A few football-adjacent links and a schedule of games to watch for the week

NOVEMBER 9TH, 2020
 

ON THIS DAY IN 2001:

David Beckham shooting a commercial for his video game, ''David Beckham Soccer''

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"The commercial features the England Captain and Manchester United star lying topless in a hi-tech operating theatre. Sensors and monitors cover his body to measure his reflexes and a vertical probe scans his body and his brain 'sucking out'' all his football knowledge and transferring it to a cyber David Beckham with piercing ''android'' eyes and a PlayStation socket in the middle of his forehead."

Photos: ALLSPORT

The game was primarily distributed for PlayStation:

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Re: PlayStation...

Peep this 04-05 Auxerre home shirt:

Bacary Sagna, anyone?

It's an XL via Classic Football Shirts

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Video games have a long, strange history of video games sponsoring football teams.

How do we know?
 

THE LONG, STRANGE HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES SPONSORING FOOTBALL TEAMS

Aside from the obvious connection—there are famous football video games—football and gaming have another strange association: a long history of companies like Nintendo and Sega appearing as shirt sponsors for some of the biggest clubs in the world. Sometimes, it’s the result of a long-running partnership that has benefited both the team and the company. Other times it’s been a very bad idea for everyone involved.

via Kotaku

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Now look at the illustrations on the back of these Puma Street Soccer PlayStation jerseys:
 

Pablo Picasso, eat your heart out.

There's a green one (XL) and an orange one (L) but the orange looks more like red? Either way, both are very sick and you should buy one by clicking the links above.

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One blind link:

Konami Sports Club Action Soccer t-shirt from Grailed

And an incredibly charming photo:

<3 <3 <3
 

SOME GAMES TO WATCH:
 

[ALL TIMES EASTERN]

MONDAY
Oxford v NH Town 245p FA Cup

WEDNESDAY
TUR v CRO 1245p Friendly
DEN v SWE 130p Friendly
NED v ESP 245p Friendly
F'mengo v S Paolo 730p C d Brazil

THURSDAY
WAL v USA 230p Friendly
ENG v IRE 3p Friendly
ARG v PAR 7p CONMEBOL

FRIDAY
COL v URU 330p CONMEBOL
CHI v PER 6p CONMEBOL
BRA v VEN 7p CONMEBOL

SATURDAY
Man Utd v Man City 730a FA W
Virtus Ent v Venezia 9a Serie B
POR v FRA 245p Nations
SUI v ESP 245p Nations
MEX v KOR 3p Friendly

SUNDAY
BEL v ENG 245p Nations
idk go outside or something?

via ESPN

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