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World Cup 2026

Big Willie Champ

Mirth real credit to the MLS talent pipeline

True, his influence can not be overstated. Here is some extremely rare footage of Messi with MLS as a child.

daredevil

The other day in the Belgium game, Lukaku comes on and forced a goal in less than a minute. Just as the excitement levels went up to see what happens next, the hydration break killed all the momentum and excitement with it

Football is a slow burn sport, it can take a while for games to get going and the last thing you need is interruptions when games heat up. It's a fuckery.

daredevil

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I have the opposite effect on women, they all become fat with me or worse, I become fatter as I eat their food too.

Meatwad

https://awfulannouncing.com/fox/making-250m-hydration-break-ads-world-cup.html

i will say that while the ads suck, it's also why american sports can be on free over the air tv because they don't have to rely on subscriptions to make back the money they paid for broadcasting rights. it's like when you pay extra to get an ad free experience online.

MistaT

Portugal has a great squad too....will be interesting to see Ronaldo's role, and if they prioritize creating through Bruno Fernandes or more evenly?

Also remembered Joao Felix for the first time in ages. Damn shame how his career stalled out as he was a joy to watch when he broke through.

Any chance he sees the field?

USArsenal

Congo ties it up.. 1-1. Lol.

MistaT

Congo has a sneaky good team

Quite a few players with serious minutes in decent European teams

USArsenal

MistaT

How were 3 Congo players alone in the middle of the 6 yard box for that cross on their goal? WTF were the Portugal defenders looking at?

MistaT

We got Africans dancing.....World Cup has officially started
https://dropr.co/v/849532d6

USArsenal

First time i've seen the ref give a corner after the goal kick took too much time. Lol.

USArsenal

Portugal scores with a nice bicycle kick.. too bad he was a yard offside. Lol.

Panda

Not a fan of this Portugal team. Probs the only team I actively don't want to win it haha.

Mirth

People are going to dig out Ronaldo but Martinez is the bigger fraud. Can’t believe he keeps falling upwards

Klaus

Mirth Yeh I don't know what people expect from Ronaldo: he's 41 and has played the equivalent of non-league football for the past 3-4 years (potentially even longer if you don't consider Man United playing football). He's in the World Cup to poke in a few balls and to scare people with his reputation, he's not here to do any work himself. Ability-wise he's probably in the bottom half of the players in the tournament. You pick him, you need to make sure to feed him. Martinez has to have a better plan than this for the kind of players he went with. Where was the width in that team?!

USArsenal

I hope this ends in a draw.. Think Congo deserve it so far.

Dom

The England line-up is brutal.

Meatwad

Dom
saka is clearly not starting for health reasons, but the rest are their best players.

Sicario2

Getting concerned with Saka’s fitness. Think he might be cooked as the youngsters would say.

Dom

Sicario2

Saka suffered the worst injury possible for a footballer after an ACL, broken leg and ruptured achilles. A long and deep tear of the biceps femoris in the right hamstring (there's a picture of the scar). It's the type of injury where a full recovery is not particularly common because your body may not feel like repairing all the fast twitch type IIx fibres.

He also has persistent achilles issues. I've said during the season a few times, but the club needs to have an eye on a potential Saka replacement.

Mirth

How’s Madueke done this

awooga83

Klaus he shouldn't be playing the whole team it's compromised trying to play for him.

Mirth

Ronaldo managed 3 shots off target, none on target. That’s kind of hattrick, I guess.

RowJimmy

Once Martinez has allowed Ronaldo onto the team there's not much he can do. And he'd probably get fired if he refused to bring Ronaldo.

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