The North Shore Football Club in Vancouver has not added a new player, but might have picked up a new mascot.
Players and coaches were stunned recently by the sight of a large eagle landing on the practice field, and playing with a soccer ball for two-plus minutes before flying away.
Eagle displays ball-handling skills; video screen grab
“It was probably one of the most incredible things that I’ve ever seen,” Stuart Ince, club president, told the Vancouver Sun. “Just to be able to be that close, 20 feet from an eagle and to be able to watch it for two-and-a-half minutes was amazing.”
It remains unclear what the eagle’s intentions were, as it kicked, clawed at, and pecked at the colorful ball, which was far too large to resemble an eagle’s egg.
Eagle ponders next move; video screen grab
But the players and coaches got a kick out of the bizarre encounter, which transformed them into spectators. “The eagle has landed,” one of the players can be heard saying in the cellphone footage, captured by Ince.
“He wants to play,” says another.
Unfortunately, if this were a tryout, Ince would cut the raptor.
“It was good in the air, but it didn’t really have the ball skills we were looking for,” he said. “It hung onto the ball too long.”
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