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Portsmouth, North Carolina Courage. I am Alf!

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Created May 2026

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World Cup
Canada6 - 0Qatar
Alf
Alf@alf
☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★19 Jun 2026

Tell me, would you expect this image for “World Cup 2026 hat trick scorers”?

Player of the match
Jonathan David
Canada
7
World Cup
Germany1 - 1Paraguay
Alf
Alf@alf
☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★29 Jun 2026

Gustavo Caballero, When you joined Portsmouth on Feb 2 2026, the final day of the transfer window, we were in a position of utter crisis. 20th in the Championship and in serious danger of relegation. You traded playing with boyhood Santos fan Neymar to playing with boyhood Portsmouth fan Marlon Pack. 19 days after you joined, you scored your one and only goal for us, an incredible run to steal the ball and score it from an outrageously tricky angle in a 3-1 win against Millwall, a side who defeated us thrice the previous season. You fit in perfectly with the boys as a character who gave 500% every second of every game, travelling with the boys away even when you were injured and going to war for the badge every week. We don't often get the privilege of seeing our players go to the world cup. Our last player to was Joe Morrell for Wales in 2022, who has now sadly retired at the age of 29, last playing after just turning 27 due to an injury he suffered in January 2024 during our promotion season. But here you are. Coming on for Paraguay in the knockouts against the giants of Germany and putting up a fight til the end against some of the world's biggest stars like Musiala… and Leon Goretzka. You looked like you belonged on a pitch battling players of Germany's calibre week in, week out; showing the same fight you did every time for Portsmouth. I am so proud for you, for Paraguay and for my city. Little old Portsmouth at the world cup, and young, relatively unknown Gustavo Caballero representing them. Let me tell you, they'll know your name now after today's performance. It seems likely your time with us has now come to an end, but I won't forget what you gave for us to remain in the championship for another year, where we finally look to be making moves to stay on the up. You were part of a team that saved us. Just as my family name lives on the walls of Fratton Park, your legacy will forever lay on our pitch. Thank you for everything, Gustavo Caballero.

Player of the match
Gustavo González
Paraguay
11
World Cup
Spain4 - 0Saudi Arabia
Alf
Alf@alf
☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★21 Jun 2026

Great game. Really enjoyed the subplot too

Player of the match
Mikel Oyarzabal
Spain
5

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Friendlies
Argentina3 - 0Benin
Reposted by @alf
taha
taha@taha
☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★1d ago

Well, this is one of those days in football I never wanted to witness, but sadly, it has arrived. You’re not leaving the game entirely, but stepping away from international football feels like the first step toward that day, which I can hardly bear to think about. Maybe the funniest way to honor you is to recognize what you did for millions of people: you made us willingly tune in and support Argentina, all to watch you play this little sport called football. I’m not Argentine, but somewhere along the way that stopped mattering. When you played, we all became a little bit Argentine. I’ll never forget the highs and lows I experienced following you. The 2014 World Cup final, when you were so close to conquering the sport so early on in your career. The back-to-back Copa América finals lost on penalties. But you deserved more than that. You got more than that. You finally lifted your very first international trophy in 2021. Of course I’ll always remember 2022, the greatest World Cup campaign I’ll ever witness, with the most entertaining final of all time. Then we got another Copa in 2024. You literally won every trophy that you lost, how perfect was that? After years of people saying you couldn’t do it for Argentina, you won everything there was to win. But the trophies aren’t what I’ll remember most. It’s the way you played, the way you always entertained me. The dribbles that made defenders look lost, the passes no one else could see, the free kicks that felt like penalties the moment the referee blew the whistle. You made the impossible look routine, and you did it with a quiet humility that made billions fall in love with you. This summer’s ending was bittersweet, and honestly, part of me wishes you’d won it. But you had nothing left to prove. You gave me more than I ever had the right to ask for: the story of your career. There will never be another player who can do what you did. You are football. You are eternal. Thank you for everything, Leo.

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CONCACAF Nations League
Guatemala1 - 0Suriname
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cinemashes
cinemashes@cinemashes
☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★1d ago

REF WAS ON HIS BULLSHIT BUT TE AMOOOOO MATT EVANS, TE AMOOOOOO MI GUATEEEEEE 🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹

Player of the match
M. Evans
2
Nations League
Greece0 - 0Germany
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theolovesvilla
theolovesvilla@theolovesvilla
☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★3d ago

Let the underestimations of Greece continue. Those lads should be extremely proud of giving everything, lot of defending but it got them over the line. Proud of this unbeaten run!

Player of the match
K. Mavropanos

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