One of the main reason why soccer is so popular and such a loved game across the world is because Americans have had so little to do with its development.
Whose bright idea was it to put Brazil vs Japan at 18:00 uk time but Morocco vs Netherlands at 02:00 uk time?
18:00 is 3am in Japan and 02:00 is 3am in Morocco and Netherlands
Quite frankly inexcusable and pathetic scheduling from FIFA
I just realized that every player is placed exactly where their country belongs on the map of Africa.
Graphic designers will forever eat. These are levels AI will never reach.
The firm behind Wembley and Tottenham's stadium designed a football ground in Mexico, then pointed it at a mountain. They dropped the roof on one end so the open side frames the Cerro de la Silla, the saddle-shaped mountain that rises over Monterrey, sitting right behind the pitch.
That view in the clip came first. The architects, a firm called Populous, built the stadium around it, and they have said the mountain was one of the biggest reasons it looks the way it does. The roof stands tall on the north side and slopes down toward the south, opening up so the mountain fills the gap above the stands.
The roof is one solid piece that reaches 55 meters out over the crowd, longer than an Olympic pool, with nothing holding it up from underneath. It shades fans from a summer sun that climbs past 40°C, or 104°F. The sides stay open so the air keeps moving. Instead of closing the place up and running air conditioning, Populous cut "gills" into the metal shell, angled to catch the breeze and push warm air up and out. The building cools itself.
The metal shell is a nod to the city's past. Monterrey built its fortune on steel and had the first iron and steel foundry in Latin America, so the stadium is wrapped in steel and aluminum, which got it the nickname "El Gigante de Acero," the steel giant. The lopsided, sweeping shape comes from an odd place: the outline of old brewing stills, a tip of the hat to the beer-making the city has done since 1890.
Inside, they pulled the crowd right on top of the grass. The first row sits 9 meters from the field. At the club's old ground, it was 27. The stands tilt back at 34 degrees, one of the steepest angles in the Mexican league, packing all 53,500 seats close to the pitch, which is part of why it gets so loud.
FEMSA, the drinks giant that owns the club, paid for all of it. The bill came to around $200 million, making it the most expensive stadium ever built in Mexico when it opened in 2015. In 2024 it became the first stadium in Latin America to earn LEED Gold, a major green-building rating, for how it handles energy and water.
So the view in that clip was drawn into the plans years before they laid the first beam. The whole building is a frame, and the mountain is the picture.
. @missmayim gets teary eyed at the thought of people saying mean things to her if front of her children.
Meanwhile, Israel uses an AI program called “where’s daddy?” to hunt down Palestinians and literally murder them when they are AT HOME w their kids.
Résumé du show de Bassem Youssef à Rabat:
- j'attends le spectacle entier de Bassou en anglais avec impatience
- omg le théâtre de Rabat 😱
- Bassem s'est tellement amélioré il était incroyable
- fuck israhell
Enige prestatie van Senegal in de groepsfase is winnen van 10 man Irak en ze gaan naar de volgende ronde, waarschijnlijk tegen een USA of Egypte. Nederland haalt 7 punten en moet tegen de nummer 6 vd wereld.
Dit WK is echt barslecht.