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This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. In a match between the Astana and Almaty football teams, Lokomotiv and Kairat respectively, a Kairat player made a nasty tackle (looks almost like he clotheslined him). That started a huge argument on the field. So far nothing too unusual.

It got crazy when Armand Masimzhanov, an alternate for Kairat, ran onto the field and did a flying kick at the back of Lokomotiv player Radmir Ruskova. Video footage below of the tackle, then the ninja kick and then the kick again in slow motion. I love how the guards don’t get involved until the flying ninja kick, but they move in pretty quickly.

Masimzhanov has been banned for life. But he did get his very own wikipedia entry. So that’s something.

The match was stopped, and a score of 0:3 Kairat was recorded, since Kairat was in the lead before the fight. The Astana club was fined 300,000 tenge (about US$2,000) and the Almaty club will have to pay 400,000 tenge (around US $2,700) as it was their player who ninja kicked an unaware player.