric help after Juventus and Adidas released this commercial previewing the kit for 2015–16. Watch the whole advertisement at the source. [source: Adidas]