Cape Verde centre back Roberto 'Pico' Lopes has spent his entire career in Ireland, ignored a LinkedIn message from Cape Verde FA asking him to play for them because it was in Portuguese. A year later, they sent it in English. He accepted. An all-time great World Cup story.
The World Cup absolutely mogs every other sporting event. It’s what the Olympics wishes it was X100.
You’ve got Europeans road-tripping across America and having their minds blown by Buc-ee’s and Bass Pro Shops. You’ve got a small Kansas town falling in love with an Algerian club that chose Kansas City as their homebase. You’ve got South Korea training in Utah to prepare for the altitude in Guadalajara.
For one month, the whole world forgets we’re supposed to hate each other over differences that barely matter. It’s the closest thing we have to world peace.
Unai Emery is probably going to win the Europa League with Sevilla, Villarreal and Aston Villa.
That’s like some kind of Football Manager save goal to succeed with all the teams with “Villa” in.
44' | #BRE 2-1 #WOL
Wonderfully taken by the striker. A perfect first touch to make room for the shot and he finishes emphatically beyond Kelleher to bring us back within one!
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One of the big reasons to why the viewing experience for the neutral has fallen off a cliff. You don’t understand how much of this sport we lost with the new generation. The passion has gone, the rivalries have tamed & aggression in contact sport is now criminalised.
This is why people say the game was better back then.
Never mind the bottom side, this is the first time in Premier League history a team top of the table has let a 2+ goal lead slip against a team in the relegation zone