American broadcasters keep cutting to celebrities in the crowds and the UK commentators just go silent every time.
WE. DO. NOT. CARE.
No-one wants your horrible commercial culture to destroy football. This tournament is bad enough.
📺 Telemundo TV commentator: "We are one of the only networks in the world to NOT show ads during the World Cup cooling breaks."
"We prefer the old school way. We should be able to see what the players do. We show fans, people enjoying, not the corporate direction of football."
Est-ce qu’on a appelé au boycott de cette coupe du monde ? Est-ce que les joueurs Allemands vont mettre la main sur la bouche comme au Qatar ?
Ou les Etats-Unis "c’est pas pareil" ?
Iraq national team player Aymen Hussein was detained and questioned by U.S. authorities for seven hours at Chicago Airport.
This disgrace is on you, @FIFAcom.
Iran’s soccer team and “necessary support” staff have been issued visas ahead of the World Cup but Donald Trump’s government “will not allow them to to abuse this system to sneak terrorists into the United States”, an administration official has said.
The national team has faced months of uncertainty over travel and security arrangements for the tournament since the war began on February 28, when the U.S and Israel targeted Iran with military strikes.
Full story from @AdamCrafton_ here ⬇️
🔗 https://t.co/w7u390r3eD
🚨🇮🇷 NEW: Iran's World Cup squad has been notified they must enter and leave US soil on the same day of their matches played in the United States
All of Iran’s group stage games are in the US
- 15th June - 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 21st June - 🇧🇪 Belgium
- 26th June - 🇪🇬 Egypt
When this World Cup is done, I hope countries like Iran, Iraq, and other countries, whose squads, delegations, or supporters have been subjected to discriminatory and demeaning accreditation processes by the US actually press for compensation from FIFA. Shambolic all round.
Les joueurs iraniens 🇮🇷 ont enfin leur visa pour les Etats-Unis
Ils ont été réalisés à l'ambassade américaine de Turquie avec une grande insistance/lobbying de la FIFA auprès de Washington pour éviter un (nouveau) scandale
Cependant, l'équipe nationale aura son camp de base au Mexique vu que les Etats-Unis refusent qu'elle reste plus d'un certain laps de temps sur leur sol (même si les rencontres iraniennes se joueront aux USA, ils doivent repartir au Mexique rapidement après)
the academic urge to read a paper and open 23 tabs of cited articles in that paper and then not read a single one of them for 2-3 weeks, and having to nurse the open tabs and never shut down my laptop because I'll definitely get to them the next day.