“We will be there” is one of my favourite phrases man because truly speaking, come hell or high water - we will be there for all the splendour life has to offer.
blame it on his mentality, lifestyle or whatever but he got the most brutal ending possible for the caliber of player he was. the amount of talent he had. 1 CL title, no indivdual awards, no international title. it doesnt get worse.
Infantino’s legacy will forever be stained as a President that:
- gifted a World Cup to Qatar who quasi paid for it and then turned a blind eye to human rights abuse
- created a nonsense FIFA Peace Award to appease a host nation President
- baffling “today, I feel gay” speech
- put into question its own competitive integrity in favor of a host nation by directly involving politics into a disciplinary decision
Footballers from 1990-2010 were definitely more technical than the last couple of generations. There's no doubt about that. Take someone like Wesley Sneijder. There's no midfielder around today that was as technical as him and he wasn't even the preeminent playmaker of his era.
Footballers from 1990-2010 were definitely more technical than the last couple of generations. There's no doubt about that. Take someone like Wesley Sneijder. There's no midfielder around today that was as technical as him and he wasn't even the preeminent playmaker of his era.
Genuinely can’t believe the timeline we are seeing.
One of the most corrupt men in sporting history is calling a spade a spade.
This Balogun situation is a ridiculous stain on what has been an incredible World Cup story for the US as hosts and the USMNT.
I’ve known Gianni since I met him around 1999. I’ve said this in many podcasts/columns.
He is a world class sycophant and arse-licker. He makes himself useful to power. If you cannot progress his own status you will mean nothing to him. Power is the objective. Not reputation.
The irony of Trump calling FIFA to overturn
a red card for Balogun because he knows the U.S. can’t win without Balogun, who only qualifies for the U.S. team because of birthright citizenship, which Trump just tried to overturn.
This is spot on.
There’s going to be a massive fight within football after this summer, and UEFA may end up leading the charge as the only association powerful enough to unseat Infantino.
FIFA need reminding that this game belongs to us, not them.
I troll Neymar a lot but man his career absolutely should have been better.
I'm not even talking about winning the World Cup per se because it's not all his fault but it's mad that he never even got to a semi-final.
A lot of what if's in his story both for club and country.
FIFA has opened itself up to a landslide of cases like this...
The French FA want Olise's yellow card against Paraguay nulified, citing the decision to rescind Balogun's red for the USA.
Y’all want:
- neighbours who don’t ask for sugar
- friends that don’t vent
- community spaces without children
- people to hide their struggles
- people to have children they don’t want
- access to resources ONLY when it benefits you
- billionaires to exist
I just-
PROPER penalty. No woke nonsense. Deep breath, exhale, pick which side, charge and SMASH. Also called the Jamie Vardy penalty. No panenka shmanenka stutter stop stutter nonsense. I’ve always said it: penalties are a skill https://t.co/0E7QIlzV89
Haaland was built solely to be a striker. He will not be an average player in another position. He will be a poor footballer.
But as a striker, a #9, he’s world, world class. Finest of the finest. He knows what it means to be a #9. He doesn’t do too much. He doesn’t need to be seen much. He just understands the business so much. He’s so good.
"A teenager turns down Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA and Michigan to take graduate-level coursework as a college freshman at Berkeley, and the response from the people paying him millions isn’t excitement. It’s suspicion. That was never a scouting report. That was a diagnosis. And the disease was intelligence."
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