"I hear this noise, and I'm like, oh my gosh, is that a Mavic Pro?!" 🧐
New Zealand defender
@stotty_13
tells
@sammymewy
how they found out about the Canada drone 🇳🇿
Some things are just bigger than soccer ❤️
@sammymewy
and
@lynnraenie
reflect on USWNT player Korbin Albert's social media this past week and what it will mean in the US locker room and for the future.
🎧: New Good Vibes FC episode is available now wherever you get your pods
All time Dutch topscorers: 🇳🇱🌟
1. Robin van Persie (50)
2. MEMPHIS DEPAY (45)
3. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (42)
4. Patrick Kluivert (40)
5. Dennis Bergkamp (37)
6. Arjen Robben (37)
Mark Parsons will not return as head coach next season. We are grateful for his contributions helping to lay a strong foundation and set us on a path to excellence.
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IOC media pushing back hard on anti-trans/misogynistic discourse was not on my bingo card but I’m so glad they have. A firm STFU to the absolute losers who have never cared about women’s sports and will continue to not care.
Priestman removing herself is also VERY telling in the worst way possible. You don’t remove yourself if you had no knowledge of the situation. Not in a tournament where you’re trying to defend a title. The levels of mess to this are astronomical.
#Paris2024
NT players have said for years that Ellis was toxic to play under. Remember the “winning in spite of, not because of” discourse in 2019? Plus the Yates report. How Ellis got the job in the first place is absurd but there is only one way forward now: get her out of the sport.
A reminder for everyone who is sad about the Olympics ending tomorrow (same!) the Paralympics start on August 28 and run through to September 8, so
#Paris2024
is not over yet!
She has quite literally sprinted to the other end of the field to check on players who have gone down even when they’re on the opposing team. A very, very good human 😊
I love this. He didn’t always get it right - but no manager ever does. What he did get right, imo the most underrated but crucial part of his tenure, is that he instilled a philosophy of the players being humans before athletes. We don’t see that level of genuine care enough.
Also asked KC Current HC Vlatko Andonovski about being humble ≠ no celebrations..
"I can't demand or ask someone to celebrate [or] not celebrate but I do want our team to be humble and calm and quiet when it comes down to wins and losses."
#KCBaby
Pickett should be on that roster over O’Hara all day long. I will die on this hill. Fox can play on the right. Put here there, play Pickett on the left in rotation with Dunn.
#uswnt
@SouthernSylvs
They looked better against Sweden because they coached themselves. In a do or die World Cup game, these players did it on their own. That is BONKERS
Now imagine if Midge’s well-being had been looked after and she had been subbed out of the game (which was being played on turf) the first time she went down? 🫠
GUYS THE NEW SPIRIT SIGNING IS NOT RASO IF IT WERE RASO THEY’D HAVE COORDINATED BOWS TO TEAM COLOURS. RATCLIFFE ALWAYS WEARS ORANGE NO MATTER WHERE SHE PLAYS I AM BEGGING YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS 😵💫😩😂
Charli is clearly referring to the abuse Kyra received. Kyra wasn’t even wearing the Spurs scarf, mind you. It had obviously been thrown on her shoulder for the purpose of a “haha jokes” picture. Rivalry is fine but not when it crosses the line to disrespect and abuse.
@Riss_Willett
Okay 1) they both need to shut up and 2) at what point was Ashlyn a “soccer star?” Is the star part in the room with us because I am pretty sure her and I have played the same amount of WC minutes………
@itsmeglinehan
I know you know this, but for anyone who may not have seen: Broadcast assumed the player who wasn’t game dressed with long hair was obviously Mana Shim (it was not, it was Brittany Wilson)
A fancy stadium + training facility do NOT matter if you’re treating players this way. KC, I don’t know why this needs to be explained to you…but you’re not the trailblazers you think you are when you’re treating players like this.
I would just like to point out that
@SheaButterFC
and
@DiasporaUtdPod
told us how this would go months ago. MONTHS. As
@SouthernSylvs
said - the US aren’t built to succeed coming out of the group in second place. The scenes we are about to witness in the Ro16 😶
SOURCES: San Diego Wave FC are adding in Landon Donovan as Interim Head Coach as Paul Buckle transitions out following the summer window that he was committed to.
@838_carlisle
@CanadaSoccerPO
@CanadaSoccerEN
The good: we know Becky and Pinoe got in that group chat IMMEDIATELY. They won’t do nothing. The only place those teams don’t like each other is for 90 minutes (+ stoppage/pens/whatever lol) on the pitch. They’re each other’s biggest allies off of it.
This is Colombia’s stadium. England can’t do anything without being loudly booed and every Colombian touch of the ball sends the whole place into complete frenzy. You LOVE to see it
#FIFAWWC
#COL
#ENG
The *discourse* is going to be about the wrong things because this place is a toxic hellhole but what shouldn’t be overshadowed is that Naeher and Musovic had games of their lives. Musovic kept Sweden in it. NAEHER SCORED A FREAKING PK GOAL!!
