Danny Ospina

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

👀 ¡Mira quién ha llegado!

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

Lo de David Gonzalez fue más suave comparado con lo de este tipo. Que falta de todo.

[Win Sports @WinSportsTV]

"Esto es Nacional; si te llama un club como Nacional, ¿cómo no va a ser algo que estabas esperando desde siempre y pensabas que podía pasar en 10 años? Y la oportunidad apareció y la decisión se tomó en corto tiempo; nos hemos ganado el derecho por nuestro trabajo. Yo tenía un vínculo con Tolima; teníamos una cláusula en el contrato: si ellos finalizaban el contrato, ellos me pagaban una indemnización, pero si era al revés, el club que fuera tenía que pagar esa cláusula; es lo mismo que pasa con los jugadores. Nacional vino y apostó por nosotros". Lucas González, DT de Nacional. #MedioTiempoWIN 🟢⚽🔥

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

@LonyJhozano No cantes victoria.

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

Nos tocó el argentino con aura mas perdedora de todas. Increíble.

[Win Sports @WinSportsTV]

🇨🇴⚽ "Me gustaría haber seguido, pero acá estamos. Dimos todo. Ningún reproche”. Néstor Lorenzo, técnico de la selección Colombia.

📺Pégate a la pantalla de Win para ver #DespiertaWIN

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

@ElGolGarracol Razón tuvo Huguita en darle en la jeta a este periodista de 3 pesos @cesaralo

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

No podemos aspirar a más si tenemos un técnico mediocre. Cómo les dije. Colombia tiene dos decisiones: Ser una selección que tiene participaciones decorosas y hasta ahí, o apostarle a ser campeones. Parece que la junta directiva quiere seguir en su zona de confort y ya decidió… No aspiremos a más.

[Melissa Martinez @MelisaMarArtuz]

La junta directiva de la federación colombiana de fútbol respalda la continuidad del profesor Néstor Lorenzo.

[Julián Capera @JulianCaperaB]

“Podemos sentir frustración o tristeza, pero ninguna pasión justifica el odio y vivir con miedo”: el mensaje de Jaminton Campaz tras las amenazas y los asquerosos mensajes que ha recibido en su contra, la de su hija y demás familiares.

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

@cesaralo La selección va quedar así como usted, acabada.

[CAMILO PINTO @camiloapinto]

“Ninguna pasión justifica el odio y vivir con miedo” acaba de publicar Jaminton Campaz.

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

🙏🏻

[johnnymac @itrieds0hard]

RIP Bonnie Tyler. I was first introduced to her music through the Fairy Godmother singing "Holding Out for a Hero" in Shrek 2

[TatianaBM @Tabeeme91]

Estaba triste porque perdimos pero ahora estoy peor.

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

Uy este debate si está bueno. Y ya extrapolaron el caso a la Selección Colombia después de las declaraciones de Daniel Muñoz.

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

EVANGELICALISM AND THE DECLINE OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL 🇧🇷

After yet another World Cup defeat Brazil is again soul searching - “Why has Brazil become so bad at one of the only things it still used to be good at?”

One of the most popular explanations among Brazilians this time is the rise of evangelicalism in Brazil, especially Pentecostalism. The argument goes that this has ‘spiritually’ undermined the Brazilian team. At the 2022 census about 27% of Brazil’s population over 10 identified as evangelical Protestants. In 2000 the percentage was 15.4% and in 1980 6.6%. A common explanation for this growth is that Pentecostal and evangelical churches were able to expand so rapidly over the past half century because they offered a new version of Christianity that prioritised close-knit local communities, energetic worship and a ‘message of personal transformation’ (and some also say in a derisive sense more ‘accessible’ ‘lower barrier to entry’ version of Christianity, with everything that entails) that especially resonated with ‘urban and lower-income’ Brazilians during Brazil’s comparatively economically and culturally stagnant recent history. In particular, with the kinds of demographics who lived in or adjacent to Brazilian favelas that football wunderkinds used to be drawn from

