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12:27
The Vikings Who Shocked Ronaldo: The Unbelievable Rise of Iceland Soccer
With a population of just 325,000, Iceland has long been a footballing minnow. Yet, 16 years ago, the nation decided to change that.
Vice Sports Shorts

3:09
David Villa on His Early Days as a Pro
As Spain's all-time leading scorer, David Villa recently became only the sixth active player to score 400 career goals. We met up with the World Cup winner to reflect on his career's humble beginnings.
The 16 Project

6:23
The Youngest Player Starting in MLS
Alphonso Davies has come a long way in a short time. Born at a refugee camp to parents fleeing civil war in Liberia, he walked onto the pitch in Vancouver 15 years later as the second youngest MLS player ever.
Stay Melo

10:05
Carmelo Anthony in Cuba
Carmelo Anthony travels to Cuba to explore the rise of soccer in a nation synonymous with baseball and grab some fresh rolled Cuban cigars along the way.
Sitdowns

3:24
Jerome Boateng Talks Sibling Rivalries in the World Cup
Bayern Munich's Jerome Boateng sits down with VICE to talk World Cup soccer and what its like to compete with his brother.
VICE Sports Explains / web

2:23
Diving in Soccer
VICE Sports explains diving in soccer and how leagues around the world are failing to enforce rules against it.
Waypoint Plays

1:40:50
Getting Schooled by the UK's Best 'Pro Evolution Soccer' Player
Waypoint's Mike Diver and VICE Sports' Will Magee are joined by Dex Kord, the UK's top-ranked Pro Evolution Soccer player.
VICE Sports Explains / web

1:57
The MLS Expansion
VICE Sports explains why the MLS is expanding from 22 teams to 28 teams.
VICE Sports Explains / web

1:28
Publicly Funded Stadiums
VICE Sports Explains how pro sport stadium construction gets funded by local tax payers while the billionaire owners' pockets don't take a huge hit.
Stay Melo

13:23
The Immigrant powerhouse of NYC soccer
The perennially nationally ranked Martin Luther King High School’s boys soccer team is comprised of immigrant kids from around the world.
VICE Sports

15:03
Das American: Christian Pulisic's Spectacular Rise
America may be the world's sole superpower, and the nation that put a man on the moon, yet despite all of this, it has never produced a single world-class footballer.
Off Day / web

4:12
Jozy Altidore's Long Road to Europe and Back
We took Jozy to a local soccer bar and talked through his long and winding road as a professional and his hopes for Haiti in Copa America.
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