David Barrios

[SC @somosciclon]

Gracias a Dios existe espn para disfrutar este momento pq nuestro comentarista no cerraba el culo

[Señor Fútbol Py @SrFutbolPy]

Doce años enteros soportando todo tipo de críticas. Lejos de tirar la toalla, nunca renunció con tal de cumplir su sueño: jugar una Copa del Mundo con la Selección Paraguaya.

Lo hizo, nos representó de fantástica manera y nos llenó de orgullo a absolutamente todos.

❤️🇵🇾 Gustavo Gómez. Honor y respeto, capitán.

[Expe @Expefutbol]

Cáceres se convierte en la primera orejona que tocó Kylian Mbappé.

Increíble.

[Señor Fútbol Py @SrFutbolPy]

Todo vuelve. Tranquilo.

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

Kylian Mbappé le gritó el triunfo de Francia en la cara a Orlando Gill. Después, cuando el portero de Paraguay le extendió la mano para saludarlo, el capitán francés lo dejó con la mano en el aire y lo ignoró por completo. Se calentó y se enganchó Donatello con La Albirroja.

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

— BUBISTA: "Lo primero que siento es ORGULLO por mis jugadores, por lo que hicieron. Jugaron con dignidad, con valentía. Y también una palabra de reconocimiento para nuestro oponente, Argentina, que también demostró eso y por eso son los campeones del mundo. Hicimos todo lo que pudimos con valentía y nunca perdimos nuestra identidad. Por eso estoy tan orgulloso de mis jugadores, porque hicieron un partido sin miedo. Obviamente somos un equipo sin experiencia en esta competencia. Y, a veces, la inexperiencia tiene un precio. Pero poder llegar a esta etapa del torneo y competir hasta el minuto 120 ante Argentina es para quedarnos satisfechos. Estamos orgullosos de nuestro equipo. Le agradezco de corazón al equipo por toda su dedicación. Creo que la gente de Cabo Verde también debe estar agradecida y orgullosa porque, además jugar la competencia, dimos a conocer nuestro país ante el mundo. En ese sentido, somos ganadores".

Nadie puede estar feliz después de quedar ELIMINADO de una Copa del Mundo. Sin embargo, el DT de Cabo Verde se dijo orgulloso y satisfecho por la actuación de su selección.

Compitieron a tope ante potencias futbolísticas. Fueron valientes. Jugaron de igual a igual en muchos momentos del torneo. Y, además, cumplieron con la misión de que su nación sea más conocida en todo el planeta.

A veces, perdiendo también se gana.

LA HISTORIA MÁS MÁGICA DE LA COPA DEL MUNDO.

[Sage @Sage_FCB]

🚨Pierluigi Collina on Germany's late goal being disallowed for a foul on the Paraguay goalkeeper:

🗣️ “From a refereeing perspective, the decision was correct. A goalkeeper must be given a fair opportunity to challenge for the ball, and in this situation that opportunity was clearly affected by the attacking player's position.”

“Waldemar Anton's presence directly in front of the goalkeeper restricted his movement and prevented him from attempting to play the ball. Whether the contact is heavy or minimal is not the key issue—the interference itself is enough.”

“The referee correctly identified that the goalkeeper had been impeded. Without that obstruction, he would have had a genuine chance of reaching the ball. Applying the Laws of the Game consistently, disallowing the goal was the right decision.”

[MatchReport @MatchReportH]

🚨🇵🇾 Zlatan Ibrahimović: “Paraguay Didn’t Make History—They Took It.”

“People love to talk about history, but history doesn’t protect you when the whistle blows. Germany arrived carrying four World Cups, decades of success and a reputation that intimidates almost every opponent. Paraguay didn’t care about any of that. They came to write their own chapter, and now they will be remembered as the first nation ever to eliminate Germany on penalties in a World Cup knockout match. That is not luck—that is courage.”

“Everyone expected Germany to find a way. They had the possession, they had the chances, they even thought they had found the winning goal before VAR took it away. Then came the penalty shootout, where pressure separates men from legends. Paraguay never blinked. They stood there, looked Germany in the eye and refused to surrender. That’s the mentality I respect more than anything.”

