Anthony Sobolevsky⚽️

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[Anthony Sobolevsky⚽️ @AnthonyS_37]

My Senior Season and final soccer season of my playing career at Columbia College…done. Thank you soccer for all the memories♥️⚽️
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Thank you @ColumbiaCougars 🤍 Grateful for everyone who has supported me in this journey🙏🏻
Truly been a pleasure, see you again soon🤟🏻⚽️ #GoCougs

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

The greatest show in the world is ready. Are you? 🏆

#FIFAWorldCup

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.

He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.

At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.

Everyone told him to be “realistic.”
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.

Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.

Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.

People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.

Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.

Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.

Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.

Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.

Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.

Credit: Barclay Mullins

[KC Gøøners @KCGooners]

Mikel Arteta’s army, we’re Arsenal through and through, we’ll sing it in the North Bank and at Johnny’s Tavern too!!! ❤️🤍 #COYG

[Kansas Referee Program @KSRefereePro]

Some of our states advance referees in town for the holiday weekend taking advantage of the good weather to run a fitness test!

Together as a Ref Family!

#KSRefPro #KansasReferees #KRDP

[Kansas Referee Program @KSRefereePro]

“CHEERS MATE” to our very own Anthony Sobolevsky on being selected! ⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#KSRefPro #KansasReferees #USYSReferees

[US Youth Soccer @USYouthSoccer]

US Youth Soccer has selected a special group of 16 referees to embark on their first-ever international trip to England. ⚽️💂🏼‍♂️🎡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Find out who is going overseas with USYS » https://t.co/mPenjZgfyl

[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

Never A Doubt ⏰

[FIFA Media @fifamedia]

Statement from Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of FIFA Referees Committee, on the abuse of referees in football ⬇️

[Kansas Men’s Basketball @KUHoops]

Death. Taxes. Beating Mizzou.

[Kansas Sports Officials Association @ksoasports]

Huge thank you to the Eastern Kansas League & Sunflower League coaches for selecting a ⚽️ referee of the year! The Fall 2023 award winners are:

EKL — Brendan Sweetman
Sunflower — Anthony Sobolevsky

Congrats @BrendanSweetman & @AnthonyS_37! 🎉👏
@KSHSAA @JohnDehan

[Sporting Kansas City @SportingKC]

FINAL FROM KC!

See you next season, neighbor.

#PaintTheWall | @budlight

[KSHSAA @KSHSAA]

5A Championship officials for championship tournament! Congrats and thanks to all selected to work postseason #WellDone

[Mac Moore @bigmac_nocheez]

Here at Spring Hill HS for 5A state boys soccer final between Blue Valley Southwest and Maize South.

#KSHSAACovered x @CapFed

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

WHAT A WIN ❤️

[U.S. Soccer @ussoccer]

NEWS: Jon Freemon will lead the referee crew for the 2023 U.S. @opencup Final between @InterMiamiCF and @HoustonDynamo on Sept. 27 at DRV PNK Stadium.

[Danny @DjokovicFan_]

In 2022, Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia and prevented from entering the US.

In 2023, Novak Djokovic went 24-0 combined in Australia and US and won four titles.

Poetic.

[B/R Football @brfootball]

44 TROPHIES.

Lionel Messi becomes the most decorated footballer of all time 🏆

[Major League Soccer @MLS]

47 clubs entered. One reigns supreme.

@InterMiamiCF are the 2023 @LeaguesCup champions!