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Russian youth match devolves into frightening flying kick brawl

Oh. My. God.

The Dnepr Smolensk and Lokomotiv Moscow youth teams were playing a match, which seemed completely normal, until it became an all-out brawl.

Now there are pushing and shoving matches, there are fights and then there are brawls. Brawls are the highest level of sporting skirmishes, and while this was bordering on it when multiple players were trading punches, it jumped to brawl status with the flying kick.

A FLYING KICK.

And that flying kick came with studs. But then, somehow, all the players got separated and they continued on playing because that’s what Russians do, apparently.

HT Deadspin

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