#FIFAWWC
#SWE
#USA
#USWNT
MVP 🗣️ MVP 🗣️ MVP 🗣️
We are celebrating
@kerolinnicolii
’s 2023
@NWSL
Most Valuable Player recognition at Saturday night’s match against Gotham! Get your tickets today:
#ForTheLove
Don’t forget that Yuki is a World Cup winner. These players deserve better and if it takes the WWC not being what it usually is, then that’s what it takes. There is already no joy in it. Support the players.
@AdaStolsmo
I stepped away from the national team 7 years ago because of lack of respect from them. But I couldn’t speak out at that time.
But now Time to act, yes and speak louder! 🔥
Ok this tweet appears to have been ✨perceived✨ so I’m just going to add please don’t send hate toward the Wave social admin. They are an employee likely stuck now in the very same toxic conditions former employees have so bravely spoken out against.
Oh, Mia Fishel scored on her debut? Who could have possibly predicted that? The answer is actually everyone, but especially
@DiasporaUtdPod
and
@SheaButterFC
It sucks for players but a team includes staff. The players can’t unlearn the info they have from that analysis regardless of how it was obtained. There’s no ethical way for them to get points from the match tomorrow.
If IOC and/or FIFA decide to roll out suspensions or point deductions - essentially innocent players take the hit for horrendous behaviour by members of technical staff. Player didn’t cheat, but there was cheating in preparation phase. Really terrible here.
@838_carlisle
It’s making me so mad that out of all narratives the KC fans could come up the one many seem to be running with is that Marta is a problem. Like…how the hell? Who decided on that nonsense. The players have had some ? takes too 🫠
@Riss_Willett
Plus after winning the shield and coach of the year last season AND the challenge cup this season? There have been coaches in the NWSL given a lot more grace for way worse results. SD are only a point out of playoff contention
On another planet! 🌎
Cristiano joins Marta and Christine Sinclair in scoring at five different FIFA World Cups ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
#FIFAWorldCup
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#FIFAWWC
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@sincy12
Canadian
#NWSL
update: the Courage/Spirit game is frozen on this screen and hasn’t moved in several minutes + the Pride/Gotham game is an abstract art potato cam
Ali Riley interviewing Stotty about what it was like being the one to spot the drone at training and her saying “there’s a drone, mate” I simply cannot what an icon 👑😂💀
@Kristance77
That’s the thing about abuse - getting out seems simple from an outside perspective but is absolutely never a black and white situation. Judging the players who stay is cruel and unfair for exactly that reason - we have no idea what’s happening to them behind closed doors
@GalPalSports
It’s also pure misery that Pickett was so solid in her two caps and was just never brought in again afterward. I’m going to be annoyed about it *forever*
@KaptinYap
Wild to me that so many are forgetting Carpenter is just 14 months post ACL, too. She’s played every minute and is gassed on top of likely being mentally tired from the last few days. Take her off. Foord has gotta come out too and Polks is a liability right now imo
@838_carlisle
1000% this. I cannot believe she did that, nor can I begin to imagine what she could have been thinking in doing so. When the adrenaline wears off she is going to be very upset with herself. Shut the whole phone off for a bit. I hope she knows she has support!
This is
@SheaButterFC
+
@DiasporaUtdPod
erasure. They are attending the World Cup because their listeners wanted perspective that only they can provide. I’d consider that a crucial component of “everything you need to know” coverage, that’s just me though 🤷♀️
Imagine going to prison for 8 months because you used a drone (banned in France, btw) to spy on a team you have never once in the history of your program lost to?? IMAGINE 💀
One is the Loneliest Number. Ashley Sanchez scores winner against her former team and acts out half the celebration she used to do with Trinity Rodman, her ride or die. Humanly haunting 😢 👯
📸
@NWSL
Companies didn’t want to send
@SheaButterFC
+
@DiasporaUtdPod
to the WC, so the WoSo community has instead. Incredible work! + don’t forget that the Reggae Girlz need help too! (And they’re, you know, playing in the tournament)
#FIFAWWC
Donate here:
The constant calling for her to play in the midfield it’s not just because we want to see it. It’s also because SHE wants it.
@DiasporaUtdPod
@SheaButterFC
@2CentsFC
are 3 places you will always find most accurate takes (with receipts!) on why she should play there.
the Crystal Dunn positional discourse is well-known, but I think it’s important that she continues speaking up about her dissatisfaction.
and this part about being everything to everyone? whew. black superwoman syndrome is real
I have seen tweets this Olympics saying everything from “never heard her name before” to “people only know who she is because Alexia brought her up in an interview once” and just….the disrespect and lack of knowledge is SO LOUD
Another reminder that the Pride only missed the playoffs last year on a tiebreaker. Don’t sleep on them in 2024! They’ve been quietly playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers. 👀
😈
@moeebrian
is purple 😈
We have traded a 2024 international roster spot to
@thekccurrent
in exchange for midfielder Morgan Guatrat and $50k in allocation money.
I am so sad for Cat. She has worked so hard to get back from her ACL and what felt like a million complications. Happy for Lynn though, and very excited for Emily Sams. First call up to becoming an Olympic alternate the same week is a wild turn of events!