"Find something you love to do, do it every day. Be obsessed; balance can come later. You'll never be more alive than when you give something everything that you have"
Coming into the tournament the question was about defending and no doubt that was exposed tonight.
Possession at the highest level is still something the USMNT desperately need to improve upon. Sloppy mistakes and simple fundamentals at the highest level will be exposed.
Here we are.
It’s really hard to understand this. “The fate of your entire country is on the line and they trust you to make the difference” is the stuff of childhood dreams. Anyone with even an ounce of competitive spirit leaps at that opportunity.
The longest time EVER between a player's first and latest World Cup goal:
-Ronaldo: 20 years and 11 days
-Messi: 20 years and 11 days
We'll never see anything like this ever again 🐐🐐
The mistake is thinking that the World Cup is about soccer. It’s not. It’s about gathering a collection of the world’s greatest binge drinking goofballs and giving them a month to show us all their best.
Andoni Iraola got asked by @GuillemBalague on where football is going. This is his response:
“Players do not demand freedom; they demand structure from their coaches. It is from that structure that they feel free and can make their own decisions.
“As coaches, we cannot arrive somewhere and tell everyone: ‘Do whatever you want. Take the ball wherever you want.’ If you did that, after 30 minutes they would be angry with us. They want us to show them the way. They demand organisation, information, different options, and thorough preparation for every game.
“They are asking us to study a lot. Our job is to put the player in the best possible scenario to shine.
“With that preparation in their armour, they can then make informed decisions and make the difference on the pitch.
“There are different styles and different ways to play, but all of them require structure, study, thought and hard work.”
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from:
• getting humiliated
• showing up terrified and doing it anyway
• admitting you might be the problem
Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country."
An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️
The funniest thing I’ve seen from Thunder fans defending this is “he only shot three free throws!”
As if that makes this any less pitiful to watch. Best player in the world, flailing like he got shot, a dozen times in every single game he plays in.
Call me old fashioned, but I think the soon to be 2x MVP should drive to the basket with the intent to score instead of driving to the basket with the intent to trick the ref.