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Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
⭐ Mexico's MVPs at the Gold Cup
Mexico claimed the Gold Cup title after defeating the USA team 2 goals to 1. Three players from the Tricolor shone brightly during the tournament and were key pieces in Mexico's performance. Edson, the captain Machín was key in the Tricolor's most challenging moments, and his excellent level earned him the trophy for the Best Player of the 2025 Gold Cup. Mexico has a leader in midfield after a long time. Raúl, the scorer After an injury that almost left him off the fields, the "Mexican Wolf" regained his football level and is the key man in the Mexican offense. Santi has fallen behind while Raúl is shaping up to be the starter at the beginning of the 2026 World Cup. Mora, the hope During the final, the Mexican gem could do little, but with his performances during the previous rounds, Gilberto gave hope to the fans who see him as the next big figure in Mexican football. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. 📸 Omar Vega - 2025 Getty Images
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🎥 Fluminense leave fans on edge but turn it around to go top
🎥 Fluminense leave fans on edge but turn it around to go top There are now eight games involving Brazilian teams in the FIFA Club World Cup. And ZERO defeats. All that was missing was a win from Fluminense, which happened this Saturday (21). The Tricolor "flirted" with embarrassment, but TURNED IT AROUND IN STYLE against Ulsan UD, the current three-time South Korean champions. Advertisement They won 4-2, playing once again at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. And they also LEAD their group, just like Palmeiras, Botafogo, and Flamengo. 🤘🏾 Arias scores a STUNNER 🤘🏾 Fluminense did exactly what was expected of them as soon as the match started. Ganso had two great chances in a row. But Jo Hyeon-woo said "no" to the number 10. Then Jhon Adolfo Arias Andrade opened the scoring with a beautiful free kick (27'). Ulsan goes into halftime AHEAD 🤯 The South Korean team was only defending. And hoping for a counterattack. The first one came at 37', after a series of Tricolor mistakes. And Lee Jin-Hyun finished, taking advantage of the space he had. Advertisement Another Ulsan attack came and the turnaround with Um Won-Sang (48'). The focus seen against Dortmund was not repeated on the Tricolor side. And what was total dominance - Flu had eleven shots to zero - turned into DRAMA. Tension and REACTION Fluminense came back from halftime with Everaldo replacing Ganso. A change that "killed" the team's creativity. The Tricolor couldn't find themselves. And they were at real risk of conceding a third goal. Renato went back to work. The Tricolor pressure intensified. Nonato, who came on well, stole the ball and finished off Keno's move to equalize (20'). Fluminense kept playing better. And with the mission to find spaces. Advertisement Then came the comeback with an unlikely hero: Freytes, taking advantage of a shot from Cano that turned into an assist (37'). They still needed one more goal to go into the final round as group leaders. Which came at 46' after Keno, Kenaldinho, finished off Arias's cross. There was still time for Fábio to make a fantastic save at 52' on Lacava's attempt. Securing the lead. 📊 Standings and schedule 📅 Fluminense now has four points. And LEADS due to a better goal difference than Dortmund. Ulsan remains at zero and is eliminated. Third is Mamelodi, who has three. The final round will be played next Wednesday (25). Advertisement Fluminense will go to Florida to face Mamelodi at Hard Rock Stadium. Meanwhile, Ulsan will face BVB at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati. Both matches will kick off at 4pm (Brasília time). The two qualifiers will face whoever advances from Group E, which includes River, Inter Milan, and Monterrey. Their decisive matches will also be on the same day, but are scheduled for 10pm (Brasília time). This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here. 📸 FRANCK FIFE - AFP or licensors
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Fluminense dominate but only manage a draw with Borussia Dortmund 📹
