Recordar cómo la URSS se plantó ante la FIFA en 1973 y se negó a jugar el partido de vuelta en el Estadio Nacional de Chile, en las eliminatorias del Mundial, después de que el genocida Pinochet convirtiera el estadio en un centro de tortura y exterminio.
La FIFA, aún con las gradas manchadas de sangre, se negó a anular el partido en Chile, todo lo contrario, le dio el partido perdido a la URSS por 2-0 y otorgó la victoria al regimen criminal de Pinochet.
La imagen fue dantesca, los jugadores de Chile marcando un gol ante un rival fantasma, por mera formalidad, con un cartel que decia "la juventud y el deporte unen hoy a Chile"... una juventud que fue masacrada por las calles por el carnicero de Pinochet.
La misma mafia de la FIFA que hoy se niega a expulsar a "Israel" de sus competiciones y que anuló una tarjeta roja a un jugador porque Trump lo ordenó, también apoyó el golpe de estado en Chile, toda la vida siempre al servicio del poder político del capital.
Bei aller Liebe, aber diese WM ist doch zu Ende. In dem Moment, wo ein Staatschef auf den ausführenden Verband eines Turniers einwirkt, um rote Karten rückgängig zu machen, ist das Spiel doch einfach im Eimer. Trump zerstört alles, was er berührt …
Whether it is or isn’t a red to Balogun is now irrelevant. Government interference is a violation of FIFA Article 2 & 15, and the punishment is disqualification and suspension. #FIFAWorldCup
Russia’s banned from the World Cup & Olympics. The US is hosting both while openly cheating, facilitating genocide, kidnapping and murdering the leaders of sovereign states and murdering fisherman in boats and posting the snuff films on the official White House account.
This is why Folarin Balogun got a straight red card and one-game ban. He almost broke Tarik Muharemovic's ankle.
The people who are saying this isn’t a red or calling it injustice are ridiculous.
Uruguay es violento, Paraguay es violento, Argentina es violento.
Los únicos que no son violentos son los europeos que colonizaron y esclavizaron al resto del mundo durante 300 años.
Einstein was a German who went to a Catholic school and married an Orthodox Christian Serb. His Nobel Prize winning work drew considerably from the contributions of Max Planck, a devout Lutheran, for whom Einstein expressed lifelong gratitude.
There is absolutely nothing civilizationally Jewish in "Jewish innovation." It's American and European innovation carried out by people who coincidentally were Jewish. It's not like the Jews created anything remarkable outside Europe and the US, or in Judea in Antiquity. The Hebrew language even didn't have a native word for "university," and had to borrow the Latin term.
Catholics created 17 of the 20 most performed operas, yet I don't see them asking for any credit for that, or claiming that it's the result of being raised the right way.
Moreover, if Jews are not responsible for Epstein or Weinstein, why should they be given credit for Einstein? You don't get to choose which "stein" represents your true essence and which one doesn't.
Hosting a Football World Cup is such a beautiful opportunity to bring people together.
For Americans, it's an opportunity to showcase how stupid and ignorant they are.
After Bosnia and Herzegovina qualified for the round of 32, a broadcaster "joked" that she could not point out where it was on the map.
Leave aside the obvious problems with that joke.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is the kind of story a broadcaster dreams to talk about.
Their participation in the World Cup goes beyond football.
The country came into existence in 1992 after declaring independence from Yugoslavia, and was immediately subjected to a genocide, turning football grounds into graveyards.
The serbian leadership within Yugoslavia wanted to create a greater Serbia. The independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina went against that idea, leading to an armed conflict.
The Bosnian Muslims and Croats were at the receiving end of it. More than 1 Lakh killed. Two million displaced.
The violence finally concluded in 1995. But the Dayton Accord, the peace agreement brokered by the US, left Bosnia and Herzegovina a fractured and polarised society.
It established Bosnia and Herzegovina as a single state containing two autonomous entities: The Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Serb-majority area.
For a country marred in daily political tug of war, their journey so far at the World Cup is nothing short of historic and full of hope.
It is potentially a cross-ethnic uniting force in a divided country.
To miss all of that and reduce them to a country you can't find on the map is simply pathetic.
Algeria scored in the last minute of extra time. Game over. Austria's bench clashed with Algeria's in disbelief. Why would they do that? Then FIFA found three additional extra minutes. Austria equalized. Whistle blew. Iran out. Scripted. Investigation required.
Standing at the bus stop and there’s a Muslim girl here. Bus slowed down, she went to walk towards the door and it drove on. Apparently, this happens regularly to her. Here 10 years, Belfast accent and a lovely young woman. @Translink_NI time to try some diversity training?
On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded:
“Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”
The captain of Iran’s National Team, Mehdi Taremi, calls out FIFA and the U.S.:
“This is a disaster World Cup. We can’t stay in the country and have to travel every time we play without any recovery. Now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. This is not fair.”
Has there ever been a World Cup where a team is playing in the host country on the literal same day that the host country is bombing that team's country?
Iran played three matches.
They drew all three.
And in every single one, they fought with heart, pride, and dignity.
But after their final match, the host nation reportedly demanded they leave immediately.
No time to recover. No time to rest. Just pack up and go.
That is not how you treat athletes.
That is not how you treat human beings.
Despite the pressure, the restrictions, and everything stacked against them, Iran kept showing resilience.
This team deserves respect, not mistreatment.
That’s the spirit of the World Cup.