Argentina goal scorer Enzo Fernandez, on the French national team (translated):
"They play in France but they are from Angola. They are going to run well, they sleep with trans people. Mum is Nigerian, dad is Cameroonian, but the passport says French”
Messi is undoubtedly the star of this World Cup, but maybe second place goes to Spain's manager Luis de la Fuente.
Spain's performance against France yesterday was one of the most complete team performances I've ever seen. Player for player France are clearly the better team and were tournament favourites, but Spain's tactical dominance was so complete that their attacking talent never even featured. It was positional play, possession football and collective intelligence taken to the highest level.
De la Fuente has no big club experience. He is entirely a product of the Spanish system, having come through the national team’s youth ranks.
He made unusual selections, like establishing a central defence pairing of a 19-year-old with a player in his 30s who had been written off after a spell in Saudi Arabia. This has become the basis for the most successful defence in the tournament. He also benched high-profile talents like Pedri, Gavi and Llorente to prioritise balancing his midfield.
While France is a team of superstars, the Spanish national side is a well-oiled technical machine where everything reflects De la Fuente's vision. Players who were fighting for first team roles at their clubs are now executing one of the most sophisticated pressing and possession structures in international football.
De la Fuente is a fine example of how European coaching and tactical genius still dominates football. While non-Whites are increasingly becoming represented among elite players, elite coaching remains dominated by Europeans.
Of the 48 managers at this year's World Cup, only 8 were not of primarily European heritage. By the quarter-finals, only one remained. By the semi-final, zero.
All 22 World Cups have been won by a team coached by a White manager.
Every manager at the 2026 World Cup can trace their coaching philosophy back to European innovators, because every great tactical evolution of the game came from European coaches.
The "Catenaccio" system and sweeper role was pioneered by Nereo Rocco 🇮🇹, "total football" by Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff 🇳🇱, the zonal marking and high press defensive system by Arrigo Sacchi 🇮🇹, Tiki-Taka possession-based football by Spanish coaches like Luis Aragonés and Pep Guardiola 🇪🇸, modern high intensity "Gegenpressing" by German coaches like Ralf Ragnick and Jürgen Klopp 🇩🇪
European ideas still form all the dominant "coaching trees" that shape modern football globally.
While football is bound to become more "diverse" due to the replacement immigration policies of European nations and the development of coaching infrastructure in the non-White world, elite coaching is bound to remain dominated by European martial genius.
Nine years ago today, 7/15/17, Justine Ruszczyk was fatally shot during the worst act of police brutality in MN state history.
Mohammed Noor, who's race-based fastrack hiring was publicly praised by Minneapolis Mayor @BetsyHodges, did three years for the unprovoked slaughter.
The first question should be why Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was named to a Fed taskforce on Productivity and Jobs when she’s firing Americans and replacing them with H-1B workers.
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Today in 1949, Pope Pius XII excommunicated all communists from the Catholic Church, calling Marxism the “irreconcilable enemy” of Christianity.
Disturbing amount of women liking this tweet
I should clarify that when I say “being willing to embarrass yourself” I don’t mean “getting super hammered and then having sex with random men” and I predict this would have low friendship outcomes
A really common tweet in 2021 was some variant of "you need to find a spouse in the next 6 months. If you don't get one by then, it is completely over. I will not explain"
I wonder what they knew
Xbox CEO (no experience in games) takes over, fires American workers, and then gets appointed to a Federal Reserve position. What is the administration doing here?
President Trump has indicated that the United States will seek rehearing of the Supreme Court's ruling on birthright citizenship.
Rule 44 allows 25 days to seek rehearing. It requires the support of at least one Justice from the majority, and is rarely granted.