The United States 🇺🇸, Japan 🇯🇵, and South Korea 🇰🇷 just signed a new pact around working together to accelerate
Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Development
🍟 Jürgen Klopp has been spotting dipping his chips into ketchup at the Switzerland vs. Colombia match.
Only posting this because 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 is happening in the game.
So now that all the causals are gone, here’s how we rebuild:
1. Fire everybody in USSF. This was a massive embarrassment.
2. Absolutely no more relationship with MLS. CLEARLY that doesn’t work.
3. This needs to be built around Tillman and Richards now.
4. Recruit Banks.
Clint Dempsey got kicked in the face vs Ghana in the 2014 World Cup. He played with a broken nose and looked dizzy for the next hour, but his team grinded out a win
Pulisic left vs Paraguay with a calf bruise, got kicked in his shin guard and left tonight.
The US needs leaders.
I’ve been a defender of this guy since he was the 17 year old wonder kid a decade ago
But this is indefensible, this is the biggest game of your life. A World Cup elimination game on home soil, and you come off?
“Bruise on the leg is a hell of a long way from the Heart”
FIFA has DENIED Belgium's appeal against Folarin Balogun's return and will remain eligible to play for USMNT Monday night, per @JacobsBen
The request was deemed 'inadmissible' and the ruling will proceed as is.
The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.
The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.
Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.
So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.
Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.
Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.
Klopp saying the club was built on Kenny's soul and Stevie's legs is one of the best quotes in the club's history. Place them in whatever order you want, they're the top 2 and it'll take someone ridiculous to change that.
One player who isn't here who definitely should be is Daniel Agger.
Gave absolutely everything to this club for 8 years, turned down City, Milan and Barca (twice) to stick with us and when he did leave, the only club he'd go to is back to Brondby.
YNWA tattooed on his knuckles too. Absolute hero.
My American brothers and sisters,
I’ve been cheering for both Japan and Team USA from the start because I love both countries.
Now that Japan’s tournament is over, I’ll be cheering for Team USA all the way!
Good luck tomorrow! 🇺🇸⚽
Odegaard is genuinely one of the pussiest captains I've ever seen. He is constantly ducking 50-50s, avoiding responsibility and shrinking when the stakes are highest.