Rahul Kalvapalle

Recovering journalist @UofTNews | Former Twitter blue tick fraud | Ex- @GlobalNews, @Discovery | Ex- columnist @MarcaInEnglish ⚽️ | 🇮🇳→ 🇦🇪🇰🇼→🇨🇦

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Started an Instagram against my better judgment to share photos of travels/adventures over the coming year. Starting with this sea lion: https://t.co/u6JIYhP76U

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@MrKalakuta @FabrizioRomano @Nazzy_cfc @Blue_Footy Pathetically arrogant from Fabrizio.. especially on the DMs 🤢

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@Jon_Mackenzie Absolutely true. CBs have to be less fierce and aggressive + faster and more technically sound than in past generations. Drives me mad when people go on about how yesteryear CBs were far better than today’s lot. Truth is they had an easier job

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Would’ve been Messi’s biggest/only contribution to the final there if he managed to get Cucurella sent off

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@buche21 I know he's no Busquets or Rodri but feel like they could've used Wharton this tournament, if not as a constant starter at least in situations like vs Arg

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Football has clearly arrived in America. It’s been announced by the nation’s finest traditions of a government insisting internationally agreed rules don’t apply to the USA reinforced by mass popular ignorance towards the rest of the world and its customs.

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What does Axel Witsel do in between World Cups/Euros anyone

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Just give the U.S. the trophy and save everyone the trouble, let players get an extra-long vacation to recover for the club season

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump on Balogun: "I saw the play, and I'm a person that loves sports ... that wasn't a foul. That wasn't even an infraction ... this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call that nobody could believe ... he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant ... yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."

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@stuholden @NacksonD Come on Stu

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Jonathan David’s absence has been a bigger factor than Alphonso Davies’s absence. Impossible to upset an elite team like Morocco with a misfiring centre forward

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@MC_of_A It’s funny how so many perceptions of national team philosophies are from the ‘80s. See: joga bonito

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Commiserations Japan, but you still won the World Cup of jerseys 🇯🇵

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@RJP_Writes He's too good for contemporary football coverage for TV. Too much knowledge, depth, nuance and poetry to it. Won't do nowadays

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@tancredipalmeri @Sebanovic Yeah that’s why 🙄

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@MezahiMaher For those of us who haven’t seen much Koulibaly since he left Europe, he’s… unrecognizable

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The great Peter Drury on Senegal-Norway restarting “for the 2nd quarter.”

Game’s gone 😓

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World Cup officially starts now that Herve Renard and his immaculate white dress shirts are here

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@dilanesper “As it gets popular” like it’s pickleball

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Edmilson and Lucas Mendes were definitely either Qatar-born-and-raised or given Qatari citizenship for reasons that have nothing to do with strengthening the football team

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@DeafMango There’s practically no difference in quality between the 32nd and 48th best teams in the world. Only downside is the absence of jeopardy due to the number of third-place teams qualifying

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@Manik1Sharma @thesatbir @FIFAcom A long-term plan for talent export/exposure needs to happen. But for that people running the game in India have to understand the landscape + care + have resources :S

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@Manik1Sharma @thesatbir @FIFAcom yeah I don't think people realize the chasm between India and stronger Asian countries. Right now no Indian player is going to get minutes in any J-League, A-league or Saudi league team. We had a goal-less draw and a loss vs Afghanistan. That's the level