Something I keep saying while watching another soccer team that's not in the men's world cup.

Essentially bc the point of that absurd question isn't to indict others, but to absolve all abusers.

What's weird about this is the timing of doing this halfway through the June men's world cup break. If it was related to performance issues, you'd think this would have been done two weeks ago???

the moment in the Fox post-game and it was a spot on analysis by Thierry Henry over how much CR7 cost them in one play

If you've never read this, or haven't revisited it in a while, today's a good day to remember it

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So @empiregass.bsky.social noticed it and sure enough, you see her briefly here before they cut away to the roster lineup

In case anyone needs a "Shut Up Alexi" primer (and a bit of good news for next summer's world cup), here you go.

fam the Pope is baiting the trads into a schism and it's delicious

apologies for being unclear, i was referencing the national anthem of

It's important to remember that Zidane headbutted a guy in the World Cup final, got a red card, his team lost and afterward said that he didn't regret it. The French are Built Different.

One of my favorite things about France is that to celebrate the Olympic Games they were like, “Yeah. We did some beheadings. And we don’t feel about about it either.”

Still more US visa fuckery. The Senegalese travelling press corps members were given single-entry visas, meaning that they can't go cover Senegal's third match in Toronto on June 26 and re-enter the US.

Remarkable scenes in the mixed zone tonight - both players lingering well beyond what FIFA comms asked of them, stepping off the dais to answer more Qs even as their handlers sought to shepherd them out of the area Seemed eager to express what they're dealing with and how challenging all this is

Incredible clarification. "Oh, he said I asked him to leave the convention? Oh wow, what a misunderstanding. No, I meant THE COUNTRY. He needs to get out."

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every time I try to revel in the World Cup I get smashed in the face with a reminder of all the shitty ways the administration has tried to ruin it

Read @juliagaffield.bsky.social on FIFA's decision to ban Haiti's original World Cup jersey, the deep pattern this is a part of, and the irony that they are probably helping to educate more people about the Battle of Vertières. Great piece! theconversation.com/fifas-haiti-...

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

Wait this is Joe Rogan?? I assumed it was Dana White because I don't know what he looks like. Joe Rogan looks like whoever does his face fillers absolutely loathes him. Which, actually, is probably true.

The replay from directly behind Ayari as he hit the stitches off the ball is 🤌. No spin whatsoever, just crushed it.

The Ecuador-Ivory Coast game was great. I did fall asleep for the middle third of it, but that's not the game's fault.

Cackling at the commercial I just saw on Telemundo for the UP Men's soccer team that closed with a VERY faded out clip of the women's team hoisting the natty in 2005 behind a bunch of text. If you hadn't seen that video clip hundreds of times, you *might* be deceived into thinking it was the men!

I 100% believe there is a match-winner possible in the next 5 minutes. Some matches, you know the stoppage time will play out and no one's getting another, but not this one.

This game is absolutely as much fun as we were promised going into it.

Holy shit sniper level golazo!

Game of inches and bounces.

I still can't believe Mitoma didn't make Japan's squad.

Protest stencils painted on the FIFA headquarters in Zurich this week.

Julian Nagelsmann in the middle of every Germany game for some reason:

Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram

I feel bad for Curaçao, but this is tremendous content.

The Socceroos Soccerwon't be denied!

There is still 25 minutes left in this 90-minute game I think I've been watching for 3 hours.

Holy fuck that was tremendous.

Hey Mambo, Jacob Italiano

Do I need to learn who this show speed guy is? He sounds like a total nob. Please don't make me learn about him and why he is being featured on world cup broadcasts.

The US Waldo 2 jerseys literally depict the part of the US flag that represents the 13 original colonies that broke away from British rule to form an independent country. There was a whole war about it.

I gotta say again, it's just weird that FIFA is doing these huge displays of nationalism with the gigantic flags on the field, but then bans Haiti's (dope af) jerseys, depicting the final battle of the Haitian War of Independence in 1803 on its front, because they said it's "political imagery."

"It's called a 'meat wall'"

This is that scene where the guy waves the sword around and then Indiana Jones pulls out a gun

I would honestly be more surprised to learn Dest’s house didn’t have at least one painting exactly like this

As much as I love hearing what Thierry Henry says about the game, because I learn something new every time he opens his mouth, I loathe listening to anything Alexi Lalas has to say, so I'm watching Telemundo. They had Dunga on at halftime. No idea what he said, but I agreed with every word.

the beautiful game

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

That was a good goal that took advantage of bad defending.

Honestly, maybe in the top half of analysts in the rotation

we need to lock all rich tech bros up in an enclosed ecosystem where they can't be a danger to themselves or others

Pulisic's hair cut is ass.