“People will spend days debating the VAR decision or the missed penalty, but football doesn’t remember excuses. It remembers winners. Paraguay didn’t ask for sympathy, they didn’t ask anyone to believe in them. They earned everything with discipline, sacrifice and absolute belief. Every tackle, every block, every save and every penalty carried the weight of a nation that refused to accept defeat.”

“I also have to give enormous credit to Orlando Gill. Goalkeepers dream of nights like this. He gave his defenders confidence, frustrated Germany for 120 minutes and then became even bigger in the shootout. Those are performances that change careers forever. The entire back line defended like warriors because they trusted the man behind them.”

“This victory is bigger than reaching the next round. Generations of Paraguayan players will grow up knowing that this team achieved something no other country had ever done. They stood on the biggest stage in football and defeated Germany in a World Cup penalty shootout. That record belongs to Paraguay forever. Nobody can erase it.”

“Germany will recover because great football nations always do. But tonight belongs to Paraguay. They didn’t beat Germany with fear, they beat them with belief. And when a small football nation believes harder than a giant, history changes. That’s exactly what happened tonight.”

#GERPAR

[Tiago ⓟ @tiagosepz]

ISSO É PELO MUNDIAL DE 2022 DESGRAÇADO

[IVAN ALEXIS @ivan_alexispy]

12/8. Este sabía cositas.

[SportsCenter @SC_ESPN]

¡VOS! ¡EL DEFENSOR DE LANÚS! Canale engañó a Neuer y marcó el penal con el que Paraguay cazó la utopía imposible, tachó a Alemania y clasificó a 8° de final del Mundial.

⚽ #ESPNMundial
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[LACOBRAAA @lautarodeIcampo]

Paraguay elimina a Alemania de la Copa del Mundo. Se convierte en la primera selección sudamericana sacando a Brasil y Argentina que le gana un mano a mano mundialista. Además jamás Alemania habia perdido una tanda de penales en 100 años. Felicitaciones Guaraníes!

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

Alemania NUNCA había perdido una tanda de penales en la Copa del Mundo. Nunca. Hoy fue la primera vez. Y nada habría sido posible sin ÉL. Don Orlando Gill hizo lo NUNCA ANTES VISTO en el torneo más importante que existe. Así se construyen los ídolos. Así nacen las leyendas. El nuevo héroe de Paraguay. LA PESADILLA DE ALEMANIA.

[Terreno Viral @terrenoviral]

Davoo Xeneize, muy crítico con los europeos que subestiman el nivel de Sudamérica.

“Hoy no festeja Paraguay, festeja Sudamérica. Este aplauso es del pueblo sudamericano, que está recontra de pie en este Mundial que fue subestimado por todos los europeos, que son eurocentristas, que nos quieren hacer creer que el fútbol solamente importa en Europa, que la Eurocopa es más que el Mundial, que es más competitiva. Ahora van a quejarse de cómo juega Paraguay. Todos los que subestiman a Sudamérica la tienen bien adentro, porque son irrespetuosos con Sudamérica.”

“Le faltan al respeto constantemente a nuestro continente. Un continente que tiene el último campeón del mundo, el primer campeón del mundo, y la selección que más veces ha ganado el Mundial, y aun así tienen el tupé de criticarlo, de bajarle el precio y de creer que solamente en Europa se juega bien al fútbol. Bueno, si solamente en Europa se juega bien al fútbol, explíquenme por qué demonios Alemania, la 4 veces campeona del mundo y candidata como siempre lo es, no puede contra Paraguay ni contra Ecuador.”

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️New: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering rule:

“Almirón gets a red. Bellingham gets nothing. Same rule, different treatment”:

“I don’t understand football anymore. FIFA tells us there is a new rule: cover your mouth during a confrontation and you can be sent off. Fine. A rule is a rule. But when the same World Cup gives us two similar situations and only one player pays the price, people are going to ask questions.

“I don’t understand football anymore. FIFA tells us there is a new rule: cover your mouth during a confrontation and you can be sent off. Fine. A rule is a rule. But when the same World Cup gives us two similar situations and only one player pays the price, people are going to ask questions.

When the law is a spider’s web, the small flies get trapped while the big ones tear straight through it. Every new football rule is sold as justice, but justice that changes shirts depending on who wears it stops looking like justice at all.

