This is the most American soccer paragraph ever written

It's brutal here today

I don't know exactly why but this got me excited. It's happening, and in my city

Turkey warming up against Venezuela in South Florida on June 6. Then opening its tournament a week later over in Vancouver -- 3,400 miles away. This World Cup is SERIOUSLY spread out. Like, it's crazy how spread out

We murdered three more people in a boat today

Opening game watch party on South Beach, free, with a concert after by ... Carlos Vives. Hosting the World Cup is starting to pay off

Fiasco. (via @henrybushnell.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...

This is a slow civil war. A slow, very *stupid* civil war, but a civil war nonetheless.

A source at an Atlanta Midtown hotel tells 11Alive News that they projected $600,000 in #WorldCup revenue for June. As of May 27, the employee tells Chase that they only have $13,000 in reservations for that month. #FIFA #TrumpEconomy

What do you mean, the World Cup ticket pricing hasn't been above board? Gasp.

Murder. War crimes.

Cool idea bro, no major thing happening in North America anytime soon, like from June 11-July 19, that might bring lots of people from other continents here.

sorry to Kendall George but "freak bat dog injury" is gonna rattle around my brain for years sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

stumbled across this on a miami dolphins fan forum and buddy ..... you're gonna be real real bad

Making the leader's birthday into a big public spectacle with games and performances has been the hallmark of despots and autocrats since at least Nero. It is not the behavior of a republican head of state.

Friends in other countries have started sending me friendly texts asking if I'm excited about the World Cup in the US and will I be attending any games. I reply with screenshots of ticket prices for games in Miami - $4,000 for bad seats to Portugal v Colombia - and they simply can't believe it

Yes.

Does this mean that, for the game in Seattle, Iran is going to have to fly in from Mexico, bus to the stadium, and then immediately play, that same day?

i have tipped from "wouldn't that be funny" over into actively rooting for the world cup to be a shitshow

The United States is at war with Cuba. A blockade is an act of war, imposed by military force. The goal is to cause widespread suffering to get the target to capitulate. If the Chinese navy blockaded Taiwan in an attempt to overthrow the Taiwanese government, that'd be an act of war. So is US-Cuba.

The Trump Administration is starving Cuba.

Fuck you, orange Duolingo owl. This streak is a burden, a millstone around my neck. I hate you so much

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

The main guy in World Cup TV ads - in Miami at least - didn't make the team

The same Philip Levine whose mom endorsed him for governor? youtu.be/pVymz2u-T5Y?...

True. Fair.

Inter Miami owner Jorge Mas is working closely with Trump and Marco Rubio to install the American-business-friendly Cuban government Mas has long wanted to see. Says it'll be a breeze. "Cuba’s economic reconstruction I see as not just achievable but super easy." english.elpais.com/internationa...

Kash Patel's explanation of what happened with the downed Brothers to the Rescue pilots doesn't much jibe with the Miami Herald's coverage at the time. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... 1/

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirms ICE will be at the World Cup

Miami hustles

Pay a fortune to attend matches, but instead end up as a foreigner in ICE detention without trial. Or stay at home for nothing and watch them on TV. That's a pretty simple choice. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

The US indicting Raúl Castro while ignoring decades of CIA-backed terror, assassination attempts, bombings, sanctions, and regime change operations against Cuba says a lot about how “justice” gets applied in global politics.

“Up to 70% of rooms reserved by Fifa in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle have been cancelled, the AHLA said” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

They are going to Maduro Cuba

That’s right it’s … time to invade Cuba!

“I’m just so goddamn fed up with all this,” Gina Small, 29, said in a comment on the U.S. economy that one of her friends assumed was about the world’s ongoing humanitarian crises, another friend thought was about the weaponization of America’s military against its own people.

Have you been struggling to get your hands on affordable World Cup tickets? Well, Donald Trump’s meme coin business partners have an “extraordinary” offer for you: A chance to win box seats at the World Cup final in July.

No, sorry, it remains Estadio Azteca. The name change has been rejected. By me.

The World Cup just got real for me

FIFA predicted the New York area would take in $3 billion from the World Cup. But some official estimates say the city could lose money on the world’s biggest sporting event. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/12/w...

I know we keep saying it over and over again but Trump is an explicitly unique individual in American history because the media by and large abjectly refuses to cover him the way they would any other human being who has ever lived. Any other human being and this would be a gross outburst.

If there's fewer ppl buying tickets, booking hotels, and traveling to the US, FIFA seems to have decided to extract everything they can from the smaller number of paying fans.

FIFA thinks that the point of putting the World Cup in the US is that they get to host 78 Super Bowls that are priced as such

I just bought four tickets together for Cubs Cardinals at Wrigley in July, "a top professional game of a certain level," for less than $300 total

President of a World Cup host nation puts targets on the back of tournament players.

Tony Meola talks and it's this guy that I hear:

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Trump’s Doral National golf course in Miami installs gold statue of Trump, which is remarkably similar to one of Dear Leader in North Korea.

FIFA's extortion level pricing is not working, even for US home games. Throw in the challenges to visiting the US, people who would have liked to have gone will be watching a lot of empty seats on the big screen instead. www.wsj.com/sports/socce...