David Echeverria

UofL Alum | 🇲🇽 | ΑΦΑ

[David Echeverria @davidech9]

“We party hard, we stay up late, but most of all we GRADUATE!” 🤙🏽🖤 #UofLGrads2022 #aphia #Classof2022

[All Fútbol MX 🇲🇽 @AllFutbolMX]

Vicente Fernandez’s ‘EL REY’ is played at the Estadio Akron after securing qualification for the World Cup knockout stage! ❤️🔊

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇲🇽 Mexico have officially qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Round of 32.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[David Echeverria @davidech9]

THIS is how you do it. How you take a sports moment and bring them into the movement to make you city a better place. Generational

[SNY Knicks @sny_knicks]

"It is in that 0.4% that we go to work"

Zohran Mamdani talks about the Knicks' long odds in Game 4 and shouts out the Knicks' players:

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

GHANA FOR THE WIN 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

CALEB YIRENKYI SCORES IN THE FINAL SECONDS TO BEAT PANAMA 🤯

(via @FOXSoccer)

[David Echeverria @davidech9]

This World Cup is raining goals mannnnnn

[Andre @_AndreCA7]

La vida desde que empezó el mundial.

[JESSICA BLACK @JessicaBlackTV]

Zlatan just called Landon Donavan an imbecile lmaooooo

[Cole Adams @coleadamss]

Going from MBappe to Haaland to Messi

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

PURE GREATNESS.

WHAT A DAY OF WORLD CUP FOOTBALL 🏆

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Tell 'em Messi still doing it 20 years later 🔥

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🌎🇦🇷 Argentina win their opening game with Lionel Messi making World Cup history! 💥

Messi hat-trick means he’s joint TOP SCORER EVER in the World Cup with 16 goals with Miro Klose.

Mbappé, Müller, Ronaldo Nazario surpassed.

[David Echeverria @davidech9]

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[Jdab @JDabz87]

Telemundo is the only way to watch the World Cup

[Underdog @Underdog]

Cabo Verde's GK had 50,000 Instagram followers before today's game against Spain.

He now has as many as Josh Allen 😮‍💨

[David Echeverria @davidech9]

What a goal

[David Echeverria @davidech9]

And you claim to know anything about sports…

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

There can’t be more than 11 people in the United States who knew what Côte d'Ivoire was before the World Cup.

[flash ⚡️ @beershotcombo]

i better not see any mexicans supporting the netherlands #noerapenal

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the Brazil, Morocco, and Netherlands press conferences, where questions in Spanish were reportedly not permitted for Hakimi, Vinícius Jr., and Frenkie de Jong:

“I have covered World Cups for years, and this situation makes absolutely no sense to me. You’re telling me a World Cup co-hosted by Mexico can stop journalists from asking questions in Spanish? That’s like hosting a Formula 1 race and banning cars from using their engines.

We saw it with Hakimi. We saw it with Vinícius. Now we’re hearing similar stories involving Frenkie de Jong. The players understood the questions. The journalists spoke one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. Yet somehow the language became the problem.

Gianni Infantino talks about inclusion, diversity, and bringing football to everyone. Fine. Then explain this contradiction. How can FIFA celebrate diversity in every promotional video and then create headlines because Spanish journalists are being told to switch languages at a tournament hosted by Mexico?

Spanish isn’t some obscure dialect spoken by a handful of people. It’s the language of hundreds of millions across the Americas and beyond. If a journalist from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, or anywhere else asks a question in Spanish and the player understands it, why is football creating barriers where none existed?

The irony is unbelievable. FIFA keeps telling us football belongs to everyone, but this controversy has many fans asking whether some voices are more welcome than others.

Maybe there’s a logistical explanation. Maybe it’s a translation issue. But perception matters. And right now the perception is terrible.

Because what fans are seeing is simple: a World Cup hosted partly by a Spanish-speaking nation, players who understand Spanish, journalists who speak Spanish, and officials telling them not to use Spanish.

If that’s progress, somebody needs to explain it better. Because from the outside, it looks like football’s governing body is tripping over its own message.”

“FIFA wanted a celebration of diversity. Instead, they’ve handed the internet a controversy that won’t stop being discussed.”

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

Today and every day.