Iran have had to relocate their World Cup camp from the USA to Mexico.
Breel Embolo is still in Switzerland days after the team departed for the US, due to visa issues.
And a Somalia referee has been denied a visa.
Ladies & gentlemen, welcome to the Trump World Cup.
🇵🇹🇮🇷 2006 World Cup—Iranian football player Captain Yahya Golmohammadi presents Portuguese captain Luis Figo with a traditional handwoven Iranian wall carpet.
In about 3 months from now, we are going to find out that the private equity firm that owns this brand of black label pineapples knew their product was approaching its expiration date and would be removed from Costco’s shelves.
So, in order to avoid the losses, they created a viral, guerilla marketing campaign to go into the ghettos across the US and popularize Kool Aid Pineapples as a way to sell their rapidly expiring product.
Netflix will make a movie about it next year.
It will be called Pineapple Hustle.
The World Cup is the only tournament where you’ll randomly remember a player you haven’t thought about since 2006 because why am I thinking of David Trezeguet this morning
Just kind of left speechless at an invading army whining to the United Nations that the people they are invading — and killing their civilians by the thousands — are fighting back. This is a mystifying level of lack of self awareness
The iconic green subway entrance railings and globes have been a fixture of New York City for decades. Now they're orange and blue.
And for the first time, the globes are basketballs.
Finals week hits different in New York.
Israel having killed every child, every sheep, every dog and cat. Having destroyed every tree, every road, every building in southern Gaza
Is now bulldozing the remnants.
Every gravestone, every sign that anyone ever lived here.
It's a holocaust
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This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.
Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3.
International tournaments separate the true sickos from the fraudulent watchers, the “Spain vs Germany” crowd. Whereas us mentalists know fine well the real juice worth the squeeze is Türkiye vs Paraguay at 4am. That’s where the real magic happens. Enjoy your bed losers.
A testament to the Norwegian work ethic. These other lads that I presume he hustles on the street with? Lethargic, small, starving. My Norwigga? Supple, well-fed and full of life. Absolutely hobomogged.
From June 11 to July 19, New Yorkers can eat, drink, and celebrate the World Cup for just $26 at restaurants across all five boroughs.
From Little Senegal in Harlem to Little Odessa in Brooklyn, our city’s diversity is our greatest strength, and now it’s on the menu.
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