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“Me no sleep. Except at meetings. Because me SMART!!!”
Lol I bet the commissioner didn’t expect he’d brag about it to the public.
He forgot he ever met Trump before? He ought to get that checked.
Man they really want the Wikipedia entry for US Men’s National Team results section to have an asterisk by the number 2026, don’t they
He went and did exactly what he always goes and does: he made the thing about himself.
Conspiracy time.
Because of the 250 years of independence, the final will be rigged to be USA/England and the USA will win controversially.
Then trump will keep the trophy
I bet it'll follow this script down to a T, hehe. I'll show myself out.
I'm already suspicious the USA have got as far as they have, yes Norway are ranked two places below, but Haaland is far far better than anyone the US can field. Chances are given the USA would have had plenty of Lantino countries in their qualifying group, they're only chance of getting into the World Cup was automatic due to hosting it. I don't know, maybe I'm being to harsh. Still it is utterly unbelievable that FIFA have reversed this.
The host countries are usually setup to get out of their group. US has generally been good enough on their own to get to quarterfinals when they qualify, but that’s when the real tourney begins.
You have the right of it otherwise, but one player usually can't carry a whole team on his own. Not even s phenomenon like Haaland.
Granted, they have a few other good players like Ødegaard too, but that's still not necessarily enough to beat a well-managed team and Pochettino managed a few of the biggest clubs in the world before taking the US gig.
Still, even if nothing else looks suspicious, the first withdrawn red card since 1962 at the request of the despot in charge of a home country is in itself enough to warrant an asterisk.
Holy shit. As an American seeing the marketing and advertising for the world cup is sick. It's so cringy... I feel bad for all the authentic people that love the sport.
I wouldn't doubt if there's some business going on with FIFA on large corrupt scale though... American football is losing its pull of American culture... They needed a new sport to help them create submissive people.
It's about to get soulless like Hollywood and marketed pop music. ...and the Americans will froth over it like hungry zombies.
American football is losing popularity and we're trying to replace it with soccer? lol jesus fucking christ
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Will one of Starmer's last acts as PM be to try and get Quansah's red card overturned?
No, because he has some honor.
Nah, just the Neoliberal version of "honor", which is timidness and excessive politeness, if not less obvious collaboration.
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I hate that this doesn't sound as astoundingly stupid as it should thanks to the current state of affairs.
france will lend a player to the americans, who then goes on to score the winner in extra time.
Statue of Liberty play, right?
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Biden was asleep
This is a fucking weird chirp coming from someone constantly falling asleep on camera.
RENT. FREE.
And, like, how the heck is it Joe Biden's job to corruptly influence FIFA officials?
Biden derangement syndrome? He's complaining a past president didn't do anything for a current event
The projection never ends.
As an American Tottenham fan I am over the moon with how Poch has transformed Team USA and I was so ready to watch them beat Belgium without one of their best players.
Now it just looks stupid, like no one believes they could do it without this one guy. On top of the optics of it now Belgium has an extra reason to fight, it will absolutly light a fire under them. Was it a red card? No, it should have been a yellow but that's the game. You put the chip on your shoulder and go out there and fuck shit up. Now Belgium has the chip.
Just another example of the whining bitch culture the US has become under trump, the biggest thin skinned bitch of them all.
Norway is on form and are going to give England a great run and France are going to be hard to beat. People have been dogging this WC but honestly its been entertaining. The officiating has been half trash but the games have mostly been lit and the upsets have been great.
It was a red. It was dangerous and could have broken his ankle, even if he didn't intend it.
Belgium are crap, but would have comfortably beaten USA.
No one believes you can do it without that one guy before this. He's been carrying you.
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"it was I who cheated. Doesn't that make me amazing?"
Doesn't change a thing /s We did despise the corrupted USA administration already.
I was a great athlete and understand sports very well...
I understand penalising someone in one game but you can't penalise them for a game that hasn't happened yet.
How can anyone listen to such nonsense and be like "yeah I should vote for that guy". Every time I torture myself by watching a video of him, there's some outlandish claim of great knowledge or adeptness on a subject, immediately followed by laying out complete misunderstanding of said subject.
Yeah, that second one was an insane sentence. You literally can, Donald. That's how the fucking suspension system works, as you well know.
What a cunt.
That's not a parody quote, it's the actual quote in the Article, straight from the Horse's ass.
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Was it a bad call? Absolutely. Did this orange fuckwad make it worse by sticking his dick in it for his own glorification? You bet your ass.
All the hard work US Soccer has put in, to bring the world cup to the US and to raise the quality and status of football/soccer in the country has be thoroughly crapped upon in every way possible by this dementia riddled rapist.
All the hard work US Soccer has put in, to bring the world cup to the US and to raise the quality and status of football/soccer in the country
All destroyed now, and probably only because he had some bet on the game. No other president, no matter how shitty, would have done this or even accidentally come close.
We have never been so hated by our own leaders as we are right now.
Don't forget the ICE shitshow that cooled the desire for people to come to the games leading to stadiums and hotels half empty.
The mierdas touch strikes again.
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Disqualify the US and bring back Cabo Verde
I... really... I have no clue how anyone can listen to that, read that, or whatever, and not instantly realize that guy is an absolute moron. What the fuck?
I think everyone knows that. Even his supporters know he's an ass. They don't like saying that explicitly so they say stuff like "he just doesn't have a filter" or "he doesn't care about being pc" but that's just window dressing. They like that he's dumb. I can only speculate as to why but my experience says it's true all the same.
Possible that I really don't understand the supporters. I don't want to have someone leading anything, being that dumb.
Really takes the fun out of the tournament.
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