VICE Sports World News Roundup: May 20, 2016

Good morning, America. It's May 20, 2016. Welcome to the VICE Sports World News Roundup. Be sure to stop by every morning for more headlines from around the world.

Remember when I told you yesterday that Eintracht Frankfurt captain Marco Russ tested positive for doping only to find out the elevated levels of grown hormone in his system were due to a cancerous tumor? Well, he played soccer yesterday, in the first tie of a relegation playoff against Nuremberg…and scored an own goal. The game finished 1-1. Poor guy.

Sky pundit Ian Holloway took a crack about the burly physique of Wimbledon striker and VICE Sports favorite Adebayo Akinfenwa. Holloway suggested Akinfenw's size was due to him possibly eating his brother. It's a weird thing to say, but they loved it over at Sky. Anyway, Akinfenwa responded (via Reddit):

Back when Liverpool ace Roberto Firmino played for Hoffenheim, his partner in crime was a German kid named Kevin Volland, who will play for Bayer Leverkusen next season. A good signing.

Vertrag bis Juni 2021 - — Bayer 04 Leverkusen (@bayer04fussball)May 20, 2016

After months of speculation, former Arsenal and Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta—possibly the best player to never appear for his national team—will join Manchester City as a coach. He's supposedly good friends win incoming manager Pep Guardiola.

FIFA thinks former German FA president Wolfgang Niersbach should be banned for two years for his role in the weird, still-not-fully-explained debacle in which the German FA made a suspicious payment to FIFA through intermediaries. When in doubt, ban, is pretty much where I'm at with all this shit.

Here's a lede for you, courtesy of the BBC: A Belgian whose older brother was one of the suicide bombers in the terror attacks on Brussels has won gold at the European Taekwondo Championships.

The Indianapolis 500 will happen next weekend. Here is a cool shot from practice.

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