As an American I approve.
The US team played like shit and our corrupt pedophile president pulled strings to alter the odds.
And the last thing we need is another win the Pedophile-In-Chief can steal valor from and portray as his own for political gain.
You know they overturned the red card because we weren’t going to win anyway.
Corruption aside, I’m not sure the rest of the world understands how little Americans care about this sport. I’m not surprised our team sucks lol
Italy didn’t even qualify this year.
You can think what you like, I for example think the rest of the world understands perfectly well that soccer isn’t one of your primary sports.
For a sport in its infancy in your country, I didn’t think the US team were that bad
It actually is one of the primary sports for women in the US. And their womens team is one of the best, having won the world cup 4 times, 91, 99, 15 and 19
And for 1 in 4 sportsfans to follow football in the US isnt THAT bad. More than i expected.
That’s even more scathing haha
What amuses me is the soccer fans here who think we’re going to get better. I first encountered this in '94 when we (the US) hosted the world cup and got spanked by a Brazil team playing with 10 players. It’s like Indians saying they’re going to be good at basketball soon (they aren’t, because they love cricket).
All American sports are dying because of private equity:
This, it is sucking the life out of kids sports
Don’t tempt FIFA
US played badly. That first goal was just embarrassing. The third one was even worse. Belgium absolutely dominated.
The fourth was extremely embarrassing as well, although who cares at that point. There’s a defender there watching Lukaku literally flat-footed, even though there was nobody else around for him to guard.
At least with the header we had two defenders closely marking the guy, even though that just made it an even more spectacular goal.
The extra minutes goal… Man, it really would have been better if they put us down at 1-3 instead of 1-4.
Oh well, we’ll just go back to being awesome at everything else.
This is when we accuse them of cheating right?
Now the real question…has the orange kid-fucker lashed out about this yet? How many times has be blamed it on Dems, Biden, has he mentioned Obama yet?
He said the US needs to stop spending money on this game for losers and that they should finish the rest of the matches outside of the USA
True? Satire? I have no idea, and we may never know.
Recipe called for more Onion. We didnt know they were going to add this much.
Didn’t he make a big deal about all the great work he did to get the World Cup here 🤣🤣
Yes. He has called Belgium a “hell-hole”
I want to say he’s mistaking it for the Belgian Congo, but he would have loved that place.
Seem like everyone got successfully distracted over the epstein files and the ongoing genocide and wars
Can we please talk about the aliens please
Dont worry, ICE is taking care of them
Everything Trump touches turns to shit. He really has the reverse Midas touch.
Pidas touch.
Mierda’s touch.
Are you suggesting Fifa or football in general wasn’t already shit?
Nothing is so shit that Poopypants couldn’t make it shittier.
Poo Midas
Don’t tempt him. One call is all it takes for Fifa to suddenly declare that actually the USA won. Turns out refs missed 87 fouls by the Belgian team.
I hope so much they will actually do something like that. Its about time
somebody sets fire tothe FIFA headquarters catch on fire randomly.I want data centers to “catch on fire randomly” 🔥
Oh, I’m sure FIFA and the Orange Incontinence are looking to find something to overturn it as we speak.
Luckly Belgium don’t have large natural oil sources on their land.
They even refrain from using oil for their famous fries, they use animal fat instead.
Trump will seize all the waffles!
Belgium can’t really talk about colonisation…
But I’m still glad they beat 'Murica
@belgium, on behalf of the world : Thank you and well done! Whoever wins the cup, you are the team of the tournament !
I think Cape Verde gets that designation, but yes, we appreciate Belgium too.
That game was sooo damn good.
Not on behalf of DRC, or a few other “colonies.”
You’re right but also extremely wrong:
Unbeknownst to most, Belgium was one of the absolute WORST colonial powers back in the day, which deserves all the condemnation in the world.
King Leopold II was probably the worst colonialist oppressor of all time.
That being said, MODERN DAY Belgium isn’t doing any of that, much less the national football team.
History doesn’t exist in a vacuum I’m afraid. If an entity, whether it’s a person or a nation, commits atrocities and then stops doing so after becoming rich from it, can we call that justice?
Leopold II turned the Congo Free State into his personal, horrific rubber-and-ivory fiefdom from 1885 to 1908 and used the profits to bankroll massive architectural and infrastructure projects in Brussels, Antwerp, and Ostend (e.g., the Cinquantenaire park, the Royal Palace of Laeken, and the Antwerp Central Station).
The profits were deeply integrated into Belgium’s financial and industrial sectors.
DRC’s vast diamond wealth currently flows straight to Antwerp, meaning Belgium still captures the high-value “refining and trading” end of the supply chain, while the DRC is left with the environmental and human cost of raw extraction.
Major Belgian conglomerates, or companies born out of the colonial structure (like Umicore, formerly Union Minière du Haut-Katanga), transitioned from colonial owners to powerful multinational players. They still hold significant strategic advantages and interests in extracting critical minerals like cobalt and copper from Central Africa.
When the DRC gained independence in 1960, its first democratically elected Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, wanted to nationalize the country’s resources so the Congolese people could finally benefit from them. Fearing the loss of mineral access, Belgian officials (with the help of the CIA) were deeply complicit in Lumumba’s overthrow and assassination, replacing him with Mobutu Sese Seko, a brutal dictator who let Western corporations keep extracting wealth while plunging his own country into poverty.
Colonialism may have come to an end but Belgium is still a neocolonialist nation. So we can’t even give it the benefit of saying that it has stopped.
This is for informational purposes only. European colonial history is not well taught in the Western world so it’s important for people to realize that just because it was overlooked in their education that doesn’t mean it’s really ended.
This is for informational purposes only
Fair enough. I was about to be snarky about blaming the football team for it, so thanks for heading that fruitless discussion off at the pass 😁
European colonial history is not well taught in the Western world so it’s important for people to realize that just because it was overlooked in their education that doesn’t mean it’s really ended.
Too true.
Leopold the First was some random minor German nobility who was placed on the ‘throne’ iirc.
His son was one of history’s more horrific, while still utterly incompetent, monsters.
Thanks, edited the original comment 😁
King Leopold is absolutely one of the worse humans we have ever produced.
Which other belgian colonies?
booo
I’m sad they weren’t able to run the score up on them even harder. I was hoping for an 8-0 type of victory.
So even when the usa cheats they dont win. Love to see this pattern in their trade behaviour.
the sad thing is that the team actually didn’t cheat, their fucking president did. I feel for those poor guys in the US national team that have to bear the shame of their flatulant president cheating in their name.
Well their coach had the option to not use the player in question. So it’s partly on them as well.
I imagine that would have been a tough situation. It was a clearly bad call overturned by the review panel. If you remove Trump from the equation, it may have happened anyway.
Note: Not debating how rediculous this is, and happy there can’t be future tainting of games from it.
Edit: I pull this back. Had not realized this had never happened before.
It was the first time in 96 years that a world cup red card punishment had been overturned. This was american cheat karen energy.
Had not realized that. Edited.
It was not a bad call, and it was not overturned.
The cheating USA player committed a foul and still has the red card for that. The cheating USA player still has the red card, but in an unprecedented move the suspension is deferred. Because the USA cannot compete at an international tournament without resorting to cheating.
This would not have happened without the United States being an openly corrupt nation, and this will taint every game that the United States team ever plays in the future.
Most people seemed to agree it should have been a yellow card because he wasn’t capable of seeing what he was doing. Careless vs malicious.
But these reviews do happen in the premier and euro leagues. Just FIFA hasn’t done it before. And we all know fifa is a shit show anyway, now we just have more Trump induced proof of it.
Stupid cake-eater tricks.
