Lina T

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[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

@zhennydez @sharedalbums @teenychairs @dylan522p @santiaghini @ypatil125 @ginkoid @cocohearts @silasalberti @premqnair @ypatil125 thought sundays were for working on imo problems🌝🌝

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

someone get didier deschamps access to sol 5.6 or fable pls 😭😭😭

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

y lo más triste es que ya no habrán más partidos :(

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

it was a beautiful shot 🇺🇸 🇧🇦 the US just needs better chants

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

south americans will play anyone n will play to win

cant stop thinking about norway leaving their whole main team on the bench cuz they thought they couldnt beat france… u might as well just go home

we’ll take on portugal n germany no prob

aguante al futbol sudaka

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

european football has spent the past fifteen years solving futbol like chess.

a generation of coaches optimized for pass completion, pressing triggers, territorial control, rest defense, and positional occupation.

the problem of this is that they optimize for what is measurable. depth, the willingness to attack space early, attempt the difficult pass, dribble past a defender, or deliberately create chaos, is a high variance play. it fails more often than it succeeds. if you evaluate players by completion rate, ball retention, or positional discipline, those actions look like mistakes. so they get coached out. eventually, everyone converges toward the same local optimum.

the game becomes increasingly legible. every team occupies similar spaces, presses in similar ways, builds from the back with similar patterns, and minimizes the same risks. systems become better at defeating other systems, but worse at dealing with players who refuse to behave like systems.

south american football never fully abandoned the duel as the fundamental unit of the game. the 1v1 remained sacred. so did the tactical foul, the unpredictable dribble, and the player willing to lose possession five times if the sixth breaks the match open. the objective was never simply to preserve structure, it was to create someone capable of destroying the opponent’s structure.

football is not won by completing the most passes. it is won by scoring more goals than the other team. those are related, but they are not the same objective.

this is the danger of optimizing proxies. when everyone optimizes the same measurements, they stop optimizing for victory itself. they optimize for looking efficient.

italy may have been the first major european football culture to lose part of its identity this way. its historical advantage was never athletic superiority or perfect positional play. it was tactical asymmetry, unpredictability, and an instinct for making matches uncomfortable. as italian football converged toward the same coaching model as the rest of europe, it gradually surrendered the qualities that had made it different.

the broader lesson extends well beyond football. every optimization process eventually risks becoming self-defeating. metrics become targets. proxies replace objectives. variance is mistaken for error. the outliers capable of breaking the system disappear because the system itself learns to eliminate them.

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

Ojala se sigan eliminando todos esos equipos de “clase mundial”… si son tan buenos pq no ganan y ya…

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

Love being wrong about the matches… so exciting

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

Someone get the french some ACs

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

19h à paris en pleine canicule

all blinds shut to keep the 40° out

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

@nazzzsoltan @santiaghini @nazzzsoltan gotchu

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

In this household, we don’t miss a single match @santiaghini

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

la canicule à paris était tellement violente que j’ai fini par regarder colombie rd congo à 4h du mat … il faisait 40C dans mon appart

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

two friends on opposite sofas, lights off, blinds down, three fans on, no words… just girls surviving la canicule à paris

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

There’s a 22x difference in market value between Spain’s team and Cape Verde’s… 😮‍💨🫪😛

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

may u go to dinner … get a couple of book recs … and hopefully some great butter 😌

[your host, alicia @sharedalbums]

FM21: San Francisco

@gregginzdorman
@notawizard
@lina_sofia_
@eleonorapinto
@santiaghini
@jaredrosnerd
@prathiknaidu
@johnohallman
@bykarenchan
@kushal1t
@will__ye

[RevenBoy @XpJuly]

@anapau_villa El idioma del futbol es el español

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

Que bonito que es ver buen futbol 😌😌😌😌🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

Meta had to sponsor the ref cam

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

Los Cafeteros 🇨🇴

Colombian illustrator Elizabeth Builes crafted a poster that conveys how the soccer field becomes a setting for leisure, for dialogue, and a direct bridge to childhood.

[Lina T @lina_sofia_]

startups really do underestimate the importance of company culture