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[A @adrifuti]

@Ghost_RC_ @Arifromanhattan No one’s saying NBA players aren’t more athletic, but soccer doesn’t give two fucks about athleticism. Embiid first played basketball at 15 and within 5 years he was the 3rd overall pick. You’ll never see that in soccer cause it takes way more skill and time to master

[29.9792458 N, 31.1337 E @EALTurner]

American team sports are synchronized athletics.

The games are planned and broken down by stoppages, 'plays' and rest periods to the millisecond.

European sports are fluid, encourage creativity and self-reliance capabilities in individual players who must cope with randomness.

[Tekkers Foot @tekkersfoot]

🚨🌎 GABRIEL MARTINELLI HAS WON IT IN THE 95TH MINUTE FOR BRAZIL! 🤯🤯

Brazil 2-1 Japan.

[A @adrifuti]

@HoopIMust @Abioyeadebayo5 @BigBCFC @DougieCritchley Ronaldo moved for that amount in the summer of 2021. So his value should be based on his 20/21 form, in which he scored 36 in 44. Why should we base his value on his 22/23 form? Doesn’t make sense

[A @adrifuti]

@twinjustrelax @AliAli1791 @himothy675x @mupalad Madrid, Atleti, Valencia and that’s basically it. As if Messi didn’t play 30 games against poor teams as well. Malaga got 4th with 14 losses btw

[A @adrifuti]

@joshnilesAFC @ValePasquet45 @AnthonyDabbundo PSG won last season’s Ligue 1 on like the 2nd to last match day btw

[💟Ole IS Right, Esq. @Ole_is_right]

As an American, who is also an actual fan of football (⚽️): will you people please, for the love of god, shut the fuck up?

I promise, those of us (from any nation) who actually watch the sport, do not give a fuck what relative tourists think of the game’s rules. And those of us who are fans from the US, don’t want guilt by association from those tourists thinking they know better than those who watch every goddamn week.

If offsides is too weird or complex for you, that’s fine. Cheer for the red white and blue; celebrate the event; have fun— but please, shut the fuck up about the rules.

[Donté L. Stallworth @DonteStallworth]

Football, the undisputed most popular sport in the entire world, has been on TV every single day since June 11

[La Vieja Guardia @ViejaGuardiaEA]

🙌🏼 Hoy cumple 89 años Enrique Macaya Marquez, el periodista deportivo que más Mundiales ha cubierto en la historia.

🎙️ "Era un sueño, yo no había viajado más que a Montevideo una vez, y ahí era al sur de Suecia, a Malmö. No sabíamos dónde quedaba ni cómo viajar". Contaba Macaya sobre su primera aventura mundialista en Suecia 58 🇸🇪.

🌎 A partir de ahí, recorrió 4 continentes, 16 países y cientos de ciudades cubriendo la cita más importante en el mundo del fútbol.

🏆 Vio levantar la Copa a Pelé🇧🇷, Bobby Charlton🏴��󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 , Beckenbauer🇩🇪, Maradona🇦🇷, Zidane🇫🇷, Ronaldo🇧🇷, Messi🇦🇷, entre otros.

👑 Han sido 17 mundiales en total y esperamos que venga alguno más.

👨‍🏫 Maestro.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Qatar is a city state. Size of Coventry ( Google it).

So if Qatar can host a 32 team tournament flouting FIFA rules on 2 stadia per city, the home of the sport can.

So that's that bit ( FIFA'S rules are changeable, shocker)

As for stadia, you'd be woefully out of date with your capacities come an English World Cup bid 45k for group stage and some knockouts minimum)

Wembley 90k
Twickenham 90k
Man United 100k
Arsenal ( projected 70-80k)
Spurs 60k
City 60k
Liverpool 60k
Everton 50k
Villa 50k
Chelsea 50k
Newcastle 55k
Leeds 53k
Sunderland 50k
West Ham 60k
Forest (projected 45-52k)
Molineux ( projected 45k)
Leicester (projected 45k)

There's 17 that by the time England won a World Cup bid would 100% be realised in capacity numbers. All bar West Ham are designed for Association Football.

In this case, my friend, give me historic grounds in historic places dripping with 150 years of history, passion, noise and modern renovations than soulless bowls where the fans high up need a 6000 square foot screen to see the action.

England, the home of the world's most popular sport, the world biggest football league, the world's most professional clubs, the world's most passionate home and away fans.

Only corruption, greed and frankly, jealousy of the Premier League have stopped us getting it in the last 30 years but we'll get it again, don't fear.

And when we do, it'll blow your mind.

[ZO @RedCarpetViews]

Americans that don’t follow the sport ourside of the WC literally can’t wrap their mind around a concept of a different sport with different rules.

Everything just goes back to “ why can’t we make it like the NFL/NBA”

So naive and so embarassing.

[OMAR 𓂆 @Omaaar96]

Netanyahu back in the charts for literally two good games in a whole season

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

ESTAMOS AQUI!

[Gabr @neomozarab]

Have you ever seen football players from Latin America? They'll be wearing a headband with 100% Jesus written on it and doing the cross sign after scoring a goal then going to a brothel to celebrate victory in the evening.

[Andrés Weiss @andresweiss_]

Tus 16 goles en Mundiales.

Tu 2º gol en el 7-1, que desencadenó todo lo que vino los 5 minutos después.

Tu doblete en el 4-0 a Argentina en 2010.

Tu gol para forzar la prórroga también ante Argentina en 2006 (clave para pasar a semis).

Siempre serás HISTORIA del fútbol, Miro.

[A @adrifuti]

@ryyyyyyy_y @Mobb_Tv_ That's the whole reason why I think a rematch is likely. Objectively, Ilia doesn't deserve a rematch but Gaethje didn't deserve his Interim shot in the first place + at the moment I also don't think Arman 'deserves' a title shot over Charles

[Phil Mackenzie @EvilGregJackson]

these takes pop up all the time and they never make sense. people don't watch any sports anywhere because they are exciting or manly or badass or whatever. if excitement was the driving factor then Knight Fights and Slamball would be the most popular sports in the world.

[A @adrifuti]

@SolSenseX @twinellelikely @KingBobBoru @idoxvi They're already allowed to stack their entire XI with better players, so why is increasing the number of subs they can use suddenly makes it unfair? It's already unfair in the first place

[A @adrifuti]

@Chris_in_MA @franklinleonard The tournament should be 16 teams max realistically

[A @adrifuti]

@Samsam143435923 @outrofobia No, that's why the winners are called the 'Champions of England'. Not 'World Champions'.