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[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Fabregas on Spain advancing to the World Cup final:

“I’ll keep saying it: one of the best ways to defend is to keep the ball. Your opponent can’t create many chances if they spend most of the game trying to get possession back. That’s exactly what Spain did.

Look at Porro’s goal. He passes to Olmo, keeps moving, gets the return and finishes before France can react. No unnecessary touches, no waiting for someone to dribble through three players. Just pass, move and pass again.

France brought the athletes. Spain brought the ball… and refused to share it.”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ro Khanna: “The IDF is lying. What happened was unprecedented. They had violent settlers detain American citizens including an American government official. You had these settlers brandishing M4s, kicking the tires of our van, laughing at us, mocking at us, videotaping us. We were detained for about 20 minutes, fearful for our lives. How dare they mistreat people with an American passport that way”

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

The USA has no universal healthcare, but it does have 49 billionaires who made their wealth from private healthcare.
Connect the dots, folks.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

MUST READ!

Congressman @RoKhanna after visiting Israel and Palestine:

“In Palestine, I felt first as someone who was brown,” he said. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality.”

He added: “No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here.”

https://t.co/PRor7hF8ux

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine.

When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention.

They made a huge mistake.

You will be hearing more soon. https://t.co/rZw8bRAn64

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Do you know why the establishment is refusing to acknowledge that Mitch McConnell can't function anymore? Because if he's declared unfit for office before August 3rd, they'd have to have a special election. And @RepThomasMassie could run in it. Israeli lobby will not allow it.

[Persian Girl @Persianserene1]

For those who don't know what is happening:

The US violated the MoU by opening another shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz from the Omani side

According to the MoU, the shipping lanes in the strait should remain under Iran’s control, which means what America did was a violation of the MoU

Iran then targeted ships that tried to pass through the Omani side

The US responded by attacking Iran and later announced that the MoU and the ceasefire were over

Now Iran is attacking US military bases across the region

One thing to keep in mind is that the Strait of Hormuz is one of Iran’s main strategic leverage points, and Iran says it will not allow the US to take control of it under any circumstances

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

LIONEL SCALONI: “Mi papá venía de manejar 10 horas un camión lleno de piedras, y aún así se bajaba y me decía: ‘Vamos a entrenar, no hay tiempo que perder’.”

Tenía 13 años y vivía en Pujato, un pueblo donde nadie hablaba de Mundiales, pero yo soñaba con uno. Mi cancha era un garaje. Mi camiseta, la de Argentina, aunque jugara en Newell’s. Mi viejo no descansaba. Me llevaba a entrenar, me esperaba, y volvía a trabajar. Él tenía más hambre de fútbol que yo.

A los 17 debuté como profesional. A los 29, fui al Mundial. A los 44, gané uno como entrenador. Y ese día, cuando Montiel metió el penal, no pensé en la copa. Pensé en mi viejo, en el garaje, en ese niño que viajaba a dedo para perseguir un sueño.

Desde que ganamos, no recuerdo haber pagado una comida en Argentina. La gente me abraza, llora y me dice: “Nos hiciste felices.” Y cada vez que lo escucho, me repito algo: valió la pena, cada kilómetro, cada piedra, cada entrenamiento a oscuras."

[.🇳🇴 @Ndiayee0]

Pourquoi Messi aime humilier les gardiens ?

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The most successful trick the elites ever pulled was making "Poor" a personality flaw instead of a systemic result. We live in a world where a guy who inherited $100M calls a teacher "lazy" because they can't afford rent. And half of you believe him.

[Harrison Lee @HarrisonCLee]

Thierry and Zlatan saying they wouldn't have become soccer players because of the costs of the American youth system, then seeing Lalas say it's a great system because it makes a lot of money for some people really sums it all up nicely

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

2:00 PM: 🇺🇸 U.S. judge ordered the DOJ to unredact Jeffrey Epstein files which name alleged co-conspirators.

5:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump REJECTED Court order to hand over redacted Epstein files.

8:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump began bombing Iran. The war restarted.

You connect the dots.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

We are back to bombing Iran during the ceasefire for the Iran war that is not a war because Iran bombed a vessel for crossing the Strait of Hormuz that they don’t control yet apparently control.
Not sure how they bombed the vessel because we have totally and completely obliterated their military and beat them in the war that is not a war like 40 times now.
I’m so glad that Trump ran for president to end forever foreign wars otherwise I might start thinking this war that is not a war that we won like 40 times is starting to turn into another forever foreign war in the Middle East.
Good thing Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Department of Defense, I mean War, is headed to Israel to take orders from, I mean ask for advice, on how to totally wipe out Iran, I mean bring peace.
I’m totally sure no one in the executive branch or donors will do any sort of insider trading based on super duper secret military decisions.
You know the kind based on intelligence that Congress is going to fuse with Israel’s military after they all vote to pass the National Defense (war) Authorization Act.
Because this is exactly what we all voted for when we said Make America Great Again.

[Etan @EtanBoss]

Landon Donovan says America is missing soccer talent because kids can’t afford to play.

“Only 2% of kids playing organized soccer in America came from households that made less than $50,000.”

“If you don’t make $50,000, your kid cannot play organized soccer.”

“Think about how many kids you’re missing out on in this country because they can’t afford to play the game.”

“There is zero chance I could have played club soccer.”

“My mom made $34,000 a year, single mom raising three kids.”

“She couldn’t pay $4,000 for me to play club. Are you kidding? She couldn’t pay $400.”

“That’s not a good system to create good players.”

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Lionel Messi on why he broke down in tears after Argentina’s victory over Egypt:

🗣️ “People saw me crying and probably thought they were tears of happiness. The truth is… they were much more than that.

When the final whistle blew, every emotion I had been carrying for years came crashing down at once. The pressure, the expectations, the fear of letting my country down it all exploded inside me. There are moments in football when your heart simply cannot hold everything anymore.

After missing the penalty, I felt like I had failed my teammates, my family, and every Argentine who believed in me. I couldn’t stop replaying that moment in my head. I kept asking myself, ‘What if that miss costs us everything?’ Those were the longest minutes I’ve ever lived on a football pitch.

My teammates never stopped believing in me. They kept telling me to lift my head, to keep fighting, and they gave everything to turn the match around. Watching them sacrifice for me made the final whistle even more emotional because I knew I wasn’t carrying this dream alone.

When I looked into the stands and saw my family crying, I completely lost control of my emotions. They have lived every criticism with me, every defeat, every sleepless night, every sacrifice that nobody sees. Those tears were for them as much as they were for Argentina.

People only see ninety minutes on the pitch. They don’t see the years of pain, the sacrifices, the injuries, the doubts, or the fear that every World Cup could be your last. At this stage of my career, you understand that every match could be the final chapter of a lifetime’s dream.

I cried because I realized how close football can bring you to losing everything you’ve worked for. One moment can change history forever. Tonight, we survived, but emotionally it felt like I had lived an entire lifetime in just one match.

These were not tears of weakness. They were tears of relief, gratitude, love for my teammates, and love for my country. I will never forget this night for as long as I live.”

[Max Argento 🇦🇷 @MaxArgento33]

Este video es increíble, Giralt gritando el gol y en el fondo Tevez, el Kun y el Pollo Vignolo

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