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Nov 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Herve Renaud knows a thing or two about leading some massive upsets in international tournaments. Yet, a lot of comments on the TL this morning are about MBS and geopolitics. Yes, can’t divorce the two, but it’s very much bordering on Islamophobia and in some cases crossing it.
Tunisia is drawing from the crowd, and SA had a ton of support there for them. Interesting how the non-Qatari Arab nation teams are using this moment.
1. Saudi Arabia’s regime is one of the most brutal in the world
2. Their soccer team is being used as a soft power instrument to further that regime through sports-washing enterprises
3. #KSA’s win over #ARG is special for Arab people in a climate many want to exclude them from.
All three of these things are true and important to keep in mind as this tournament progresses especially if other Arab nations have success.

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We gotta not ever have a World Cup during NFL season. The takes are getting thrown back to 2010
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Sorry sorry SORRY everyone for indulging this
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Atmosphere has just completely drained which is a shame, but not entirely unpredictable
Damn, haha. Everyone's ledes were written at halftime it seems and all that's left is to look for stadium color stories.

The stadium color story:
The broadcast did a great job of focusing in on that packed Ecuador section when it needed to cut away
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Oof Qatar is gonna have a long group stage if this is how their defense thats been building for like 4 years is going to play.
Oh cool an immediate 2+ minute VAR check that takes the goal away. This is going to be hell.
Lol the auto offsides checks jobbed Ecuador because the goalie was so far out of his area. Just insane. Ruining the game.
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That ENG was uh not as impressive as many would like to think it was. They had like 3 looks before they finally shuffled the puck back to Fox to have someone actually shoot it on an *empty* net #NYR
This team needs some help I s2g
Lmao we were inches away from giving up 2 goals in 15 seconds to blow this. Incredible.
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