Kweku A.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

2 - The last two players to score, complete 5+ dribbles, and create 5+ open play chances in a @FIFAWorldCup match:

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi v Egypt (2026)
🇦🇷 Diego Maradona v Belgium (1986)

Catalysts.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Norway teaches them synchronized ancestral rowing like they’re about to raid a coastal village after recess

[barry @BackseatsmanLFC]

Klopp saying the club was built on Kenny's soul and Stevie's legs is one of the best quotes in the club's history. Place them in whatever order you want, they're the top 2 and it'll take someone ridiculous to change that.

[Kweku A. @Nandogerrard]

The best there was, the best there is, the best there'll ever be

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Steven Gerrard is Liverpool's Greatest ❤️

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

1 - This is the first time in World Cup history that three different players have scored 7+ goals in a single edition of the tournament

🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé: 7 goals
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi: 7 goals
🇳🇴 Erling Haaland: 7 goals

Legendary.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

4/4 - 🇳🇴 Erling Haaland won all four of his aerial duels today against Brazil and has the best aerial duel success of any striker to contest more than 15 at the FIFA World Cup since 1966 (78%, won 14/18).

Monster.

[Kweku A. @Nandogerrard]

🤣🤣

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

Football matches are played over two 45-minute halves, making 90 minutes in total. But the number 45 wasn't chosen because of science.

In the early days of football, there was no standard match length. That changed on 31 March 1866, when the Football Association and Sheffield agreed on a compromise: Sheffield wanted a two-hour match, the FA wanted something shorter, so they settled on two halves of 45 minutes.

The format worked so well that it became the global standard and has remained unchanged for over 150 years.

But why?

Because, ladies and gentlemen...
It's been 45 days since Arsenal won the Premier League title.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Today, as every day, we remember Diogo Jota and André Silva, who tragically passed away one year ago.

Through immeasurable loss and incalculable pain, the impact they made and the legacies they left behind - not only within the footballing world, but in the hearts and minds of so many around the world - has shone through over the last 12 months.

All of our love, support, thoughts and prayers continue to be with Diogo and André's families, friends and all those whose lives were touched by them.

Forever in our hearts, forever our number 20 ❤️

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Named 'Forever 20', it celebrates their lives, their bond, and the love and respect felt for them by family, teammates and supporters across the world ❤️

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Sixteen years ago today, Luis Suarez became public enemy No 1 in Ghana.

With Uruguay and Ghana locked at 1-1 at the very end of extra time in the World Cup quarter-final, the former Liverpool and Barcelona forward palmed away Dominic Adiyah's goalbound effort on the line.

He was duly shown a red card.

Suarez appeared to be in floods of tears as he headed down the tunnel, but his mood was instantly transformed as Asamoah Gyan's penalty struck the crossbar.

Uruguay went on to win 4-2 on penalties to progress to the 2010 World Cup semi-finals, where they lost 3-2 to the Netherlands.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

This or that with Jeremy Jacquet 🤔 @Expedia

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

In 1967, the mother of an American soldier visits the grave of her son in Manila. He was KIA in the Philippines during WWII. 🇺🇸

22 years after the fighting ended in the Philippines, this mother made the long flight across the Pacific from the United States.

Her son had been one of the thousands of young Americans killed during the brutal fighting to liberate the islands from Japanese occupation, part of the fierce campaigns of 1944 & early 1945 that included the Battle of Manila, where entire neighborhoods were destroyed & casualties mounted on both sides.

She came alone to the Manila American Cemetery, the largest American military cemetery outside the US, where more than 17k of her son’s comrades rest beneath white marble crosses.

Kneeling at his grave, she reached out as if to touch him one last time, flowers at her feet & a lifetime of loss in her posture.

In an era when international travel was still a major undertaking for many families, she crossed an ocean not for sightseeing or vacation, but to be near the son she had raised & lost.

This quiet moment, captured in 1967, speaks for countless Gold Star mothers who carried their grief across decades & oceans.

[Kweku A. @Nandogerrard]

@ssentongopeter5 Hahaha true!

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

3 - 🇲🇦 Morocco are the third African nation to reach the FIFA World Cup knockout stages in consecutive tournaments, after 🇳🇬 Nigeria (1994 and 1998) and 🇬🇭 Ghana (2006 and 2010).

Lions.

[Anfield Fix @AnfieIdFix]

Seen enough. Extend Alisson until he's 40. Buy him some Brazilian friends

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

The 'Counting the Cost' Monument in Duxford, England. ✈️

52 glass panels, engraved with the silhouettes of over 7,000 American aircraft that were lost during operations & dedicated to US aircraft lost flying from British bases. 🇺🇸

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

During heavy fighting on Saipan, a Marine takes aim at the enemy in the summer of 1944. 🪖

[Kweku A. @Nandogerrard]

🤣🤣🤣

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

England: Can’t believe nothing worked against Ghana

A group of random Ghanaians:

[Kweku A. @Nandogerrard]

@TheFeranmi_ ���😆

[Squawka @Squawka]

"I WILL set you up." 🤪🫵

Lionel Messi has created more chances than any other player in the World Cup since Opta records began in 1966 (76)

The full top 5:

🇦🇷 76 - Lionel Messi
🇦🇷 71 - Diego Maradona
🇩🇪 62 - Wolfgang Overath
🇩🇪 54 - Lothar Matthaus
🇫🇷 51 - Alain Giresse

Another day, another Messi record.

#FIFAWorldCup