South Korean fans weren’t allowed to take their bottle of tequila beyond the first checkpoint going into the stadium, so they necked the lot of it alongside Mexicans who were there to watch the game.
That’s the World Cup spirit we all know and love. 😂❤️
"This is the first time ... in the Men's National team history, where you have ... a golden generation of players that are entering the prime of their career, and yet they're under the age of 28."
—@TaylorTwellman on how good he believes the roster of the U.S. Soccer Men's National Team is ⚽️
At 17 years and 240 days, Gilberto Mora is the youngest ever Mexican and the youngest ever North American player to appear at the FIFA men’s World Cup. 🇲🇽
Chills.
Get behind this team. This is the most talented USMNT we’ve ever had, and they’re about to begin a home-soil World Cup journey.
Back the boys. It all starts Friday night. Let’s get it. ⚽️🇺🇸🇺🇸
#usa#usmnt#worldcup
On one hand the Spurs have controlled like 80% of this series so winning three straight games with two of them being at home doesn't seem all that crazy.
On the other hand how the fuck does a team full of 20-22 year old kids mentally recover from what just happened?
Jermaine Jones says the current USMNT squad is missing a bad boy like him.
He also brought up a story of Clint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore almost physically fighting each other in 2014.
He used that as an example to show how ultra competitive that team was.
“Where would I fit in this team? I’d be somebody in the middle,” Jones said.
“I’d say [Tyler] Adams is similar in terms of strength against the ball. But I will be somewhere in the middle keeping young guys altogether.
“What’s missing for this team in big games is the bad boy. You need that bad boy, who maybe goes against everybody, but in a positive way, because he wants to win.
“Sometimes I feel like this team is a really young team, and they're all friends. It seems like, ‘Oh, when we lose, we go down together, doesn't matter. If we play good, we all play good.’
“They’re no longer young youngs, like it was in Qatar. Now they have to show up.
“I remember when we went to Brazil, and we had to play against Ghana, and we really had to figure out the first game to get into the game, because you need to start into the tournament good.
“What we had in 2014, I look at it always and say there were men, there were leaders all over the place.
“I don't think that people now even want the bad boy anymore. I think that people in general, the coaches, the Federation, they only want to get nice guys.
“When I see guys scream at people and go against people, and that sometimes is needed. But I think in general, football is moving away from that, and we don’t have that bad boy.
“We have somebody, like I said, Adams is somebody who's a fighter, who can run, who's good in the middle. Weston [McKennie] is somebody like that too.
“But I don't think that they have that edge to go against somebody.
“I have one story from when we were in Brazil. Let me tell you what kind of group we were. I remember when Jozy and Clint were almost fighting each other, and Clint took off his shirt and wanted to fight Jozy.
“Why did they do it? Because both of them were winners, they wanted to win even in training. So if somebody was not defending, they would go against each other.
“I cannot say, ‘Oh, I can see that happening in this national team right now.’
“You know, every game you have to suffer, every game you play in a World Cup, and if you're not ready to suffer, and not ready to run, and put everything on the field, then you're in the wrong sport.
“Especially if you represent your country, I’ve said that always. There’s no excuse to be like, ‘Oh, I don't want to suffer in games.’ You know, like at the end, almost every game you have to suffer, every game you should go to the maximum of what you can do.
“Because at least you put everything on the field, it doesn't matter if you win every game, you know, this is normal. You lose and win, but at least you should work hard so the people can look from outside and say, ‘You know what, they put everything down.’
“I hope that these guys stop doing all the Instagram and TikTok, and all that stuff, and focus on suffering on the field, in getting it done for the country.
“Because at the end, whatever they achieve in this tournament, it helps the country grow in football.”
[via Whistle]
Alex Pereira on people’s comments that he has not fought anyone like Ciryl Gane 👀 with Israel Adesanya receiving exceptional praise 🤝.
🗣️“I don’t think he’s ever fought anybody for example like an Adesanya @stylebender .”
🗣️“I’m saying from Middleweight up I have not seen anybody, no one moves like Adesanya to be honest the movement is insane.”
Respect to the Knicks… but San Antonio is losing the finals themselves.
Game 1: Blew a 14 point lead in 3rd
Game 2: Bad turnover with 8 seconds left
Game 3: Won
Game 4: Blew a 29 point lead
This has to be the biggest playoff choke of all time.
Takeaways from the Spurs 107-106 Game 3 loss vs. New York:
- That might be the worst loss in franchise history.
- I genuinely have no idea why De'Aaron Fox decided to shoot that layup.
- I also have no idea why when the Spurs missed eight straight three pointers Mitch Johnson allowed them to keep shooting.
- De'Aaron should never have shot that, but the Spurs should've never been in that position.
- How is it with 7:17 left in the game in the bonus there is zero rim aggression?
- Somehow every reason I've complained about Mitch this series is right back in my mouth.
- Why did Victor Wembanyama's shot diet consist of threes after his hot start in the paint?
- How are we still wondering why Dylan Harper didn't get to close out the game?
- Devin Vassell was great, he gets a pass.
- Stephon Castle's foul trouble was why the Knicks got back in the game.
- Doesn't help that Julian Champagnie shot 1/7 from three.
- Carter Bryant absolutely deserved more minutes than Keldon Johnson tonight.
- I don't understand how the Spurs allow so many offensive rebounds.
- I'm confused why they refused to attack the basket. 28 points in the paint is ridiculous.
- I understand wanting to keep trying and shoot threes out of the half after the historic shooting in the first half, but not turning away from it when it wasn't working is ridiculous.
- I don't understand how OG Anunoby is always open.
- The Spurs scored 30 second half points.
- I just have no words.
- That was the loss that demoralized this team.
- Mitch Johnson genuinely ran middle school offense in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
- I'm not even mad, I'm just numb and confused.
1-3. #PorVida
1 day until the World Cup starts. A look back to Tim Howard’s @FIFAWorldCup record breaking 16 saves vs Belgium.
The way this game would be remembered if Wondo scored in the 93rd minute..