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Just The Swedish National Soccer Team Playing A Game Of Asses Up

Want to know the key to being a successful soccer team? Accuracy. Trust. Toughness. Well what do you think a good ol’ game of Asses Up teaches? All of that, that’s what.

This video of the Swedish national soccer team playing a little game of asses up was captured during a team practice at Euro Cup 2012. (Euro Cup 2012 sure brings out the strange in everyone, no?) Sweden already lost its first game, and still has to play England and France, so things won’t get much easier. So how does the saying go? When the going gets tough, the tough play asses up, or something along those lines.

Turns out the Swedes are not such big fans of this skin show, though. This came via the News Observer:

Lars Arrhenius, the general secretary for anti-bullying organization Friends – whose name will be on the new national soccer stadium in Stockholm – told Expressen the players were being “incredibly bad role models.”

“They’re heroes for thousands of boys and girls all over Sweden and I don’t think they should send the signal that this is OK,” Arrhenius said. “This is the kind of stuff that happens in schools and sports clubs, that people use these types of ‘games.’ But there are some children who get exposed in those situations.”

Even the prime minister weighed in on the issue, taking his own shot at the players.

“People who carry expectations should be aware of that, and act accordingly,” Fredrik Reinfeldt said.

Then apparently, one of the Swedish players fired back by saying they were doing this since they were 12 and it’s just for fun. How is that fun?

Note: No anuses were hurt in the making of this video… we think.

h/t Deadspin

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