Martinho

Football Connoisseur

[𝑫𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒌🌹 🇪🇸🇫🇷 @labxnair]

Never let Americans and activists watch footy again icl they've absolutely destroyed the discourse, why are we still doing Zionist Olympics with Messi and Ronaldo. People are acting like Egypt losing is some act of oppression like what the fuck is going on

[s @messiiid10ss]

if you're looking for moral purity in football, you're watching the wrong sport. there isn't a single team that's morally spotless and if that's your criteria for supporting one, you might as well stop watching football altogether.

[Martinho @MartinzRoom]

Haven’t seen this many pissed Egyptians since 30 BC. Cleo’s in a box ⚰️

[GN'R Sudamérica @gnrsudamerica]

🇦🇷 Mariano Closs x Welcome To The Jungle 🇦🇷

[Talmud Enjoyer 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🧬 @jewndahalfmen]

Argentinians are world class trolls. None of them actually give a shit about the Middle East. All they know is that showing an Israeli flag to an Arab has the same effect as spraying them with the Rage Virus from 28 Days Later.

[Doctuche @lidocaine_v2]

Someone looked at you in a weird manner and your first thought was Argentina and Messi. Being insecure at 41 is crazy.

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🇺🇸🗣️ Donald Trump: "I didn't know what the hell a red card was. When I found out, I said, 'You gotta be kidding!'"

[fabri 🇦🇷 @fodensss]

no hermano mira como les tocaban la pelota, qepd Brasil a seguir llorando por Argentina mientras su realidad es esta

[Martinho @MartinzRoom]

Brahim Diaz runs like a Lego man

[D @u_7xw]

Thank you Mateo 💙

[Planeta do Palmeiras 🌎 @Verdao_infos]

Técnico do Paraguai: "Como vamos parar Mbappé, Olise e Dembelé?"

Gustavo Gomez :

[PaseClave @paseclave__]

😳🕳 "METE LA PIJA EN UN GLORY HOLE Y LE APARECE SABRINA CARPENTER"

La curiosa metáfora de Benito SDR para definir a Carlo Ancelotti.

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

european football has spent the past fifteen years solving futbol like chess.

a generation of coaches optimized for pass completion, pressing triggers, territorial control, rest defense, and positional occupation.

the problem of this is that they optimize for what is measurable. depth, the willingness to attack space early, attempt the difficult pass, dribble past a defender, or deliberately create chaos, is a high variance play. it fails more often than it succeeds. if you evaluate players by completion rate, ball retention, or positional discipline, those actions look like mistakes. so they get coached out. eventually, everyone converges toward the same local optimum.

the game becomes increasingly legible. every team occupies similar spaces, presses in similar ways, builds from the back with similar patterns, and minimizes the same risks. systems become better at defeating other systems, but worse at dealing with players who refuse to behave like systems.

south american football never fully abandoned the duel as the fundamental unit of the game. the 1v1 remained sacred. so did the tactical foul, the unpredictable dribble, and the player willing to lose possession five times if the sixth breaks the match open. the objective was never simply to preserve structure, it was to create someone capable of destroying the opponent’s structure.

football is not won by completing the most passes. it is won by scoring more goals than the other team. those are related, but they are not the same objective.

this is the danger of optimizing proxies. when everyone optimizes the same measurements, they stop optimizing for victory itself. they optimize for looking efficient.

italy may have been the first major european football culture to lose part of its identity this way. its historical advantage was never athletic superiority or perfect positional play. it was tactical asymmetry, unpredictability, and an instinct for making matches uncomfortable. as italian football converged toward the same coaching model as the rest of europe, it gradually surrendered the qualities that had made it different.

the broader lesson extends well beyond football. every optimization process eventually risks becoming self-defeating. metrics become targets. proxies replace objectives. variance is mistaken for error. the outliers capable of breaking the system disappear because the system itself learns to eliminate them.

[Andrés Weiss @andresweiss_]

Según BILD, Kimmich le preguntó hasta DOS veces a Goretzka si se veía para tirar el 6º penalti, que acaba siendo decisivo. Goretzka rechaza las dos veces por miedo.

Finalmente lo tira (y falla) Tah, en lo que fue su 1º penalti como jugador profesional.

Y yo aquí nunca voy a culpar al que decide asumir la responsabilidad que otros no asumen, y por eso no voy a criticar a Tah por fallar el penalti decisivo.

La crítica va al tipo de 31 años que tiene un rol injustificado y que se hace pequeño en cada situación importante (desde hace 4 años, con club y selección).

[cris @_crisenberg_]

Debe ser el tipo que más frases citó en toda la historia

[busti y 23 mas @Bustttttt]

Los alemanes tirandole centros a paraguay es como likearle las historias a Sydney Sweeney

[Martinho @MartinzRoom]

Tim Weah plays football like he’s never had to use public transportation

[Tyler Hill @TylerhillCo]

Grown ass men watching love island, go change some brakes fuck nigga