The Empire State Building shines red and white tonight in celebration of @Arsenal’s Premier League Title and trophy celebration.
See the lights live: https://t.co/iavtXSm3Fx
Brazil is going viral with ‘running raves’
Sao Paulo’s PACETRONIK events mix group runs with electronic music and club energy
The running rave concept is already backed by ASICS Brasil
Footage: PACETRONIK
🚨🎙️Thierry Henry on the new 2026 World Cup ball that needs to be plugged in and charged before kick off:
“Football is finished. Completely finished. We are charging footballs now? Charging footballs before kick-off like they’re iPhones? And people still want to tell me this sport has ‘romance’ left?
The biggest sport on earth, the most emotional game in the world, and now the football itself has a battery inside it like it’s a smartwatch. Think about how insane that sounds for a second.
“They keep calling it ‘progress’, but sometimes I look at modern football and honestly wonder if we’re slowly killing the soul of the game.
Back in my day, the ball was a ball. You kicked it, you controlled it, you scored. Simple. Now we have sensors inside the ball, 12 cameras watching every blade of grass, computers tracking every heartbeat, and VAR officials sitting in a room deciding football frame-by-frame like it’s some science experiment.
And don’t tell me this is ‘for accuracy’. Accuracy for who? Because all I see is the game becoming more robotic every single year. Strikers can’t celebrate goals anymore because they’re waiting for a microchip inside the ball to tell them if someone’s shoelace was offside three passes earlier.
You score a goal now and nobody celebrates properly anymore. The striker looks at the linesman. The fans look at the screen. The referee puts his finger to his ear. Then everybody waits 90 seconds for a laboratory decision from people sitting behind monitors.
The funniest part? FIFA will market this as ‘innovation’. Innovation? No. It’s control. Football was the most human sport in the world because of emotion, controversy, chaos, mistakes, that’s what made people fall in love with it. Now everything is engineered.
Soon they’ll have AI referees, automatic red cards, and maybe balls that vibrate when a player dives. We laugh now, but look how fast this nonsense is moving.
And people wonder why old-school fans say modern football has lost its soul. We went from street football to Silicon Valley football in less than 20 years.
Imagine telling Ronaldinho, Zidane, or R9 that one day the World Cup ball would need charging before a final. They would think you were joking.”
Modern football keeps calling itself ‘evolution’. Sometimes it looks more like the death of spontaneity.”
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@TateTheTalisman@Cobratate Facts, you guys were loud and proud against the demonic woke mind virus. Perhaps in time, you will both be canonized for doing God's work.
🚨 Zinedine Zidane on Kylian Mbappé compared to Cristiano Ronaldo:
“Kylian doesn’t need anyone to teach him how to play. Players with that level of talent already understand football.
But at the highest level, talent is only the beginning.
When I worked with Cristiano at Real Madrid, one thing always impressed me.
After a game where he scored, assisted, and was named Man of the Match, he came to my office the next morning and asked for the full match replay.
I thought he wanted to watch the goals.
He didn’t.
He wanted to see the runs he mistimed, the possessions he lost, and the chances he could have finished better.
That is elite mentality.
Kylian has the quality to reach that level. The challenge now is making excellence a habit, not a moment.”