Stray Cat Crashes FIFA Game and Adorably Auditions for Goalie Pawsition: ‘This cat just made every Premier League keeper look like an amateur’

Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager

Jul 13, 2026 1:30 PM EDT

Gooooooooooaaaaaaaaal!

Usually, feline fam, the last thing you'll find us talking about here on I Can Has Cheezburger is sports. But that's because sports and cats almost never go together. Notice how we said "almost never", because there are some rare occasions when the two worlds coincide. Like, the Olympics, fur example. Every year that there are the Olympics, we always find some of the best original cat memes we've seen in a long time, so we actually have to pay attention to them.

There may not be the Olympics this year, but if you haven't heard about it yet, the FIFA World Cup is happening in the United States. Everyone is all of a sudden obsessed with soccer (or football, for all those Europeans), but we still couldn't be bothered. That is, until we found this hissterical post from Cats With Jobs' X account. Now, all of a sudden, we're interested in soccer because one stray cat decided to crash the game and hang out in a goalie's net. If they were trying out for the role, they probably wouldn't get a contract because all they wanted to do was play with the water bottles and chill on the turf.

Only after the opposing team scored a goal did the kitty pounce into action, which is typical for cat behavior - only move when it's absolutely necessary. The goalie eventually shooed them off the turf, but any cat owner knows that you can't stop a cat from doing what they want to, and by golly, they really wanted to hang out under that netting.

Did the cat help them win? Absolutely not. But did the match gain a few extra viewers simply because of the adorable feline? Yes, and it was worth it.

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Currently uninterested

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How the cat thinks it looks

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VS how it actually is

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This isn't the first time a cat has crashed a sporting event, and it certainly won't be the last. It might be the most televised, though.
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'The Cat'

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Zoom in

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The ultimate goalie

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Just chilling

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Typical cat

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Don't we all

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Shoo!

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Correct

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They have returned

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Now, it seems like they're actually interested in keeping the ball out of the goal. Or they just saw a bird.
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Yup

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It is

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The most interesting thing going on

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Nope

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Patrolling

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It's not working very well

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