Alexander Abnos

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A deflated World Cup trophy inflatable.
Wide shot of the World Cup final pregame.
Aerial view of a full stadium with empty soccer field below
Close up of big idiot making dumb face with GOOOOOOL overlaid on to
Baby sitting and watching a tv with the 2026 3rd place game on
Map of air quality with a big red splotch over NYC.
My children love soccer. My one son, my very tall son, Barron, loves soccer. He's a good soccer player. He may — I don't know, his speed might — little kid, he's very tall. I don't know. I said, when some guy gets by you from Spain, from Argentina, from France, Barron, what happens? From England? What happens, Baron? He said, "'Dad, I'm a very good ball handler.'" I said, "'But, Baron, if he's faster, what do you do about it?' "'Dad, he'll never get by me.'" I said, "'But when he does.'" And he didn't want to answer that question. So speed, I think, is quite important in this sport. Do you agree? But he has good skills, actually.
A big press conference room
Three extremely handsome men posing in a stadium
High up view of bc place in soccer setup
Screenshot of a custom USMNT jersey with article as the name and 27 as the number
Cabral took the ball way out on the left, nipped inside, measured his strides, and produced the most beautifully pure right foot shot into the far corner past Emiliano Martínez, the ball seeming to hang in the damp Florida air, a perfect white orb, following that delicious parabola into the far corner. The stadium erupted in small pockets of delirious disbelief and entire looming stands of very abrupt silence. Cabral just ran, veering off back to the touchline, leaving the pitch, vaulting some stairs, waiting a bit, then embracing what was presumably his girlfriend, or at least someone who is now his girlfriend, or very keen to be.
Malik tillmans right foot w a bloody sock w a tear in it.
Panoramic shot of a half full Levi’s stadium.
A lot of journalists standing around in the sun .
Screenshot of Zohran Mamdani picking Morocco to win the World Cup
Movie poster for "The Distinguished Gentleman," a decent but not great 1992 Eddie Murphy comedy in which he plays a con man that gets elected to congress because he has the same name as the longtime incumbent who died
Ken Griffey jr statue in a USMNT shirt
Screenshot of BeReal notification: “Not ideal, but we’ve got this!” In reaction to USA 1-0 Paraguay
The 52-year-old continued: “Every one of these boys is incredibly Canadian and the pride they have in putting on the jersey, representing the country, hearing the national anthem … in the US sometimes we had to beg players to sing the national anthem … these guys belt it out to the top of their lungs because they want to show the country how proud they are to be here, to be Canadians and to represent what Canada is.”
the Guardian's football weekly art except now it's called World Cup Daily.
Group of US players w Chicago skyline in the background
Pochettino pointing to a laptop with the US players surroudning him
“The players didn’t make the roster, they don’t want to hear me apologize,” he said. “I care. Do you know why I care? For two weeks I did not sleep. And even today, I cannot enjoy the 26 guys in front of me because I am still thinking about guys that are out. That is to care. If I call [the players I cut] it is about myself. If I call, I say ‘I am very human about calling and giving an explanation.’” “Come on,” Pochettino concluded. “That is bullshit.”
“You cannot go to watch in the US a college game, not even speaking about a top professional game of a certain level, for less than $300,” Infantino said. “And this is the World Cup.”
youtube thumbnail with title: Can 2018 LeBron Prevent France from Falling to Nazi Germany During World War 2?
Still from the awesome scene in Big Lebowski where the cop says "Leads?" over and over.