Mario Octávio

@GMSGabriel E ainda assim, nao estamos falando de jogadores com 33, 34, 35 anos. Estamos falando de 39. Por mais avançada que seja a medicina e a reabilitação, Messi é uma exceção e vai continuar sendo A exceção por muitas decadas. Assim como Pelé foi no seu tempo, fisica e tecnicamente

@ODocMoc Essa é a Copa com maior média de idade desde 66, com 4 dos 10 jogadores mais velhos a disputarem um mundial. É uma tendência natural ter jogadores disputando mais partidas de Copa e aumentando seus números.

O anacronismo de exaltar a longevidade de atletas atuais sem analisar o contexto da época do Pelé, a diferença da tecnologia e avanço da medicina esportiva, o corpo que hoje é mais protegido. A Copa de 2026 marca o Mundial com mais bobagens ditas por pessoas com microfone.

@BearsSofrencia Começa a torcer pra França e pra Argentina então. Ou tu faz um favor pra nós, ou tu quebra teu tabu.

Toda seleção que eu torço nessa copa perde Já podem cancelar a copa pfv

And… the tortoise is now back on the ground

The Curious Case of the Tortoise on a Light post. Nobody knows how it got there, or what it is doing there. But everybody knows that at some point it won’t be there. #USMNT

@JosinaAnderson @cujo1050 Well, then you might have chosen another video to post such a beautiful lesson, instead of one that shows us exactly what the whole world felt about that political interference - and what was a great response from Belgian players

@cujo1050 That’s not what I said. I’m warning that sometimes a very emotional win can drain your focus for the next game…

Ok #USMNT This was cute. Now leave it for the grown ups

Too much noise about this Balogun shananigan as if he was any difference-maker. Wouldn’t be a starter in any elite team around the world.

Justice made by Football. Football, not Soccerz

Balogun, no Balogun… don’t think it will matter. #USMNT is still years away from elite soccer. Remove the home factor and this team would probably be already out of the tournament

@ellencarmichael the FIFA president to change the ruling it taints the sport much more than religious or economical moves as you chose to bring into discussion (Schopenhauer would be proud you read “The Art of Being Right”)

@ellencarmichael You see, apart from the discussion if the red card was the correct call or not (and to me, it was), I’d say soccer fans not born in the US see the sport as their very own politics-free sanctuary, even if they choose to be blind to indirect influences. When the President CALLS 1/2

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged. Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait. To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations. In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted. The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards. Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure. So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve. Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less. Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal. Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

@BearsSofrencia Porra, demais

A FIA É UMA VERGONHA

@heykayadams People who talk about Pelé’s three WC forget (or don’t know) that he didn’t really play 62, cause he was injured. That was Garrincha’s cup to take. Different times, different sports almost. Let just be glad we are living during Messi’s age.

no question for the longest now

@joeygems @ScottHanson I agree that the “automatic suspension” that a red card carries is too much. There should be some sort of expedite trial that considers, among other things, intention. However, again, those are the current rules and players are fully aware of them.

@ODocMoc @ScottHanson I can understand an ejection. But a one game suspension? That's excessive for what the play was. Should have been a yellow.

Please help me out, soccer folks. Correct call to go red? And how punitive to USA? Is that a realistic wrap to the tourney? (Either tonight or Monday) ??

@JeffWaddilove The fact that you said that proves 2 things: You know nothing about the sport and how this rule has changed the game, making it more dinamic and fun; People who knows ball should give a fuck about americans soccer opinions

Offsides is precisely why Americans could give a fuck about soccer. Lamest rule in all of sports.

@GrantPaulsen @MatthewBerryTMR The fact that it was Balogun, and he’s the best player is absolutely irrelevant. You can’t have different rules for different players

@GrantPaulsen @MatthewBerryTMR I think there are two different discussions here: Foul, intentional or not, was a red card foul, according to rules; This red card represent an automatic suspension for the next game; maybe that should consider intention. Unfortunately, again, those are the rules.

I defer to you. I’ll assume you’re right. I can’t stress this enough: if that foul was worth playing 11 on 10 for a third of a game and losing your best player for the next game — I just can’t get all that into the sport. That’s beyond ridiculous.

@jntyby @ScottHanson Different sports, different rules, my man. I just used the analogy cause Football is Hanson’s main thing.

@ODocMoc @ScottHanson Yeah but unnecessary roughness is a 15 yard penalty, not a game and a half suspension

@ScottHanson Messi’s

@ScottHanson From a Brazilian: it was unintentional. Probably called a red flag for how high Balogun stepped on it. Think “unnecessary roughness”. It’s been a point of emphasis for FIFA. However, round one Messi did the very same on an Algerian player and no VAR was called