Travis

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

• Jurgen, what’s your take on that Mexico vs South Africa game where the referee had to hold the players during the cooling break because FOX was still airing commercials?

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Jurgen Klopp: “This is football being held hostage by suits in air-conditioned offices. These so-called ‘cooling breaks’ were sold to us as a shield for player welfare, a noble sword against the heat. But in reality? It’s nothing but a golden cage built for the advertisers.

When I saw players standing around during a cooling break while television schedules dictated the rhythm of the match, I couldn’t help but wonder: who is the World Cup really serving? The fans? The players? Or the advertisers?

A World Cup match should flow like a river. Instead, we’re building dams in the middle of it so commercials can pass through. That’s dangerous for the spirit of the game. Football was once the main event; now it risks becoming the background music to an advertising show.

We’re told these breaks are about player welfare, and of course player health matters. But when the game starts bending its knee to television timing, people are going to ask questions. The ball is supposed to be the star. Not a commercial break.

The World Cup is football’s cathedral. Yet sometimes it feels like we’ve turned it into a shopping mall where the cash register gets more respect than the match itself.

If this is the future, then football isn’t being interrupted by advertisements anymore. Football is becoming the interruption between advertisements.”

—🎙️ ZDF

[Chief @Chiefofbridge]

🚨📢| José Mourinho on the Somali Referee Drama and the 2026 World Cup:

“It’s not about UEFA appointing the Somali referee for the Super Cup between PSG and Aston Villa,” Mourinho reportedly argued. “We need to blame FIFA for all this drama. Why take a precious tournament to a country that’s not traditionally known for football passion in the same way, and then have all these issues with people getting denied entry? This must be shaping up to be one of the most chaotic and boring World Cups ever.

not just about welcoming him back home as a hero or finding him another stage. Things have to be done properly next time-proper planning, better coordination with hosts on visas and security-or the World Cup will start losing its credibility. Football’s biggest event can’t keep getting dragged into these avoidable messes.”

[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

I reinstated my DSTV package after 6years for this doti #BafanaMexico

Yeses!

[PlayStation Park @PlayStationPark]

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'EA World Cup '98'
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[Slaughter. @BafanaSurprise]

We don’t hate the South African government enough!

R4.45 billion pension fund investment in allocated to 15 companies, gave returns of -100% not even a cent was accumulated from these investments 😳😳😳😳.

[Dan Corder 📺 @DanCorderOnAir]

My Doctor Is Khumalo
My Sister Is Bettina
Mandela Is Tata
Come In Bafanaaaaaaaaaa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[Nix @NixPret]

R4.45 billion. Gone.

The government’s pension fund invested in 15 companies which lost 100% of their money – Newsday https://t.co/8Q8pcFL7aw

[nhu @maisonlongan]

the US fucked up so bad you got footy fans on here defending a referee

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

Erling Haaland has featured in a Walovi advert in China in time for the World Cup - and locals say it's too catchy and too funny.

Not going to lie, it's a banger. 🤣

Walovi is a traditional Chinese herbal beverage.

[Michael Morton @MMORTON6]

You don't know a single player. The braai is on Thursday. This is for you! 🫵🇿🇦
#fwc2026 #fifaworldcup2026

[Sherwin Bryce-Pease @sherwiebp]

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani alongside State and FIFA officials announced the largest fan zone at Central Park for the FIFA World Cup Final on July 19th- accommodating 50-thousand ticketed fans for free.

He also gave out this shout out to South Africa's hosting of the World Cup in 2010 ... and Durban in particular....

#sabcnews

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

1. Mass rape didn't happen on Oct 7

2. Israel's been mass raping Palestinian men, women & kids for decades. There is countless victim testimony - on the record - of those basic facts

But keep making rape jokes, while the country you spew propaganda for targets its next victim

[Othell Yarwyck @bigbrovar]

Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)

Just silence.

[African @ali_naka]

FIFA talks about how football is not political. Why is @FIFAWorldCup allowing the Host Nation to victimise the Iranian Football Team?

[Elsie not Elise 💿 @ElsienotElisee]

We’re in a ChatGPT flyer pandemic

[ساخر @SakerSport]

اهلا بكم في ازدواجية الغرب

هاجموا مونديال قطـر 🇶🇦 وحاولوا إفشاله بإقحام أكاذيب وشعارات حقوق الإنسان و الرشوه وسوء التنظيم

وفي نفس الوقت الان 🇺🇸 :

الولايات المتحده ترفض إصدار تأشيرات لبعض اللاعبين وتعقد امورهم + رفض تأشيرات مسؤولين ايرانيين رياضيين مع البعثة الإيرانية ❌

- إحتجاز اللاعب العراقي 🇮🇶 ايمن حسين لمدة 7 ساعات من قبل السلطات الأمريكية في مطار شيكاغو!! ❌

ولا احد تكلم ولا استنكر افعالهم 😂!!

[tanık @tanik_tr]

Jaguarlarda suya sessiz ve neredeyse hiç sıçratmadan girme davranışının, büyük oranda suda avlanma alışkanlıklarından kaynaklandığı belirtiliyor.

[Ahmed Ashour 𓂆🇵🇸 @AhmedAAshour8]

These bullets are fired toward the tents of displaced families in Gaza. Imagine one of these rounds piercing the body of a small, defenseless child. What kind of terror do Gaza’s children endure every single day?

[Hayder @hay23ds]

🚨 خلـوا العـالم تعـرف أن الولايـات المتحـدة لا تستحـق تنظيـم كـأس العـالم،

تم أحتجاز لاعب المنتخب العراقي أيمن حسين 🇮🇶 للتحقيق لمدة 7 ساعات من قبل السلطات الأمريكية في مطار شيكاغو!!!!!!

تخيلوا رحلة مدتها 12 ساعة بالأضافة 7 ساعات حجز للتحقيق بدون سبب واضح، ضاع يوم اللاعب.

[Allie 🇿🇦 @Saffa_GenXer]

Socialising in South Africa 🇿🇦🤣