Sabés lo que hubiera dado Deschamps en la final de Qatar por un cooling break cuando se estaba comiendo terrible pesto? Decime que no cambia nada, dale.
“BCCI doesn’t fund Indian football.”
Did they help Neeraj Chopra single handedly popularize javelin in India and make people stay up till midnight to watch him? NO.
India is always just one big performance away from supporting you, no matter the sport.
India would get mauled by literally any other team in the World Cup. Just making it to the World Cup won't make football thrive in India.
Football is a much more technically nuanced game. Start at the grassroots levels; plan it properly instead of looking for shortcuts.
If FIFA was to increase Asia’s quota from 9 to 16 (like Europe), we’d still not make it to the WC. India is 26th in Asia. If FIFA creates a South Asia zone (like, umm, Oceania), we can have hope. @FIFAcom think of commercial prospects that come with 1.5 billion people!
Zero focus on Grassroots , ISL Clubs not investing in their academies. It's honestly not that difficult, just copy what Minerva FC have been doing in India . Few more clubs like Minerva & we would be in the world cup in a decade
Forget Curacao. Cabo Verde are the real story of this WC. A country of less than 5 lakh people. A lot of players born in the country and coming through the system. Coming out of an African qualification grp featuring Cameroon and Angola. Draw vs Spain. This is the fairytale.
De la Fuente putting Gavi and Ferran as touchline wingers, this is the most stupid decision ever taken on american soil, even worse than the Vietnam war
I would understand tweets like these for players like Modrić, Cruyff in the past etc. Players who actually performed on the biggest stage. But for someone who has 1 good game in 5 World Cup editions, its just funny.
Good idea for Tacticos is to study this Japanese defensive structure. Crazy level of coordination and timing. They know exactly when to be aggressive and when to switch to spatial defending.
Best defensive team so far at the tournament, they ain't even physically special just ridiculously smart
Everything Japan has achieved is thanks in large part to their coach, Hajime Moriyasu, whose story with the national team is truly remarkable.
Moriyasu took charge of Japan in 2017, and since then he has recorded 72 wins in 103 games. Just think about that number.
But the impressive part isn’t the statistics — it’s the quality of those victories. He has beaten Germany twice, including a stunning 4-1 win, defeated Spain, Brazil, and Turkey by four goals, and two months ago became the first coach to lead an Asian national team to a victory over England.
What makes the story even better is that 36 years ago, while he was on a training stint with Manchester United, he was asked a mocking question: “Do Japanese people even know how to play football?”
From that moment on, he set out to build a national team that would earn the respect of the entire football world.
A truly great coach ❤️
A Seleção Brasileira virou isso aí. Um bando de grife e nenhum futebol.
Quem defende o Paquetá hoje em dia claramente torce mais para o jogador do que para a amarelinha. Nível técnico horroroso.