Pablo Iglesias Maurer
@MLSist
Soccer reporter at The @Guardian. Photographer, mechanic, total jerk.
Writing about 🇺🇸 soccer & all of its wild, weird history.
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My iPhone will sometimes remind me how long I’ve been doing this, feeding me my photos from long ago. I do love this photo, and feel lucky to have been around American soccer for a loooooong minute.
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Best chance the USMNT has had at making the quarter or semifinals in years
BREAKING: UEFA countries unanimously in support of boycotting World Cup in protest at FIFA's plan to sell stakes in tournament to private investors, say sources.
Decision taken at emergency virtual meeting
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You can hate on the choice of putting this video out as marketing - I understand and probably agree with that. If you’re hating on the people in it (calling them fat, nerds, “cringe”, etc) you are just sort of a piece of shit, lol. Who cares, you know? Let people have their thing
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We mic’d up fans for Hell Is Real and it didn’t disappoint 😂
Mirroring what others have reported: US Soccer and Mauricio Pochettino are in the final stages of ironing out a new contract, multiple sources have told me this week.
More on the Guardian:
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Selling my 84 Nissan 300ZX 50th anniversary edition! Turbo, 66k miles, car is an 11/10 mechanically and cosmetically. Hate to see it go but ok to the next project. $25k OBO - DMs are open. Too many repairs/features to list.
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The Guardian wins the caption of the year competition :) #worldcup#
Argentina out here doing 2014 DC United things
Hello from the World Cup final.
@MLSist Found this backpack in a Dallas vintage store earlier this week, original tags still on it. Never bought something so fast in my life
This is a lot of fun, as is the trip down memory lane of all World Cup mascots. (Anthropomorphic oranges and jalapeño peppers!)
In the middle of 2020 I did a big vintage soccer merch shopping spree that included this shirt. May break it out again today in honor of this story.
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Look, it's been a while since I wrote thousands of words on some dumb American soccer thing.
So I decided to research & write the definitive story on Striker, the most beloved mascot in World Cup history. Not that anybody asked for it.
On the Guardian:
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nightmare blunt rotation
You guys know me - I am far from a football purist.
But let me say this one thing: I hope I never hear a 10-second countdown before a match, ever fucking again. Burn it with fire.
Hey Atlanta folk, give me a good dive bar? I’m at Sister Louisa’s right now, where I always good. And don’t tell me to go to Clermont Lounge 😂
He did????????? what?????? you’re telling me maradona cheated???????
@MLSist Sure. You might well have sourced this from Argentinian media so may not know about this until now but Maradona punched the ball into the net in the game you mention.
thanks for reading!!!!!
@MLSist Truly impressive how you manage to write a piece about Maradona and England-Argentina without mentioning the handball. You also seem sympathetic towards Argentina in Falklands War which is interesting given it's for a UK outlet. Even by Guardian standards, this is wild
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A few words from me on Diego, from here in Atlanta:
I see pay to play is back in the spotlight. Don’t worry guys, I have a really easy solution to most of American soccer’s problems: dismantle capitalism. I’m not holding my breath.
Sup guys I’m pulling up to a Taco Bell in Kansas City at 2AM. It’s on WINNER RD which def does not describe my behavior right now.
This is how cooked my brain is at this point: I heard this and immediately thought they were referring to the US’ 2-0 shocker over England in the 1993 US Cup. 😂
“England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts”
— #WorldCup# announcer on Fox
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