Have you also seen the team making the trump dance on the pitch and in the locker room? 😂
Trump and the USA are now a meme to the world.
Do they pretend to jerk off two dudes at once? Trump’s signature dance has a terrible D2F ratio. Hugely inefficient.
A bit less obviously that dear Donny https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/07/belgium-players-mock-donald-trump-ymca-dance-dressing-room-beating-united-states-29077247/
Gotta do 4, start from the middle and go out.
Holy retired gif
I was shuffling SV the other day and this ep came on. Iconic
Honestly the best writing in TV history.
I’ve seen it, but it doesn’t look much like the trump dance. I pretend that it is though.
It definitely is, there is even the YMCA song
What’s funny about this to me is that some of the US fans were talking like they thought they had a real shot this year. They always think that the American team is better than it really is. But, they were knocked out in the Round of 16, which is normally the first knockout round of the World Cup.
Even a Belgian team with almost no members of the “golden generation” was much better than them.
Americans believing Americans are exceptional for no reason? Colour me shocked.
That’s the thing. They thought they were taking to the pitch as equals.
The US had an unsurprisingly easy ride to this point in the competition but came up against a genuinely decent team. Bragging about narrowly beating a team ranked 44th.
The shenanigans just added to the drama, not their chances of winning and that’s the real shame, they could have gone out with some honour and class and, instead, Trump made sure they went out as villains.
It was genuine wrestling promo nonsense.
They’re 'Muricans
They think they are special, just because
I mean, they’re “special”…
But they genuinely can’t understand why the civilised world sneers at them
A national self-perception steeped in exceptionalism has them convinced it can’t be anything but envy.
Most people in the US didn’t realize there was even a US team in the World Cup at all. Any who thought they had a “real shot” are definitely in the minority, and they exist in every country.
FOOTBALL(soccer) isnt as popular as in EU or the rest of the world, less resources devoted to that sport than in the EU. the people in my university in the states that played soccer aspires to be in a EU league, or at least one that plays in the EU more, they know the US teams are shit.
The kinds of people I’m talking about are ones who have a local MLS team whose matches they attend, but they also have a favourite European team… and yet, somehow they don’t realize the vast gulf in quality between a player for Real Salt Lake and Real Madrid.
Timothy Tillman? He wasn’t good enough for any club in the Bundesliga, but he plays for LAFC. He should do fine in a midfield battle against Kevin de Bruyne and Youri Tielemans!
some people saw the usa beat some low ranking fifa teams and thought they’d win the whole world cup🤣🤣
Damn it. As soon as FIFA overturned the red card ob the behalf of Trumpty. I was like “Finally, a chance to get in on the corruption. Time to place all my bets on Team USA.”
Now, I am fucking broke.
I hope Belgium wins the whole things now.
No, you want them beat early, not even in the final 4, just to rub it in.
As an American I approve.
The US team played like shit and our corrupt pedophile president pulled strings to alter the odds.
And the last thing we need is another win the Pedophile-In-Chief can steal valor from and portray as his own for political gain.
It’s a shame, as there was actually some goodwill towards the US team from the rest of the world, out of respect to the hosts and an ability to separate them from the insanely run government. Then he steps in, starts fucking with the rules and most of that evaporated.
it only further deligitimizes a US football team playing against other countries in the future, since nobody will take them seriously now, and likely call out the us team out more once THE PEDOPHILE is gone from WH.
good, cook these cheaters frauds
@belgium, on behalf of the world : Thank you and well done! Whoever wins the cup, you are the team of the tournament !
I think Cape Verde gets that designation, but yes, we appreciate Belgium too.
That game was sooo damn good.
Not on behalf of DRC, or a few other “colonies.”
You’re right but also extremely wrong:
Unbeknownst to most, Belgium was one of the absolute WORST colonial powers back in the day, which deserves all the condemnation in the world.
King Leopold II was probably the worst colonialist oppressor of all time.
That being said, MODERN DAY Belgium isn’t doing any of that, much less the national football team.
I thought it was pretty much general knowledge that Belgium was one of the most terrible colinial powers in europe?
I do see the lack of relevance of that for that football game though. It is like talking about the genocide(s) the US was built upon, just because of a football game.
People do that kind of thing all the time though.
King Leopold is absolutely one of the worse humans we have ever produced.
History doesn’t exist in a vacuum I’m afraid. If an entity, whether it’s a person or a nation, commits atrocities and then stops doing so after becoming rich from it, can we call that justice?
