Ian Wangai

I’m a creature of contradictions—An athletic bookworm, a night owl who’s an early riser, and an active guy who loves to be lazy on Sunday mornings.

[Don @scarface254_]

GenZ ameenda Theology school aka elewa art of manuplation and selling hope ...atakuwa kwa maziwa
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[🇵🇹🇧🇷🇭🇷 @malaikaaaa7]

They’re frying Bruno Fernandes on IG but this comment almost made me shed a tear lowkey

[daniel hanuka📟 🇮🇱 @LionsOfZion_ORG]

Embarrassing.

Peter Doocy: “A wise man once said, in January 2020: ‘Iran has never won a war, but has never lost a negotiation.’”

President Trump: “Who said that?”

Reporter: “Donald Trump.”

[D3VID 🐢 @DurkioWiz]

The moment Argentina fans were shouting Messi to Ishowspeed but the moment he did Cristiano Ronaldo Sui they shouted Sui 😂😭😭

[Řõððïę @Its_Roddie]

USA ni vile interest yao huwa majorly in basketball na ile prira ya Touch Down yenye coincidentally wanaita football pia. Ingekua wako na major interest in soccer, dream ya most elites ingekua USA leagues and not Britain and Spain.

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

This was Hajime Moriyasu, coach of the Japanese National team weeping as Japan's anthem played. He wept not for a contract, not for a transfer fee but for something no money could ever buy.

This is the part of international football that club football can never replicate.

At club level, you can buy almost anything. A striker, a stadium, a trophy challenge, even a fanbase in a new market. Money builds clubs. But money cannot build a nation's team.

You cannot purchase the right to wear any national team's shirt. You inherit it, through citizenship, through ancestry, through being born into a story that started long before you and will continue long after.

That is why a manager cries before a ball is kicked. It is why a player might cry too. He is not representing shareholders. He is carrying the pride of millions of people who share his blood, his history, his flag.

Every teammate, every supporter, every ancestor who shaped that moment, bound together by something deeper than loyalty. By ancestral belonging.

The stars of international football cannot be bought. They have to be made. And they have to be yours.

That is the beauty of it.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

[Josh @Josh001J]

Working in CCI is more of a training than a job. You leave that company one of the best customer care personnel in the world. Someone left CCI and now works at the Australian Embassy's customer care! Don't shy off applying for work there!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Germany scored 7 past Curaçao on Sunday. Curaçao is ranked 131st in the world, the weakest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup. That is the 48-team format on the pitch. Off the pitch, the numbers tell a different story about why FIFA actually made this choice.

Adding 40 extra matches cut what TV networks pay per game. Each game is now worth $37.7M to broadcasters, down from $53.6M in Qatar 2022. But the volume made up for it. Total broadcast revenue still climbed from $3.4B to $3.9B, with rights sold across 175 countries.

The prize pool jumped 50%. Teams earn a minimum of $9M just for qualifying, and the 2026 champion walks away with $50M, up from Argentina's $42M in 2022. Even before kicking a ball, every team receives $2.5M in preparation money.

Matchday revenue tells the full scale. Tickets and hospitality are projected at $3B, up 216% from Qatar's $950M. US stadiums average above 70,000 seats. Qatar ran 64 matches in venues averaging 40,000, in a country smaller than Connecticut.

FIFA's total 2026 revenue is projected at about $11B, up from $7.5B in Qatar 2022. Just the US broadcast deal came to $1.25B, around 32% of all global broadcast revenue from one country. Already, the next four-year contract period, 2027 to 2030, is targeting $14B.

Each time the World Cup has expanded, the next revenue cycle has jumped in step. The tournament started with 13 teams in 1930. It grew to 16, then 24 in 1982, then 32 in 1998. Every jump triggered the same criticism: too many weak teams, diluted quality, too many matches, too much money chasing too little sport. The 1998 expansion was called a mistake. By 2002, it was just called the World Cup.

Germany's 7-1 rout of Curaçao is what critics had pointed to for years. A team can now draw all three group games and still advance to the knockout rounds. Those are real trade-offs. But every previous expansion critics predicted would ruin football became the new normal, and 48 teams is already projecting the richest commercial cycle in the sport's history.

[Kip Mimi @Kvaati]

Hii imeenda.
Who was the Transaction Advisor for that IPO Listing?
Such a massive contingent liability should have been disclosed, was it?

[The Wonton Don @DonnieDoesWorld]

No matter the World Cup match, Iain has been delivering top notch geography analysis @DropAPinShow

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Haiti v Scotland is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries occupy the smaller, mountainous part of a major island shared with a larger neighbour.

