Eagles are both one of nature's more magnificent creatures and one of nature's most hilariously busted-looking ones. It depends on your vantage point, mostly, and on how determined you are to see some Purple Mountain Majesty in a creature that—when viewed up close—looks like a cross between The Tall Man from Phantasm and Arsene Wenger. In flight, an eagle is honestly pretty impressive—shockingly huge, for one thing, but also every other cool thing that big tough birds can be. When attempting to play soccer, as this eagle did when it crashed a youth soccer practice in North Vancouver, Canada, it's significantly less so.Which is not to say that its star doesn't do its best. While we might as well presume that the eagle is trying to either fuck or eat the soccer ball that it spends nearly three minutes batting around, it does at least get a few kicks in. There is also something to be said for its work in just kind of standing near the ball looking kind of pissed-off and intimidating, which is the sort of thing upon which a decent soccer career can be built. It is hard to imagine any bird doing much better, if we're being honest.Still, it was not at all a dominant performance, in the end. "It was good in the air but it didn't really have the ball skills we were looking for," team president Stuart Ince told the National Post. "It hung onto the ball too long." This is harsh, perhaps, but fair. But eagles are generally less impressive up close.