North Korea Claims Loss To Team USA During Women’s World Cup Result Of Players Being Struck By Lightning…
Damn those evil capitalists and their weather-control machines.
(BBC) — North Korea’s coach blamed his side’s 2-0 loss to the United States on his players getting struck by lightning in the build up to the Women’s World Cup.
Kwang Min Kim claimed that some of them were hospitalised with electrocution after a training match on 8 June.
Tournament favourites United States recovered from a slow start to to take maximum points in their Group C opener.
North Korea — the youngest team in the tournament by average age — started well in Dresden, but were eventually overwhelmed when Lauren Cheney completed a swift move with a well-timed header before Rachel Buehler converted with 14 minutes remaining.
“When we stayed in Pyongyang during training our players were hit by lightning, and more than five of them were hospitalised,” said coach Kim, without naming the affected players specifically.
“Some stayed in hospital and then came to Germany later than the rest of us. The goalkeeper and the four defenders were most affected, and some midfielders as well. The physicians said the players were not capable of participating in the tournament.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at 9:30 am | 
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North Korea will be back next year with a whole new team. (because the current one will have died in a prison camp)
The photo appears to have been posted in error because I don’t see any women in it.
I truly sympathize completely. That excuse is for the benefit of crazy Dear Leader. I hope he buys it, because this wouldn’t be the first team he sent to prison camp (along with their 3000 closest relatives).
they’ll be eating dog food again…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8602525/North-Korea-shuts-down-universities-for-10-months.html
then again… with the NorK universities closed by Kim…
Kim sent the Nork mens soccer coach to some coal mine after the last summer mens world cup disaster.
Score one for HAARP!
I hope their testicles weren’t affected.
So there really is a God. Now if he would only aim for a tin-pot wannabe dictator who golfs frequently, the world would be a better place.
Yeah, lighting brought on by “Global Warming” no doubt.
Yeah, the Lightening Ray is awesome, but for some real fun, wait till we trot out the Shit-in-your-Pants Ray.
I think that is noble of the NoKo coach giving the lightning excuse, that may be the only that prevents the team members from being executed!
It’s cos they are all cross-eyed! Check second from left…