Football fans are not blind. They see a Real Madrid superstar and England’s golden boy getting the benefit of every doubt, while smaller nations get punished before they can even explain themselves. The badge on your chest should not be a shield against the laws of the game.

And please don’t tell me VAR sees everything. VAR can spot a blade of grass being offside from 50 cameras, but suddenly develops tunnel vision when certain players are involved. It’s amazing how technology becomes a microscope for some teams and a blindfold for others.

The danger isn’t the red card. The danger is the message. If supporters start believing that England, Europe, and football’s biggest brands play by a different set of rules, then trust in the competition starts collapsing like a house built on sand.

Football was supposed to be the world’s game. Now many fans feel it’s becoming a VIP club. The stars sit in first class while everyone else is told to follow the rules from economy.

If the gesture deserves a red card, then give it every time. If it doesn’t, then stop pretending. Because selective justice is the quickest way to kill fair play. And when fair play dies, football becomes nothing more than a blockbuster movie where the ending is already protected.”

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️NEW: Thierry Henry on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey:

“I understand why football wants to fight discrimination. Nobody disagrees with that. But when you start handing out straight red cards because a player covered his mouth while speaking, you’ve crossed into dangerous territory.

“This is exactly what I feared football was becoming, a game played by robots, policed by suits who’ve never felt the heat of a tackle or the fire of a 50-50. Miguel Almirón gets sent off for covering his mouth? In a World Cup? FIFA calls it progress. I call it the slow death of the sport we love.

Football was built on emotion, confrontation, mind games, personality. Now we’re acting as if every private word exchanged on a pitch is a matter for a courtroom investigation. The game is starting to feel less like football and more like a surveillance project.

The Miguel Almirón incident is exactly why people are uncomfortable. We don’t even know what was said, yet the punishment arrives before the evidence. Since when did covering your mouth become a crime worthy of expulsion? If that’s the standard, we’re no longer judging actions—we’re judging suspicion.

What worries me most is the precedent. Today it’s covering your mouth. Tomorrow what is it? A sarcastic comment? A heated argument? Football has always been a pressure cooker. If you remove every ounce of fire, don’t be surprised when the sport loses part of its soul.

And let’s be honest, would the legends of previous generations survive in this environment? Maradona, Keane, Pepe, half the icons people celebrate today would spend more time explaining themselves to officials than actually playing. The game that once rewarded personality now seems obsessed with policing it.

The irony is that football claims to want authenticity, yet it keeps creating rules that encourage players to become robots. Fans don’t fall in love with robots. They fall in love with characters, rivalries, passion and drama.

This rule may have been created with good intentions, but good intentions don’t automatically make good rules. Right now, it feels like football is trying to put a lid on a boiling pot instead of understanding why it boils in the first place.”

[Nuel @LfcNuel]

🚨🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimović Reacts to the World Cup Drama between Turkey and Paraguay:

On the new "Vinícius Law" and Miguel Almirón's red card:

🗣️ "They are calling it the 'Vinícius Law', sending players to the dressing room just for putting a shirt over their mouth during an argument. When Zlatan played, defenders covered their mouths because they were terrified I would eat them alive! Now, the referees and IFAB are trying to police words they cannot even hear. If an opponent provokes you, you do not need an official in an office in Canada to protect you with a new rule. You put the ball in the top corner and make them quiet. That is the real punishment."

On Paraguay's heroic 10-man performance:

🗣️ "Everyone is crying about the referee and the monitor, but they are completely missing the real miracle. Paraguay loses Miguel Almirón in the third minute of first-half stoppage time because of this ridiculous rule. They have to play the entire second half with 10 men against a Turkish team full of talent. Did they give up? No. They defended like absolute lions. You can create all the modern regulations you want, but you cannot legislate heart. A lion with a disadvantage is still a lion, and Paraguay showed the world what it means to be a warrior."

On the early goal and Turkey's elimination:

🗣️ "You have to respect what Paraguay did from the first whistle. Julio Enciso makes a play, Matías Galarza scores in the second minute, and then they decide they will die on the pitch before they surrender that lead. Turkey had a whole half to break down 10 men and couldn't do it, and now they are flying home. Tactics are for philosophers; surviving a World Cup match against all odds is for men. Today, Paraguay was a team of 10 men with the spirit of 100."