Football players sometimes celebrate scoring by sliding on their knees or chests, but this Lebanese player, Mohamad Ghaddar, took advantage of the field’s poor condition and took a dive right into one of the water spots caused by the rain!
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Cesc Fabregas supports the Free Patriotic Movement?
A photo of Cesc Fabregas making the “L” sign with his fingers surfaces, and next thing you know he made it because he supports the Free Patriotic Movement after his Lebanese girlfriend told him about Michael Aoun! You can read all about it here.
I’d love to know which genius made that up.
Tamanna & Le Mall grant Charlie a trip to Barcelona
There was clapping and cheering, laughter and blushing faces. Moukarzel’s mother and father wiped away tears and smiles broke across their faces. Moukarzel is going on a free trip to Barcelona to watch his favorite team and favorite player Lionel Messi.
Moukarzel is a passionate Barcelona fan: He has memorized Barcelona’s games and Messi’s goals. Moukarzel is also afflicted with a chronic, degenerative disease that has him wheelchair bound and robbed of his normal speech. His prognosis is grim.
A group that helps children with critical illnesses, Tamanna, asked Moukarzel last month what he wanted to do above anything else. He said he wanted to see Messi play.
“Is there anything else?” they asked. “Messi,” he repeated. Just Messi. Source
Video shot by Pascale Ucef
Lebanese football referee gets attacked by players!
WTF!!
As if Lebanon needed more scandals and ugly incidents, this outrageous uncivilized act against a referee in a football match came to add salt to the wound. The referee did not give Al Nahda Club a penalty in the added time of the second half against Al Salam Zgharta, and the players went crazy chasing him all across the pitch. The video here doesn’t show more of the attack but it gives you an enough idea about what happened.
via Figo29
Don’t miss Lebanon vs. Qatar game today
Don’t miss following the world cup qualifying game between our national team and Qatar today at 4:45PM Beirut time. This is a quite important one as it can seriously increase our chance to qualify to the world cup in case we won.
If you’re wondering how will our chances be affected in case of a win or loss, here’s how figo29 put it:
I will keep things simple and put the math first, so that no one would panic in case of a loss:
- A win against Qatar will put Lebanon on equal terms with Korea Republic = 80% chance of going to World Cup 2014
- A draw will keep Lebanon at the bottom of the group = 40% chance of going to World Cup 2014
- A loss will change nothing = 20% chance of making it to World Cup 2014
The game will be broadcasted on Al-Jazeera sports and I guess all major news sites will be posting the important updates in realtime.
Update:
We unfortunately lost 0-1 to Qatar and we now have very little chance to advance to the world cup.
Reda Antar’s goal against Iran
You can also watch highlights from the game here.
Mabrouk Lebanon!
So we did it and defeated Iran tonight!!
Lebanon stunned Iran 1-0 today to claim their first ever win against the regional giants and raise hopes of gaining a shock 2014 FIFA World Cup™ berth.
China-based midfielder Roda Antar headed home a free-kick on 28 minutes for Lebanon’s famous victory, in front of their home fans in Beirut, which lifted them off the bottom of Group A. Source
After playing 4 games we now have 4 points which is as much as Iran and Qatar have, except that they have played 3 games so far and therefore have one game in hand. You can check the standings here.
Our team still has 4 more games remaining with the next one being against Qatar on November 14th.
Shit Lebanese say about football
Fans will be allowed to attend Lebanon – Qatar game
AlJadeed News just reported a while ago that the government has decided to draw back its previous decision to ban people from attending the upcoming world cup qualifying game between Lebanon and Qatar.
We may now cheer out national team the way we should. All the luck to the players!
Lebanon – Qatar game to be played without fans!
Looks like the upcoming World Cup qualifying game between Lebanon and Qatar at Beirut Sports City is going to be played without fans. That’s what the government has announced today in fear that possible chants against Qatar might threaten the relation between the two countries!
As if banning fans from attending games between the local teams was not enough, not they’re banned from international games as well! Why do Lebanese politics have to mess up everything in this country?