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28 | 🐍🌍💤wolle🎧⚽️🇳🇱🇵🇱 cc hbx protect your energy for you and yours 🫂

[asc 🦥 @ascinhiding]

yo 😭😭😭

[memes futebolisticos. - vito @Mfutebolisticos]

Eu com 7 anos depois de ir fazer uma pausa pra hidratação em casa e minha mãe não deixar eu sair mais:

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Cape Verde qualifying for the Round of 32

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🌎🇨🇻 OFFICIAL: Cape Verde qualify for World Cup Round of 32, HISTORICAL! 💥

[Equipe de France ⭐⭐ @equipedefrance]

🇫🇷🤝🇳🇴

#NORFRA | #FIFAWorldCup

["El Jefe" Águila @ElJefeAguila]

Mira como se emociona Guillermo Ochoa cuando Javier Aguirre le dice que va a jugar.🥹🇲🇽

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Tunisia at the World Cup

[Mariana Oliveira @marioliveirain]

Os colombianos respeitosamente esperando ele acabar de cantar o hino da seleção do Congo sozinho para depois vibrarem com ele 🥲

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 Kylian Mbappé: "My thoughts on hydration breaks? Don't ask us players for our opinion, we're very reactionary.

If tomorrow we're dominating at the 25th minute, and there's a hydration break, we'll be angry, because it breaks our rhythm, but if the weather is hot, or we're being dominated, I'll be happy."

[AI (fan) @AndoniIraolaEra]

🚨BREAKING: Liverpool’s expected to bring back the orange kit to reportedly trick Gakpo into thinking every game is for the Netherlands.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The only thing Türkiye can win

[Kurrco @Kurrco]

Tay Keith has passed away at the age of 29.

The Memphis producer was behind some of the biggest rap hits of the last decade.

Rest in peace 🕊️

[OneShotFox🇳🇿 @OneShotFox]

Generational mog during national anthem

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[Nils 🤠 @neilbgg]

Les gars je vais mourir de rire comment on n’a pas vu ça 😭

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

The way Crysencio Summerville ran straight to celebrate with Ruud van Nistelrooy 🫂❤️

[Curaçao National Football Team @TheBlueWaveFFK]

First 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧 World Cup Match. First 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧 Goal at a World Cup

Thank you for all the support and great atmosphere fans!

#TheBlueWave #Curaçao

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

Netherlands 🤝 Japan

Enjoying the pre-match atmosphere in Dallas! 😁

[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.”