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I pray, God provides @psv @realmadrid

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

First time ever at a World Cup: FIFA forcing 3-min ‘hydration breaks’ in EVERY match, even in air-conditioned stadiums. Officially for player welfare, but we all know it’s ad slots for broadcasters. Turning football into quarters with built-in commercials. Momentum killer. Not a coincidence it happens in the USA.

[Fuad 🫆 @FuadCadani]

It’s only day 3 and I’m already so sick of these hydration break my sport is not a 4 quarter sport, it’s a game of TWO HALVES!

[Ian Abrahams (Moose) @BroadcastMoose]

Stadium has roof closed, commentator says it’s cool inside so why oh why do we need a Hydration Break? Football really has become 4 quarters now

[Carte blanche @Nigeljk2]

In een stadion met een airco een ‘cooling break’ hebben is peak woke nonsense

[Matheus @MathEng_CRF]

Vini literalmente fez um GOLAÇO e criou 3 BOAS chances pro Brasil fazer gol.

TRÊS CHANCES DE GOL QUE ERA FAZ E ME ABRAÇA.

Mas não é suficiente.

Tem que fazer 3 gols e servir os companheiros mais umas 10 vezes, AÍ SIM vocês seriam capazes de COGITAR elogia-lo.

Incrível a desfaçatez.

[Carte blanche @Nigeljk2]

#freeEndrick

[🫵🏽🇭🇷🇧🇷🇵🇹 @idoxvi]

Raphinha hoops without Yamal carrying him

[Carte blanche @Nigeljk2]

Brazilië stinkt ongelofelijk erg #jogafinito

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Not a single person complaining about cultural appropriation. Nature is healing

[#DISUNOMICS @_NOMICS]

If this was AFCON …

[Preeti @MadridPreeti]

The reason behind Henry's hatred towards Cristiano was best explained by Arsenal's best player ever

🚨 Dennis Bergkamp: “Back then, everyone even our opponents stood in awe of Henry. For he was the league’s undisputed superstar. Yet, in that particular match, a mere kid who had barely emerged from adolescence became the very reason Thierry Henry ended up punching the lockers in the dressing room.”

And Zlatan has 0 World Cup goals, so who cares about him anyways

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

🇨🇦 nice but cold
🇺🇸 third world infrastructure
🇲🇽 born to be World Cup hosts

[＊ @jaraaxz]

Spanish and Brazilian twitter is light years ahead🤣🤣

[Carte blanche @Nigeljk2]

Bro het is niet alsof hij geen goals meer maakt op het hoogste niveau, want vertel me wie ookalweer zoveel goals in de nations league maakte toen Portugal hem won vorig jaar?????

[am7🇵🇹 @am7evenn]

Couldn’t touch him in his prime, now they’re nitpicking a 41-year-old.

[Kwabena Boat 🇬🇭 @kwabenaboatman]

Unlike most people, I’m not going to be revisionist about Cristiano Ronaldo’s career.

Up until around 33–34, before he fully transitioned into a more traditional Center Forward, there wasn’t a player in world football who combined speed, dribbling, finishing, and complete dominance across all areas of the final third the way he did. Left, right, centrally, in transition or against set defenses, Ronaldo had both the tools and the effectiveness.

And for me, a career up to 34 playing at that level is more than enough of a sample size to define a player at their truest level.

For context, Ronaldinho was largely done by 30. Marco van Basten by 28. Diego Maradona declined in his mid-30s. Johan Cruyff in his late 30s. Di Asa Ronaldo was done by 34.

So the fact that Ronaldo not only sustained elite output up to that point, but then reinvented his entire game and continued dominating with a completely different approach after 34 is something we’ve never really seen before.

For me, that combination of peak completeness and post-peak adaptation is enough to call him the GOAT. Forever.

[Carte blanche @Nigeljk2]

Een wk zonder Ochoa is echt geen wk

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Dat hij niet kan dribbelen takkie kan ook de wereld uit hoor

[🫵🏽🇭🇷🇧🇷🇵🇹 @idoxvi]

👌👌👌

[VEEZE @CbfwVeeze]

“men are suppose to lead” says a woman who don’t listen for shit

[🇨🇮 @Raheem7ii]

Never thought we'd live in a timeline where Nazi Germany's Olympics were more welcoming than the current WC hosts but here we are

[H @Interstellar_HG]

Qatar at NO point banned gays from entering their country.

They just said, public display of affection between anyone including straight people was frowned upon.

The US is systematically targeting anyone that isn't white.

Not a single peep from those anti-Qatar activist 👍