War is over for now.
Results:
U.S. bases in the Middle East are gone, Iran is getting paid billions, Iran will now charge Hormuz tolls & Israel was forced to withdraw from Lebanon.
Total Iranian victory.
🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Vinicius Junior refusing the mandatory halftime interview with FIFA at the World Cup:
“People are shocked that Vinícius walked away from a halftime interview. I am shocked that anyone thinks he should have stopped in the first place.
Halftime is not a television studio. Halftime is not a podcast. Halftime is not a red carpet. Halftime is the heartbeat of a football match.
For 45 minutes, players are warriors in a storm. They run, they fight, they suffer, they bleed. Then they get 15 precious minutes to recover, to breathe, to listen, to think. And FIFA wants to spend part of that time chasing soundbites? That is like pulling a Formula 1 driver out of his car during a pit stop and asking him how the race is going.
And FIFA’s idea is to shove a microphone in the player’s face and ask, ‘How do you feel?’
How do you think he feels? He’s exhausted.
This is modern football’s biggest disease. Everything is content. Everything is sponsorship. Everything is television. The match hasn’t even finished and they’re already trying to manufacture headlines.
They tell us they care about player welfare. Really? Then why are players playing more games than ever? Why are tournaments expanding? Why are injuries increasing? And now they want halftime interviews too? The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
Halftime is sacred. It belongs to the players and the coaches. That’s where games are won. That’s where tactics change. That’s where injuries get treated. That’s where leaders speak. It is not a media circus.
And don’t tell me this is for the fans. Fans want better football, not a tired player giving a robotic 20-second answer because somebody sold another broadcast package.
Vinícius understood that. He chose football over public relations.
The funniest part? They threaten him with a fine. A fine. As if that changes the principle. If I were there, I’d pay it too. Because some things are worth more than money.
If FIFA really had their way, they’d put microphones in the dressing room and call it innovation.
Football should come first. Not content. Not commercials. Not corporate greed.
For once, a player pushed back. And that’s exactly why so many people are angry.”
🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:
“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.
The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.
This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”
The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.
And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?
Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.
The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”
🚨 « CHAQUE MATCH COMPTE. » ✊ 🇸🇳
Communiqué conjoint en réponse aux propos d’Aleksander Čeferin concernant l’élargissement de la Coupe du monde et la valeur de certains matchs 👇
« Les Fédérations de football du Cap-Vert, de Curaçao, d’Ouzbékistan, du Congo, d’Haïti, d’Algérie, de Tunisie, du Maroc, d’Égypte, du Ghana, du Sénégal, de Côte d’Ivoire et d’Afrique du Sud expriment leur profonde déception à la suite des récents propos tenus par le président de l’UEFA, Aleksander Čeferin, concernant l’élargissement de la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA et sa qualification de nombreux matchs comme étant « sans intérêt ».
Pour nos pays, il n’existe pas de match de Coupe du Monde de la FIFA sans importance.
Pour nos pays, la qualification pour la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA représente un exploit historique et la réalisation d’un rêve partagé par des générations.
Suggérer que certains de nos matchs seraient d’une manière ou d’une autre moins importants est profondément décevant et revient à ignorer les efforts, les sacrifices et les aspirations des joueurs, des entraîneurs, des clubs, des dirigeants du football et des supporters à travers le monde.
Derrière chaque qualification se cachent des années de travail et d’investissement. Derrière chaque équipe nationale se trouvent des communautés entières et des millions de personnes qui voient le football comme une source de fierté, d’espoir et d’unité.
Le football n’appartient pas à un groupe restreint de dirigeants privilégiés. Sa force réside dans son universalité. La Coupe du Monde de la FIFA est la plus grande compétition de football au monde précisément parce qu’elle rassemble différentes cultures, différentes histoires et différents parcours footballistiques.
Pour de nombreux pays, la participation à la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA n’est pas seulement un exploit sportif. C’est un moment qui inspire une génération, accélère le développement du football et crée des souvenirs qui durent toute une vie.
Nous pensons que chaque nation qui se qualifie mérite le respect.
Chaque équipe s’est qualifiée au mérite.
Chaque match compte. »
( 🗞️ Communiqué )
A FIFA World Cup host country must guarantee two fundamental principles: the safety of the country — and the unrestricted entry of all qualified teams, officials and referees. The case of referee Omar Artan from Somalia is against one of these obligations. FIFA must never compromise the universality of football. #Fifa #Somalia #GianniInfantino #CAF #OmarAtan #DonaldTrump
FIFA's World Cup 'hydration breaks' are a money-grabbing disgrace: Gianni Infantino is selling football's soul to broadcasters - and fans are paying the price, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI https://t.co/9J6MmXngMh
Zlatan Ibrahimovic 🇸🇪 avant Brésil 🇧🇷 - 🇲🇦 Maroc : « LE MAROC A GAGNÉ LA CAN SANS AVOIR GAGNÉ LA FINALE, ILS DOIVENT AVOIR DES QUALITÉS (😅).
Mais je vois le Brésil gagner. »
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@soupou555 Non @soupou555 je trouve que tu as bien géré la dernière fois, bon après il y eu quelques débordement en temps mais sinon je trouve que c'était bien. C'était pas facile pour toi
2010. South Africa. They said theft will be at an all-time high. Unsafe for world cup. Didn't happen.
2014. Brazil. Complained about some of the remote places the venues were. Unsafe for players. Didn't happen.
2018. Russia. "It's not a democracy". There would be marginalization. People would not even be free or allowed entry. Didn't happen.
2022. Qatar. " Slave built stadiums ". A morally bankrupt nation. " It cannot be fun". The tournament is horrible. No alcohols. Religious intolerance. Didn't happen.
2026. US. All the above happening.
We see.