So why are folks complaining about hydration breaks - which in my view helps players?
You can see the change in momentum after most hydration breaks - and I think that’s good for the competitiveness of the sport.
🚨 Declan Rice: “It’s an obscene amount of games. The schedule was crazy, but what can we do about it? You can’t sit and complain”.
“We have to just get on with it for the moments like I had winning that Premier League”, told Telegraph.
This is why I haven’t really taken any of these hydration breaks criticism seriously.
You know the next World Cup is in countries where temperatures test 40 degrees Celsius, right?
🚨 Kylian Mbappé: "My thoughts on hydration breaks? Don't ask us players for our opinion, we're very reactionary.
If tomorrow we're dominating at the 25th minute, and there's a hydration break, we'll be angry, because it breaks our rhythm, but if the weather is hot, or we're being dominated, I'll be happy."
I’m sure Spain thought they’re the “real winners” having #CPV in their group.
If you’ve been watching African football for the past 5 years, you’d know Cape Verde is a team most teams don’t like playing.
the real winners of that Uruguay - Cabo Verde draw?
Argentina, whose round of 32 opponents suddenly flipped from the loser of Uruguay - Spain to the winner of Cabo Verde - Saudi Arabia
This is how it starts.
If you’re wondering how xenophobic has captured South Africa, it’s typically started like this - blaming “others” for market trends.
There’s always been far more Nigerians in Lagos than non-Nigerians. No time have they all been able to “afford” rent.
How about what you’d do to attract the person that’ll do this for you?
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Most commentaries here are about what people yearn for, instead of what they’d do to attract what they yearn for.
One person died after two cargo trains collided on a bridge in Munich causing two of the carriages to derail and crash onto the street below https://t.co/cBHsqHh1c4
Seattle is so soccer-crazy that, to secure funding, the Seahawks stadium was required to comfortably meet the soccer field dimensions.
The Sounders joined MLS in 2009, immediately averaged 31K fans per match, double the league average, and have since won 2 MLS Cups, 4 U.S. Open Cups, a Supporters’ Shield, and the CONCACAF Champions League.
If US football teams can start to bid for players like Saudi Pro league (without the exaggerated amount), then we’re heading into an interesting era for football in the US.
I can’t speak for the entire country, but I can speak for my own backyard.
My baseball-obsessed 7 year old hasn’t ever so much as touched a soccer ball in his life and now he’s spending his evenings out here pretending he’s Flo Balogun.
I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the impact this World Cup will have on this sport’s popularity in America.
For many who haven’t travelled through the US, the World Cup is in some way showing why it continues to be the number one destination for migration.
You can dream. And with luck and opportunity, it could happen!
It’s not about nominal numbers. It’s about the percentage of the population.
Some countries are over a billion, yet football is also not a major sport.
Success is based on percentage of population interest as opposed to nominal numbers.
What the Europeans fail to realize about US soccer fans is that even if only 20% of the country follows the sport, that’s roughly 70 million people, or more than the entire population of France or the UK
SENT OFF for covering his mouth! 🟥😲
It's a first at the World Cup as Paraguay's Miguel Almiron is dismissed under the new rule introduced earlier this year.