Never forget the Port Said Massacre, and what Egyptian fans have had to endure to support this sport we all love so much.

Diego Murzi writes in his book "Fútbol, violencia y estado" that the stampede to exit the gate was caused by police attacking Boca Jrs. fans for throwing projectiles and singing "La Marcha Peronista" - an anthem for Juan Perón that was outlawed under the Onganía Dictatorship at the time

cant believe this whole country watches football sitting down smh

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every monday

Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game

JAJAJAJAJAJAJA

does anyone know why Argentine fans wear Native American headdresses??

and we thought GGG was cringe 🤦

European nations in these opening matches

Can't wait for Salah to join Sounders and do it again. 😈

mo salah golazah

Yeah, that’s the America I grew up in. When I say the anti-trans playbook now is the same playbook as they ran in the 90s against gay people, I mean the SAME

seeing this as iran’s football team takes the pitch is another level of media whiplash

“They robbed us of all these opportunities." Iran’s coach again blasts treatment of his team at the World Cup

I genuinely dont understand the media strategy of non-stop commentary on random facts and data while game play happens. 20mins of listening & I had no idea what was happening in the match. first time soccer watchers are sincerely left on their own to understand the game

Peru's capital, Lima, is sweltering, with unusually warm winter sunshine and ocean waters. Scientists warn that a record-breaking "Godzilla" El Niño may be forming, driven by climate change.

had to listen to John Strong & Stu Holden commentary on the first half over the radio and I STG these men are largely responsible for why any USians think soccer is boring

“The beautiful game has never looked more beautiful on the pitch, or more ugly off it. We strain for the sake of our consciences to sequester the two, but Infantino’s Fifa has made that impossible.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lmao forgot we made this too.

CONMEBOL will never consider merging with CONCACAF because they're scared of island nations giving them the business

an AutoZone in Michigan

I'm gonna keep a whistle on my bedside table so every time I wake up for water in the middle of the night I can announce a PAUSA DE HIDRATACION for my roommates

For @revealnews.org I profiled a union that fought back against FIFA and the threat of ICE at stadiums and looked into just why this tournament is so expensive open.spotify.com/episode/4vL4...

Nothing to see here—just another UFC fighter casually denying the Holocaust.

Right wingers in the Netherlands/Sweden

Capitalism rarely, if ever, concedes new ground after making new incursions into social and cultural spheres that generate more profit. We *have* to be consistently vigilant about this and I appreciate all the journalists calling it for what it is: greed and changing the sport for worse

But the gays are open. HAPPY PRIDE!

There's no more wretched sight than a far-right politician playing sporting dress-up. www.ft.com/content/2738...

Turkey plays like they are not in UEFA but CONMEBOL and I'm here for it

This is where the tension is. The team has the black players talking about Juneteenth and the consequences of slavery on the same day that this happens.

The government is trying to take away like half of this teams voting rights

I thought it'd be a swell idea to create a starter pack of journalists who specialise in throwing light on the dark(er) side of football. It's small for two reasons: there aren't many of us; and I've probably forgotten plenty of excellent people. Thank you for suggesting additions in replies.

Happy Juneteenth, frens!

Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly speaks out publicly on the US travel ban that curtails fans from his country—and others—from supporting their team at the 2026 World Cup. “Every team can have their people, so I don’t understand why people from Africa cannot.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

it's infuriating how much hand-wringing is going into this compared to the litany of literal human rights violations this administration is guilty of.

Seattle gave 20 World Cup tickets to African Youth Sports Academy to send kids to a match. But the group returned the tickets after the U.S. denied entry to Somali referee Omar Artan. “I’m happy that we still got to fight for our man,” said Ali Abdulla, the group's founder. vist.ly/58dt3

partey and hakimi were allowed to enter the u.s. no problem, but senegal is missing thousands of fans and vozinha’s mom missed her son’s star moment because the administration is charging $15,000 bonds for visas based on nothing but pure racism

....did the Australians bring snakes on their planes?

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I'm gonna say it: it's weird that Juneteenth in Seattle will largely be observed as a day of US-exceptionalism in the form of USMNT playing here, bringing 100,000+ American-flag wearing patriots chanting "USA! USA! USA!" it just feels weird and inappropriate. classic FIFA, really.

now do C.Ronaldo next

when you and your boys are out sailing and see that the Isle of Lindisfarne is guarded solely by women and priests

interesting how the USA gets left out of these conversations given rampant codified transphobia

"Aussies are on a bender, Donald Trump is a sex offender!" 🇦🇺 This chant by Australian fans has gone viral in the last few hours after last Sunday's victory over Turkey at the #2026WorldCup. Tonight, Australia plays against the United States.

Exclusive: Iran were hustled out of the United States so quickly that the team’s players had to be iced and bandaged on the plane back to their base in Mexico. A team medic recounts details of a chaotic, pressurised 48 hours Iran endured at the World Cup. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/w...

I would have cried if this went in.