🚨🇨🇦 Jonathan David played the full game and scored a HATTRICK in Canada's 6-0 win over Qatar.
He's now the join top-scorer at the FIFA World Cup 2026. ⚽👏
🚨🗣️NEW: Thierry Henry on Thomas Tuchel asking FIFA to move the photographers during the national anthem because they obstructed his view of his team:
“Thomas Tuchel’s complaint should embarrass FIFA. A World Cup manager waiting his whole life for that national anthem moment and all he sees is a forest of cameras? That’s madness. That’s football being held hostage by lenses and logos.
FIFA today reminds me of a circus ringmaster who has forgotten the animals and only cares about selling tickets. They treat football like a shopping mall with grass. Players are the products, fans are the customers, and tradition is just an old photograph hanging on the wall collecting dust.
The national anthem isn’t supposed to be a red-carpet event. It’s supposed to be sacred. It’s the heartbeat before battle. Yet somehow, sponsor pictures matter more than countries, photographers matter more than players, and television angles matter more than emotions. That’s upside-down football.
And don’t tell me this isn’t what happens when football is swallowed by American-style commercialization. Everything has a price tag. Everything has to be packaged, branded and sold. Even the soul of the game is standing at the auction house.
In Europe, football was built like a cathedral. In America, they’re trying to turn it into Times Square. One side is history and culture; the other side is flashing lights and advertising boards screaming for attention. Football isn’t meant to feel like the halftime show of the Super Bowl every five minutes.
Tuchel said he couldn’t see one single player. Think about that. Fifty photographers stood between a manager and his team during one of the proudest moments of their lives. That’s a metaphor for modern FIFA. There are now so many cameras between football and the people who love it that nobody can see the game anymore.
FIFA have become King Midas in reverse. Everything they touch turns into money, but somehow loses its soul. They chase sponsor shots like sailors chasing a mirage in the desert, while supporters are left watching the traditions they grew up with disappear brick by brick.
And here’s the irony. The game survived wars, dictators, corruption and scandals, but now it’s slowly being strangled by something wearing a smile and holding a camera. Football used to be the main character. Now it’s just an extra in its own movie.
If this is the future, then football isn’t being celebrated anymore. It’s being commercialized to death, wrapped in gold paper and sold back to the fans who made it great in the first place. And people wonder why supporters say the soul of the game is dying. It’s because FIFA sold it for the perfect sponsor photo.”
When you take the viewership numbers and apply them as percentages of the population for #CanMNT and #USMNT, it is quite intriguing how dedicated Canadians are to soccer.
8.6 million watched 🇨🇦v🇧🇦 (20.77% of Canada)
18.037 million watched 🇺🇸v🇵🇾(5.3% of USA)
TSN just aired racial internet abuse and hate speech from people towards Bombito, Millar, Laryea, and Promise David. Footballers are humans too, and the sad reality here is there are so many more players that go through this.
Jesse Marsch spoke out about this and his response back is what everyone needs to hear. I am so happy TSN brought this up as this needs more awareness. It is absolutely sickening man. #CanMNT
🚨 Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly speaking facts:
"Africans can’t have their people" at the World Cup because of US travel bans.
Every other team gets their fans. But Global South teams like Senegal get blocked while the West lectures everyone about "inclusion" and "human rights".
This is the same empire that bombs, exploits, and restricts — then cries when others resist.
Football should unite people, not separate them with racist visa policies and double standards.
Stand with Koulibaly. Stand with the fans. Stand with the Global South.
No bows. Just raw truth. 💪🏿🇸🇳
A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children.
He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own.
In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone.
“It was the end of the world. The end of the world.”
“I felt imprisoned.”
“They took my freedom.”
“They took my livelihood.”
“They took my land.”
🚨🗣️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.”
The plane carrying the #Uruguay national team is unable to enter the United States for the #2026WorldCup due to missing permits.
Uruguay's trip to Miami, where they are set to play Saudi Arabia in their opening match tomorrow, has been delayed.
This World Cup is an absolute disgrace. You are responsible for this, @FIFAWorldCup.