2026 World Cup

[Tonyschin]

The good old days or is that the bad old days.
Derby games (games between close neighbours) were fiercely contested.

View: https://youtu.be/77jKgv5lLTM?si=Mx_2WwhlpSkuSbas

 

[Twelvefret]

" The U.S. players say it didn’t matter … and that’s what they would say. But it certainly mattered to the Belgians, who played with a sense of greater stakes: that they were defending the game against crude intrusions of political power. "
Rowan Richardo Phillips

 

[Twelvefret]

I read the play analysis and my head begins to hurt. I do not doubt there are strategies, but I also think there is creative genius that might appear as strategy.

 

[Twelvefret]

I am finding out which players play together professionally. I've enjoyed watching Luis Diaz from Columbia and discovered he and Harry Kane play on the same team.

I am learning also, like most professional athletes, football players do well financially. Of the 26 Haitian players on the roster, 16 were born outside the country.

 

[PLANofMAN]

Saw this in my Facebook feed this morning. Did this really happen or were drunk Democrats playing with A.I. again?

 

[Estariol]

Saw this in my Facebook feed this morning. Did this really happen or were drunk Democrats playing with A.I. again?View attachment 179276

Yes it did happen, he intervened with the president of FIFA to enable the player to participate in the next match. Which the USA lost. Karma is a b**ch.

 

[PLANofMAN]

Yes it did happen, he intervened with the president of FIFA to enable the player to participate in the next match. Which the USA lost. Karma is a b**ch.

As an American, I find it hilarious. As for soccer itself, I, like most Americans,
are vaguely aware of this sport. It's popular in third world and developing nations, like the U.K. and a bunch of countries in South America. It's basically polo for poor people, right?

 

[Twelvefret]

As an American, I find it hilarious. As for soccer itself, I, like most Americans,
are vaguely aware of this sport. It's popular in third world and developing nations, like the U.K. and a bunch of countries in South America. It's basically polo for poor people, right?

It is true Americans tend to be oblivious of what is happening and important for others. That you think it is only popular in developing and third world nations is illustrative of the point.

Apparently you neither understand polo or football.