Lazy scouting

Scouting at home

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

Earlier this year I got approached by a European club to try out for one of their global intern spots, didn't get in but I learnt a lot from the experience.
Here are some standout African talents I discovered while drafting a match report for the 2025 Gothia Cup Final:

[Sprite @OsiBrai]

Probably one of the most unifying jerseys but of course white supremacists got triggered by reminders of Haitian revolution.

[Harry Brooks @hbrooks_coach]

Noni is going to get stick for the finish. Wrong decision, it can happen.

What he doesn’t get anywhere near enough praise for is how much he works the opposition full back.

So many team mates benefit from the constant jabbing and punches he’s throwing at the opposition full backs, throughout the game.

Narrative is such an odd thing. People have made their mind up about someone and just wait for anything to confirm that for them, whereas other players are given so much more goodwill due to narrative things get ignored

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

or a back four with Gabriel and Marquinhos starting Natan Beraldo Bremer and Vitor Reis as hybrid defenders

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

why doesn't Carlo Ancelotti switch to a back three for Brazil to compensate for the lack of quality in fullback positions

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

imagine a back 3 depth of
Magalhaes, Marquinhos, Vitor Reis, Bremer, Natan, Beraldo
for wing backs you can have the more defensive minded wingers there holding width with a narrow front 3 that gives Raphinha and Vinicius central access

[El Jones @ElJonesPoet]

Slavery was so long ago and we’re supposed to be over it until you want to have an image of the resistance of enslaved people, then it’s too political. They will never forgive Haiti for winning their freedom. They made Haiti pay France reparations for 150 years and still salty.

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

Rice one of the only players you can tell is worth 100 mil cause of athleticism alone

[/+/ @Sxne19iv2]

Why's the TL pretending Rice has been worth the money?

[maki ❦ @reaIesbian]

ITV News and the BBC referred to Omar Artan as a “Somali refugee” and “Somalia’s top refugee” instead of correctly identifying him as a professional referee.
They’re shamelessly pushing a narrative about a man who was travelling for work

[Eric Njiru ⚽️ @EricNjiiru]

Infantino was asked by a BBC journalist if he's embarrassed by what has come to pass and does he accept he's lost control of his tournament here.

His response: “in 2035, the Women’s World Cup, I think, will be in the UK. Would you find it normal that FIFA will dictate to the British government who to let in the country and who not to let in?”

#FIFAWorldCup

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Infantino claiming that nobody cares about Haiti or Cape Verde like FIFA do. Haiti are under a U.S. travel ban so many of their fans can’t attend, and Cape Verde fans who buy tickets now have to pay bonds up to $15k

[Romain Molina @Romain_Molina]

FIFA botched the investigation into the sexual abuse of minors in Haiti 🇭🇹 at the FIFA-Goal centre in Croix-des-Bouquets, where some young girls were even forced to have abortions

It has NEVER wanted to shed light on everything that happened and has protected several paedophiles (including the former national technical director, despite the direct testimony of one of the victims corroborated by several internal sources ; don't tell me it didn't happened, I bring all these people personally to the FIFA Ethics committee and I was there when some of them gave statement because they asked me too)

FIFA is also allowing Carlo Marcelin, then secretary general of the Federation and fully aware of the acts, to carry on undisturbed; I imagine he will be present at the World Cup

FIFA abandoned the Haitian girls and also the boys, since in that same FIFA-GOAL centre, the former Minister for Sport, Evans Lescouflair, was also involved in the abuse that led to the suicide of a boy (Charlin Bernardin)

Whilst Lescouflair was arrested by Interpol following complaints, notably from the Haitian ambassador to UNESCO, Claude-Alix Bertrand, and my investigations, FIFA has never taken any action on this matter either

On the other hand, for nearly six years now, it has allowed a Normalisation Committee to remain in Haiti that resolves nothing and does very little, with no elections or progress, and which was even headed by a ... Cuban (it has never happened before that a foreigner has headed a national federation), Luis Hernandez, who did not even speak French, let alone Creole

When girls received death threats due to leaks from FIFA, world football’s governing body did nothing and I had to sort this out personally through contacts on the ground, with the help of certain people at FIFPro

So let me never hear again that FIFA has done anything for Haiti, other than causing the blood of young girls and boys to be shed

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

FIFA's president can invent a farcical peace prize to flatter the ego of the president of the United States and spend months pandering to his political project, but Haiti's national team can't acknowledge their national struggle for independence because it's too "political"

[Romain Molina @Romain_Molina]

Deux poids, deux mesures 🇭🇹

A l'occasion de la Coupe du Monde la plus politisée de l'histoire où un arbitre somalien et un photographe irakien ont été refoulés par l'un des pays organisateurs pour des raisons politiques (en contradiction totale avec les contrats signés), la FIFA a imposé à Saeta, l'équipementier de la sélection haïtienne, de modifier le maillot confectionné à cause de son caractère politique

En cause une représentation de la bataille de Vertières (novembre 1803) qui a marqué l'aboutissement de la révolution haïtienne et la proclamation de l'indépendance quelques semaines plus tard (1 janvier 1804) de la première république noire au monde

Symbole de fierté nationale, cette bataille a été choisie par Saeta comme un hommage à ces hommes et femmes ayant permis l'émancipation d'un pays brandissant son drapeau vers le ciel

Impensable pour la FIFA qui voit ici un "message politique" et a donc exigé des modifications pour se plier aux règles de la compétition. C'est bien connu : les règlements existent, mais ils sont uniquement applicables à certaines nations.

Keep the faith

[Captn 🇵🇸 @CaptnGuardiola]

It sounds scary until you realize it probably just means he wrote "Free Palestine" on social media. That or he went on holidays to Cuba or Venezuela.

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

good football iq too lol he's vinicius

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

olawale farayola is also another winger I expect to get to the big leagues fast, explosive and can play on either wing, he also has really good delivery , gets past his man using his first touch, can run in behind plus is a cutback machine

[KV Kortrijk @kvkofficieel]

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[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

Amadou Ba Sy is a freak of nature it should be illegal for someone that tall to move so smoothly

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

Venezuelan Gleiker Mendoza has all the tools to become a great winger a move to Portugal, Eredivisie or the Championship will suit him

[Lazy scouting @yeahJyeahscouts]

Rafik Guitane is such a magician on the ball , he's also very athletic and explosive for his height