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USMNT watching France having trouble scoring against Paraguay

why does everybody keep talking about the Turkey game when I, personally, have decided it doesn't count because it doesn't fit my narrative

i PROMISE this will be my last post about this but Paraguay allowed four goals to the USMNT and then three combined in their four other games including matchups against France and Germany

European soccer fans respond to "Freed from Desire" like my dog responds to me opening the cabinet that has the treats in it

incredible World Cup from Paraguay goalie Orlando Gill, the star of the shootout against Germany and just double-saved Mbappé. He basically didn't break through as a pro until last year and at one point sold his U-20 national team jersey so he could pay the bills when his baby was born prematurely

i am going to watch this entire 38 minute video

Philadelphia brings this expression out of people

Kylian Mbappé has now scored half as many goals against Paraguay as Folarin Balogun

seriously though, there were years of evidence that Paraguay was a really solid defending team and USMNT tore through them like a hot knife through butter and weirdly a ton of people including Americans went with the narrative that it was the equivalent of playing Southeast Minnesota Tech

Again, if I were France, I would simply score four goals (three in the first half) against Paraguay. I was told this was easy when the United States men’s national team did it

Are Paraguay and France just standing there and watching this

stunning that Morocco made the World Cup semifinal, the first African nation ever to do so, replaced most of the players on the roster (just 9 of 26 players returning) and made it back to the quarterfinals four years later

great tournament for Canada that will be remembered fondly but feels like it was all lined up for things to even bigger — if Davies were healthy, if Kone didn't get hurt, if they'd won the group and these games were in Vancouver — and it just didn't pan out

Soccer novice here but I feel like somebody on Canada should have tried breaking up either the pass or the shot at some point

Credit to the alt text preview here, really hooked me to see the full alt text

good lyric in the Moroccan national anthem. i wanna hear Rick Ross saying this

pretty sure the coaches always do a little gift exchange before games but yesterday the Cape Verde coach Bubista took a moment to actually roll out the pennant and show the Argentine coach a map of the Cape Verde islands literal "they put their country on the map"

Now that he has 40x more Instagram followers than the population of his home country the pressure on Vozinha to start pumping out good content has to be enormous

the Australian fans decided to do their pregame Australian hollering at the Walmart across from the Cowboys stadium

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for once I agree with @rodger.bsky.social trying to restart a long simmering feud in Europe

TODAY! IN! SPORTS! 🇺🇸 The biggest game in USA (men's!) soccer history 🧐Reviewing reviews ☘️ ... Paul George??????

This reminds me of the video where they randomly asked an old man on the street if he remembered a big game from 1967 and it turned out he had played in the game.

We remember

I don’t even speak Portuguese and I keep rewatching this video where a Brazilian journalist thinks he’s just interviewing a random Cape Verde fan at the stadium and it turns out it’s Vozinha’s dad.

Idk if this is even an answerable question but is there a sense that goalkeeper play has significantly improved over the years? It feels like every game has at least one completely astounding save, if not multiple

(Billy Joel voice) And there's number ten, Paraguay he cover his mouth on review we looked at the VAR and your hand went too far and now it's a RED CARD for you da da da diddy da

Still thinking about her

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

PHOEBE BRIDGERS: and what *I'M* saying is that pre-snap motion has become such a staple of Shanahan Tree coaching schemes that modern defenses have fully adapted by filling any potential leverage gaps ANDY REID: (nodding while eating a big bowl of spaghetti)

I wrote about it. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

me approving goals per capita as the deciding factor for the Cape Verde-Argentina game: yes! yes!!! me looking at the final goals per capita for Belgium-USA: well this sucks.

the world will remember Cape Verde. and see them again in 4 years

think they got shorted some stoppage time there

oh my god that was the Wondo play

don't worry, Vozinha coming up into the box for a 122nd minute bicycle kick equalizer

This is the moment for me Goal of his life, pure disbelief He can’t believe he just did that

ARCHIPELFGGGGOOOOOO

WORLD'S #1 ARCHIPELAGO NOW AND FOREVER

Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?

Can you imagine a Vozinha save in PKs

I WASN'T JOKING

VOZINHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA O MELHOR DO MUNDOOOO

This is not a drill

tied Spain tied Uruguay 1-1 against FREAKIN' ARGENTINA in the second half this Cape Verde team is legit, we're giving them the Cinderella treatment but this team keeps showing us they're legit

VOZINHA!