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[Romzy @RomzyUnited]

🚨Lisandro Martínez reveals what Manchester United manager Michael Carrick told him after Argentina's victory over Egypt 🇦🇷

🗣️ The first message I received after the match was from Michael Carrick. He said, 'Congratulations, Licha. That was a leader's performance. That's exactly the character I've always admired in you. You never stop fighting, no matter the circumstances.

Keep believing and keep making us proud in the biggest Moment, Stay focused, keep leading from the back, trust your teammates, and don't let the outside noise distract you. Big tournaments are won by players who stay calm under pressure.

The whole Manchester United family is proud of you. Go and finish the job. we'll be waiting for you back in Manchester.

🗣️Hearing those words from my manager meant a lot to me. When someone like Carrick, who understands football and believes in you, takes the time to send a message like that, it gives you even more confidence to keep pushing.

[Tony @UtdTony1]

🚨🎙️Toni Kroos on Portugal's national team:

"First of all, congratulations to Portugal. If the objective was to move on from Cristiano Ronaldo, then you've achieved it."

"For years, people kept saying Cristiano was the reason Portugal struggled. Others claimed the team would be better without him and that there was no difference between Portugal with or without Cristiano. Fine—now the pressure is on them to prove it."

"From this moment, people will judge this team by what they achieve after Cristiano. If they truly believed he was holding them back, then they must go on to win the next European Championship and compete seriously for the next World Cups. That's how football works—you have to back up your words with results."

"We all know Portugal's history before Cristiano Ronaldo, and we all know what he helped the national team achieve during his era. He played a huge role in changing the mentality of Portuguese football and helped deliver the biggest trophies in the country's history."

"What disappointed me wasn't the result—it was the attitude. Throughout the tournament, it often looked like the unity and fight that made this team successful in the past just wasn't there. Everyone watching could see that."

"Now there's no more debate about Cristiano. The spotlight is fully on this generation of players. They'll be judged by what they win from here on, not by what they say. Football always remembers trophies, not excuses."

[Diamond Dallas Page @RealDDP]

30 years ago today, the GREATEST heel turn in the history of our industry, and one of my first big victories over a main event name in our sport, @RealHacksawJim!

Hit me up in the comments and tell me what you were thinking on the night that wrestling changed forever! 💥💎

@RealKevinNash @DDPYoga #OTD #OnThisDay

[FootballFunnys @FootballFunnnys]

Sepp Blatter was corrupt for his love of money, took bribes for countries to host tournaments, but NEVER did he corrupt the sanctity and legitimacy of the game played on the pitch.

[The Forge 🍿 @TheForgexx]

Dan Aykroyd stands beside the coffin of his best friend and fellow Blues Brothers star, John Belushi, at his funeral in 1982. 🕊️

[Mark Kaboly @MarkKaboly]

Show me a 9 yr old that knows more wrestling than this kid. You can't. Happy "Hulk Hogan betrayed WCW" Day.

[Fabrizio Ronaldo @FabrizioR0naldo]

🚨🎙️Haaland :

“I would love to meet Cristiano Ronaldo and tell him that I'm a footballer thanks to him.”

[Blake @_Utd_Blake]

🚨 🇦🇷 A reporter asked Lionel Messi for his thoughts on Cristiano Ronaldo's legacy despite never winning the World Cup;

Reporter: 🗣️"Lionel, what do you have to say about Cristiano Ronaldo being regarded as the greatest footballer of all time despite never winning the World Cup?"

Lionel Messi: 🗣️ "Cristiano Ronaldo is a great guy. Winning the World Cup doesn't define the greatness of a player's career.

Fans can debate all they want, and that's part of football, but it doesn't change what he's achieved.

He has inspired millions of people around the world and has broken records that many thought would never be touched. His dedication, discipline, and consistency over so many years are something every footballer can admire. Very few players have maintained such an elite level for so long.

Football is much bigger than one trophy, and his legacy was already secured years ago. He has had an incredible career, and whether he won the World Cup or not, he'll always be remembered as one of the greatest players to ever grace the pitch.

That's something no one can take away from him."🎙️🎙️

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

It would be so awesome if the United States didn’t suck at soccer. I want to have fun too.

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

🚨 Peter Schmeichel on Argentina vs Switzerland:

"In my 50+ years of football, I have never seen an easy route like this in the World Cup. It seems like Argentina are playing Europa League version of the World Cup."

😭😭😭😭

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Per @SethWickersham: When Bill Belichick and the Patriots divorced in 2024, Sean Payton considered presenting Broncos owner Greg Penner a proposal for the ages: Hire Belichick as head coach until he reached 15 wins, enough to break Don Shula's career record of 347. Payton would temporarily step down to assistant head coach and run the offense, then move back after Belichick became the all-time leader. In the end, it was too complicated -- and maybe too fanciful.

[Chad Johnson @ochocinco]

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[Maddox @Maddox_CFC]

🚨 Roy Keane Destroys Ronaldo's Critics After Portugal Exit:

🗣️ "I've had enough of the nonsense.

The disrespect Cristiano Ronaldo gets after every defeat is pathetic. Some of you don't watch football; you wait for Ronaldo to lose so you can celebrate like you've won a trophy yourselves.

One bad game? That's all it takes for people to forget over twenty years of excellence? That's not football, that's pure hatred.

This is a player who has dragged teams through impossible moments, broken records people said would never be broken, and carried the pressure of an entire nation every time he stepped onto a pitch. Every stadium wanted him to fail. He still found a way to win, again and again.

Now he's in the twilight of his career, and instead of showing respect, people are dancing on one defeat. It's embarrassing.

You don't erase the greatest goalscorer in football history because of ninety minutes. You don't erase five Ballons d'Or, countless trophies, and two decades of consistency because it suits your agenda. Greatness isn't judged on one night;it's judged over a lifetime.

The people mocking Ronaldo today will spend the next twenty years telling their kids they were lucky enough to watch him. That's how football works. You hate greatness while it's in front of you, then pretend you always appreciated it once it's gone.

Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't need your approval. He never did. His legacy was secured years ago. Every record, every trophy, every unforgettable night is written in football history forever.

And to those enjoying this moment, remember one thing: legends retire, but history never does. Long after the trolls have disappeared and the noise has faded, Cristiano Ronaldo will still be remembered as one of the greatest players to ever touch a football."

[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

Nail on the head. Every single word @landondonovan

[Sports Book Reviews @SprtBookReviews]

Why can't the USA have a dominant soccer team? Look how much it costs to play under 9 soccer for my local team. My parents didn't pay even ten percent of this in total for 8 years of me playing as a kid in Ireland.

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

Read nothing else: The tweet below is a perfect explanation of why America, which has the greatest athletes and infrastructure, will never compete against the greatest countries in the World Cup.

[The Last of the Black Iowans 🤞🏾🌽 @byst]

Klinsmann tried to tell them in the 2010s

And rich people wanted him executed for calling a thing, a thing

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

As a soccer dad with a son in the youth program of a MLS team, I see it firsthand: US Soccer is run like a pure revenue business with talent development as an afterthought.

Without fixing the infrastructure and incentives, we’ll never build a system that can compete for a World Cup.

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

I do not think this is Ronaldo’s last World Cup.

Next World Cup is being hosted by Portugal. You just know he will want to prove a point there.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.