The difference is Europe already has an established presence in world football.
Meanwhile you have owners like di Laurentiis who talk about never signing African players again in general, because he thinks the African football tournaments that his players leave for are jokes.
I don’t get how...
Are you Portuguese? Literally no one I know thought he would make a meaningful impact in this World Cup. 70% of fans wanted him on the bench and for players like Leão to start instead, and instead we got players like Dalot trying to become a hero in a quarterfinal.
Foreign fans obsess over...
? Football is also a colonial thing :lol:
You don’t understand how happy people there are whenever they embarrass England in a sport that was meant for the upper class “civilized” Englishman that called the natives brown monkeys. Other than beating Pakistan, beating England in cricket is a...
Man Ronaldo’s fans and haters care about him so much more than actual Portuguese fans do.
People sending me Ronaldo memes, meanwhile I’m not even thinking about him at all. At least send me anti Santos media :lol
I mentioned this a few days ago, but a lot of my relatives in the region grew up watching the 80s Argentina teams. These are the new generation of those fans and I guarantee they get into arguments with their parents. Let my older relatives tell it, Maradona and Mario Kempes are the GOATs and...
I don’t know about hyped, but the Indian people I know were definitely rooting for Japan and Korea in this World Cup because they wanted an Asian team to win for once. Obviously if it was a rival country like Pakistan or something, they wouldn’t, but the general idea was still there
I just don’t want to even give the English any hope at all, so I hope France goes off on them today.
By the way, I’m glad that this time around we haven’t been flooded with NTers suddenly repping England and talking about “it’s coming home, lads” every page like the last World Cup. Made me...
Yup I’m glad most of us don’t look and behave like generic Europeans :lol: difference is that we embrace it, while Spanish and Italians join white supremacist groups because of how in denial they are.
As soon as I saw the starting lineup for today, I had a bad feeling.
It’s one thing to @$&@ around in qualifying and maybe the group stage.
In a must-win scenario, he leaves the most promising player on the bench until there’s 20 minutes left. Even today, I was like “ok he’s definitely going...
They’ve already started instigating. Now there are articles with people commenting about all the European born Moroccan players being ungrateful to Spain, France, etc. and accusing them of leeching off the benefits.
Hey, if you’re mad about players saying “I don’t feel at home” in Spain...
Come on, I like Mexico, but Portugal at least won Euro and have been competitive in World Cups for the most part. Mexico’s main competition is the US :lol:
Santos’ decision to bench one of the best young players in the world until the end of games…baffling
Watch him get brought on after the 80th minute after it’s probably too late :stoneface:
What exactly would he have been killed for (not a sarcastic question)? From what I’m reading on different articles, his coworkers were saying he mentioned that he was overworking himself/got sick and ended up collapsing.
The back to back Paredes tackles reminded me of when I used to be losing in FIFA and would start doing desperation tackles (half of which would end in red cards) :lol: dude is beyond lucky he didn’t get carded for shooting the ball into the Dutch bench
I 100% felt like someone from Argentina...