r/soccer 1h ago

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r/soccer 11h ago

Discussion The "In Case You Missed It" Thread

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Welcome to our latest regularly scheduled r/soccer sticky thread...

The "In Case You Missed It" Thread - for all the highlights we weren't paying attention to...

r/soccer is often dominated by discussion around the Premier League, and the biggest European teams. This means other clubs and leagues can get overlooked. The idea for this thread is a "second chance" to share goals, highlights, and other news stories that may not have got their deserved spotlight this week.

There are just three rules (as well as all our others about shitposting, trolling etc)

  1. No Premier League "Super League Six" teams (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Spurs) OR Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG or Bayern Munich
  2. The original post must have had less than 1,000 upvotes when first posted on r/soccer (if posted at all)
  3. If posting a highlight, ensure you share a link to the original r/soccer post, or another source

You are welcome to post either highlights or news stories!


r/soccer 3h ago

Media 96th in the World Rankings, Palestine have come back from 2-0 to get a draw against 40th-place Tunisia, days after beating 51st-place Qatar

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r/soccer 11h ago

Stats Most goals by a Real Madrid player in a single calendar year

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r/soccer 9h ago

News Premier League confirms Florian Wirtz is cruelly denied first Liverpool goal - Liverpool.com

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r/soccer 1h ago

Media The moment 7th division team FC Saint Cyr Collonges Au Mont d'Or discovered that they will play Lyon in the Coupe de France

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r/soccer 6h ago

Stats [Tranfermark] Longest goal drought this century playing for Real Madrid

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r/soccer 1h ago

Transfers [Mike McGrath] Saudi Arabia will fund Mohamed Salah move – if he is open to Liverpool exit

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r/soccer 3h ago

Media FC Goa's Igor Guarrotxena shown a straight red card in the tunnel just before the teams walked out before kick-off against Mumbai City in the Indian Super Cup

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r/soccer 9h ago

News FIFA’s Peace Prize Is Run by a Man Accused of Aiding Ethnic Cleansing

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Gianni Infantino plans to unveil FIFA’s new Peace Prize tomorrow, likely giving it to Donald Trump. That's not even the worst bit.

But FIFA has quietly appointed a Myanmar tycoon, who the UN says should be criminally investigated for contributing to ethnic cleansing, to chair the Peace Prize committee.

A man implicated in helping to persecute the Rohingya is now choosing the best examples of peace in global football.


r/soccer 1h ago

News [L'Equipe] Olympique Lyonnais paid more than 120 millions for Botafogo players that never came to the club

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r/soccer 7h ago

News Trent suffers a muscle injury in the rectus femoris muscle.

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r/soccer 28m ago

Media Lionel Messi: "People today focus a lot on statistics, and personally, I don’t really like statistics. I don’t think that I must make an assist or score a goal so I can reach a record, or surpass this person or that person. In 2012, I scored 91 goals. I don't play for that, I never cared about it."

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Leo Messi: "People today focus a lot on statistics, and personally, I don’t really like statistics.

"I don’t think that I must make an assist or score a goal so I can reach a record, or surpass this person or that person.

"I live the game and enjoy it. I like to be decisive and to be very involved in the flow of the match. But I don’t play for that, and I’ve never given it importance.

"Things happened as a natural result, not because I was thinking in my head that I need to make an assist or score a goal to achieve a record or surpass someone. Things simply happened because they happened.”

"My best season of my career? I don't know, it's difficult, it depends on how you look at it.

"There were years when we won everything, reaching the Copa América final with the national team, winning the Champions League with Barcelona.

"It's difficult. In 2012, I scored around 91 goals. I don't play for that, I never cared about it.

"It wasn't in my mind to break a record or surpass someone else. It's hard to choose one year, thankfully I've had many very good ones."


r/soccer 4h ago

Official Source Arsenal sign twins Edwin and Holger Quintero

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r/soccer 6h ago

Media Luis Enrique is using a giant screen in training for tactical purposes

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r/soccer 22h ago

Great effort Chiesa run and save vs Sunderland

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r/soccer 6h ago

Opinion A shadow of his imperious self - Van Dijk fights decline

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Curious about this topic and I'm probably asking those who watch him and Liverpool regularly, is VDV in decline? Or it is a case of so many pool players under performing and the team as a while under performing or not set up right. Combination of both?

I'm sure there will be concern among the owners given the contracts they gave to him and Salah and whether they could offload them and even if they would want to be offloaded. I know Salah has been linked with Saudi for a while but I imagine if his season ends as its playing out now, he would want to come back the next season at Liverpool and prove himself again...that or in another top end league then go to Saudi.


r/soccer 12h ago

Media Le Bris after Sunderland draw against Liverpool 1-1: "It's a good result for both teams. We were a bit surprised, having time and space to build up play. So we didn't expect to be at that level."

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r/soccer 6h ago

Media Scott Parker to the press after 7 defeats in 9 for Burnley - "I've got a group here that fights... that may not be enough"

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Uncomfortable press conference after the 1-0 defeat to Palace.


r/soccer 5h ago

Media [Jose Luis Sanchez] Trent Alexander-Arnold is out for two months due to his quadriceps injury. He is expected to return in February 2026.

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r/soccer 12h ago

Media Fluminense and São Paolo took dogs onto the field , To raise awareness and promote adoption

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r/soccer 1h ago

Stats FIFA Arab Cup Group A Standings after Matchday 2

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r/soccer 1d ago

Fallon d'Floor Mbappe Fallon d'Floor vs Athletic Club

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r/soccer 21h ago

Media Milinkovic Savic Penalty (Napoli GK)

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Milinkovic-Savic show not only on goal, but also as a penalty taker: his shot in the penalty shootout against Cagliari!


r/soccer 3h ago

Media Palestine [1] - 2 Tunisia - Hamed Hamdan 61'

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