Haiti has western Hispaniola. Scotland has northern Great Britain.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Nikki 💘 @Nikkis_luxe]

Germany fans already declaring themselves World Cup winners

[Sky Blues @SkyBluesXtra]

🇫🇷🤝 Rayan Cherki on Erling Haaland:

“With Erling, it clicked quickly. He saw that I wasn’t intimidated by who he is, but that I wanted to be alongside him.”

[Eric Njiru ⚽️ @EricNjiiru]

Chicharito and Thiago Alcantara as pundits. We are getting old

#FIFAWorldCup

[Forever SureBoy ⭐️ @MathiasIgonor]

There’s no clip from the FIFA 2026 World Cup that can top this one! 😭😭😭😭

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fox paid $485 million for the rights to broadcast this World Cup. The New York Times put the fair market value at $1 to $1.5 billion. The hydration break is how Fox gets its money's worth.

FIFA announced mandatory 3-minute pauses midway through each half of all 104 World Cup 2026 matches, not just hot ones. That includes games inside climate-controlled domed stadiums with roofs. The announcement came at a World Broadcaster Meeting in Washington DC. FIFA said the decision was made after consultation with coaches and broadcasters.

A few months later, FIFA gave broadcasters the green light to sell ads during the pauses. Fox gets 2 minutes and 10 seconds per break, starting 20 seconds after the whistle and ending 30 seconds before play resumes. Across all 104 games, that's 832 potential ad slots that didn't exist in soccer before this tournament. Fox and Telemundo project a combined $850 million in ad revenue from the 2026 World Cup.

The player welfare argument is also real. Argentina's Enzo Fernandez said he felt "dizzy" in "very dangerous" temperatures during last summer's Club World Cup in the US, where some games approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit. FIFA had reason to act. But it applied those breaks to every match regardless of conditions, and opened a commercial window that makes this World Cup more ad-friendly than any before it.

Fox proved the point on day one. In the opener between Mexico and South Africa, Fox missed the 30-second return window FIFA mandated. The ball was already in play when the network came back from commercials.

Coca-Cola, a top-tier global FIFA partner for decades, runs the hydration stations on the field. That same 3-minute pause serves three commercial interests at once: the field sponsor, Fox's ad revenue, and Fox's streaming subscribers.

The 2030 World Cup goes to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. The 2034 tournament lands in Saudi Arabia. Both regions see extreme summer heat. FIFA has not confirmed whether the pauses will outlast this summer's tournament. But $850 million in new advertising inventory tends to answer that question on its own.

[deni @fiagirly]

THANK YOU FRED! 😭❤️ Thank you for believing in Lewis when others said he was hitting his shelf life. Thank you for listening to his feedback and trusting his development path. Thank you for pushing for the changes he asked for and for uplifting him. We’ve done it! Forza Ferrari!!

[Sky Sports F1 @SkySportsF1]

Lewis Hamilton wins his first Grand Prix with Ferrari 🤩🏆

[Juma G 🇰🇪 @jumaf3]

Theft from employees has killed so many businesses in Kenya. Tuskys Supermarket died this way. Relatives teamed with procurement to divert goods, marked delivered but taken to their private businesses. I hate this.

[Yan @YanPeronn]

In case you didn’t watch the World Cup today (matchday 2)

>USA beat Paraguay 4-1… best American World Cup performance I’ve ever seen

>Canada & Bosnia drew 1-1. Canada missed so many chances

> Alexi Lalas said “wanker” on live TV

>Christian Pulisic surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo in career World Cup assists

>Canadian fans booed the USA flag at their opening ceremony in Toronto

>USA fans cheered the Canada flag at their opening ceremony in Los Angeles

>Jonathan David is on heavy fraud watch after his performance for Canada today

> VAR reviewed a yellow card for the first time ever in the USA game (USA got a yellow for a foul but VAR reviewed, saw it was a flop & took it away)

>Bosnia fans went viral for taking over the streets of Toronto ahead of their match vs Canada

>Cristiano Ronaldo landed in America

>Canada’s 1-1 draw vs Bosnia was their first point ever at a World Cup

>Gio Reyna scored a GOLAZO for the US

>Neymar was ruled out for Brazil’s game vs Morocco

>Gianni Infantino is letting IShowSpeed be the official FIFA President for 5 minutes during the next match he attends

>The new hydration breaks are now sponsored by FIFA advertisers (at least they are in Toronto Stadium where I was)

>The new throw in timer was put to use when Bosnia took too long on a throw & the ref gave it to Canada

>Donald Trump called the USMNT before their opening match today

>Two police officers went undercover as World Cup mascots arrested an alleged drug trafficker in Peru

>Reports came out that the ref forced South Africa & Mexico players to take longer cooling breaks yesterday cuz TV broadcasts were still airing ads.

I’ll be posting daily recaps all World Cup long, follow me pookie :)