I had another attempt that went really great but idk why the picture didn’t save well (prob my fault I’m on a train) but this was cool

There’s a guy in MLS named Lineker????

From the bad place: Carlos Cordeiro has resigned at FIFA and has released quite a damning statement on the whole operation. It confirms something that I thought: even if you’re thirsty for dollars and a turbo capitalist at heart, this deal never made any sense and only does if you see it as bribery

Anyway, so here it is: Pirlo will coach the national team. There is just one little problem, initially floated by a small, liberal publication but which then gained steam in the public: through the owner of his Emirati club, Pirlo is the testimonial for a Russian betting company called Fonbet

Malagò’s first job was hiring the new head coach of the men’s soccer team. The Serie A teams have been asking (idk why they have a say in this but welcome to Italy) for Antonio Conte, while it was long rumoured that Malagò’s preference would be for his friend Roberto Mancini

First thing: in June, Giovanni Malagò was elected head of the soccer federation. But who is Malagò? He’s an entrepreneur, former Futsal World Cup player and more importantly for the last 12 years he’s been the head of Italy’s Olympic committee+head of the host committee for the 2026 Winter Olympics

MLS has apparently changed the way red cards are shown on the score bug. This is on the surface a good idea,but imho it makes things worse and as soon as there’s a team suffering two red cards the flaws are going to be clear. Btw still hoping the score bug at some point will show subs available/used

oh no

I love it when a striker just gets people into the box

This is what the internet sounds to me on days like this one:

I’m sorry do you not see that according to your own line, Egypt’s defender’s foot is entirely behind the line while Iran’s attacker’s foot is clearly on top of it and past it?

This is offside. I can see it with my own eye. It’s close, but you can see the Iran attacker is clearly past the goalkeeper and that the edge of the foot is past the second-last defender, and that the last defender doesn’t count because you need to be behind two to be onside

The things that Jesper Sorensen has done to this man, insane, just a whole different player from what he used to be

Loved this from @futi.live and I think it shows what I want USMNT to be as opponents get tougher: keep pushing on the verticality pedal. Take risks. Stronger teams will expose some defensive liabilities bc that’s just going to happen. You best teams by scoring one goal more, not letting in one less

At a store in the Monte Mario neighbourhood of Rome you can buy t shirts of world famous brands such as Popeye, the Rolling Stones, Peanuts, Inter Miami and the New York Red Bulls

At a vending machine at the Giulio Agricola metro station in Rome you can try your luck to pick up a few official MLS balls

Ah yes the conference league final

anyway: this is how I would drew it up:

It is Dr. Alessandro Acquistapace from now on folks

I don’t like it when your supposed star player has to track back as much as Almiron has done to get the ball, it usually means there’s a general problem in progressing the ball cleanly. Esp bc the best version of Almiron is not really supposed to do that, you shouldn’t ask that of him

Honestly in 2026 if this is not the starting point of your politics you are doing politics wrong. This is the one non-negotiable we should start to enforce tbh

That’s former Italian NT player, but I’d argue more importantly minority owner of USL team New York Cosmos (formerly of recently deceased Rocco Benito Commisso) turning up in Democrats’ replies and revealing himself as a fascist!

Very interesting player. Once again seems to fit the ethos for LAFC midfielders, I feel like he could really feast with Son up top, but he does not scream to me “we’re going to be better with the ball”

This guy has been signed to a U22 contract in the same spot where Atlanta has Pedro Amador (who is one of the few positives of this squad and also v good at crossing)

Idk, I feel like when a coach turns around and gets this type of record, he warrants a second chance even if his previous record was atrocious (especially if that record happened within the most dysfunctional of environments)

Swedish Vanni Sartini, many are saying it

DC United: - signed a new DP striker -could very likely spend a #1 draft pick on a striker -have a striker-ish type in Murrell -has Dom Badji under contract in 2026 -takes a flier on a striker Erkut Sogut today said “we have a clear vision”

IG gave me this ad for a clearly scammy app which apparently allows you to invest in “luxury goods”. The text says “Nancy Pelosi is one of our own”. The image seems to imply that Nancy Pelosi is actually that young woman in dreadlocks. I couldn’t find any information about dreadlocked Pelosi, though

We’ll see what happens w/ that freed up U22 slot. Fire have some cap space+int’l slot (Barlow was on $300k+Gasper on $600k+Kouamé on TAM). Last year I thought they could take a big swing as 3rd DP (Neymar, or even a DM/CB!) bc Gutiérrez was so good, now they have a big gap at a DP friendly position