Alejandro Echeverri

"¿Me permite esta pieza?" - Yo comiendo KFC

[Alejandro Echeverri @aje93631]

'I remember, when I moved in you
And the holy dove; she was moving too
and every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah' - L. Cohen

[Messias @Messias30_]

Mi ídolo hoy.

Mi ídolo mañana.

Mi ídolo toda la vida.

[valval @valuuyv]

"Cuando una estrella está apunto de apagarse, brilla en su máximo esplendor antes de apagarse"

[DebatableFootballOpinions @DebatableFO]

People don’t grasp how insane this is

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

LIONEL SCALONI: “Mi papá venía de manejar 10 horas un camión lleno de piedras, y aún así se bajaba y me decía: ‘Vamos a entrenar, no hay tiempo que perder’.”

Tenía 13 años y vivía en Pujato, un pueblo donde nadie hablaba de Mundiales, pero yo soñaba con uno. Mi cancha era un garaje. Mi camiseta, la de Argentina, aunque jugara en Newell’s. Mi viejo no descansaba. Me llevaba a entrenar, me esperaba, y volvía a trabajar. Él tenía más hambre de fútbol que yo.

A los 17 debuté como profesional. A los 29, fui al Mundial. A los 44, gané uno como entrenador. Y ese día, cuando Montiel metió el penal, no pensé en la copa. Pensé en mi viejo, en el garaje, en ese niño que viajaba a dedo para perseguir un sueño.

Desde que ganamos, no recuerdo haber pagado una comida en Argentina. La gente me abraza, llora y me dice: “Nos hiciste felices.” Y cada vez que lo escucho, me repito algo: valió la pena, cada kilómetro, cada piedra, cada entrenamiento a oscuras."

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

The decline of the Brazilian national team is mirrored by the decline of Catholicism in the country. This team lacks joy, replaced by dour Protestant work ethic that is alien to their culture.

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

european football has spent the past fifteen years solving futbol like chess.

a generation of coaches optimized for pass completion, pressing triggers, territorial control, rest defense, and positional occupation.

the problem of this is that they optimize for what is measurable. depth, the willingness to attack space early, attempt the difficult pass, dribble past a defender, or deliberately create chaos, is a high variance play. it fails more often than it succeeds. if you evaluate players by completion rate, ball retention, or positional discipline, those actions look like mistakes. so they get coached out. eventually, everyone converges toward the same local optimum.

the game becomes increasingly legible. every team occupies similar spaces, presses in similar ways, builds from the back with similar patterns, and minimizes the same risks. systems become better at defeating other systems, but worse at dealing with players who refuse to behave like systems.

south american football never fully abandoned the duel as the fundamental unit of the game. the 1v1 remained sacred. so did the tactical foul, the unpredictable dribble, and the player willing to lose possession five times if the sixth breaks the match open. the objective was never simply to preserve structure, it was to create someone capable of destroying the opponent’s structure.

football is not won by completing the most passes. it is won by scoring more goals than the other team. those are related, but they are not the same objective.

this is the danger of optimizing proxies. when everyone optimizes the same measurements, they stop optimizing for victory itself. they optimize for looking efficient.

italy may have been the first major european football culture to lose part of its identity this way. its historical advantage was never athletic superiority or perfect positional play. it was tactical asymmetry, unpredictability, and an instinct for making matches uncomfortable. as italian football converged toward the same coaching model as the rest of europe, it gradually surrendered the qualities that had made it different.

the broader lesson extends well beyond football. every optimization process eventually risks becoming self-defeating. metrics become targets. proxies replace objectives. variance is mistaken for error. the outliers capable of breaking the system disappear because the system itself learns to eliminate them.

[FútbolPasionWeb @FutbolPasionWeb]

El defensor alemán, Jonathan Tah publicó una foto rezando con los jugadores de Ecuador 👏

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

Yes it is possible. 🇪🇨🔥

[Tomiconcina @Tomiconcina]

“Esta noche se sintió como si la historia del fútbol se detuviera por noventa minutos para recordarle al mundo exactamente quién es Lionel Messi”.

Vladimir Petkovic.

[Sage @Sage_FCB]

🚨 Arsene Wenger on Lionel Messi's hat-trick and becoming the World Cup's all time leading goalscorer:

🗣“What we witnessed today goes beyond another record. It is the continuation of a career that has consistently redefined the standards of excellence in football.

It wasn't simply a hat-trick,it was the quality of the goals, the intelligence behind every decision, and the efficiency with which Messi influenced the game. Those are the qualities that separate truly exceptional players from the rest.

For many years people have tried to compare Messi with other great footballers, but there comes a point where comparisons lose their meaning. He has built a legacy that stands on its own.

What fascinates me most is his evolution. I genuinely don't know whether the young Messi, with his explosive pace and dribbling, was better than the experienced Messi we see today, who controls every moment of the game with his intelligence and understanding. Very few players improve with age the way he has.

The emotion after his second goal revealed another side of his greatness. It reminded everyone of the difficult journey he has had with Argentina,the disappointments, the criticism, and the perseverance that eventually led to glory. That emotional connection with his country continues to drive him.

To score his first World Cup hat trick while becoming the tournament's all time leading goalscorer is an extraordinary achievement. It is another milestone in a career that already seemed impossible to improve.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect is his longevity. He finished the 2022 World Cup by lifting the trophy after scoring twice in the final, and he has opened the 2026 tournament with a hattrick. At almost 39 years of age, he continues to perform with the same clarity, technical quality, and love for the game that defined him in his twenties.

That is the mark of a truly timeless footballer.”

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Andres 🧢 @AndyX27_]

Recuerdo esa sensación de ir al cine con 8 años y saber que, durante todo el día, nada iba a superar la explosión de estímulos y experiencias que te esperaban en esas dos horas. Hoy, en cambio, el cine es el único lugar en el que sucede una pausa de la sobreestimulación del mundo

[Alejandro Echeverri @aje93631]

@anto_v25 Esa es la actitud Toñito!

[Antonio Valencia @anto_v25]

Deseo enviar un mensaje con energías positivas para los chicos, que no se desanimen y que siga motivados. Tenemos aún dos partidos por delante. Confiamos mucho en ustedes. Éxito y una buena semana para ellos. Sigan unidos y confíen en ustedes.

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

I think about this Seinfeld interview all the time.

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[Kevin Verdezoto @KVerdezoto17]

Pase lo que pase, sólido partido de Piero Hincapié por banda, obligó a Dembélé a cambiarse de banda y Hakimi no tuvo chances de pasar.

[Juanito @juanito_mexok]

$MELI say no more

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"If you want a new idea, read an old book."

—Ivan Pavlov

[love drops @lovedropx]

— Anaïs Nin, 1939