WORLD CUP TRAINING VIDEO OF THE DAY
Okay, so the voiceover mutters something about 2004, but we don't care.
(Thanks to Peggy)
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This must be how the US team trains.
Posted by: fudtheman | June 30, 2006 at 11:38 AM
"AMAZING!"
(I hope - my firewall is blocking me....stooopid firewall)
Posted by: Punkin Poo | June 30, 2006 at 11:39 AM
And this is why they ban drugs from sports.
Posted by: Somewhere North | June 30, 2006 at 11:39 AM
This is so true it's embarassing. (Though it's not just the US. They all do this because it works. Usually.)
Posted by: Brainy Jello | June 30, 2006 at 11:40 AM
Somebody please 'splain. Me and Punkin must have the same firewall.
Posted by: blurkernomore | June 30, 2006 at 11:40 AM
Special guest coach: Allen Iverson.
Posted by: Wendi with an "i" | June 30, 2006 at 11:42 AM
it SAYS it's the italians. ;)
Posted by: judi | June 30, 2006 at 11:43 AM
Blurk, Poo: It's a training video showing a couple coaches putting a team throw injury acting drills. You know - how to fall down and look injured, how to bump into someone and make it seem like they knocked you over, etc.
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 30, 2006 at 11:45 AM
I'm gonna try some of these at work. Hello workman's comp! Oh, my wrist! Ow, ow, ow!!
Posted by: Lairbo | June 30, 2006 at 11:51 AM
Blurk, Poo, imagine any Three Stooges routine and you won't be too far off. However here there are some disturbing nekkid, pink, alien looking someones lurking in the background.
Posted by: fivver | June 30, 2006 at 11:52 AM
I always suspected that taking a dive was a highly polished skill.
Posted by: Peggy | June 30, 2006 at 12:39 PM
It's an ad. The real Italian training involves learning how to hurt people.
Posted by: Neil G | June 30, 2006 at 01:07 PM
I think Portugal and Netherlands took this training as well - given the number of cards that ref handed out...
Posted by: Higgy | June 30, 2006 at 01:46 PM
I once had a schnauzer dog named Duchess. Whenever a large dog would come into our yard, she would charge across the yard and fall over "yelping" incessantly, then roll around on the grass faking an injury so that I would think that she had been injured in battle.
Posted by: Kat | June 30, 2006 at 10:59 PM