Mark Axon

South African Youth Soccer Coach. Frisco Fusion Soccer - Coaching, living & enjoying life in Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas! #YNWA

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

No fear.

[Mark Axon @markaxon]

@JAdairSoccer Congrats mate!! Impressive!! ⚽️⚽️

[The Overlap @WeAreTheOverlap]

"Do your job!" 🗣️

Bill Belichick said it. Roy Keane loves it. 🤝 😂

[ًًً @_captainpulisic]

it’s literally soccer and golf and absolutely no in between for them

[Paul Spacey ⚽️ @PaulSpacey]

The biggest failure in American soccer is how we think about athleticism.

We chase bigger, faster, and stronger like it’s the main goal.

🧵

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

THE STARS IN STRIPES! 🇺🇸

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Stay the course to the summit. 🏔️

[The Dan Le Batard Show @LeBatardShow]

Every four years, we all speak the same language

[The Ryen Russillo Show @TheRyenRussillo]

Can we stop assuming NBA and NFL players would be good at soccer?

@DraftKings #DKPartner

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

The World Cup is reminding me there is still love in the world!

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Everyone bout to find out

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

The most successful political scam in modern history is convincing people that our future depends on separating ourselves by race.

We have race-based caucuses, race-based programs, race-based holidays, race-based activism, and race-based grievance politics.

And somehow we’re supposed to believe this makes us less divided.

The answer to racism isn’t more racial categories. It’s teaching every American that our history belongs to all of us.

Stop dividing us into tribes.

Stop treating race as the most important thing about a person.

And start celebrating what actually matters: We’re all Americans first.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Day - 13
Miles driven - 2,888
States - 6

[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

This quote from the Argentinian Ambassador to the United States is incredibly badass, and perfectly encapsulates the early vibes of this World Cup:

[Story Web @Ezekle1]

He fed all 150 of us before he made himself a plate.

Friday the 13th. United flight 2480, San Francisco to Houston.

Somewhere over New Mexico, a passenger collapsed in the bathroom. The plane went quiet in that particular way, the kind where strangers who will never know each other's names start silently praying for the same person.

We made an emergency landing in Albuquerque. An ambulance was already waiting on the tarmac.

That should have been the story.

But the delay pushed our crew past their legal flying hours. FAA rules. Nobody's fault, just the math of safety regulations meeting a long, hard day. A new crew had to fly in from Chicago. We weren't leaving until almost 10:30 that night.

Seven extra hours. In an airport. With cranky kids, empty stomachs, and the particular exhaustion of watching a short delay quietly turn into an entire evening you didn't plan for.

United sent meal vouchers. Eventually. 7:15 p.m.

Every restaurant in the terminal was already closed.

150 people. A stack of useless paper. Nowhere to spend it.

That's when our captain picked up his phone.

He didn't ask corporate. Didn't wait for approval. Didn't make an announcement to the gate so everyone would know what he was about to do. He just called a local pizza place and ordered 30 pizzas.

Out of his own pocket.

When the boxes arrived, he didn't hand them off to a gate agent and walk away. He organized a line, by seat number, the only fair way to do it, and stood there in his full captain's uniform, serving slices to exhausted strangers one at a time. When a box ran out, he broke it down and opened the next one.

He fed all 150 of us.

Then, and only then, he made himself a plate.

Before we finally boarded the replacement flight, he stood at the door and shook the hand of every single passenger as they walked past him to their seat. Every one.

I've flown more flights than I can count.

I have never seen anything like this.

Nothing about that night was in his job description. Nobody would have faulted him for handing out vouchers and disappearing into the crew lounge to rest. He had every reason to be as tired as the rest of us.

He chose to be the one still standing, still serving, still making sure 150 strangers felt like someone in that building actually cared whether they ate.

That's not customer service.

That's just who he is when no one's required to be.

To the captain of Flight 2480, somewhere out there, you probably don't think this was a big deal.

It was. 🍕✈️

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

They’re obeying their wives on camera at the World Cup…To please woman no too hard like that 😭😂

[Bence Bocsák @BenBocsak]

🇪🇸 Last week I recorded a video about one player to watch from every group at the World Cup for Liverpool and I picked Víctor Muñoz for Group H.

Few words on him from that video.

[Turning Point USA @TPUSA]

America is still the greatest country on earth

@TheOfficerTatum

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

Can you do me a favor?

Please never take America 🇺🇸 for granted because AMERICA IS AWESOME!!!

[Moby @Mobyhaque1]

I cried reading this beautiful letter by Yan Diomande to his sister who passed away. He is a real one Yan. The way he looks at the world would resonate a lot with our fans and the club. Big respect to Yan. This is truly beautiful.

https://t.co/nHwLNPOvwZ