Henry Bushnell
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One aspect of life with Messi at Inter Miami: Duolingo streaks, Spanish lessons, a coach-turned-interpreter, and bilingual bonds.
Feature on a facet of global soccer/MLS that has always fascinated me: language
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The 33-pass Portugal goal, in full, from above.
Poetry.
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I mean, just look at this. Salah sails his penalty over… and surely anybody would, given the lasers.
Mane scores, Senegal wins the shootout, Egypt out of the World Cup
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Why Soccer Players Dive, exhibit 34389238:
If Mendy falls on his face here, ref 100% whistles for a foul on Traore
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Scenes in Italy. Mario Balotelli, presumably in response to racist abuse from fans, picks up ball and kicks it into stands.
Here's the aftermath.
We - football, society – need teammates/opponents to stop pleading with victims to not walk off, start walking off with them instead
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Here’s Shaq, who spends a lot of time in China, speaking on TNT about the NBA/China situation:
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Megan Rapinoe, speaking just now, to men:
(she’s right)
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If Argentina doesn't win tonight, the USMNT's path to a World Cup semifinal would be:
- Netherlands
- Australia/Poland/Saudi Arabia
Would be a golden opportunity
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A parting message from Tim Ream, who essentially capped his USMNT career, at 35 years old, with an incredible World Cup:
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"Andrea Barzagli, your thoughts on Cristiano Ronaldo?”
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would LOVE to see Random Dude On Twitter try to shield a ball from Adama Traore
@HenryBushnell
@FCYahoo
That is a dumb reason for diving if you can actually learn how to shield a ball.
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then Di Maria thought about drinking a beer Man United fans threw at him…
And then he assisted on the second PSG goal…
Have a day, lad
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FIFA statement makes it official:
Mexico will have to play two World Cup qualifiers in empty stadiums as punishment for homophobic chants
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This should be a pen.
Fabinho “getting the ball” and Fabinho sticking out his leg to (seemingly) take down Ings are two separate incidents
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On Pulisic comments y'day:
1. He has every right to be disappointed w/ 6000+ empty seats
2. Fans have every right to not pay ~$100 to watch a friendly
3. USMNT has every right to come back to Ohio for great facilities, etc
4. If players want full stadiums, lower ticket prices
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Matt Turner on his… *adventurousness* tonight: “I touched into my inner Jorge Campos”
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Tyler Adams immediately fell to his knees.
Yunus Musah to his ass.
Totally gassed. Totally heroic. USMNT through to the knockout rounds.
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Gio Reyna really hit the superfecta of defiant celebrations:
1. shush
2. chatter/talking
3. cupping hand to ear
4. fingers in ears
(Photos: Getty & AP)
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Lilly King: “The fact that we [as a country] don’t celebrate silver and bronze is bullshit"
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Emily Sonnett had never started a game for the USWNT in midfield.
She was a midfielder growing up, but has been a defender since college — until this season, when OL Reign coach Laura Harvey traded for her and moved her to DM.
Now she starts there in the World Cup knockouts.
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Italy out. Twice in a row.
Stunning.
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Kevin. De. Bruyne.
Ball is about two feet off the ground and somehow still rising when it punctures the net. Ridiculous.
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In 2012, the Philippines WNT wanted to hold a California tryout. It needed fields. Up stepped a local soccer coach named Clint McDaniel. His Filipina wife, Lindy, helped w/ logistics.
Now their daughter, Olivia McDaniel, is a national hero:
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here's the 18-pass, side-to-side, probing move that led to the RB Leipzig goal
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Early returns on whether Jesús Ferreira can cut it at the World Cup level:
no
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The fan who ran on the field at Uruguay-Portugal did indeed have a rainbow flag, and was wearing a shirt that read "SAVE UKRAINE" and "RESPECT FOR IRANIAN WOMEN"
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The Philippines will debut at the World Cup tonight with 1 homegrown player and 18 born in the U.S.
This is the story of the team's Filipino American architects — two Midwesterners who met on a message board:
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The NFL’s public shift on racism and BLM has a wild, inspiring story behind it.
How a ‘rogue’ employee (
@Bryndon
) and
@Cantguardmike
– and many hurting players & NFL employees – forced Roger Goodell to say “Black Lives Matter”:
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Dele Alli with maybe the greatest secondary assist I’ve ever seen
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He drew up practice plans 5 years in advance. Dropped his pants to prove a point. Dubbed a player 'Irrelevant Roy.' Went to the Independence Bowl and said: “We’re never f’ing coming here again."
The story of Nick Saban’s *eventful* Year 1 at Alabama:
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nearly the most gloriously disrespectful goal in soccer history
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Quick thought for USMNT Twitter on roster day...
Analyze, criticize, gripe all you want. But if you don't like a player, you really, really don't have to *celebrate* him not making the squad.
