Mailo 🇦🇷

Tengo el orgullo de ser argentino y la alegría de no poder cambiarlo

[Mailo 🇦🇷 @Alemailo_]

Todos quieren que les pasen cosas lindas en la vida, pero yo no puedo estar en todos lados

[Mailo 🇦🇷 @Alemailo_]

@LudwigAhgren

[Lauta @Kratitos1903]

Ni Mike, Ni los Futbolitos, ni otros haters de Argentina se pasaron una remera de quien putean por los huevos.
Este tipo no puede recibir hospitalidad de los Argentinos después de esto, no sean cagones Streamers, si un Argentino hiciera eso lo estarían cancelando.
NO CAGONEEN

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

This is sort of funny, and Brazil have definitely got worse, but it misdiagnoses the problem. In fact, this is a story of what has happened to society and with our economies, and the ideology of our ruling elites.

The first point to accept is that *all* football nations have lost their particular style: there has been a flattening of the way in which teams play. I first started watching football as a very young boy in the late eighties, and through until the early 2000s, most of the big nations maintained a distinct way of playing. The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Brazil and England all spring to mind. But two things have happened -- the first connected to the latter.

First, the Champions League (and later the Europa League) means that the best teams in Europe play each other almost every week during the season. That provides a consistently present interface for an accelerated exchange of ideas, formations, and tactics. But it also acts as a kind of gain of function research for football: there is now an extremely rapid cycle of tactical, transfer policy/player selection, and fitness innovation, response and counter response. The football OODA loop has never been tighter.

Second, and connected to this, there has been an extreme version of the Pareto Principle income inequality that has happened among western societies as a whole. Wealth, partly due to the Champions League, and partly due to the Premier League, has accrued to a smaller and smaller number of teams, even as the size of the pie, due to the massive increase in TV revenue in Europe, has expanded beyond all recognition. This means that all the best players in the world end up in the same handful of clubs. We can name them: Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Juventus, Bayern Munich, PSG, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Furthermore, with the advent of global scouting networks and post-Moneyball databases, this means the best players from anywhere in the world, often at young ages. Remember when an unknown player would have a great World Cup and find himself playing for, say, Tottenham or Monaco or wherever? Those days are gone. We know about every player in the most minute detail. There is no mystery. The good players are already in Europe.

The first time I noticed this process of wealth accumulation was with the great Ajax team of 1995. I was only just a teenager, and that team was like a revelation for me in terms of the way football could be played. All of them (bar Danny Blind and Frank Rijkaard, who were an earlier generation) came up through the Ajax academy system and blossomed at the same time. They played in the Ajax/Dutch style (4-3-3, with two wingers that stayed very wide, and a centre back pushing into midfield when they had the ball, holding possession playing in the opponent's final third). But within two seasons, the entire team was broken up: Davids, Seedorf, Klijvert, Ovremars, Rijzeger, Kanu, Litmanen, even Van Gaal, the young manager -- they'd all gone to richer clubs elsewhere. In the 1960s or 70s, they'd have stayed together and won multiple European trophies. In England, we saw a similar thing with Southampton. Newcastle are suffering the same now.

All this means that players don't stay in their home environments and countries, with their clubs, and the process of mimesis breaks down. Add that to the first point, related to the way intra-European football forces a flattening through various mechanisms, and you have what we see now.

A couple of World Cups ago, the Netherlands played a 3-5-2, to my absolute horror. The Netherlands playing without proper wingers! Now we have a Brazilian team that has two Arsenal players, two Man U players, one Newcastle player -- even a Bournemouth player, for goodness sake. And they'll all have had the majority of their careers outside Brazil. Some will have left when they were 15 or 16, scouted by Shaktar Donetsk (famous for bringing in young Brazilian players) or Real Madrid. Why are we therefore surprised that they play like any other European team?

The Netherlands style lives on -- but through Barcelona and therefore the Spain national team (via Cruyff, and thence Guardiola), not in the Netherlands national team. But the Brazil style (a languid slow, slow, slow, punctuated by sudden bursts of incredible skill, raking passes, speed, and crackerjack long shots) is dead. When better Brazilian players emerge in future, and maybe they return to winning World Cups, they'll do so as Europeans would, not Brazilians. The German and Italian styles are also dead. The English style is also pretty much dead, although that was an evolutionary dead end in terms of International Football, so we do not lament it.

This, rather than boozing or religion, is the reason for what we see with the Brazil national team. I find it deeply sad. But no doubt the neoliberal progressives who run our countries will view it as a great success.

@AaronBastani @WilliamClouston @georgegalloway @jj_bull

[Mailo 🇦🇷 @Alemailo_]

@iriSOSok Rohayhu Paraguay!

[Nico @LanusyLibertad]

Todo muy lindo hasta esto.

Argentina te quiere, Ney. En nuestros libros sos un Argentino más, nada de troladas de racismo, bancando patadas y jugando de igual a igual. El único Brasilero que nos hizo acordar a aquellos que veíamos cuando éramos chicos.

[Ignacio Carbo @mayunia67]

@chipilaso93 Lo pechearon ni con toda ayuda.

[Mailo 🇦🇷 @Alemailo_]

Quedate jugando a las bolitas que el futbol te queda grande, colombiano pelotudo

[Fran @frabigol]

JAJAJAJ QUE HACEN LOS PARAGUAYOS CANTANDO CORRAN LA BOLA

[gogg @GoGG_08]

@InvictosSomos

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

Mientras el negocio del fútbol sigue creciendo a pasos agigantados, Telemundo decidió defender algo que cada vez parece más escaso: la esencia del juego. ⚽❤️

Durante la transmisión del partido entre Canadá 🇨🇦 y Bosnia 🇧🇦, uno de sus comentaristas lanzó un mensaje que no pasó desapercibido:

🗣️ “Somos una de las pocas cadenas en el mundo que NO muestra anuncios durante las pausas de hidratación de la Copa Mundial. Preferimos el estilo de la vieja escuela. Deberíamos poder ver lo que hacen los jugadores. Mostramos a los aficionados, a la gente disfrutando, no la dirección corporativa del fútbol”.

En una época donde cada segundo de transmisión parece estar en venta, la cadena estadounidense apuesta por mostrar lo que ocurre dentro y alrededor de la cancha.

[Roger Merino @RogerMerino]

No tiene sentido seguir debatiendo sobre derecho internacional cuando la cuenta oficial del gobierno más poderoso del mundo difunde sus crímenes de guerra en formato de videojuegos. Vivimos la distopía más absurda y abyecta imaginable.

[kelly @BoyYeetsWorld]

Maybe if drink enough beer I can change what happened

[Diario de un picateclas @devruso]

no se si sois conscientes de que estáis aplaudiendo con las orejas a alguien que os está diciendo a la cara que pretende convertir internet en un mar de spam a una escala sin precedentes.
estáis tan perdidos dentro del hype que habéis externalizado a gepeto hasta la última neurona que os quedaba y habéis dejado siquiera de querer pensar en lo que ocurre a vuestro alrededor

[𝑷𝒖𝒏𝒌 𝒚 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒊 @punk_y_cursi]

Cuando dicen "ojalá volvamos a coincidir" pero Cortázar dijo "existe una cita aún sin hora ni fecha para encontrarnos, yo ahí estaré puntual, no sé si tú."

[outstar 🧛 professional vampire simp @outstarwalker]

men only want 3 things

[Mailo 🇦🇷 @Alemailo_]

Mwordeate y grabalo jajant

[fran @notfraquezi]

estan tan pendiente de las redes sociales te hace mogolico

[poppa @popitforpoppa]

got 1 relationship in me left before i start acting like this man