The Norway team, and even more so their amazing “Viking” fans, were an absolute joy. 🇳🇴

Summertime...

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Hands down a World Cup classic and more so because it’s at the Azteca, as it should be!

Craziest game I've seen since... Argentina-Cape Verde lol

Hahaha!! Oh dear.

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Cape Verde's national team returned to Praia to a homecoming parade after a historic World Cup run that ended in a 3-2 defeat to Argentina in the Round of 32.

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Donald Trump celebrated America's 250th birthday with an alarming and nakedly partisan speech in front of Mount Rushmore last night.

Good contribution from our Martinelli

Agree but they had the edge. Haaland aside, the Norway goalie was excellent.

Neymar: your team is being eliminated from the World Cup and the first thing you do is point to the badge to the goalkeeper and try to rattle him.. absolutely ridiculous and you wonder why several people back home don’t like you.

Norway said we don’t care about no Argentina-Brazil semi-final 🤣

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Surely this has to be the beginning of the end for Infantino.

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Whatever happens, Folarin Balogun will be the one that suffers. Some in the US admin were already targeting him iirc.

As usual, 47 ruined it for us all. Now, if the US goes on to winning, this will be the biggest stain on them. They will not have won on merits, but because Trump asked Infantino to "suspend" the red card. If I were Pochettino, I'd play this game without Balogun. It's the only way to keep their honor

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He will be…

Go Belgium!

Congratulations to FIFA and USA on making everyone want to support Belgium just simply out of plain spite. A truly historic achievement.

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From a non-American viewpoint, this will taint any accomplishment USMNT has for the rest of the tournament. Win vs Belgium? It wasn't really a win. Miraculously go on to lift the trophy? Doesn't count. Major asterisk for the record books.

Of course the USMNT will have no credibility now. It will backfire on them very badly. At the very least they (especially Balogun) will be heavily booed… Thos is not “fair play”… but I really hope the US loses!

calling to do corruption on behalf of somebody they don't believe should be a citizen of the United States

Meanwhile in the UK…

A scandalous decision, FIFA placing its thumb on the scales of the tournament without even feeling compelled to offer a fig leaf of justification. Borderline red cards happen all the time and plenty of teams with more at stake than the USMNT have to just deal with it.

We can't win without our birthright citizen! - DJT Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, and raised in the United Kingdom, Balogun was eligible to represent the United States, England, and Nigeria at international level before he committed himself to the United States.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/742.... Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!” U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social after the news had broken. 😡 @destroytime.bsky.social

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🇪🇬 Egypt has inaugurated its largest-ever military headquarters, with a total area larger than the Pentagon. 🔻 The headquarters covers 4.7 million square meters.

Lots of talk about selling Martinelli and how much we can get for him. I'm all for keeping him, ok he has been less effective on the ball, but he is very fast, works really hard, knows Arteta system. He would be a good back up on the left and I reckon could do something up front off the bench

www.newser.com/story/392275... What?! I am not sure I approve of this but didn’t watch the game… @destroytime.bsky.social

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