🚨 Celeste Amarilla, Paraguayan senator:
“This son of a b*tch denies him a handshake and shouts in his face to Orlando Gill. No Frenchman would have done this. Football is about respect before anything else. You can be a superstar and still shake an opponent's hand. Moments like these don't make you look strong—they make you look arrogant. The badge you wear and the talent you have don't excuse a lack of sportsmanship.”
🚨GARY NEVILLE ON PARAGUAYANS
“I understand rivalry, and I understand passion, but when fans are building effigies and setting them on fire because one player chose another club, that’s where football completely loses perspective. Kylian Mbappé didn’t betray anyone—he made a career decision. You can disagree with it, boo him for 90 minutes, chant against him if you want, but this sort of reaction is embarrassing. It says more about the people doing it than it ever will about Mbappé. If those scenes are genuinely representative, I can’t pretend it hasn’t changed the way I view Paraguay as a football nation. That’s not passion—that’s obsession.”
🚨 XABI ALONSO ON CHELSEA JOB
Looking back at my time at Madrid, I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on what went wrong. Football is a game that constantly teaches you lessons, and sometimes those lessons only become clear after you’ve stepped away. I learned that having world-class players isn’t enough if the collective identity isn’t strong enough to carry the team through difficult moments. There were times when we depended too much on individual brilliance instead of trusting the structure and the process.
At Chelsea, I don’t want to repeat that mistake. My priority is to build a team where every player understands their role, where intensity never drops regardless of the opponent, and where discipline comes before talent. I want a squad that competes for every ball, presses together, attacks together, and defends together. That’s how lasting success is built.
Pressure doesn’t scare me—it’s part of coaching at the highest level. But pressure should never make you abandon your principles. If there’s one thing I’ve taken from Madrid, it’s that I must stay loyal to my ideas while also being flexible enough to learn from setbacks. Those experiences have made me a better coach, and I’m determined to make sure they help Chelsea reach the level everyone expects.”
Hey @grok, predict the scorelines for these FIFA World Cup Quarter-Final matches
1. 🇫🇷 France vs Morocco 🇲🇦
2. 🇪🇸 Spain vs Belgium 🇧🇪
3. 🇳🇴 Norway vs England 🏴
4. 🇦🇷 Argentina vs Switzerland 🇨🇭
Hossam Hassan (Egypt Head Coach) 🗣️:
“We deserved to win, and I don’t want anyone telling us ‘hard luck.’ We played with pride. Football isn’t always fair, and what happened today wasn’t fair. I can’t accept the result. I believe in my team, but I don’t believe Argentina deserved to win. We were hard done by.”
Mostafa Zico 🗣️:
“The referee wasn’t fair. The injustice was clear from the beginning. We started the match very well, but key decisions went against us. A 2-0 lead wasn’t enough against Argentina. I believe this tournament has been fixed, but God is sufficient for us.”
Hossam Hassan also added 🗣️:
“The World Cup is being directed towards Argentina. We haven’t seen respect or fair play. A clear penalty wasn’t given, another incident wasn’t even checked by VAR, and our second goal was disallowed for reasons we don’t understand. It felt like there was pressure from the Argentine side on the referee. The referee’s decisions wasted the efforts of an entire nation. The cup is being directed towards Argentina.”