Cape Verde was a great story. Truly great. But 2 weeks after, football doesn't give a fuck, less so after 1, 2 or 4 years.
If Mauritius, Mozambique, Mali do the same, great, but for 99% of fans, 99% of the time, across the world, nobody cares.
If France, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal boycott a World Cup, it's automatically invalid. It's just the truth.
Likewise, a club World Cup without any of Europe's top 25 clubs is invalid. Nobody is watching Inter Miami v Boca Juniors except in markets that simply don't generate revenue or global interest.
UEFA should immediately take over global law making ( UEFA replace FIFA 4 votes in a new IFAB with the 4 home nations continuing holding the other 4 votes).
Europe has paid football's bills for 150 years. It does not need to vote for a man in an island of 100,000 to hold the game to random because FIFA are giving him 20 mil.
I'm half English, half Barbadian. One has paid its football dues, the other hasn't, so the other cannot and must not hold the balance of power.
When two thirds of football nations fill their stadiums, support grassroots football, create a pyramid, have women's teams, find kids, then their vote is equal to a European powerhouse.
Not a day before.
Time for UEFA to secede from FIFA
FIFA needs UEFA. UEFA doesn't need FIFA.
The DFB needs to look beyond the personalities at the senior level and do a root-to-branch overhaul of their youth programs. Since 2014 they have been bypassed by France, England, and Spain. The traditional strengths of defending and developing strikers have been abandoned.
If you are actually sitting there as a grown man criticizing and hating on a young lad who has just come back from a devastating injury both mentally and physically less than a year ago, have a look in the mirror.
Yes, Musiala isn’t back to 100%. But blaming him is so cringe.
ja das tor muss zählen ja elfmeterschießen unglücklich aber über 120 minuten gegen paraguay nur ein tor machen da hast es auch nicht anders verdient. hoffentlich ist nagelsmann morgen geschichte
WM-Aus gegen Paraguay, wieder nicht im Achtelfinale. Genauso peinlich wie 2018 und 2022. Andere spielen mit voller Begeisterung für ihr Land, entwickeln sich weiter. In Deutschland dagegen Stillstand oder gar Rückschritte. Ein Team als Symbolbild eines Landes. #WM2026#DFBTeam
Gegen den Ball katastrophal mit dem Ball entstehend kaum Feuer in der Offensive tut mir leid aber nach der WM wäre ein Neuanfang dann die richtige Entscheidung.
Boomer vor dem Fernseher: Keiner braucht Pyro, keiner im Stadion feiert das ausser euch Selbstdarstellern
Währenddessen 90% im Stadion mit Handy in der Hand und es Filmen weil sie es so kacke finden
Für Phonzy muss es wahrscheinlich vom Kopf her die schlimmste Saison sein die er jemals erlebt hat.
Und nun kommen einige darauf wegen muskelverletzungen die bei vielen völlig normal sind nach nem Kreuzer ihn verkaufen zu wollen? Fangt mal bitte an verletzten vertrauen zu geben.
With new fullbacks and backups in the right places to bolster the squad, I have full faith we can go even further in next year’s UCL.
But it starts from the top, and I won’t tolerate a second of Uli’s apple pie nonsense. Give Kompany whatever he wants and reap the benefits.
To be clear: The open spaces in this game, the massive amounts of counter-attacks, this is not a flaw of the teams, it can not be improved much.
It is by design. It shows the risks you have to take to avoid being dominated and destroyed from a team that's great in attack.