It’s already a few days after the 2018 World Cup, and if you’re like us, you're still hanging on to anything that's related to the best tournament in sports. Whether it be something about the team of the tournament, a debate about Griezmann’s dive or VAR, no one wants to forget the tournament that might have been the best World Cup ever.
Trevor Noah is African; he is also a soccer fan. On an episode of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah this week, the comedian celebrated a World Cup victory for Africa, because many of France’s players are of African descent. But the Trevor Noah France comments did not go over too well with everyone, including French ambassador to the U.S. Gérard Araud.
“I said Africa won the World Cup,” Noah said. “I was shocked at how angry a lot of French people got.”
FIFA released its team of the World Cup a few days ago, and it stirred up a bit of debate on social media outlets as it looked like FIFA had made some interesting decisions.
In the era of fake news, some find it difficult to discern what is fact and what is not. For two Twitter users, Fredrik (@F_Edits) and @ClinicalFirmino, they single-handedly managed to troll almost every soccer fan in the world.
The FIFA Team of the Tournament is fake. 100% fake. I know this because I made the photo
When France won the World Cup, it was a sea of red, white and blue all around Paris and the country. People were celebrating in the streets and into the long hours of the night.
Why wouldn’t they? After all, they just won the World Cup, 20 years after they previously won it.
You would think that all would be well in the country. So much so that one French fan decided to capitalize on all the positivity in the country, as he proposed to his girlfriend.
Heimir Hallgrímsson has announced he will be leaving his position as Iceland manager after seven historic years. Hallgrímsson, a trained dentist, helped the national team achieve goals that were perhaps at one point just fantasies for such a tiny nation.
A kids World Cup final reenactment is going viral on the internet.
It's hardly surprising, since the France vs Croatia World Cup final was one of the most entertaining in history.
With a final score of 4-2, the match finished one goal short of breaking the most goals scored in a World Cup final record held by the Brazil 5-2 Sweden final in 1958.
“Oh man, the World Cup is over! Now I have to wait four more years for more soccer?!”
Not exactly — we still have the International Champions Cup, and then we have to wait until 2022 for more soccer. Just kidding! There’s a thing called club soccer. Google it, but then come back here to find out which club team you should support based off your strange 2018 World Cup team fetishes!
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