Poor defending and goalkeeping, but what a strike!

According to the Athletic it was 36.3 yards out

Club legend? Yeahhh right

I genuinely question whether he has the quality required for United though? He hasn’t played professional football for something around eighteen months now - no amount of training will make up for that.

Tbh, it would be very funny if United brought him back and he played like shit.

Just bin the fucker already

Eh, why? I was under the impression that this is because PSG owners agreed to a very stupid contract and Mbappé is holding them to it.

Real Madrid are incredibly fucked, what a disaster for them.

Probably should unpin this

Links to a couple of articles I posted on here

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/38112430/jamaica-struggle-equality-respect-world-cup

https://theathletic.com/4718637/2023/07/29/jamaica-women-world-cup/

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Hold on, I found a non-paywalled article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-03/spain-france-canada-player-boycotts-paradox-of-power-womens-game/102037590

It’s a great read, if rather depressing.

And yeah it’s an absolute shitshow. Feel bad for the Spanish team who are the strongest they’ve been in a long time, but have to deal with this situation.

Here’s a good article by the Athletic about it (paywalled though.)

Short version, fifteen players (mostly from Barcelona) protested against unprofessional treatment from Vilda and his coaching staff, and insufficient resources and backing from the federation. They requested not to be called up to the national team. Federation supported Vilda fully but later offered a compromise on certain issues, which is why some of the fifteen later returned for the World Cup. However, Spain are still missing key players who are continuing the boycott, most notably Mapi León.

I’m inclined to to believe the players on this, you don’t have fifteen players refuse to play for their national team (with public support from another three, including Alexia Putellas) without having some serious problems.

Reminder that the Spanish football federation are a bunch of cunts (especially Rubiales) who would rather save face than support their players, and that Jorge Vilda is a useless, disgusting fuckwit who only got his job because of nepotism.

I just steal them from Reddit lol. I actually asked how to clip goals myself once, but I can’t be arsed fiddling around with that, and in any case I doubt anyone wants to see my shitty illegal stream. Let me know if you find a good source!

Yeah, the backlash would be massive but it will probably happen. Wonder if he’s still got the quality required for United though - he hasn’t played professional football in what, a year and a half? Might get loaned out somewhere.

Best to err on the safe side imo. There’s already a lot of misogyny about the women’s game, and a post like this could be seen as adding to it.

Fuck Rubiales, he would rather ruin Spain’s chance at a World Cup then admit the players were right about that useless unprofessional cunt Vilda.

Very happy for Japan though, amazing result and I’m always happy when fellow Asian countries do well.

Let’s hope the fucker never plays again

only caught the last 30 minutes of Germany - Colombia but I still feel emotionally drained

Is he? Well fuck, I could have sworn I saw somebody say that. Thanks for the correction!

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Can’t wait for the Haaland comparisions just cos they’re Norwegians with similar names.

the gist of it is that their federation fucked them over, but I’ve edited the post with some excerpts

Those Brazilian supporters are amazing, what an atmosphere!

Always wonderful to see fellow Asians doing well in Europe.

Some petty fucker downvoted both the Argentina goals I posted. Can’t blame them tbh, I’ve done the same myself.

It does that? Ah fuck, guess I’ll just mark all of them as Undetermined then. One of my favourite things about r/soccer is seeing users from the same country segue off into their own language, it reminds me how international football is.

Barcelona’s first freekick goal since Messi left. Damn

You’re welcome! Would be criminal not to post haha, fucking amazing