This week marked the twentieth anniversary of Major League soccer, and the United States are the reigning Women's World Cup champions, so football is certainly making its mark in America. The good gospel of the beautiful game has yet to reach everyone across the States, however, judging by this clip.
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Cassie Sturtz of Pine Forest High School earned a two-game ban after she decided to rush off her line and impede the advancing striker with an NFL-style sack.
It was pretty spectacular:
Harshly, the girl who was wiped out by Sturtz was wrongly flagged offside. It is somewhat reminiscent of the fundamentally hilarious behaviour by this goalkeeper in the South African league:
