I really enjoyed this article. One of my favorite childhood memories is wandering the international terminals at JFK, looking at all of the different 747s. It is a beautiful plane and it still stops me in my tracks when I see one. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I am pro-Marsch. He was right to be pissed at USSF’s insane decision to hire and then keep Berhalter and he’s backed up his side with Canada.

Never? This is like when we get Germany saying antisemitism is at an all-time high.

Operation Get Rodger To Watch Bordalas’s Getafe, engage!

Given that Trump is running this country like the Braves circa 1985, these crowds seem appropriate.

Here in KC, it's been so heartwarming to see the way Lawrence has caped for Algeria. There's been footage on the news of (admittedly blind drunk) Algerian fans openly crying about how much the love the city has shown them means to them. Pretty remarkable.

just gonna close their eyes and let this ferrari take them to hell because one dude has a buncha instagram followers

Hey, Infantino was flanked by Rubio and Kash Patel at Cristiano’s match in Miami. You know, if you needed further confirmation that the worst people in the world are attracted to CR7.

denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

Cristiano’s dumbass lady had the Portuguese flag upside down.

England: one World Cup, no Euros, ten players Germany: four World Cups, three Euros, nine players France: two World Cups, two Euros, ten players Spain: one World Cup, four Euros, five players.

why are they calling in "Disgrace of Gijon Pt 2" when they could call it "the new Missouri Compromise"

Oh you have to work? Let’s put 10 games on TV during the day. It’s the weekend and you have nothing to do? We’re gonna put all the games at night.

Of the ten MENA teams at the World Cup, six are last in their groups, a seventh (Algeria) is not last because of a win over another (Jordan), and two more (Iran and Egypt) are above only New Zealand. Their collective results: five wins, 14 losses, eight draws, and a -35 goal difference.

There is a new mega-house going up in my neighborhood and as a result, the sidewalk has been torn up and replaced by a bumpy dirt patch. It makes me mad every time I pass it. Come to DeKalb County, Dr. Miller!

This World Cup has been a lesson to managers that if you are scared of embarrassing your iconic, but washed veteran by benching him (Koulibaly, Ronaldo, Neuer, Muslera), you'll actually end up embarrassing him even worse by playing him

It’s been pleasant to be reminded that a lot of people are quite decent actually Gift link for three quick clickers giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Trump’s culture wars are a goal down

Two things are true: 1. Stereotypically, the rest of South America generally dislikes Argentines for being arrogant. 2. Five of the six CONMEBOL teams at the World Cup have Argentine managers and the sixth (Brazil) would disband its federation before doing so.

The October 2024 cover of The Economist:

Please know that I take no pleasure in posting this.

A major waystation on my path to becoming a soccer nut was being around Dutch fans at the '94 World Cup in Orlando. The color, the singing, the positivity, all of it.

I have been watching the World Cup en Español since 1994. Welcome to the Church of St. Cantor, @philhay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/738...

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I love that South American journalists have started referring to Pochettino as La Malinche. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mali...

Good piece. I'd quibble with Zidane having a four-year reign with the belt when he was often unproductive domestically (he's the Platonic ideal of a player for moments) and would give a couple years of that period to Rivaldo, who put up bigger numbers and was a key player on a World Cup winner.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

An account describing itself as "liberal," "anti-fascist," and "anti-MAGA" is out here parroting the Nazi lines that "war is simply too profitable for the Jews" and that they are "cashing in on WWII." Unfollow, block, shame, etc.

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

Poor Andrés Cantor needs oxygen after that call lol

Many thanks to @jonawils.bsky.social for starting his chapter on the 2014 World Cup with a Manaus metaphor, which led me to hit my highest MapTap score. www.maptap.gg June 22 100🎯 98🎯 100🎯 98🔥 100🎯 Final score: 992

@kevvwill.bsky.social File that blown Ivory Coast chance away in your TAKE THE SHOT FIRST TIME file.

Emerse Faé was hired during the AFCON knockout stages after Ivory Coast rage fired their manager, then he won the tournament, qualified his country for their first World Cup in 12 years and is now cooking at the World Cup. Oh, and this is his first senior managerial job. Incredible story.

Mussolini after the Allied invasion of Sicily.

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I love this kid vomiting up FIFA

holy fuck go outside

Netanyahu sabotaging the most ideologically committed Zionist to ever become president in favor of the guy who views foreign policy as a boring distraction from interior decorating

Every Ireland/Scotland/Wales trip to a major tournament goes like this: 1. “Look at these amazing fans, drinking and having fun without being ENGLISH LADS ON TOUR RAPING AND PILLAGING”; 2. “Oh wait, this team is actually kinda garbage because they cannot generate offense”; and…

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

It's fucking remarkable that we spent years arguing about whether we should keep Gregg Berhalter and it took getting grouped in a home Copa America by Panama to finally force US Soccer to make the most obvious decision in recorded history.

To address the references to the 2002 team: 1. That team would have been grouped if not for a nothing-to-play-for South Korea scoring against Portugal; and 2. The manner of performance matters. This team dominates territorially in a way that ‘02 did not.

Australia tried to get worked up in a Michigan State-style DISRESPEKT campaign over one statement six months ago by professional dumbass Mike Grella and this match is going about how a normal Michigan-MSU game goes.

This is the President who also unleashed RFK Jr. and all of his quack health theories on the nation.

The World Cup is happening and this is, predictably, the biggest story to ESPN.

Confirming everything I already believed, progressives are more likely to be Messi fans (evidence-based thinkers, lovers of a cooperative player) and conservatives are more likely to be Cristiano fans (suckers for a narcissistic rapist who demands deference from those around him).

Those of us who had to suffer through Lloyd Carr gutting out close games against Purdue and Northwestern because of a glacial pace of play are nodding furiously.

Stalin as Churchill continues to invent reasons not to invade Northwest Europe.