Fluminense dominate but only manage a draw with Borussia Dortmund 📹 Fluminense was superior in practically the entire match held at the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. But they lacked the "detail" of scoring a goal. Which ensured the 0 x 0 draw for the Tricolor against Borussia Dortmund this Tuesday (17). Advertisement A match that opened Group F of the Super Club World Cup. And guaranteed a prize of 1 million dollars for each. Flu SUPERIOR already in the 1st Half Fluminense took control of the actions right from the start. They held the reins of the game and had greater possession. And besides having more volume, they created the best chances. Arias was - as expected - the protagonist. Engaging in a personal duel with Kobel. Dortmund posed a threat with Adeyemi's unpredictability. Coming off a great season, Guirassy tried but was unsuccessful. Fluminense knew how to position themselves well even without the ball. Advertisement With personality, the Tricolor went into the break superior. However, they failed to make the most of the good football they displayed. Attempts The Tricolor's mentality did not change after the break. The first real chance was from Everaldo, who had the opportunity to finish in a counterattack but opted for Canobbio. Everaldo forced Kobel into a great save before being substituted by Cano. Kovac bet on the debut of Jobe Bellingham. And later, they regained more speed on the field. BVB managed to attack more. And only forced Fábio into a great intervention after the 90'. 📊 Standings and Schedule 📅 Both teams will play again on Saturday (21). Advertisement The Tricolor will continue playing at the MetLife Stadium. This time they will face Ulsan HD. And from 7 PM (Brasília time). Earlier (1 PM), BVB will face Mamelodi Sundowns at the TQL Stadium in Cincinnati. Also on Tuesday, Ulsan and Mamelodi will face each other starting at 7 PM (Brasília time) to close the first round. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here. 📸 CHARLY TRIBALLEAU - AFP or licensors
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
The first opponents at the CWC: Fluminense in portrait
General information Name: Fluminense Football Club Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Stadium: Maracanã League: Campeonato Brasileiro A Founded: 1902 Nicknames: Tricolor, Nense, Fluzão Manager: Renato Gaúcho Qualification for the Club World Cup: Winner of the 2023 Copa Libertadores Honours (selection) 1 Copa Libertadores 1 Copa Sudamericana 4 Brazilian titles 1 Brazilian Cup 22 Rio de Janeiro state championships Player in focus On the evening of 7 June 2024, 55,000 people gathered at the legendary Maracanã Stadium. The return of the prodigal son and world-class defender Thiago Silva was celebrated with a spectacular light show and fireworks. Never before had so many fans come to a stadium in Brazil for the presentation of a footballer. The then 39-year-old centre-back was back at his boyhood club after more than 15 years in Europe. The celebrations were fitting. The presence of tens of thousands of fans at Thiago Silva's presentation was a testament not only to his star power, but also to that of his club. Advertisement Alongside former world star Thiago Silva, there is a familiar face from the Bundesliga in the Fluminense squad: Renato Augusto. The central midfielder is now 37 years old and returned to his hometown of Rio just over a year ago. However, his footballing upbringing was at city rivals Flamengo, where he played in the youth team and took his first steps in professional football. In the summer of 2008, at the age of 20, he made the move to Europe and signed for Bayer Leverkusen. He made his Bundesliga debut – how could it be otherwise – against BVB. More than a decade after Renato Augusto's last encounter with Borussia, the two are now set to meet again. About the club The Rio de Janeiro club, the oldest in the metropolis and winner of the 2023 Copa Libertadores, find themselves in the middle of the Brazilian domestic season at the time of the Club World Cup – the league matches that were scheduled during the FIFA tournament have been postponed. Fluminense are not the only historic club in Rio de Janeiro. Botafogo, Flamengo and Vasco da Gama are three other heavyweights from the metropolis playing in the Brazilian first division. City rivals Botafogo and Flamengo are also competing in the Club World Cup. Like Fluminense, they qualified for the tournament thanks to their victories in the Copa Libertadores – the South American equivalent of the UEFA Champions League. Although Fluminense recently celebrated a major success in 2023 with their first ever Copa Libertadores title, the club are no longer among the top teams in the domestic league, having not won a league title since 2012 and only finishing in the top three once in the past ten years. In their only previous appearance in the Club World Cup, in 2023, Fluminense reached the final, ultimately losing 4-0 to Manchester City.
