Chelsea hosts Liverpool on Sunday in a battle between the fourth and sixth-place teams in the English Premiere League. Liverpool swept Chelsea last season, winning 2-0 at home and 1-0 on the road. It’s a battle of two soccer titans so this game will be a real treat. Manchester City currently leads the standings with 31 points.

<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/video?vid=2b961be6-dd19-431a-8431-dc93b8aec6eb" target="_new" title="">Chelsea face off with Liverpool</a>

This may be the most egregious soccer dive in the history of the sport.

Thank you, Peter Wisgerhof of Dutch FC Twente.

Fair warning: You may want to turn down the volume on this one.

Team USA scores two beautiful goals, but they weren’t able to hold off Japan for the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Abby Wambach’s header off a great cross seemed to put the US in a the driver’s seat for a 2-1 lead, but they gave up the equalizer and then fell apart during the penalty shootout.

Japan has had a terrible year with the tragedy at Fukushima, so hopefully this brings some joy to that beleaguered nation.

Meanwhile, Team USA had a great run, and it’s a shame they couldn’t hold on for the win. Missing the first three penalty kicks is puzzling, but Japan capitalized and they deserve the championship.

Fans at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup were full of enthusiasm, as expressed by some of the goofiest outfits we’ve ever seen.

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After Team USA’s stunning win against Brazil on Sunday in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, I suspect there will be a rather large TV audience ready to watch the action as they take on France tomorrow at noon EST. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Abby Wambach’s goal to tie up the match against Brazil.

The team deserves all the support and attention they are getting. Check out the video below for some background on the team.

Scoring goals. Playing defense. It doesn’t matter.

Abby Wambach will do anything for her team.

She doesn’t feel pressure. She overpowers it.

Pressure Makes Us

Yesterday, I logged on to Twitter and saw that everyone was talking about the USA/Brazil Women’s World Cup game so I flipped it on. The game was in extra time, the U.S. was trailing by the goal and the announcers were pretty much leaving the Americans for dead. This is what happened…

The U.S. went on to win the game with penalty kicks.

Check out the highlights and the game summary. This US team has a ton of heart, and they got a huge win today over Brazil as they advanced on penalty kicks after tying the game late while being a player down.

The World Cup was a huge hit last year with the men’s tournament, and now the women have their turn. The US women are much more competitive than the men, so I think this tournament will be very popular. The Germans will be tough to beat on their home turf, but if the US women can win this one they can set up a rivalry of soccer powerhouses with Germany. Check out some of their training methods in this video.

Pressure was there from day one. Preparing to conquer it started 279 days ago. Join in the USWNT quest towards the title.

The U.S. Women’s World Cup begins on Sunday and the pressure is on. The Germans have won the last two titles and are hosting this year’s tourney, so it’s going to take a big effort for the U.S. to come away with a championship. NIKE is following the USWNT as they prepare.

Pressure is always there. At this level you have to learn to love it. Join Megan Rapinoe & the USWNT on a 9-month journey to conquer the pressure.

The first game for the U.S. is against Korea on 6/28.