I almost called it “Boom, Headshot”.

This clip (by way of Dan Steinberg of The Washington Post) teaches a valuable lesson — if you are brave enough to run out onto the grass at FedEx Field during a U.S./Brazil friendly and start knee-sliding around in front of 67,000 people, don’t expect the police to calmly waltz up and arrest you. The soccer guys are friendly, not the cops. The video title describes it as “MUST SEE POLICE BRUTALITY”, but it’s closer to “MUST HIT THIS GUY AS HARD AS I CAN BECAUSE FOR F**K’S SAKE WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP DOING THIS”.

As an added bonus, here are a few other fans at the game freaking the hell out and getting arrested. Apparently one of the women in the clip bit a police officer. The guy in the background yelling “DON’T TASE ME, BRO” is especially helpful.

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More like Victoria Don’t-singa, am I right? (via Diehard Sport)

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One of my professional goals as editor is to get myself and the With Leather domestic readership into soccer.

It’s a hard sell sometimes, but it’s getting easier thanks to the fact that we’ve got tons of great soccer happening across the country at any given point; for example, the United States women’s national team took on Canada’s national team in an exhibition game in front of 18,570 at Jeld-Wen Field in Portland on Thursday night. It was a reminder that we can (and should) like these women outside of their 15-minutes of Letterman fame and that Abby Wambach — who scored two second-half goals one of them a header — should be showing up at every Kids and Teens and ESPN choice awards things to win a trophy.

In case you weren’t one of those nearly 19,000 people who saw the game, I’ve put together a gallery that should simultaneously tell you “the U.S. Women’s National Team is pretty great” and “Alex Morgan looks amazing in those little shorts”. Because they are, and she totally does. Be sure to click through thoroughly enough to get to the fan photos, as they are wonderful. Yes, girls lift their shirts and write things on their stomachs at U.S. soccer games.

All photos are via Daylife by way of Getty Images, unless otherwise noted. The video in slide 2 is from Oregon Live. The increasing desire to know everything about these people is totally mine.

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You could feel the bromance in East, Hartford Connecticut last night, as the US soccer team got really chummy in a friendly match with the Czechs. The Americans lost 4-2, but were able to score some kettle corn at the post game sleep over where they gave each other makeovers, played truth or dare, and watched scary movies. Starters were given the game off as both teams try to cut their roster sizes down to 23 for the start of the World Cup.

All told, eight U.S. starters — including Tim Howard, Carlos Bocanegra, Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey — had the night off. And while the result always matters to a coach like Bradley, he admitted that the score was less of a focus this evening.

“Tonight was about looking at guys,” Bradley said. “We felt going into this game that we still needed to look at some different possibilities and options. Clearly, the [players] that we used tonight were geared towards looking closely at people and using that information along with everything else.” –ESPN Soccernet

One of those guys was starting defender and very large man Oguchi Onyewu. Onyewu has been rehabbing a torn patella tendon since the US finished qualifying in October, and got beat on a header by Tomas Sivok in the 44th minute. Oguchi (Japanese Gucci Mane?) will have two more chances to redeem himself before the World Cup starts on June 11th. The Americans will take on the Turks in Philly on the 29th, and the Aussies in South Africa on June 5th. To get people to show up, Lincoln Financial staff is referring to the sport as ‘football’ only; banking on the fact that Philly fans will get wasted enough to show up looking for Kevin Kolb. Soccer related video after the jump.

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