The Euro is like watching a really talented and fun hip hop dance competition. Fast paced and high skilled.
The Copa is like watching a knife fight outside the club at 3am. Not as artful, but they do know how to handle the knife. Not like you’re turning away, either.
Minor news: I have confirmed w/ two different sources that talks have taken place between officials at CSA and CONMEBOL for Canada to take part in the 2024 Copa America.
They were unsure if it was as a guest team or as part of an expanded 16 team joint tournament with CONCACAF.
Make no mistake. MLS pulling out of USOC is directly related to the Apple deal.
That’s inventory that Apple doesn’t control therefore they see no value in it. This is what happens when you give up sporting decisions to the tv rights holder.
Started with the kick-off times…
@acoyne
The constant moaning and obsession of Conservatives and right-leaning columnists over everything the man does is what's embarrassing. Honestly who gives a...
Let’s be clear: they didn’t win in Tokyo because the coaching staff knew what formation a team was going to play. They won because the players performed.
So why in hell did the coaching staff tarnish everything? It’s unforgivable. This isn’t gaining an edge. It’s recklessness.
We are watching how much those stupid FIFA rankings matter, even if they are deeply flawed.
A US team that legit finished below Canada in WCQ gets Iran and Wales because they were in pot B. Canada is pot D—Belgium and Croatia…
A World Cup is four years long, not 4 weeks…
For international followers: this is Jacob posing with Sidney Crosby, who is one of the greatest Canadian hockey players of all time (scored the goal to win the 2010 Olympics) and who is from the same province as Jacob.
A very cool moment for Nova Scotia’s newest star.
If you buy a ticket for a sporting contest you are guaranteed nothing but a seat at that game or event. So fans upset that Messi isn’t playing in Vancouver don’t really have a leg to stand on.
However, the Whitecaps should not have billed the event as special. That’s offside.
We just witnessed a little mansplaining to Janine Beckie, Olympic champion and 2019 World Cup player, about what it is like to play in a big game, live on TSN.
Don’t go to Leagues Cup games. It’s a made up thing so Apple TV can sell subs and it is incredibly disrespectful to long-time, game attending fans of the league.
LEAGUES CUP 🇨🇦🇲🇽 | Canadian clubs not including leagues cup into the season tickets is causing to be a lot of tickets available only one week from the games.‼️away sections in Toronto & Montreal are completely full. Will you be going to a leagues cup game?
#cfmtl
#tfclive
#wcfc
“Morocco hasn’t actually allowed a goal in Qatar.”
No. They have. Own goals don’t happen in a vacuum. Don’t take
#CanMNT
’s goal away from them. Adekugbe put the ball into a dangerous spot and was rewarded.
#Qatar2022
Gentle reminder that the Leagues Cup is an idiotic, made-for-Apple competition that will absolutely not be around for the long hall and if you’re a MLS fan unhappy about what they are doing to the USOC you have an easy solution.
DO NOT GO TO THE LEAGUES CUP GAMES.
People will 💩 on this very idea, but within two years it would be the single most watched sports tournament in the world. Literally billions would tune into every second.
And so would you.
Going to ask this every week until it’s fixed:
@AppleSupport
— it is not possible to re-watch
@MLS
games without the score spoiled EVEN IF YOUVE SELECTED “NO SPORTS SCORES” in options because the design requires you to scroll past a section that clearly identifies the games goals
1) I hope someone is making sure that Bev Priestman, the human, is ok. This cannot be easy for her now and I have compassion for that.
2) That said, her actions here as a manager of people are fully and completely unacceptable and should effectively end her coaching career.
After seeing emails from FIFA's report on their decision to dock points/suspend coaches/fine Canada Soccer... it's even less surprising that CAS dismissed the appeal from CSA and Canada's Olympic Committee.
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No country on earth has a better year in football than Canada. Olympic champions; top of Concacaf World Cup qualifying. I’m going to write detailed emails to all the big UK podcasts tomorrow asking them if they agree. Tonight…where did I put the expensive bourbon?