These guys are human. They're gutted. We can all make the world a little less toxic
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Here it is, the Tobin Heath no-touch nutmeg, in all its glory
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A
#USMNT
manager taking off a healthy Christian Pulisic in any competitive 0-0 game, with this player pool around him, is inexcusable.
Trying to think of a scenario, literally any scenario, where it’d improve the team’s win prob. Can’t.
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Confirmed: The USMNT’s three group stage games will all kick off at 2 p.m. ET
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This is a great tweet.
Also, Mendy’s final whistle-to-Twitter time is impressive.
yes 6-1.. yeah 1 or more assist for me (certainly more 😝😅) .. yeah Kun 3 goals and all that... but our MOTM today its him 😍 (and Im no talking about his dad) 💙
#mateo
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Ugly situation in Spain.
The RFEF's response to 15 players alleging an environment that has "significantly" affected their "emotional state" and "health" is basically: how dare you
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Megan Rapinoe, at age 37, in her last four games: 4 goals, 3 assists, 1 stoppage-time winner, and now 0 shirt
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Re: Gregg Berhalter, three things can be true:
1. He had a pretty/very good tournament
2. He got outcoached today. By a lot.
3. Players — the still-wide gulf in quality between the US and top European teams — were more responsible than coaching for what happened today
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“This is systemic racism in soccer”
As part of
@YahooSports
’ Privilege of Play series, a feature on why the world’s most accessible and diverse team sport is so white in America:
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what is the point of this USWNT game?
worst World Cup in program history (by far), semi-urgent need to evolve the player pool, young talent waiting, and… they’re just doing the exact same thing as 3 months ago???
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Another angle of the Liverpool-Southampton penalty shout.
Ings is in. Fabinho sticks out his leg. It’s a foul.
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Becky Sauerbrunn's incredibly strong, emotional opening statement this afternoon on the Yates report.
"We are horrified and heartbroken and frustrated and exhausted"
"Every owner and executive and U.S. Soccer official who has repeatedly failed the players ... should be gone"
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A resurgent USWNT win, and the ultimate Alex Morgan game.
Didn't score — and rarely has over the past 11 months.
But contributed to all 3 goals, in 3 ways that show why she still might be the USWNT's best No. 9:
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Christian Pulisic welcoming his teammates back to the USMNT's hotel on The Pearl tonight (via
@USMNT
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This whole quote is the essence of Rapinoe, and what I always try to tell the “if she doesn’t appreciate America, get out!” crowd.
She, of course, explained it better than I or anybody else ever could
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The NBA’s second-best 3-point shooter…
- is from a tiny Latvian town of 3,000
- overcame two ACL tears
- has 4.5 fingers on his shooting hand
- is, as RC Buford says, “mature beyond his years"
This is the near-impossible story of
@DBertans_42
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Fox untruthfully promoting a 3am ET USWNT game so that you will wake up at 1am to watch a two-hour pregame show is a new low.
Borderline cruelty.
(Also seems, uh... incredibly stupid if you'd like viewers to not be furious at you!)
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Hong Kong flag in prime position behind TNT’s halftime show
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USMNT starting lineup v Wales:
Turner; Dest, Zimmerman, Ream, Robinson; Adams, Musah, McKennie; Weah, Sargent, Pulisic
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Q: Did Zion Williamson dunk so hard he tilted the rim/backboard?
A: Well, a few arena staffers had to fix it at halftime...
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Explained this in a bit more detail.
The football world hates cheats and craves honesty… but how can we expect the latter when the game essentially penalizes it?
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Brenden Aaronson, a rail-thin 21-year-old from South Jersey, out here spinning around some of the best defenders in the world in the best league in the world
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Five years ago, the
@Bucks
were in the NBA’s cellar – 15-67, the league’s least-valuable franchise, last or near-last in every business metric.
Now they’re at its summit. And for reasons you don’t realize, they might be here to stay:
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And thus, the bird's eye view is the important angle of the Japan goal.
Here it is.
Ball is in, it seems — barely, by millimeters.
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Messi and Argentina just turned the mixed zone into a party
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The players aren't being developed properly.
They're being coached poorly.
Their plan isn't working, so they lose trust, and don't move off the ball, and panic on the ball, and everything breaks down, cyclically.
On the USWNT's cascading problems:
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Story on all of this:
Laser pointers are, of course, banned — but also, of course, not difficult to get through security
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Rapinoe was not scheduled to speak to media today.
After the Supreme Court decision, she asked to, and spoke for over 9 minutes before taking a few questions (and wiping away tears).
Here’s what she said.
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The Chiefs went down 21-0.
@cpenn4thewin
, a diehard fan, left (to watch on the
@YahooSports
app!).
But he’s not mad he missed the comeback. Nah, just the opposite:
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The USMNT World Cup roster will be released on Nov. 9.
