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[Andrea 🇮🇹🇪🇺 @ClassicalSocdem]

Crazy that there are people who swear “multicultural can never work” when NYC literally exists

[💫𝓓𝓮𝓶𝓸💫🪐 @Demo4fhs]

Hate when ppl can't do time

[Max Berlinger @Berlinger]

i used to fear mamdani was too young to oversee a city like new york and now i realize our politicians should ... have energy? and stamina?

[J. 🇭🇷 @JosipFCB93]

FIFA is pathetic for just allowing things like this to happen like its nothing

[Santiago G @sgarciaz]

Pausa de hidratación a las 9:30pm en Boston a 24 grados. Infantino acabó con el fútbol. Es nuestro deber moral criticar esta estupidez hasta que la quiten.

[Andrew Giuntini-Haubner @a_g_haubner]

The Knicks winning a championship while the World Cup cultural exchange is happening might be the legitimate antidote to the individualistic nihilism that’s poisoned so much of our country for the last decade or so

People want community. They want whimsy. It’s fun to have fun

[🧟‍♀️ @crewslover]

a world cup co-hosted by mexico, a spanish speaking country, and reporters are banned from asking questions in spanish like do you know how ridiculous racist and weird you have to be to push for only english at a global event

[Ben Wright @benwright]

It’s currently 86° in Houston and they’re playing indoors in a climate-controlled stadium. Have some respect for fans’ intelligence and call it what it is: a commercial break.

Are we really going to keep up this charade for the entire tournament?

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the Brazil, Morocco, and Netherlands press conferences, where questions in Spanish were reportedly not permitted for Hakimi, Vinícius Jr., and Frenkie de Jong:

“I have covered World Cups for years, and this situation makes absolutely no sense to me. You’re telling me a World Cup co-hosted by Mexico can stop journalists from asking questions in Spanish? That’s like hosting a Formula 1 race and banning cars from using their engines.

We saw it with Hakimi. We saw it with Vinícius. Now we’re hearing similar stories involving Frenkie de Jong. The players understood the questions. The journalists spoke one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. Yet somehow the language became the problem.

Gianni Infantino talks about inclusion, diversity, and bringing football to everyone. Fine. Then explain this contradiction. How can FIFA celebrate diversity in every promotional video and then create headlines because Spanish journalists are being told to switch languages at a tournament hosted by Mexico?

Spanish isn’t some obscure dialect spoken by a handful of people. It’s the language of hundreds of millions across the Americas and beyond. If a journalist from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, or anywhere else asks a question in Spanish and the player understands it, why is football creating barriers where none existed?

The irony is unbelievable. FIFA keeps telling us football belongs to everyone, but this controversy has many fans asking whether some voices are more welcome than others.

Maybe there’s a logistical explanation. Maybe it’s a translation issue. But perception matters. And right now the perception is terrible.

Because what fans are seeing is simple: a World Cup hosted partly by a Spanish-speaking nation, players who understand Spanish, journalists who speak Spanish, and officials telling them not to use Spanish.

If that’s progress, somebody needs to explain it better. Because from the outside, it looks like football’s governing body is tripping over its own message.”

“FIFA wanted a celebration of diversity. Instead, they’ve handed the internet a controversy that won’t stop being discussed.”

[Dia Miller @diandraann]

My biggest sports ick will always be handing the trophy to the owner of the team before the players.

[MMA Junkie @MMAJunkie]

Bryce Mitchell gives his thoughts on #UFCWhiteHouse.

"The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us."

[Bartolo @BartoloOpina]

Lo que acaba de pasar con la pausa de hidratación después del gol de Curazao es exactamente el motivo por el que estoy tan en contra.

Alemania había quedado tocada, Curazao se le venía arriba a puro envión anímico y, de golpe, te frenan el partido, enfrían todo y lo reinician como si nada.

El fútbol no se juega en cuatro cuartos. Esto no es la NBA, la NFL ni uno de esos deportes yankees armados alrededor de las interrupciones.

Dejen de alterar el deporte más popular de la historia.

[Bobby Sauce @takenaps]

There is something poetic about giving the UFC complete access to the White House grounds to host a for-profit sporting event, to benefit from paid sponsorship and advertising opportunities, for the American people to celebrate the nation's birthday, funded with their tax dollars, only to charge them $8.99 to watch it, exclusively on Larry Ellison's Paramount+

[Lauren @laurennUTD]

There’s something so inherently wrong with a society that can’t go 45 minutes without an ad.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

pain

[sam @sam_d_1995]

the energy of the OKC celebration last year vs. the Knicks this year is so funny

walkable cities enable spontaneous eruptions of joy that are simply impossible to generate in suburban sprawl

[emilia 🍒🥇🏆 @lexiescarina]

imagine you get elected mayor and two of your sports teams immediately win championships

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

"Hydration break"

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

FROM NOW ON ADDRESS ME AS CHAMP! 🧡💙

[Zito @_Zeets]

Knicks winning after five decades and Arsenal winning after 22 years in Mamdani’s first year as mayor. It’s time to crown him emperor for life.