Michelle

Genius. Easily Distracted Visionary. Lover of ALL Things Soccer. #VHLM 🌳 @AustinAnthem Board. @NWSL2Austin Co-Founder. Passion Project @OakCitySC. 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

Back at home. Listos. #AustinFC

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

@ElChibo Can’t go wrong with uncrustables

[CAPTCHA 🪅 @FootyFilmzz]

TRINTY AND GIO BRUH LMFAOOOOOOOOO

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

That’s an alligator

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

Is this sarcasm?

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: A much needed water break is taking place for Portugal and Chile due to the heat.

The temperature is 21 degrees right now.

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

I’d rather pass out than pay $8.75 for water

[Mike Keegan @MikeKeegan_DM]

Expensive round.

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

Damn I love a good volley

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

I mean, this is nothing compared to some of the delays we’ve had during club games. Just be glad you weren’t trapped in the stadium for 7+ hours with concessions out of food.

[Abo Salah @abosalaharena]

من الواضح كدة اننا داخلين علي اسوا نسخه كاس عالم في التاريخ !

منتخب السعوديه لعب النهاردة مباراة وديه امام منتخب بورتريكو و لك ان تتخيل ان المباراة بدأت الساعه 2 و خلصت الساعه 5.30
يعني المباراة استمرت 3 ساعات و نصف !

كل ده حصل بسبب عاصفه رعديه و البروتوكول هنا بيقول لازم المباراة تقف لمده 30 دقيقه
و لو حصل اي موجه برق جديدة حصلت في الفتره دي
التوقف هيتعاد من الاول تاني لمده 30 دقيقه

يعني عادي جدا المباريات تتراكم علي بعض و ابقي سلملي علي متعه المشاهد !

مش بس كدة
ده كمان منتخب اليابان بيعاني في تدريباته لدرجه انه غير مقر التدريب مرتين بسبب جوده ارضيه الملعب
حتي كوبو نجم المنتخب طلع قال ان مرافق التدريب لا ترتقي لمسابقه كبيره زي كاس العالم !

يبقي كدة منتخب السعوديه لعب مباراة لمده 3 ساعات و نصف
منتخب اليابان مش لاقي مكان نضيف يتمرن فيه
منتخب النرويج مستحملش درجه الحراره

نحن علي موعد مع مونديال غير مبشر بالمرة !

potta

[Austin FC @AustinFC]

It's much more than a piece of paper.

It's a competition! 😆

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

Everything about this WC is catered to greedy corporations, people in power & bored rich folks.

Nothing, and I mean not a single fucking thing about this tournament, is for the fans.

The gimmicky bullshit only serves as a distraction while FIFA continues to rob fans blind.

[Karla @karlaaaa18_]

FIFA changed everything about this tournament in order to cater to Trump and the American fanbase so yes, it should get blamed on Americans lol

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

New @TheAthleticFC

FIFA crisis….the union which represents more than 2,000 workers at SoFi Stadium has voted 96 per cent in favor of authorizing a strike - one week before the U.S. men’s national team open their World Cup campaign at the venue.

https://t.co/mJzXRGy4Vs

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

Never understood the need to play friendlies so close to the start of the WC. Just an unnecessary feeding ground for murphy’s law.

[herculez gomez @herculezg]

Paraguay's best attacker, Julio Enciso, in tears after being carried off vs Nicaragua in their final tune up before the World Cup.

You hate to see that.

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

“thrilled”

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

All fans will be permitted to bring in one, soft, plastic, 20 ounces (590ml), factory sealed disposable water bottle into any FIFA World Cup 2026 match in the USA and Canada. ✅

As FIFA World Cup 2026 Chief Operating Officer, Heimo Schirgi, explains, fans will not be permitted to bring in hard sided, reusable water bottles due to safety and security reasons. ❌

We can’t wait to welcome the world to the biggest FIFA World Cup in history! 🌎🏆⚽

[WAATV Media @WeAreAustinTV]

Canadian National Team head coach Jesse Marsch on the potential replacement for Marcelo Flores at the World Cup.

Coach says Canada will wait until after the match against Ireland to make a decision, but Austin FC winger Jayden Nelson has certainly made a strong case for himself 🇨🇦

🎥: @onesoccer

#austinfc #mls | WAATV

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

Robbing fans and burning through that money with more unnecessary shit

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

FIFA has announced a new pre-game ceremony for the World Cup that will see all the players included in a matchday squad line up around the centre circle before the national anthems are played.

The ceremony will also include extra-large country flag banners and the players will enter the pitch through a dedicated arch closest to the tunnel.

FIFA’s new approach to the pre-match ceremony means that even the substitutes will be lining up on the pitch before the game kicks off.

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[Austin FC @AustinFC]

A weekly show on all things World Cup.

Starting today at 5:30 on @fox7austin, Match Day powered by Austin FC kicks off featuring former ATXFC and USMNT striker @gyasinho!

[Fisted Away @fistedaway]

They’d stick a card reader on a fire exit

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

FIFA saw this and immediately thought, let’s ban empty refillable bottles so we can price gouge fans on water while they’re diedrating

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 NEW: Due to the recent heat waves, a Climate Central study has stated that 97 out of 104 World Cup games will be played in UNFAVOURABLY HOT conditions.

This could lead to the games having a slower pace. @La_SER

[Michelle @GrackleOps]

FIFA not even trying to hide their hate and disdain for fans

[Cass Anderson @casspa]

FIFA just banned resealable water bottles at #WorldCup matches... Fans cannot bring empty water bottles to fill up at the stadium...
It is going to be scorching hot in Miami. Brutal.

[Alex Morgan @alexmorgan13]

Pinkies up. 🫖⚽

Some celebrations are timeless.

@DKSports #DKPartner

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.