Infantino and FIFA are corrupt. Adding Trump just brings (a lot) more corruption.
The only way it could get bigger is to merge FIFA and the IOC into one organization

That completely unnecessary goal in the 90+3' was the real gift for the USA chanters.

The same thing happened with the knicks the night he attended! He is bad luck and stay the F away from him!

That's the sort of info that il duce will lean on
Like the ref of the last game is Brazilian, so he's questionable

Always and forever.

Vive la France!

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Getting into the final group of 16 teams is quite an achievement, and we saw some good games. USA was never going to win it, but those guys played their hearts out.

For a couple of reasons. But the biggest reason is that our best athletes don't play soccer. Travel soccer is mostly middle-upper class kids. Not that those kids can't be great athletes. It just closes the door on kids whose families can't afford it.

BTW, same is true with baseball. Our best athletes are no longer playing baseball for the same reasons.

Certainly for girls' sports, they're definitely more likely to play soccer in school. Much of this is at the instigation of parents who want their kids to participate without the fear of serious injuries.

So even though you're correct that the professional athletes gravitate to football for the money, the scholastic programs have encouraged soccer for the high schools and some colleges.

I concur!

For the school-aged kids, soccer is a main sport out here in California (or at least in SoCal).

Some of the girls (who play) take it very seriously as they work towards getting scholarships to college.

This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84)

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'You just need to find me 4 more goals'.

This country doesn’t deserve nice things with a corrupt felon in the White House, won’t be deserving of nice things until it cleans its act up and rejects MAGA.

Really liking it, except for those thuggish teams who seemed to be auditioning for a movie what with so much overly dramatic 'Oh, my boo-boo, he hit me..' instead of playing the game.

So much more exciting than US NFL snooze-fests. I hope US fans turn their backs on the NFL and show up for the better game!

As to the US team loss this evening, maybe they just didn't want to have to go to the White House & listen to how Trump saved them with his whiny-ass phone call snit fit about our 'star' getting a red card.

Glad to have you -

You might know that in a typical NFL broadcast, the ball is in play only 11-18 minutes.

Used to live next to a big park in Tucson and LOVED pee-wee football (US style, soccer hadn't caught on back then) and Little League Baseball. My old collie mix loved watching those kids with me.

Town I live in now has great kids' sports programs and I see lots of 'football' practices going on when I drive by any of the sports facilities. Kids are out there, working hard & blessings to the good people coaching.

...in all kinds of weather. We live in the greater Chicago area, and while we don't get as hot as Tucson, 90 degree heat and 80+% humidity is quite miserable.

Ealy spring and late fall can be pretty damn cold. I watched one game in 17 degree weather. The kids were wearing snow pants under their soccer short. I felt like I was standing on the deck of the Titanic.

I used to say to fellow soccer moms that we would never stand outside in these conditions to watch our husbands doing anything, only our kids -

Wore parka several times for the fireworks on Fourth of July

Cold has never been a problem for me. And I would love to see your Chicago, especially with the Obama Center open, but can't fly, too old to take the road trip.

Am southeast of Tucson now, and at a higher altitude so not as hot as in that now-huge city. Did rather like the 'Baked Apple' when I lived there years ago and it wasn't so big. Lots to do there, good music scene.

...K.I. Sawyer Air Force base. When we attended the base fireworks display our first July there, we wore coats, mittens and hats because it was 42 degrees on July 4th.

A win would not have brought joy or respect.

They got what they deserved. It’s not like they are world class soccer players anyway, but what they did miraculously accomplish will be forever sullied and stanked by corruption.

I did not want Trump to make about himself.

I could give two shits about soccer being played anywhere at any level, but I knew if the US won the whole thing he would have been center stage (as always) like he invented the damn game or something. I'm glad that won't be happening.

We didn't lose because of Trump. We lost because Belgium was better. Like most other countries, Belgium puts a lot more infrastructure into soccer than we do.

They brought a player who is as good as Doku off the bench. There's a reason they are a top 10 in the world team.

Trump had nothing to do with it. Quit giving him power over everything in your mind.

Most of us know he needs to be in an institution because of his megalomania and fuckedupidness that makes him try to get into everything in hopes he finds something he doesn't fail at.

Edited to add: Yep Belgium was MUCH better team, so 'connected' to each other! I saw some passes were the passer didn't even turn to look if intended receiver was there, he KNEW. Amazing discipline and teamwork. Hope people coaching kids in the US will emulate Belgium's coaching techniques.

It really is that simple.

I didn't like the issuance of a red card, but that's the way it went.
Trump's interference only made it a whole lot worse.

of trumps tampering

this whole yellow card, red card thing wouldn't matter so much.

What?

The Red Card. He will play the Orange Card and demand Ghouliana investigate.

Belgium has always been a better team than the USA. Especially in the knockout rounds.

The record books would have an "Asterisk" next to the USA Team indicating the Orange Turd meddled with FIFA to overrule the suspension of a US player.

Probably claim it was rigged.

-- Mal

Everything pedo Trump touches turns to crap.

came to the World Cup last night. trump destroys everything he touches. For me it's ironic because my ancestors came from Belgium before going to what is now Canada.

Most Americans don't even know the rules of the game.

The US never had a chance of winning the whole enchilada. They did well just to win two out of the four games they played.

Meanwhile MLB is mid season and the Tampa Bay Rays are kicking butt.

An X post from the Belgian side reading “overturn this” circulated Monday night.

Link to tweet

Hi everyone.

Was Boznia-Herzegovina. 1-12-2

Now they are 1-13-2

Most games on US soil.

Trump robbed the team of that,