US Soccer VP of marketing Kay Bradley said at board meeting that there'll be an event in NYC at which Berhalter will announce the 26-man squad.
Team spokesman confirms that that will be the grand reveal.
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Eight Moroccan players fell to the ground or into a crouch at the final whistle.
They gave it everything.
Fans still singing and bouncing, saluting a remarkable effort
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Gio Reyna looks great, and just scored this goal.
McKennie looked great and scored yesterday.
Pulisic looked great Wednesday.
Tim Weah last week too.
It’s all happening at just the right time for the USMNT…
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Some watched from the Rose Bowl or Meadowlands. Others on TV.
Some learned via documentaries on ODP bus trips. Others via magazines.
20 years after the ‘99ers changed soccer, the best evidence of the their legacy might just be the current
#USWNT
:
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Wrote about this. We can keep suspending matches and reading PA statements and so on.
But the game will go on, and racist abuse will go on, until teammates and opponents of victims decide it won’t:
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Senegal fans just relentless with the laser pointers, man
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.
@SPIEGEL_English
has copies of the key questionnaire in which Cristiano Ronaldo seemingly admits to rape, but which was later amended (presumably by lawyers):
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I’m not sure this email has been emphasized enough.
From the “Redacted - ESPN Personality”, to Bruce Allen, two days after Kaep first explained his protest…
“They suspend people for taking amino acids they should cut this f**k”
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Lautaro Martinez with the shoestring tackle to save a goal!
And VAR somehow doesn’t give the penalty!
(Surely should’ve been a red card too)
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So, of 9 MLS games scheduled to have happened by now:
- 3 have happened on time
- 2 have been canceled
- 1 has been postponed (twice)
- 2 have been delayed by weather
- 1 happened at an adjusted time
The 10th will (might) be played by a club with a confirmed COVID-19 positive…
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My goodness. Josh Murphy’s goal for Norwich v Aston Villa…
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Megan Rapinoe calls the Spanish federation's treatment of its players “absurd," "asinine" and "immature"
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This is the network Mike Gundy called “refreshing,” because “they just report the news. There’s no commentary."
It seems a lot of you don't quite understand why a major college football coach promoting OAN is a problem.
OAN says Black Lives Matter is "a farce."
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Lionel Messi cried when he left Rosario.
He longed, for two decades, to bring a World Cup and unbridled happiness back home.
Dear Argentina: He's coming
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The Argentina fans have gotten mighty quiet.
The Mexico fans just the opposite
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Gregg Berhalter, June 5:
“Yunus just blows me away, at his age, what he can do. Craaazy level of talent. We need to work with Yunus on the final product, the final pass, the finishing. Because he has a huge ceiling.”
Yunus Musah, 3 months later:
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The USMNT will play England at the World Cup on Black Friday
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Last USMNT World Cup: Skipped freshman-year class to watch the draw, wrote for a personal blog that 5 ppl read
Today: ✈️ Qatar
Feeling ridiculously lucky, indebted to a lot of people, and ready to tell some stories. Hope you’ll follow along
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so the
@TotalSoccerShow
guys did 46 freakin podcasts between June 3 and yesterday.
FORTY-SIX.
if you’re reading this, stand up right where you are and give them a goddamn round of applause
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MLS's plan to maximize Messi's first full season, apparently — Week 1:
1. paywalled opener
2. Open Cup controversy
3. ref lockout
4. but hey, Messi!
With soccer sickos and casuals alike, really feels like opportunity is being squandered:
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Megan Rapinoe, c. Oct. 2018, on protest and allyship.
Important words right now. Important words always.
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Matt Turner at Arsenal so far:
360 minutes
0 non-penalty goals conceded
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Savannah DeMelo starts for the USWNT!
Full U.S. starting 11 vs. Vietnam:
Alyssa Naeher;
Emily Fox, Naomi Girma, Julie Ertz, Crystal Dunn;
Andi Sullivan, Lindsey Horan, Savannah DeMelo;
Sophia Smith, Alex Morgan, Trinity Rodman
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Also enjoyed Neymar clowning Kampl so much that a second Leipzig player had to come in with a classic "aight, enough, fuck this guy" foul
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Panama had already put multiple corners right on Matt Turner.
USMNT zoned up and… ignored the three players closest to Turner/the goal.
Not a set piece expert, but this seems like an absolutely terrible way to defend a corner
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I’ll let y’all decide for yourselves whether Neymar was at fault on the Di Maria goal…
But let’s just say there’s a reason there was absolutely zero pressure on the ball.
(h/t
@johnspacemuller
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Berhalter’s USMNT hasn’t beaten a top-25 Elo team outside CONCACAF.
Wanted to do that Saturday.
Instead, by the second half, as Chris Richards said, every German attack felt like “seeing a train wreck coming, but you couldn’t quite move from it.”
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