The USMNT obviously needed Pochettino when they hired him two years ago, but who would've thought Pochettino also needed the USMNT? On how the two of them took each other back to their roots, and rediscovered themselves in the process - a perfect marriage of manager and team:

oh yeah he's way off, damn

OH MY GOD

the timeline seems to be rooting for croatia but that's a great goal

Apt that he can only score when you can’t really defend yourself

congratulations to cristiano ronaldo for tying folarin balogun's career world cup knockout goal total

A beautiful day for golf in our nation’s capital

oh that's nasty

More people at the ABANDONED TRUMP FAIR than our SOCCER TEAM gets to have on the FIELD right now

love that the VARs do nothing all tournament and now are just deciding knockout games from a little room it's great

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

Only 14th amendment respecters get to celebrate that goal

pausa de hidratación

@kbuts.bsky.social Too damn hot to cook tonight

way too passive dealing with that ball after the first save. clear that and you're golden.

England hasn't attacked this ineffectually on 1st July since The Somme.

anybody who's played football manager knows exactly what england is feeling right now

DOCTOR CONGO

Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.

Tfw you’re unreasonably handsome and you know it

They're plundering the national treasury.

Wrote in my note yesterday to do something by the first week of August 1941. Your entire day job being one twelve-year span will do that I guess.

When it’s time for penalties

the woodwork is getting more of a workout here than the back of the net lol

kick save and a beauty

and just like WWII they can't count on Italy for shit

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

that's an incredibly weak foul to potentially change the outcome of a world cup knockout game on #banreplay

Human OMG

Government by Remembering Some Guys

(Incoherent screaming)

reminds me of how the multiplayer gold edition of civ 2 with the insanely hostile ai would sign a cease fire and then just attack you again as soon it was their turn no matter what you did

would've preferred that auburn do this for the last five years tbh

I'm more agnostic to the world cup expansion than you might think but that was easily the worst knockout stage game I can recall watching. you really don't need 32 teams in the knockouts. there are not 32 knockout-caliber teams in the world at any given time.

thank you for incredibly nothing, south africa. at least they're going to get smoked in the round of 16 anyway.

this game feels like an irl version of two ten-year-olds playing fifa

so much freedom they added an extra E

Pawel Lysenko kommt 1943 als sowjetischer Kriegsgefangener nach Buchenwald. Wegen seiner Chemiekenntnisse stellt er für den Lagerwiderstand Sprengstoff her und baut Granaten. Nach der Flucht von einem Todesmarsch befreit er mit der Roten Armee Prag. Später wird er Chemie-Dozent in der Sowjetunion.

So with no notice they closed East Potomac this morning because pizza rat is apparently coming down to survey the course? If it weren’t raining I’d probably stick around and give him a piece of my mind in person.

uzbekistan has to be one of the disappointments of the tournament, I thought they were going to be fun. the only afc team that isn't straight up cheeks is japan, apparently.

debating whether I'm enough of a sicko to play 36 on friday even though it's gonna be 104 degrees ...leaning toward yes.

Somebody’s gonna be eatin’ good in the neighborhood

why is everybody talking about shrimp

if you covered up the score bug and told me the team in blue was honduras instead of uruguay I would've believed you

uruguay and saudi arabia both have to score or they're going home and neither one is playing like it