Oh god Ryan Matthews

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I should explain further. In the years since El Salvador's civil war started, a lot of it's able-bodied young men fled the country for their own safety.

Fewer young men in the country means that there's a smaller talent pool to field a team from. As such, the quality of El Salvador's teams have declined over the past 40 years.

As far as sounding like an AI robot, I guess I write at a level that is both generic enough and good enough for a bot trying to be a good writer.

It'll still be boring. They should make it full contact. At least start calling embellishment penalties for faking an injury every time a blade of grass hits them in the ankle. Swear, biggest bunch of fuckin babies in the world, soccer players.

Damned it, your so right!!

Your second paragraph doesn't make sense.

Also the "craziest part is that it's working" phrase sounds like an AI robot who's trying to get clicks.

Good luck to El Salvador.

From the comments I’m reading it seems like he wasn’t even close to being a dick. Now that’s my kinda Dick.

Don’t forget about the global depression as well that left many destitute and on the brink of starvation, Mao Zedong, Stalin, the Spanish Flu, American assassinations of POC, Jim Crowe, segregation, the Spanish Civil War, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, HIV, the Rwandan genocide.

The list goes on and on

There's a superfan turned scout who has jumpstarted El Salvador's football program in hopes of getting the team into the 2026 World Cup.

El Salvador has suffered a major talent drain since the start of its Civil War that continued after it ended thanks to all the gang violence.

As such, this guy is scouring the Earth to find players born to Salvadoran parents in order to rebuild the team and put them on the world stage.

The craziest part is that it's working.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230215051430/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/sports/soccer/usmnt-el-salvador-world-cup.html

Lol. Nice take. Care to elaborate?

Yeah I figured in 2023 there’d be a product to make this anxiety irrelevant

You don't think for one second that the IOC will close their open pockets on morel grounds do you lol

I would have been fine with 3 team (2 games each) group stage if that meant that the mini-group stage was used as a qualifier for a double-elimination playoff format. I.e., 1st place goes to winners bracket, 2nd-3rd starts in the losers bracket so everyone was guaranteed the 3 game minimum but the bonus of a couple juicy matchups early in the winners bracket a la France vs Brazil with the loser dropping down to the losers bracket the following round but still surviving at least another game.

Man reminded me of the old times when they had 2-team groups. Guys were essentially trying to murder each other by the end of the 4-match back-to-back-to-back-to-back head-to-head stretches.

Western brain rot

Fuck FIFA.

It’s true. If you’re watching for quality, the club game is much better where the tactics are honed and refined.

And just as much corruption as ever.

Find a public library that has a login for you

But is this newsworthy? Like let them pick whatever shorts

Where do we sign up and what is it for

At least the dumb ass 3 teams per group is gone.

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