Luis Pacheco M.

[Xavier Aldekoa @xavieraldekoa]

Honor al periodista de The Guardian que ha escrito el mejor pie de foto del Mundial

“Gianni Infantino explica cuidadosamente a Donald Trump que no forma parte de la selección española”.

[Chess.com @chesscom]

Argentina spamming draw offers 😭

[Anish Giri @anishgiri]

A World Cup Final Is Chess Played With Lungs

People say football is simple: twenty-two men chase a ball, one team scores more, everyone goes home.

But a World Cup final is not really football.

It is chess played with lungs.

Both teams arrive with an opening prepared: pressing triggers, passing patterns, defensive rotations. For ten minutes, everything may follow theory.

Then someone slips. Someone improvises. Someone sees a move that was never in the file.

And the real game begins.

Like chess, football is decided by space, timing and threats. The greatest players do not only change the game when they touch the ball. Their reputation changes the position before the ball even reaches them.

A defender steps forward too early. Another moves across to help. A passing lane opens somewhere else.

The goal comes later, but the mistake has already been made.

That is the cruelty both games share: the decisive moment often looks completely ordinary.

A midfielder turns the wrong way. A defender follows the ball instead of the runner. A player chooses the safe pass and gives the opponent one extra second.

Five actions later, the stadium explodes.

And then there is the clock.

At 0–0, it tells you to stay calm. At 1–0, it begins negotiating with your courage. In the final ten minutes, every clearance becomes a philosophical decision and every throw-in feels like a national emergency.

If it reaches penalties, football becomes Armageddon chess.

One player. One goalkeeper. One move. No teammate to hide behind and no next position to prepare.

Eventually, someone will lift the trophy. One country will celebrate until morning. Another will spend years replaying a single moment.

That is why finals matter.

Not because the players “wanted it more.” Everyone wants it. The difference is who can make the correct decision while exhausted, terrified and surrounded by noise.

Football will pretend to be a game.

But underneath, it is calculation.

One team will try to control the board. The other will try to control the moment.

And somewhere, one player will make the right move while the entire world is screaming for another.

That is football.

That is chess.

That is a final.

And this. Is your AI slop of the day.

[Doug @DouglasAll]

acabei de ver Odisseia em uma sala comum e digo

[Kana @Kanatunga]

Christopher Nolan just can't control himself 😭
#TheOdyssey

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Revenge time

[Ma Wukong 马悟空 @Ma_WuKong]

🔴🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA

🇪🇸🇦🇷 Víctor Muñoz y Valentín Barco, por su condición de pelirrojos, serán sacrificados al inicio de la Final del Mundo.

De la Fuente y Scaloni los convocaron como amuletos de buena suerte.

Los colorados rendirán así un último servicio a sus selecciones.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Une page de l’histoire du football français se tourne ce soir. Merci Didier Deschamps pour les victoires légendaires, les émotions fortes, pour avoir porté durant des années nos Bleus et fait vibrer la France. Quatorze années : la génération Deschamps.

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Aujourd’hui est ta dernière danse.

Toi qui nous as tant donné.
Nous aurions dû t’offrir une meilleure fin, mais nous avons échoué.
Mettre des mots sur ce que tu as apporté pendant 14 ans est très difficile, tant tu as été un acteur majeur du renouveau de cette équipe. Les gens n’ont pas toujours su apprécier ta grandeur, mais le temps et l’histoire s’en chargeront…
Merci de m’avoir donné la chance et l’opportunité de représenter mon pays sur la plus grande scène pendant tant d’années.
Je me sens privilégié d’avoir pu être aux côtés de l’une des plus grandes légendes de notre pays, et je ne garde que d’excellents souvenirs de tout ce que nous avons vécu et accompli ensemble.
Je te souhaite le meilleur dans ta nouvelle aventure, et encore merci pour tout ce que tu as apporté à ce maillot qui compte tant pour nous.

👑

[BROONO ㊆ @BROONOart]

Messi vs Lamine Yamal

[Juan I. Fernandez @juanif17]

Lo de Messi es estadisticamente imposible

Nunca se vio cosa igual

[Harry Kane @HKane]

No words are big enough right now to overcome this empty feeling in the stomach. We were close, really close to another final but it wasn’t enough. We’ve given everything over these last 7 weeks and to fall short is hard to take!

I know the expectations are high and rightly so, we’ve been knocking on the door for 8 years now but again are missing that final piece of the jigsaw! That’s where we have to go away, process it and find a way to get better. I’m so proud of the boys and what we have shown throughout this tournament - some tough games and tough environments that we have overcome.

Some memories that will stay with us players and I’m sure you fans for a long long time! Going for glory doesn’t always mean you will get it. You have to fight for it, get knocked down, pick yourself up and go again and that’s what we will do, there’s no other way but to keep believing and keeping pushing.

Thank you to every single fan that travelled and showed their support in the stadiums. Thank you to every fan back home for believing in us. Thank you to the boys and staff for everything you have given. As always Win or lose, we learn and go again! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🦁

[SA Defensa @SA_Defensa]

🇵🇪?

Islands declaring themselves Peruvian is unexpected.

[𝐉𝐃 @JuannDis]

"Yo veo al futuro repetir el pasado". No puede ser que exista esta foto.

[Indie 505 @Indie5051]

No hay ninguna explicación lógica que haga creíble que una joven promesa del Barcelona participe en una acción de UNICEF con refugiados, haga una sesión de fotos con un bebé y que, 19 años después, ambos se encuentren en una final de la Copa del Mundo como dos de las grandes estrellas del fútbol.

[Gabriel Floyd @Gabriel_Floyd]

1978: Perú juega un amistoso con Holanda antes del mundial, Holanda llega a la final y pierde.

2018: Perú juega un amistoso con Croacia antes del mundial, Croacia llega a la final y pierde.

2026: Perú juega un amistoso con España antes del mundial, España llega a la final...

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harry Kane: “Once we went 1-0 up, we seemed to just try to hold on… which at this level is not enough to get to a World Cup final”.

[Gow Davy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @gowdavy]

🇦🇷😂⚽️🇦🇷😂⚽️🇦🇷😂⚽️🇦🇷😂⚽️🇦🇷😂⚽️

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Semi-final memory lane 💭

#FIFAWorldCup

[footballytics | change the ǝɯɐƃ @footballytics_]

#FIFAWorldCup📊
#Trossard’s xA + #Haaland’s xG = #Messi.
Simple football mathematics.
#Albiceleste #Worldcup #SUIARG #ARGSUI