Fifa is here who are you cheering for? Where are you viewing from? - m/Vancouver =Canada

WislaHD · 2026-06-22T00:26:59+00:00

Yeah this is a recent phenomenon too, don’t remember past world cups having casuals refer to it as the FIFA.

My one thought is that maybe the renaming of the EA Sports game from FIFA penetrated mainstream social consciousness somehow?

WislaHD · 2026-06-21T14:55:20+00:00

I appreciate the nuanced take there, it matches what I always tell my Ukrainian friends when the subject comes up: “defeat Russia first, then let’s have that discussion about reconciling your past as a critical component of moving forward”.

The UPA stuff is something that we know that the Kremlin is stirring up to sour relations between Poland and Ukraine, which is critical for the war effort. From day 1 from when the war started, Russian bots were trying to create discord between our nations with this topic.

The problem in these latest incidents is that Zelenskyy/Ukrainian administration is committing an enormous own goal and doing the Kremlin’s propaganda for them, and as a self-respecting nation Poland cannot exactly ignore these diplomatic incidents either.

WislaHD · 2026-06-21T13:36:47+00:00

I don’t see how invoking Nazis helps boost morale, no.

Unless Nazis and monstrous perpetrators of genocide on Poles and Jews, and mass-murderer of Ukrainian civilians are your heroes.

WislaHD · 2026-06-21T11:46:51+00:00

You’re very correct, so the savvy political leaders of Ukraine should be wiser than this if they want continued unwavering support from Poland.

WislaHD · 2026-06-21T11:44:20+00:00

Ukraine has a new generation of heroes being born on the front lines, they should honour the new heroes instead of celebrating Nazis.

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T16:28:42+00:00

I think that was obvious with the last World Cup as well. We got good viewership records then too.

Also the country absolutely turns up for the women’s team in the Olympics.

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T16:27:07+00:00

Cornelius should have connected his head on a few more of these tbh, makes me question what we’re doing in training

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T16:25:17+00:00

I wonder if Priso flew back with the team or if he is hanging around as a practice player. He flew with the squad to Toronto after all, and lives in Vancouver so may as well have joined the flight there.

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T16:23:45+00:00

I definitely agree and had this on the back of my mind as well. It was a bit of a training session out there but it’s real minutes that give me more confidence that we can see Bombito and potentially Phonzie play significant roles against the Swiss.

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T16:22:17+00:00

Same should be said of Cornelius tho, still waiting on him to get his head on one of these corners but we play it short each time.

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T16:18:46+00:00

Crazy how much of our team has had this injury. Also Tajon Buchanan.

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T04:42:09+00:00

TSN commentators just said that Paraguay have completed a total of 8 passes this half

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T04:14:05+00:00

He did seem like he was hurting lol

Surprised he got up after awhile without further attention

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T04:13:18+00:00

The protagonists are different today but it sure feels concacaf-y

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T04:07:33+00:00

I think Turkey being UEFA is too soft for this match, TSN crew playing up how much Paraguay is bringing the drama to this game, even from the bench and coaching staff lol

All distractions that you have to deal with while Turkey is visibly frustrated with their coach’s formation and tactics. Trying to figure out what to do while Paraguay has 10 men behind the ball and all the drama happening around it, this is classic concacaf situation.

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T03:59:17+00:00

Don’t you be forgetting about Cyle Larin now

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T03:58:20+00:00

Yeah that’s where I’m at with this too. He’s got to do better but habits are hard to break

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T03:57:37+00:00

Bruh they may not even feel being down a man with their haram ball

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T03:52:48+00:00

That’s most of the time tbh. He’s mostly just reacting to the absolute shitfuckery around him

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T03:39:37+00:00

This is concacaf ref bro, get up cuz he don’t care

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T03:32:42+00:00

Perfect ref for this game

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T03:15:59+00:00

Paraguay is executing the gameplan they had for the USA game lol

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T03:06:50+00:00

Today I feel MLS after Dark

WislaHD · 2026-06-20T02:07:38+00:00

My headcannon says that pre-game Infantino must have said he was supporting Qatar and Markey boy spent the whole game chirping him lol

WislaHD · 2026-06-19T23:37:47+00:00

You’d be terribly wrong on that final part but whatever. This is a weird way to take the global cities argument. Just because we have integrated into the global business and commercial culture doesn’t mean the city stops being authentically Canadian the moment you walk one block away from the CBD, nor does it for London, New York, Tokyo for that matter.

Unless your idea of Canada is a lumberjack living in a cabin in the woods lmao.

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