It’s not even close to Ben Johnson. 1988 was about 20x worse and 50x worse to the the rest of the world.
I’m not being dismissive of this. It’s just hard to articulate how big Johnson was is you weren’t engaged with it at the time.
This is such a telling lie. She “drives” by Ontario Place, which is ON AN ISLAND.
So out of touch. So car-centric. All
@fordnation
knows is outdated, car-centric development. Putting aside ideology for a second: everything they propose just runs counter to what cities do now.
Surma repeats the lie that “no one has been going to OP”. Reporter calls her out on it! Why does OP need to be monetized and run like a business. Surma notes she “drives by” Ontario Place frequently and it’s not enjoyed. Please tell
@KingaSurmaMPP
how you enjoy Ontario Place.
As an Olympic lover what's pissing me off most of all today is that the actions of the
#CanWNT
coaching staff have tarnished Canadian athletes in other sports and taken away from their moments.
We should be talking about Maude Charron and Andre De Grasse today, not this...
So I just bought an Olympic bronze medal for $128. This is not a joke. I fully intend to wear it in public and claim I won it to strangers. What sport should I say I was playing?
You know who Canada Soccer should be going after for a friendly in the lead up to 2026…
🇮🇹
They are vulnerable now and a good result would be a great way to gain respect and fans among the large diaspora here.
Canada's shame -- why it's pathetic that there are no fully professional women's sports teams in Canada and the need to stop being polite in demands to get the
@NWSL
here:
A ⚽️ referee was killed this week in the GTA after a fight broke out in the parking lot following a men’s rec league game.
He wasn’t the target, but he was a victim of the same madness that is driving people and referees out of the game.
The *game*.
We need to stop this.
Personally I want
#TFCLive
to sign Giovinco but keep it a secret until they are announcing the starting line-up for the home opener. Then after they announce the first 10 players there's a pause.
Music hits.
"Is that? Is it? IS THAT GIOVINCO'S MUSIC?!?!?!?!?!"
I came, I saw, I conquered. Thank you
@lagalaxy
for making me feel alive again. To the Galaxy fans - you wanted Zlatan, I gave you Zlatan. You are welcome. The story continues...Now go back to watch baseball
I’ve been very lucky in sports. I’ve had more than a few magical moments. This was the purest joy I’ve ever felt in a sports stadium. Club wins hit differently. They’re more primal, almost angry. This was nothing but bliss.
I lived to see it again.
#CanMNT
@TaylorThimmesh
@tedcruz
I’m curious to understand how I live off your accomplishments, Taylor. Are you suggesting that Canada wouldn’t have been home to the invention of the telephone and insulin without the US?
That a Canadian wouldn’t have invented basketball...?
Let’s take a moment to reflect on the fact that the impossible league that multiple studies determined cannot exist has just started its second season, despite being in the middle of a global pandemic.
#CanPL
Travel advisory: Germans in Canada should exercise a high degree of empathy. Be nice, don’t gloat, give hugs, buy rounds of hot chocolate.
Just imagine how you would feel if Canada beat us in soccer 😱
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#CANGER
@TeamD
@CanadaFP
@GermanyInCanada
@KanadaBotschaft
Nobody will remember:
-Who won the Leagues Cup
-What the Leagues Cup is
-That Messi played in MLS
People will remember:
-The new summer time thing they started to do in August after they stopped going to MLS games due to a bizarre choice by the league to go dark for a month
nobody will remember:
- if you came to their wedding
- if you miss their birthday party
- what your job was
people will remember:
- “MESSIIIIIIIIIIIII”
One Hundred Twenty Four Dollars and Ninety-Nine Cents.
White T-shirt.
I'm going to buy a pack of four Hanes undershirts and a red sharpie for $14 instead.
It was $20 to join
@thevoyageurs
, which also gave pre-sale codes (and a free t-shirt).
Cry me a river if you thought you could jump the line ahead of people that have sorbs decades trying to grow the sport here.