This is a kind of version of the other main explanation I have heard for Brazil’s decline; that it lost its swag, its samba, its Latin flair - or ‘duende’. You can’t really empirically prove these claims of course and both arguments (see more of this other argument below) make different root claims but the commonality they share is that Brazilian football used to have a kind of playful Latin - maybe you could say Catholic - magic to it. It was very flashy and improvised but it was also a sort of highly skilled dance that you ‘flowed’ with, it was almost liturgical. (Argentina for instance a team that still has a bit more of this)

The Evangelical argument extends into how it has affected social dynamics in the favelas too. I can’t really speak on how accurate these claims are but apparently it has made families more cautious and less communal, less inclined to ‘let kids go out and play’ ie play football with other favela kids - the focus is instead on ‘staying safe’ and ‘individual hard work at school’. For the players from this new milieu that still do get selected for top-flight football then the effect is it makes them more individualistic, less inclined to cooperate, less likely to see it as ‘a group dance’ and more inclined instead to ‘just charge in’ etc

This is what they say! You are free to buy into that however much you want. Possibly a lot of this is just ‘cope’ so-called from a country that maybe too much ties its entire identity to football. Does seem to me that part of the finger-pointing too is you can spin it as a kind of neo-colonialism, in a cultural sense. That it comes from America, from the West. You can see quite extreme left wing Brazilian accounts repeating this claim so you do have reason to be a little sceptical in that

In any case the decline is obviously multi-causal - you can also point to the rise of European football, lack of money, bad tactics or coaching, changing tactics worldwide that no longer favour Brazil, everybody else is just that good now etc. On the right, you will hear too that the decline is related to the decline of the Brazilian nation generally ie greater incompetence all round. It isn’t just that lost their Latin - or Catholic - flair, it is that they became more ‘Third World’. Evangelicalism in this sense then would be less a problem of Calvinist Predestination Teutonic Weberian Protestant Work Ethic Protestantism - more a problem of, in the extreme, Sub-Saharan African village church with a corrugated iron roof Evangelicalism

Either way there is a general feeling that the death of Brazil football represents the loss of a version of the national soul - that Brazil has now somehow changed for the worse

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

Hay que acabar con este periodismo mediocre. Que por las primicias le lamben al técnico de turno.

[Cesar Augusto Londoño @cesaralo]

Cuando falta el gol, puede faltar todo y es la forma más fácil de juzgar y condenar. Pero no ver más allá del resultado es estar ciego. Esta selección Colombia hizo más por el país, que otros que nunca triunfaron y exigen excelencia. Afirmar que Colombia fracasó es no aceptar la competencia. Ganar no es una obligación, es una posibilidad que depende de la capacidad propia y la del rival @FCFSeleccionCol

[Gallinero (Daniel) @DebateGallinero]

El problema nunca será la bailadera, eso es lo de menos.

El problema es que este es el pensamiento del que maneja el camerino. Un tipo que por perezoso llegó sin físico a un mundial.

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

@FCFSeleccionCol , despidan a Lorenzo y contraten a este man.

[HNS @HNS_CFF]

A humble arrival. An unforgettable journey. A proud farewell.

Following nearly nine years, head coach Zlatko Dalić has decided to close his incredibly successful chapter with #Croatia. 🥈🥉🥈

Head coach, thank you for everything – the victories, the achievements, the qualifying berths, the medals, the unity, the respect, and your unwavering commitment to fight for Croatia, both on and off the pitch. 🙏

The results speak of your coaching virtues. The respect you've earned from your players, staff, and opponents speaks volumes about the person you are. ❤️🤍💙

#HvalaDala | #SkromanDolazak #NezaboravanPut #PonosanOproštaj | #Obitelj

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

@JohanMM_ JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJ

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

@MioDiavoli Que hablas tonto. Ese man anda más preocupado por cuanto va ganar que la selección. Hablan si saber de futbol estos pendejos.

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

Falcao sabe. Y se llenó la boca de razón.

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

@Juanjo_guerrero No

[Danny Ospina @DannyOspina]

Colombia tiene dos caminos: seguir siendo esa selección vistosa que hace que hace torneos decorosos, que compite bien, que su trofeo es un gracias guerreros y dos palmaditas en la espalda, pero que nunca gana nada. O cambiar absolutamente todas la estructura futbolística y arriesgarse, tanto en lo financiero, en lo futbolístico y buscar de una vez por todas un campeonato.