The only German left in this World Cup is Thomas Tuchel! #WC2026

Friday nights, after we'd had a lot of beer, my old flatmates and I would play a bunch of kitschy music, including Bon Jovi, but I've never heard so much Bon Jovi as when watching this world cup #GERPAR #WorldCup26

This is what happens when you don’t involve lawyers or decide to ignore their advice.

i'm going to personally ensure that whoever's responsible for old game manuals being available on the internet goes to heaven

First Belgium, now Brazil... Japan will grow a trauma over these injury time minutes #BRAJPN

Ancelotti really nailed these substitutions #BRAJPN

War and Climate Change: at least one of the several forest fires in Germany at the moment is thought to have been cause by WWII ammunition exploding/causing fires because of the heat.

« “Ne me tuez pas !”, criait-il à son commandant » : une faille de sécurité a permis d'accéder à des milliers de lettres de soldats russes. Ils décrivent les violences exercées contre eux par leur propre armée : humiliations, menaces, corruption, exécutions #Russie www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Putin getting dragged towards bankruptcy by Russian communists is the surprise ending to this war that we never saw coming.

"What is not in doubt is the core of what happened: a foreign ambassador had Belgian police remove us, two journalists – invited, accredited, and doing their jobs – from a celebration held in a privatised public park, because he did not appreciate their question."

A brasileira que denunciou o capitão da seleção de Cabo Verde, Ryan Mendes, por estupro na Nova Zelândia procurou, sem sucesso, ajuda da Federação Cabo-Verdiana de Futebol por mais de uma vez.

Easily one of my favorite stories about the production of #YoungFrankenstein. #TCMParty

Thanks, FIFA... 🙃

As someone whose job is to associate pictures with words, I'd NEVER use images of people doing a fun activity with a caption that speaks of 1000 deaths and how we're living through a climate emergency.

Ha! New superstition found

This is going into penalty kicks isn't it? #RSACAN #WorldCup26

So, FIFA, have you thought about my proposal? Do you really have to send Uzbekistan home...?

Jogo bastante fraco da selecção. Fraco ao ponto de sair de Miami com a sensação de que um 0-0 frente aos cafeteros até é uma boa notícia. Agora há viagem até Toronto e duelo com a Croácia.

#COLPOR what a lame game

#CROGHA looks a bit tied up, which has its merits for both teams but it's not exactly good news for the viewers

Public opinion thinks North Korea is famine land with a personality cult where you go to the gulag if you wear a banned haircut. That they built a state of survival where poverty & degradation co-exist w/ nuclear weapons and a semi-legal economy is too nuanced when complex news are reduced to memes

- France'98 still has the best intro - Mexico'86 still has the catchiest theme - from 2010 onwards it's generic CGI of host country's most famous landmarks with football going around them - England'66 and Germany'74 are more like news bulletin intros www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s34...

The irony of "play has no limits" right under a message saying they are at the limit of their licensing agreement.

There are more reasons to support a team in a major tournament than there are people in the world. You don't like the politics of one team's country? Support their opponents. One of the teams did an amazing display in the first tournament you watched? Support them. Do that 20 billion times.

Cabo Verde may not play the most interesting football out there, but at least their country does not do public executions, does not keep women trapped, and never created a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the world's poorest countries. #CPVKSA #WorldCup26

I don't think I approve of Norway's 'let's-go-with-a-B-team-against-one-of-the-world's-best-sides-because-we're-already-qualified-anyway-so-why-bother?' approach to this game.

Hydration breaks suck but, on a lower threshold of useless novelties, the referee cam does *nothing* for the spectacle. A shaky, low quality, phone-like short video where it's virtually impossible to see what we're looking for. Nobody asked for it, and it does nothing. Thanks, FIFA.

Commemorating 20 years since the Battle of Nuremberg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... #WorldCup2006 #PORNED #Nuremberg

"There are 7 Croats in the squad but the main Bosnian Croat nationalist party has suppressed celebration, or even recognition, of the squad in areas it controls. The team manager [persuaded] only one Bosnian Serb to join in the face of strong nationalist pressure on young players to stay away"

Péter Magyar confirmed on the record that Hungary has refused to sign the letters necessary to unlock the clusters with Ukraine. But he said Hungary was not "the only one" that has reservations about the original goal of opening all five remaining clusters already in July.

Hmmm... youtu.be/Y9oKo-QvBpo

I was recently looking at a wikipedia article about IKEA scandals, and found a discussion of a Danish study showing that cheap IKEA floormats were overwhelmingly named after places in Denmark and expensive rugs after places in Sweden, supposedly showing deeprooted prejudice.

Tenho de reconhecer uma coisa, deve ter sido a primeira vez que a língua uzbeque apareceu nas páginas de um órgão de comunicação social português. sicnoticias.pt/podcasts/ass...

Parce que "Pourquoi être en retard sur les escroqueries du moment ?" techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/m...

Ghana's defence was insane, and Kane could not grab the very best chances. Both Ghana and Croatia still have a chance to go through.

Dear FIFA: can we play against Uzbekistan all the time in this World Cup? Your Saudi bankrollers will be very happy, think about it.

🇪🇺 Military assistance has become a key part of the EU’s approach to peace and security. Today, SIPRI releases three fact sheets mapping military assistance provided by the EU and other external actors across the broader European neighbourhood. #SIPRI #EU #Security #MilitaryAssistance

⚡️ South Korea to accept all North Korean POWs from Ukraine at their request, ministry says. The ministry said it opposes any forced transfer of North Korean POWs to Russia or North Korea and has communicated this position to Ukrainian authorities.

👨🏻‍🚀 Le premier et seul astronaute Afghan à ce jour, Abdul Ahad Momand, est décédé ce 21 juin à l'âge 67 ans en Allemagne où il était réfugié depuis 1992 et avait pris la nationalité en 2003. Il a passé 8 jours dans l'espace en 1988 avec le vol Soyouz TM-6, dont 5 dans la station Mir.

Google News Portugal coloca links para o site do Chega:

FIFA organizers are enraged as they were led to believe that it's always sunny in Philadelphia

RIP Yves Lacoste. He created the possibility of thinking critically about geopolitics, wresting it from the right.

"Social Media will democratise access to public debates" Social Media's role in public debates:

Let us take this moment to remember that in the 2018 World Cup, Messi had a penalty kick saved by the Iceland goalkeeper who directed the music video of Iceland's Eurovision entry in 2012. The gap between football fans and Eurovision fans is not a canyon, it's just a small creek.

How long until European politicians designate Afghanistan a 'safe country'? www.euractiv.com/news/taliban...

Super relevant case for the new deportation policies: how do EU member states have to verify if a third country is truly, effectively safe for a migrant to be returned? Is it enough that human rights are ensured on paper?

He's right. Uruguay are two-time world cup winners, with this they will only lose respect. sports.yahoo.com/articles/cap...

Anyhow, here’s an evergreen tweet about this which clearly stood the test of time. (Respect for him never deleting it)