The Guardian
12-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Republicans fear the Mexican flag at the LA protests. But I see it as a symbol of our power
Republicans are using images of Ice protesters waving Mexican flags atop burning Waymo cars to foment fear among Americans. Like this photograph that Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday: a shirtless protester wielding the Tricolor atop a vandalized robotaxi as flames billow toward the weak sunlight backlighting the flag. His dark curls fall to his bare shoulders. He stares into the camera. Frankly, the image belongs in a museum. I understand my reaction is not the feeling Republicans hope to inspire in Americans broadly this week. Their messaging thus far about the protests against immigration raids in Latino communities has largely been alarmist – proof, they say, of an 'invasion' of 'illegal aliens'. 'Look at all the foreign flags. Los Angeles is occupied territory,' said Stephen Miller on X. According to Adam Kinzinger, a former congressman and more moderate voice, the Mexican flags carried by protesters are 'terrible… and feeding right into Donald Trump's narrative'. 'I just think that it would be much stronger if they were carrying American flags only,' he said on CNN this week. By this logic, Mexican flags are proof-positive that Mexican Americans are not really American; that we are somehow collaborating on a planned 'invasion'; that we harbor secret loyalties to Mexico; that we're here to displace white people and undermine the American way of life via some Plan Aztlan. In short, none of this is true. In front of Congress Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, cited the presence of 'flags from foreign countries' in LA to legitimize supporting Trump's deployment of the National Guard. This unilateral invocation of Title 10 by the Trump administration, without the consent of the governor, is exceedingly aggressive. So is the deployment of 700 US Marines to be used to crush American protest in an American city. The subtext here is that by many metrics, American's patience for Ice and its antics is wearing thin, even as Ice's deportation numbers are anemic compared to past administrations. The Trump administration realizes something has to change. Fanning outrage about a flag is both a legal pretext to pursue martial law and a diplomatic means of getting consent from the American populace to do unpopular things in the name of security. But what is it about the Mexican flag that triggers so many people? I'd argue that in the American context, the Mexican flag is not a nationalist symbol but something decentered from Mexico as a nation-state. Historically, it was a key banner of the Chicano movement, flown by supporters surrounding Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez during the California grape boycott in the 1960s. It flew alongside the United Farm Workers flag, the American flag and banners of the Virgen de Guadalupe as means of fomenting cultural unity. It also served as a reminder of a fundamental truth: we are from here; we are also from there. We're children of the in-between, or what the Tejanx writer Gloria Anzaldúa referred to as nepantla in her seminal work Borderlands/La Frontera. Nepantla is simply Nahuatl for the liminal space between cultures, identities and worlds. To this end, we might think of the Mexican flag as a symbol of double-consciousness in the Mexican American psyche specifically. We understand our middleness, yet we also understand how America sees and defines us: Mexicans. We take that prejudice and transform it into power. It's through this lens that I see the Mexican flag as just one banner among many, a remembrance of roots but also a shared experience between Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants alike. Night after night, you can see captivating scenes with Mexican flags flying in the downtowns of Dallas and Houston and Atlanta and New York, as a solidarity grows between those explicitly targeted by Ice and those soon-to-be targeted by Ice. This is not hyperbole. Today, phenotype and politics are grounds enough for detention: in order for Ice to meet the Trump administration's goal of 3,000 arrests per day, targets have increasingly included student protesters, tourists and even American citizens. The only rule is to meet the metric at all costs. Amid these burgeoning protests, the Mexican flag is a bold articulation: we are like you; you are like us. We have struggled and persist in this place together. See me and don't be afraid; I see you and I am not afraid. To wield the flag amid a protest is to paint yourself a target, to take both your body and your future into your own hands. This is precisely why the Marines have been called in. To intimidate these bodies. Or to destroy them. What Trump fails to realize is that the bones of Mexican people are the metadata of the land in California and indeed the rest of the country. Our place here is in the food, in the street names, in the name of Los Angeles itself. Already, I can hear some within my own community admonishing my defense of Mexican flags at American protests as treasonous or ungrateful or something along those lines. To them I might ask: why is it that the protester's allegiances are held to higher standards than an American president who seeks to turn the US armed forces against American citizens? From Republican leaders, you'll never hear such questioning rhetoric surrounding other foreign flags that fly prominently in America. The Irish flag on St Patrick's Day instantly comes to mind. As does the Israeli flag at both political and non-political events. And, of course, the Confederate flag, though white supremacists have explicitly stated goals of both overthrowing the US government and taking back US land. Heritage is the most commonly used defense. Though wouldn't heritage apply to the Mexican flag as well? I'm reminded of James Baldwin when Mexicans Americans and Mexicans call for restraint from using Mexican imagery in US protests: 'In Harlem,' Baldwin wrote, '…the Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it.' We think our respectability will protect us. But we know historically and empirically that has not been true. Respectability did not protect Japanese Americans from being interned. Nor did it protect Vietnamese veterans who fought alongside Americans in Vietnam from facing discrimination in the US. Nor did it protect Afghan translators from having their visas revoked. Our American bonafides are not the things that will save us now. Not in the era of detention metrics and collateral targeting and now the prospect of authoritarian violence. It should be said: I don't go looking for these images. For my sins, having clicked on one, the algorithm floods me with them now. Protesters with Mexican flags getting a haircut in front of police. Protesters with Mexican flags forming a human chain. They just keep coming to me. But other images, too. Like one of a guy popping a wheelie past a ton of burning Waymo cars. I mean, come the fuck on – it's cool. The thing that immediately jumps out to me is the frivolity of the image. A body perfectly in balance, perfectly in motion. It moves of its own volition. It is completely in command of its trajectory and space in the landscape. It is beyond the fascist impulse to live so beautifully as this. Luckily, it also is beyond the fascist ability to remove the memory of this body from the land.
