--- title: 2014 FIFA World Cup: Purin the Soccer Playing Beagle Shows Off Skills description: Somebody get him to Rio for the World Cup immediately canonical: https://time.com/2849245/this-beagle-is-quite-skilled-at-soccer/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-09T19:06:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:33.822Z og:title: This Soccer-Playing Beagle Is Ready for the World Cup og:description: He's pretty talented og:url: https://time.com/2849245/this-beagle-is-quite-skilled-at-soccer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Soccer-Playing Beagle Is Ready for the World Cup twitter:description: He's pretty talented twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Beagle Is Quite Skilled at Soccer by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 9, 2014 7:06 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 9, 2014 7:06 PM UTC If watching humans play soccer isn’t your thing, try watching this dog instead. He’s pretty talented. Plus, he apparently knows how to walk on his front legs. 2014 FIFA World Cup: Purin the Soccer Playing Beagle Shows Off Skills ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2849245/this-beagle-is-quite-skilled-at-soccer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2849245/this-beagle-is-quite-skilled-at-soccer/"},"headline":"This Beagle Is Quite Skilled at Soccer","datePublished":"2014-06-09T19:06:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:33.822Z","description":"Somebody get him to Rio for the World Cup immediately","url":"https://time.com/2849245/this-beagle-is-quite-skilled-at-soccer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","viral","Soccer","World Cup"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2849245/this-beagle-is-quite-skilled-at-soccer/","name":"This Beagle Is Quite Skilled at Soccer"}}]}] ```