🚨🗣️New: Luis Suárez reacts to Uruguay’s arrival in the United States for the World Cup, where the squad faced sniffer dogs and rigorous security checks:
“I’ve been in football a long time, and I’ve seen tournaments all over the world. But what we’re witnessing here with the USA hosting this World Cup is deeply concerning. Take the Uruguay team arriving — world-class players like Manuel Ugarte, standing there with arms folded, looking utterly bewildered as sniffer dogs go through their bags like they’re common criminals. That image says it all. These are ambassadors of the game, not suspects at the border.
This isn’t hospitality; it’s humiliation dressed up as security. You’ve got a Somali referee, one of Africa’s best, denied entry despite a valid visa — a man who dreamed of officiating at the pinnacle of his career, turned away at the airport. African and South American delegations facing extra screenings, visa chaos for fans and officials from qualified nations. This is the ‘land of the free’ rolling out the red carpet? It feels more like a fortress with razor wire.
The beautiful game deserves better than being turned into a political football or a paranoid checkpoint. FIFA chased the dollars — and there are billions to be made, no doubt — but they’ve sold the soul of the tournament to a host that treats global football stars and supporters like potential threats. Meanwhile, American taxpayers and host cities are left holding a bill running into hundreds of millions for security and logistics that FIFA largely pockets.
Football has always been about unity, passion, and bringing people together across borders. Right now, under this hosting, it’s being strangled by suspicion and overreach. The world is watching these scenes and cringing. If this continues, it risks leaving a bitter taste that lingers far longer than any on-pitch glory. We needed a celebration of the game — not a showcase of division. Something has to change.”
Even Hitler's Germany did not prevent athletes and officials from entering the country to take part in the 1936 Olympics.
This is pristine racism and @FIFAcom stands disgraced for allowing Trump to disfigure the beautiful game in this way.
The baby was approaching the soldiers "in a threatening manner?" Or the parents, after connecting with their infant for 7 months, decided to turn her into a "human shield?" Rubbish explanations that only indoctrinated people will believe. They have to believe the outrageous lies because not doing so means they must reckon with the cruelty and moral rot of their beloved army and the ideology that fuels its actions.
11 days before Iran’s World Cup opener:
• No visas yet approved for players or staff
• Forced to move their camp from USA to Mexico
• A friendly cancelled due to the relocation
This is how the world’s 21st-ranked team is being treated before football’s biggest tournament.
Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.
Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.
Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.
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Israel is dropping bombs on tents full of displaced families in Gaza.
For many of us, it is not Netanyahu's. It is Israel's supporters - those with whom we shared lives, ideas and hopes. Those who spoke out on every societal ill and purported to embrace fairness and justice. They shocked us with their callous indifference, victimhood, and name-calling. They are able to identify every injustice and take a firm stand against it. They just draw the line when Israel is on the wrong side. They are unable to put a mirror to the collective face and say "this is too much." Their malleable values did a disservice to Israel. We've had enough!
And the rabbi from South Africa thinks this man, the Pope, has blood on his hands? The Chief Rabbi's lens is ONLY Israel and his Jewish identity. Outside of that, he sees and respects no one else. @ChiefRabbiSA is a divisive, hateful man.
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Just as I was addressing the American people, the head of our Strategic Council on Foreign Policy was targeted in an assassination attempt, leading to the martyrdom of his innocent wife. Let the world judge; which side engages in dialogue and negotiation, and which in terrorism?
He is a psychopath. We are right to hate everything he stands for. We are right to reject anyone, and everyone who supports these draconian, racist laws, passed by an apartheid, terrorist state.
Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known.
Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.