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VICE Sports World News Roundup: November 9

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It's the 9th of November, 2015, and Sepp Blatter is still, technically, president of FIFA.

It was derby day across much of European soccer. In England, the big derby was in north London, where Arsenal played Tottenham to a 1-1 draw. In Germany, Borussia Dortmund beat arch nemesis Schalke 3-2. Leverkusen also lost to Koln 2-1. Chicharito was responsible for Leverkusen's lone goal, obviously. He can not be stopped.

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Not a derby, but Stoke also beat Chelsea 1-0. Nothing is going right for Mourinho. Klopp, meanwhile, lost his first match at Anfield, 2-1 to QPR. Klopp was disappointed a bunch of the fans left after QPR's second goal, when there were still 10 minutes left to play.

Neymar did his best Ronaldinho impersonation and scored a very dope goal.

Atletico Bilbao's Inaki Williams also did this…which is even better.

Under fire German federation (DFB) president Wolfgang Niersbach will host a meeting with the DFB's 21 regional association presidents this afternoon, local time. Niersbach has yet to adequately explain why the DFB made an under-the-table payment to FIFA. He also seems to have lied about when he found out about the payment. (Der Spiegel, remember, alleges the payment was used to buy votes during the election that decided the location of the 2006 World Cup.) Will the regional presidents call for his resignation?

The MotoGP season came to a thrilling conclusion with Jorge Lorenzo crowned champion. MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, who led the championship from the first race this season, needed to finish at least second to Lorenzo to win the title, but he only managed a fourth place finish. Rossi was made to begin the season's final race in last place after kicking Marc Marquez off his bike in preceding weekend's Grand Prix.

One of the big stories from the Rugby World Cup was the terrible performance of the English team, which hosted the tournament. The team finally appears to have found a scapegoat. The kit manager, Dave Tennison, is alleged to have gotten a bunch of the players to make a bad investment in LGO Energy, which turned out to be bad advice, and the players lost some 100,000 pounds.

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Nigeria won the U17 World Cup, beating Mali 2-0. It's was Nigeria's second U17 World Cup win, in a row!

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Novak Djokovic won the Paris BNP Masters, beating Andy Murray in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4. Djokovic was awarded this strange tree-trophy, which he inspected closely.

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