I started this as a direct consequence of FIFA's greed regarding ticket prices.
I wanted to be part of soccer on a community level.
I love the Beautiful Game.
So, with just a few clicks, I started this soccer team venture.
My main focus right now is building a soccer team. What's it called?
Forest Hill United Football Club.
We're in Phase One of the project.
I'm having a great time, too.
You support this project by following the official (Verified) page: @foresthillutd.
Thank you.
My main focus right now is building a soccer team. What's it called?
Forest Hill United Football Club.
We're in Phase One of the project.
I'm having a great time, too.
You support this project by following the official (Verified) page: @foresthillutd.
Thank you.
Sometimes, I like to repost pictures or short clips of beautiful women.
Why, you might ask?
Simple: I love beautiful women.
You have a problem with that, then let me flip you the bird.
After, you can swipe down.
Today, I have updated my profile pic. This will also be the official image across all my social platforms and author picture for by future hardcover and paperback books.
The horror is that this happens every single day and largely goes unreported.
Men of color are falsely accused of crimes and a racist justice system locks them in cages for crimes they DID NOT COMMIT.
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@ImANorthernGirl@BlessedGirl001 The western world is completely cooked and men are choosing to become passport bros for this very reason. I am currently speaking to a beauriful woman from your country. It is night and day!
Fox paid $485 million for the rights to broadcast this World Cup. The New York Times put the fair market value at $1 to $1.5 billion. The hydration break is how Fox gets its money's worth.
FIFA announced mandatory 3-minute pauses midway through each half of all 104 World Cup 2026 matches, not just hot ones. That includes games inside climate-controlled domed stadiums with roofs. The announcement came at a World Broadcaster Meeting in Washington DC. FIFA said the decision was made after consultation with coaches and broadcasters.
A few months later, FIFA gave broadcasters the green light to sell ads during the pauses. Fox gets 2 minutes and 10 seconds per break, starting 20 seconds after the whistle and ending 30 seconds before play resumes. Across all 104 games, that's 832 potential ad slots that didn't exist in soccer before this tournament. Fox and Telemundo project a combined $850 million in ad revenue from the 2026 World Cup.
The player welfare argument is also real. Argentina's Enzo Fernandez said he felt "dizzy" in "very dangerous" temperatures during last summer's Club World Cup in the US, where some games approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit. FIFA had reason to act. But it applied those breaks to every match regardless of conditions, and opened a commercial window that makes this World Cup more ad-friendly than any before it.
Fox proved the point on day one. In the opener between Mexico and South Africa, Fox missed the 30-second return window FIFA mandated. The ball was already in play when the network came back from commercials.
Coca-Cola, a top-tier global FIFA partner for decades, runs the hydration stations on the field. That same 3-minute pause serves three commercial interests at once: the field sponsor, Fox's ad revenue, and Fox's streaming subscribers.
The 2030 World Cup goes to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. The 2034 tournament lands in Saudi Arabia. Both regions see extreme summer heat. FIFA has not confirmed whether the pauses will outlast this summer's tournament. But $850 million in new advertising inventory tends to answer that question on its own.
Before Hitler, there was Leopold.
At the height of European imperialism, Belgiumβs King Leopold II built an empire in Africa soaked in blood, so vast, so brutal, it surpassed the crimes of the 20th centuryβs worst dictators.
But Europe doesnβt teach that, because the victims were African.
The hydration breaks was the response to players who complained of the heat during the Club World Cup last summer. It was a concern to the point that FIFA agreed to their request to solve this matter. The commercials is purely up to the broadcasting companies. Telemundo is shunning commercials. Go watch their broadcasts.
Soccer has always been defined by free-flowing, unbroken action. But for the World Cup in America, FIFA is using βhydration breaksβ to shoehorn in commercials. https://t.co/y1BqbB62YC