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Michael Bradley: World's Worst Fierljepper

Mar 4, 2008 – 12:45 PM
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David J. Warner

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The basic goal of any father is to keep his daughter off the pole. As this video shows us at the 0:47 mark or so, U.S. men's national team head coach Bob Bradley should have kept his son Michael off the pole, too.

Michael Bradley joined his Heerenveen teammates in a team-building exercise in fierljeppen, a traditional Dutch sport that involves using a long pole to jump over a body of water. For Bradley, however, fierljeppen is clearly Dutch for "forehead lump."

Clearly, Bradley is much better at soccer -- Everton and Blackburn seem to think so, anyway -- and, if Heerenveen allows, Bradley could be called up to the U.S. U-23 men's national team for the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifiers this month. Fox Soccer Channel will air all the U.S. team's qualifying matches next week.

(H/T: Soccer By Ives)
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