Georgios Giannaros

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

📍 World Cup 1986
🏟️ Argentina vs. England
🇦🇷 The Maradona Show

[𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐨 @Varticoo]

Mbappe might just unlocked a new diving technique.

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump

[elmaestro @Dallotelli]

Infantino ist der dreckigste und korrupteste Bastard den dieser Sport jemals gesehen hat

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Just to be clear, then. FIFA:

1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA

2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like

Smashing. All know where we stand

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

The Balogun decision is one of the biggest own goals by organisers I’ve seen in the 10 World Cups I’ve covered.

[Josip @l3d1c]

🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor.

FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise.

Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament.

An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup.

And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything.

Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom!

Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?

[Osagie Alonge @OsaGz]

June 29, 2000: Patrick Kluivert misses a PK against Italy, hitting the left upright.

June 29, 2026: Justin Kluivert misses a PK against Morocco, hitting the left upright.

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

💦 Marcelo Bielsa speaking 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 about the hydration breaks:

🗣️ Bielsa: "Playing matches in four quarters instead of two halves completely changes that cultural understanding we have of football."

This change of culture does ⁠not add anything and takes away a lot. I will just say that before this decision, football had ​a characteristic, now it has another.

People fall in love with the game because of its characteristics. Of course technology ​like VAR, we commend it and value it.

Technology offers more opportunities. There is another intention for the breaks and the conclusions I'm making here are not really my own. I also echo what I hear as well."

[90Mins @90MinsHub]

68' - ELANGA WHAT WAS THATTTT!!! NASTY!!!

#WORLDCUP #FIFAWORLDCUP

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🇧🇷 Neymar was handing out instructions to Vinícius Júnior and Bruno Guimarães in the hydration break and it looks like they couldn't care less that he's there.

Like a drunk old man in the pub giving advice to anyone who'll listen.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: UEFA have announced Somali referee Omar Artan will take charge of the 2026 Super Cup Final between Aston Villa and PSG in Salzburg.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Soccer would not exist without immigrants. Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men's National Team are immigrants.

We will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow fear in our communities — especially at this moment. As the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Eight riders were stranded nearly 100 feet in the air on Thursday evening after a roller coaster in Texas stopped during its vertical climb. https://t.co/8kJlCRsraR

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City and a long-time supporter of Arsenal, writes about what it means to see Arsenal win the Premier League trophy and his hopes for Saturday’s Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain. https://t.co/f4joA3i5sT

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: A judge ordered the Kennedy Center to remove President Trump’s name, ruling that it had been added unlawfully. https://t.co/riDNdkYmwL

[NBA @NBA]

Hard work translates to the next level 💯

Jalen Brunson (29 PPG, 8.7 APG, 1.3 SPG for the ECF) developed a disciplined training routine from his dad & former NBA player Rick Brunson in order to help him get to the next level.

Now his assistant coach on the Knicks, Jalen and Rick Brunson look to lead the Knicks to their first NBA Finals since 1999!

NYK (3-0) CLE, Game 4: Tonight, 8pm/et on ESPN

[NBA History @NBAHistory]

On this day in 1997...

Eddie Johnson followed up a 31-PT performance in Game 3 with this buzzer-beater to win Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals!

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.