Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Wait, you're telling me that the country that has had top MFs all over the game for decades are "copying Klopp?"

I mean, Xabi Alonso, Busquets, Xavi, and Iniesta predate Klopp at Liverpool by a good margin. Even today, between Rodri, Fermin Lopez, Pedri, Olmo, Gavi, and others, Spain's MF is pretty damn good now... I dont see them as "copying Klopp," so much as the other way around.


Insofar as MLS goes, I dunno. I dont watch MLS much these days.

 

I don’t mind breaking, but it’s puzzling why they include it in the Olympic games while letting out skating, baseball, paddle, indoor soccer or pickleball…

 

Today was a bad day for the USMNT. Just shows that USSF only cares about USWNT.

 

I think bringing back Notre Dame 5.5 years after the fire that nearly destroyed it is a pretty remarkable achievement.

 

I can’t figure out why it’s included because, you know, it’s not a sport.

 

And has the US been this bad at boxing for a while, or is this new?

 

Kids pick MMA over boxing these days

 

Kids these days. In my day, we were only allowed to punch our opponents. We couldn’t kick them in the kidneys or bear hug them and throw them to the ground. We could only hit them. AND WE LIKED IT!

 

Joke aside, it is indeed. Definitely looking forward to the official reopening later this year.

 

Bro, I agree with @Khan here. Spain academy and player's development are the best in Europe and has been for decades now, nothing to do with Klopp.

 

I meant the US is. Spain is Spain. Touch and control are more important than athletism

 

Again, I meant the US is copying Klopp. Spain is doing Spain

 

Oh sure. Now you’re trying to walk it back, playing it off as misspeak.

I see you.

 

Seems reminiscent of your anti big boobs rant

 

If you go back and read that, I didn’t say I was anti-big-boobs. I said that all boobs are great. They don’t HAVE to be huge. Who doesn’t love titties?

And I’m pretty sure we were using “tits” and “titties.” And yes, I am a grown man, but I don’t always talk like one.

 

It was never assembled to begin with.

Yet another judged "sport". Way to go, Olympics. It'll be a pageant within the next 20 years.

 

I'm all Black, and nothing a group of Argentines did to me would be shocking..

 

lol

 

The latter has been definitely true for a while now. Don't know about the former.

 

There’s a Simpsons reference for almost anything:

El breakdance hace su debut en los #JuegosOlímpicos #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/8vivzB1idi

— El Barto (@Eraserhead79) August 10, 2024

 

shaggy sneaking off to the kitchen to make a big ass sandwich while the rest of mystery inc is investigating the haunted house pic.twitter.com/JNdyUR7pWH

— zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg) August 10, 2024