David Gutierrez

[ᜰ 🇦🇷🇯🇵 @markklfc]

Vladimir Petković on Lionel Messi’s masterclass against Algeria in Argentina’s World Cup opener:

🗣️ “We came into this match with a plan, with discipline, with belief… but sometimes football puts you against a player who can destroy even the best preparation with a single touch of the ball.”

“What Lionel Messi produced tonight was not just a great performance, it was a football lesson delivered by one of the greatest minds and talents this sport has ever seen.”

“You tell your players to stay compact, stay focused, don't give him space… and then somehow he still finds a way to create magic where there should be none.”

“The most frustrating thing is that you can actually do many things right defensively and still end up suffering because he sees passes, movements, and opportunities that nobody else on the pitch can see.”

“At 38 years old, most players are talking about retirement, managing minutes, or slowing down. Messi is still deciding World Cup matches, breaking records, and making elite defenders look helpless.”

“I looked at my bench after his third goal and there was almost disbelief on everyone's face. Not because we were losing, but because we were witnessing something special that may never happen again.”

“People will talk about the hat-trick, the records, and the statistics, but what impressed me most was the authority. He controlled the match as if the game itself was moving at his pace.”

“I have coached against great players in my career, but tonight felt different. Tonight felt like football history stopping for ninety minutes to remind the world exactly who Lionel Messi is.”

[Beto González @betogonzalezm_]

Lionel Andrés Messi. Mira que jugar tu sexto Mundial es algo casi inigualable para las siguientes generaciones, pero entrar a él con un hat trick y empatar el récord histórico de goles es mítico.

Acabamos de vivir un momento histórico de las Copas del Mundo, del deporte mismo.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

What Ayyoub Bouaddi is doing might genuinely be the performance of the World Cup so far.

How do you even turn up to your first World Cup at 18, against Brazil, and play like this on your debut…

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

When you eat Mexican food, your brain releases endorphins and dopamine. Capsaicin, the compound in chili peppers, binds to pain receptors in your mouth. Your brain reads this as a threat and counters with feel-good chemicals. The burn in a good salsa triggers the same pathway as a runner's high.

This is all happening on top of a food tradition more than 3,000 years in the making. The tortilla in a chicharron taco exists because of nixtamalization, a process Mesoamerican cooks developed roughly 3,200 years ago. Corn kernels are soaked in lime water, which releases niacin, a B vitamin that corn otherwise locks away in an indigestible form. Without this step, corn-heavy diets cause pellagra, a B-vitamin deficiency that killed around 7,000 Americans per year at its peak in the early 20th century. Southern sharecroppers were eating corn without the process Mexico had preserved for three millennia.

In 2010, the UN added Mexican cuisine to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, the first year any national food culture had ever qualified. The application covered seed preservation, farming customs, ritual preparation, and thousands of years of cooking knowledge passed through communities.

The diversity inside that designation is hard to picture. Mexico has 59 varieties of heirloom corn, more than 60 distinct chili pepper types, and 32 states with cuisines different enough that Oaxacan mole negro (a dark sauce from dried chili and chocolate) and Yucatecan cochinita pibil (slow-roasted pork in a smoky red spice paste) share almost no ingredients. Oaxaca alone has more than 20 types of mole. Mole poblano uses more than 20 ingredients, including several chili varieties, dark chocolate, and cinnamon, in a single sauce.

Chicharron fires three systems at once. Fat carries flavor deep into the palate. The crunch comes from pork skin dried, then dropped in 375-degree oil. The trapped moisture turns to steam, puffs the skin, and produces thousands of flavor compounds through the same browning chemistry that makes coffee and seared meat smell incredible. Then the salsa lands capsaicin on top of everything and the dopamine kicks in.

The "best food ever" reaction has a chemical basis. You are tasting dopamine from capsaicin, browning chemistry from pork fat at high heat, and a tortilla built on a process 3,200 years old. These flavors were engineered to do exactly this.

[Wolves @Wolves]

There’s something that the Wolves want you to know… ✍️

[Club América @ClubAmerica]

De Jonathan dos Santos, para toda nuestra afición. ✍️🥹

Por siempre Águila. 🦅
#GrandesDeCorazón #CorazónDeCampeón

[#PorLasQueMueres⚽️ @Salcedo_Hugo]

Aquella inolvidable reacción en una escuela de Ciudad de México al penal atajado por Ochoa a Lewandoski en el mundial 2022! 👏🏻😎🤙🏻

[Roberto Haz @tudimebeto]

No mames cómo se rompe André Jardine cuando escucha a sus jugadores despidiéndose de él y al final dice que esto vale más que los títulos😭💛

Álvaro Fidalgo diciéndole que fue como un padre para todos ellos, estoy devastado💔

[ًًً @_captainpulisic]

stopp 😭

[Marlon @MarlonVPer]

Voy a ver absolutamente todos los partidos del mundial y luego voy a ver los resúmenes de los partidos que ya vi

[Julio Rodríguez @julioordz10]

Se dice fácil, pero no lo es:

- Tricampeonato de Liga MX venciendo a Tigres, Cruz Azul y Rayados
- 161 partidos dirigidos (80 victorias, 47 empates y 34 derrotas)
- 59% de efectividad
- Llegó a cuatro finales al hilo
- Avanzó a la liguilla en 6/6 torneos

Histórico, André.🔝🇧🇷

[Roberto Haz @tudimebeto]

André Jardine dice que solo es el cierre de su primera etapa en el América y que sueña con una segunda en un futuro para volver🥹💛

Y dice que dirigirá en otra liga porque no quiere dirigir en México a otro equipo✨🦅

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 Andoni Iraola, set to become the next Liverpool manager as revealed earlier today!

The negotiations will move forward quickly to get it done with formal steps but #LFC decision made…

…Iraola will be the next manager. 🛑🔜

[Favian Renkel @FavianRenkel]

Just finished doing a career fair at a middle school in Pasco, Washington, and I asked the kids who their favorite player was. One name I kept hearing was Alejandro Zendejas.

It reminded me that for so many Mexican American kids on the West Coast, Liga MX is more than soccer. It’s what they grew up watching with their families. It’s the connection to their culture and their parents.

That’s why I’m excited to see what Zendejas can do with the USMNT at the World Cup. There are going to be thousands of kids watching him and seeing a piece of themselves out there on that stage.

#USMNT #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #LigaMX #WorldCup2026

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Mo Salah. 👋🏼🥺

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

¡¡EL ADIÓS DEL FARAÓN!! El día llegó, señoras y señores. Después de ¡¡257 GOLES, 120 ASISTENCIAS Y 9 TÍTULOS!! en 442 partidos como jugador del Liverpool, Mohamed Salah vivió su última tarde de fútbol en Anfield. La leyenda de Egipto no pudo contener las lágrimas mientras la afición red lo ovacionaba. Y sí, antes de marcharse, le dio un ÚLTIMO BESO al césped de la que SIEMPRE será su casa. Qué momento. Qué secuencia. La despedida de uno de los mejores futbolistas en toda la historia del Liverpool. El adiós de una LEYENDA TOTAL DEL FÚTBOL MUNDIAL.

[All Fútbol MX 🇲🇽 @AllFutbolMX]

🚨🤯 OFFICIAL: Club America Femenil beats Washington Spirit 5-3 and becomes the first-ever Mexican club to win the Women’s CONCACAF Champions Cup! 🏆

They cap off a HISTORIC year by winning BOTH the domestic league and the international title! 🦅