World Cup 2026

[Duque de Bragança]

Penalty for Brazil.

[HVC]

Saved.

Announcer was saying brazil has never beaten norway

[Duque de Bragança]

Stopped by the Norwegian goalkeeper, despite Guimarães stopping his run to feint him.

[Josephus]

Norway, look like they are quite happy to just pass the ball back-and-forth for 90 minutes

[HVC]

Jesus goalie stepped up and stopped a good norway chance.

[Zoupa]

Ronaldo might be a prick and perhaps a rapist. He is also the most charitable professional athlete in the world. Messi is nowhere close.

Oh my goodness AI strikes again.  I didn't think that sounded right because I know something about the charitable work the Messi foundation does.

So I googled it and yep, the AI answer is pretty much what you said and it's completely wrong.  I even found a Facebook post that claimed Messi gives nothing to charity, which is technically true because he doesn't personally give anything to charity. That is why he set up his foundation.


And, he's actually created the smarter way of doing it. Ronaldo's philanthropy will depend on whoever inherit his estate and whether they will continue giving at the same rate contribution he does.  Messi's foundation will continue.


It's actually very hard to compare which of them gives more.  But looking into the question a little more closely it looks like there are either even or one might give slightly more than the other.  Overtime, it will certainly be Messi because of the way he has structured his wealth.

But I suppose it benefits Ronaldo in the short run because in this age of AI google will spit out an answer that says that Ronaldo is far superior

I don't use AI (although my wife is always asking chatgpt everything  ). I thought Ronaldo helped a lot each time there's a natural disaster like the earthquakes in Turkey a few years ago and that Messi set up his foundation mostly for tax evasion.

I'm happy to be proven wrong.

[Zoupa]

Meanwhile, FIFA cancels a red card against the US (Balogun). 

Allez les Diables Rouges !

Definitely the right decision to rescind the ban, but probably arrived at through a very tortured reading of the rules.  There really should be a direct way to appeal clearly wrong decisions, obviously VAR is not a sufficient check on it as VAR referees themselves can make clear and obvious errors.

Uhhh he received a red card for serious foul play. Dude almost broke the ankle of the opponent, studs first didn't he.

[Zoupa]

lol

White House called FIFA's Infantino to review Team USA's Folarin Balogun's red card

I think it's high time a different organization is formed. I don't think FIFA can be successfully cleansed.

[Josephus]

Holy dhit. NYT saying Trump called Fantino to rescind Balogun's suspension for tomorrow's game

[HVC]

The tortuous process was probably trump requesting them to 

Called it. When a corrupt force meets a corruptible object

[HVC]

Also, what's this about the premier leagues worst ref being given the reins over the Spain - Portugal game?

[frunk]

If there's one thing that Trump is good at is destroying people that think they are his friend.  Here's hoping he's working his magic on FIFA.

[HVC]

Just give the governance to Iran.

[Valmy]

Holy dhit. NYT saying Trump called Fantino to rescind Balogun's suspension for tomorrow's game

Goddamnit.

[Josquius]

We need the US to lose now and the scorer of the winning goal against them to go "oh BTW my fiance is trans and we campaign against climate change together"