"OUCH, Charlie! That really hurt!"

The game of soccer has been around for a longgg time and playing at the professional level is something to be proud of. But some, if not most people, say that soccer is not a contact sport. Well, I beg to differ. I chose a picture of a professional European soccer player getting an absolute facial during the course of a game. The game of soccer is very intense and physical, which is why I chose this particular picture.
I had no luck with stock exchange, but I did however find this picture on Google Images – when I was redirected from treehugger.com. I manipulated this picture by raising the brightness/lightness, upping the level of hue/contrast, nearly eliminating saturation, and adding a well-deserved text box caption. I worked in this way to emphasize the impact on this poor man’s face, in order to take attention away from the background. Although painful to observe, I do not believe the manipulation was harmful. I simply changed the overall color scheme to stress the terrible, but hilarious, collision between face and ball. Professional soccer is a man’s game… it is pretty easy to see why. I wanted to highlight the pain and agony that is stretched across his face, and retort any nay-sayers that contend soccer is a game for the light hearted.