🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:
“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.
The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.
This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”
The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.
And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?
Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.
The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”
Qué duro jugar mal en el futbol semanal. Durísimo.
6 noches y 6 días separan a uno de la posibilidad de redención, de la oportunidad de demostrarse que se es más. Siempre dentro de las limitaciones, claro.
Me voy a dormir vencido, pero el miércoles que viene la historia será otra
Decir esta barrabasada y efectivamente el siguiente año ganar el triplete (primera Champions de la historia del club incluida) es lo mas gigachad de la historia. Luis Padrique.
El luchador irlandés de artes marciales, Paddy McCorry, golpeó y humilló anoche al soldado sionista, Shuki Farage, gritándole "Free Palestine" en la cara mientras lo golpeaba una y otra vez hasta lograr la victoria.
Farage participó en el genocidio de Gaza y subía fotos vanagloriándose de ello en sus redes sociales, anoche recibió solo una ínfima parte de lo que se merece.