I'm not sitting here stunned because Canada beat Costa Rica. They've done that before. I'm stunned because they did so with swagger and belief. They believe they are good enough to win a Gold Cup and go to a World Cup. Which is why they might.
Honestly, if Canada flops at this tournament the coach should be changed. I don’t care what the team did 18 months ago. That’s irrelevant.
He won’t be though. They can’t afford it.
Ranking of 10 most evil sports teams in world:
1) Manchester United
2) Manchester United reserves 3) Manchester United u23s
4) Boston Red Sox
5) Manchester United u18s
6) Pittsburgh Penguins
7) New England Patriots
8) New York Yankees
9) Manchester United u12s
10) Austin MLS
Regarding Atletico Ottawa’s name:
If McDonalds buys Bob’s Burgers what do you think they name the restaurant?
Exactly. I’m not sure why this concept is difficult for some. Ottawa isn’t trying to sound like they are from Madrid. Ottawa’s ownership is actually from Madrid.
Canada has, in fact, qualified for Qatar now.
They will play in the intercontinental playoff vs New Zealand (in Qatar) even if they lose all three remaining games.
Canada can finish no lower than 4th.
Told that at an Ontario soccer summit this week, Bill Manning told a crowd of ~400 that Michael Bradley has started the process to obtain permanent 🇨🇦 residency and if his children become international standard in ⚽️ they would likely want to represent 🇨🇦.
I confirmed with USL that starting in 2021 all Canadian players (minus those with green cards, etc.) will be considered international players on USL rosters.
This will mirror the MLS rules and will make it even more important that the
#CanPL
expands to provide more jobs.
Pet peeve: North American general sports fans who call the Champions League final “the Super Bowl of soccer”. I understand what they are attempting to get at, but twice as many people worldwide watch the Champions League final. The Super Bowl is the Champions League final of 🏈
One day as a child I was watching my favourite show,
@cbcsports
Sports Weekend and I saw
#CanMNT
qualify for the World Cup. For some reason I connected to it.
I’ve waited nearly 37 years to see it again.
It’s game day.
We are going to qualify to the World Cup. MY GOD. I LIVED TO SEE IT!!!
I'm not jinxing it. We are. I tear up every time I think about it. I'm mostly thinking about what that exact moment is going to feel like now. I've been waiting a lifetime for this week, man.
Sell Insigne to Saudi Arabia. (Sadly) let Ritchie find a job in Europe. Buy out Bernardeschi. Give Columbus a crap load of allocation and steal their president. Hand him the keys, again. Stay the hell out of his way and show a little patience.
That’s my
#TFCLive
6-month plan.
Like, I’m legitimately concerned Christine Sinclair is going to have her gold medal stripped because of this nonsense.
Probably not, but unbelievably it’s not impossible to imagine now.
Ridiculous that the players have been put in this situation.
I remain baffled that the extremely young team with basically no World Cup experience, who is on worse form, finished behind Canada in qualifying, and looked dreadful against the same team Canada just beat today, is more fancied at the World Cup but 🤷♂️.
#WorldCup2022
This game changed when Larin came in. El Salvador had to be aware of him and they lost a bit of the edge they had through the previous 20 min.
Also Alistair Johnston is the player we were all praying for in 2019. The unexpected defender to emerge. So vital.
Regarding Jacob Shaffelburg: it’s quite possible that as my loved ones surround me on my death bed in 2063 (I run a lot) that my final words will be “why did TFC give up on Shaffelburg? Whhhhhhy?”
The Fox broadcast starting to sound like a Canadian hockey broadcast during an international tournament.
We get it. The referee isn’t to your liking. Suck it up and adjust.
The
@warriors
broadcast was just completely dismissive of the
@Raptors
win tonight calling it a “scheduled loss” by Houston and stressing that Rockets jad played 3 games in 4 nights. That the Raptors also had played 3 in 4 was not mentioned.
#WeTheDismissed