☕️🍀⚽️ Good morning everyone. We may have lost an hour this weekend, but we’re blessed with another week of Champions League knockout games. It all comes down to the last game for 8 teams to see who gets into the quarter finals. Check out the preview here.

Giveaway: Wake up and smell the coffee. Our giveaway will be a $30 gift card for our favorite coffee brand- Kickoff Coffee. As always, each friend that you refer to subscribe to the newsletter is an entry to our raffle. Best of luck!

Weekend Recap

English Premier League

Spanish La Liga

Italian Serie A

German Bundesliga

US MLS

From the Archives
Cameroon National Team

❌🦁 No sleeves, no problem. Twenty-two years ago the African Cup of Nations was held in Mali, and let’s just say the Cameroon men’s team did the unthinkable. The Indomitable Lions pulled up to the scene wearing red shorts, yellow socks, and the iconic PUMA jerseys, resembling a basketball tank top. The Cameroon Football Federation at the time found no issue with this unseen variation. They wore it across all of their matches that tournament including the final against Senegal, where Cameroon were crowned champs. While on the other hand, FIFA had their fair share of quarrel with the sleeveless kits.

• The jerseys were not capable of attaching tournament patches

• FIFA rejected them, claiming they were not shirts but vests

• Cameroon and PUMA attempted a tug of war but lost to FIFA

• FIFA in response changed their regulations, banning the vest-kit at the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup

• Cameroon in turn added black sleeves to the kits to adhere to the changes

😝😅 it wasn’t over in 2002. Fast forward to 2004, Cameroon-PUMA struck back. This time, it wasn’t with the sleeves, together they launched the red and green “bodysuit” . FIFA then president, Sepp Blatter, issued a rule emphasizing that all shirts and shorts must be separate clothing items. Nonetheless Cameroon ignored Sepp’s orders and continued playing with the uniform. Cameroon were fined €130,000 and a 6-point deduction in the 2006 World Cup.

Check out the full article on Cameroon’s s epic gamesmanship

Quick Bites 🍕

USWNT take home the Gold Cup

Real Madrid star decides to play for Morocco instead of Spain

Pulisic goal earns AC Milan win

Matches to Catch

English Premier League

UEFA Champions League- Round of 16

Spanish La Liga

Italian Serie A

AFC Champions League Quarter-Final

Banter of the Day

Football, by the fans for the fans

In search of a pub? Ever find yourself in a new city and are desperately searching for a local soccer pub? Who would have thought that the premier league took time out of their day to create a bar finder. There really is nothing better than catching an early premier league game on the weekends with fellow fans of the game, and finding that bar that will actually have the game sound on just got that much easier.

USA Bar Finder. Bar finder, aka Intern Jose’s nickname in college. Easy to use search platform on the premier leagues website. It has most major cities included, and they’re even accepting updates to their list if you email them at [email protected]

Find your local soccer pub here.