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Dutch soccer player forgets how legs work, whiffs spectacularly

Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports

Manon Melis is really good at soccer. She has 55 goals in 125 appearances for Netherlands, was one of their best players in their World Cup qualifying campaign and has been a top pro in Sweden for years. She is a truly world class professional soccer player. And on Tuesday, she forgot how legs worked.

And to make matters worse, Japan scored a couple minutes later.

At first I was like.

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But then I was like.

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This is probably really mean but we made it anyway.

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