Watch this soccer player perform an amazing trick with his gum
Awesome, gross or both? Either way, it's impressive.
Felix Passlack, an 18-year-old who plays for German powerhouse Borussia Dortmund, captured the internet's attention this week by turning soccer and gum-chewing into some bizarre new sport.
Behold Passlack atop this post spitting out his gum, uncorking an impressive juggling routine for more than 10 seconds, then casually catching the gum in his mouth and resuming his mastication as if nothing ever happened.
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That's, um ... cool? He even tries and fails to catch the gum once, then resumes juggling before completing the maneuver without his wad ever touching the ground.
Amazingly enough, Passlack's not even the first pro footballer to perform the feat this week. Here's Dimitri Payet of West Ham juggling his own gum before a match over the weekend.
Apparently this is soccer's most unsanitary new trend? Further bulletins as events warrant.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