Leopold II turned the Congo Free State into his personal, horrific rubber-and-ivory fiefdom from 1885 to 1908 and used the profits to bankroll massive architectural and infrastructure projects in Brussels, Antwerp, and Ostend (e.g., the Cinquantenaire park, the Royal Palace of Laeken, and the Antwerp Central Station).
The profits were deeply integrated into Belgium’s financial and industrial sectors.
DRC’s vast diamond wealth currently flows straight to Antwerp, meaning Belgium still captures the high-value “refining and trading” end of the supply chain, while the DRC is left with the environmental and human cost of raw extraction.
Major Belgian conglomerates, or companies born out of the colonial structure (like Umicore, formerly Union Minière du Haut-Katanga), transitioned from colonial owners to powerful multinational players. They still hold significant strategic advantages and interests in extracting critical minerals like cobalt and copper from Central Africa.
When the DRC gained independence in 1960, its first democratically elected Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, wanted to nationalize the country’s resources so the Congolese people could finally benefit from them. Fearing the loss of mineral access, Belgian officials (with the help of the CIA) were deeply complicit in Lumumba’s overthrow and assassination, replacing him with Mobutu Sese Seko, a brutal dictator who let Western corporations keep extracting wealth while plunging his own country into poverty.
Colonialism may have come to an end but Belgium is still a neocolonialist nation. So we can’t even give it the benefit of saying that it has stopped.
This is for informational purposes only. European colonial history is not well taught in the Western world so it’s important for people to realize that just because it was overlooked in their education that doesn’t mean it’s really ended.
Colonialism only took on modern forms. It’s always been might makes right.
Now with some countries slowly rising from its shadows, a lot of people in the west are pissing their pants that the tables might turn. Even if we’re a very long stretch away from that, and climate change is ironically affecting us less than the so-called global south.
It may not be as long a stretch as it seems.
Climate change is in many ways an extension of neocolonialism ie. localizing benefits while externalizing harms. Western countries, despite making up 20% of the global population, are responsible for 50% of global cumulative emissions.
Back during the Earth Summit in 1992:
“In view of the different contributions to global environmental degradation, States have common but differentiated responsibilities. The developed countries acknowledge the responsibility that they bear in the international pursuit of sustainable development in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment and of the technologies and financial resources they command.”
Based on this, the Rio declararion explicitly stated that developed countries must take the lead in combating climate change and its adverse effects.
As we all know, these responsibilities were ultimately betrayed
The world has a way of rebalancing itself. We may not see a complete rebalancing in our lifetimes but the process has already begun.
Colonialism has generally never played nice for the conquered, however, some, like the Romans, and to a certain extent the Moors, Ottomans, Spanish, and others were somewhat integrating, excesses and plunder non withstanding, and contributed to the conquered. Belgian Congo was pure evil.
I have Belgian blood, BTW.
This is for informational purposes only
Fair enough. I was about to be snarky about blaming the football team for it, so thanks for heading that fruitless discussion off at the pass 😁
European colonial history is not well taught in the Western world so it’s important for people to realize that just because it was overlooked in their education that doesn’t mean it’s really ended.
Too True.
Leopold the First was some random minor German nobility who was placed on the ‘throne’ iirc.
His son was one of history’s more horrific, while still utterly incompetent, monsters.
Europe’s royal shuffling is rife with things like that. Most royal families have blood ties with each other, and historically have agreed to place one of theirs on another countries throne to keep collective hold on the continent.
“The German Kaiser (Wilhelm II), Russian Czar (Nicholas II), and English King (George V) were all first cousins. Their grandmother was England’s Queen Victoria, making the English and German kings first cousins. The English and Russian kings were also first cousins, as their mothers were sisters.”
Thanks, edited the original comment 😁
Which other belgian colonies?
booo
Lol. Trump might actually try lol.
Corruption aside, I’m not sure the rest of the world understands how little Americans care about this sport. I’m not surprised our team sucks lol
Let’s say the adult population is 250 million. 25% of 250 million is 62.5 million people. That is almost as many people that live in France. And way more people than Norway, Netherlands and Portugal combined. Yet these three countries have a world class national team and produce top players.
It’s not that not enough Americans care it is the sports college system for this sport doesn’t work to create elite players. I bet California has enough people interested in the sport to replicate the European promotion and relegation system for a comprehensive multi level amateur league system to produce top players. Like if a tiny nation as Portugal can do it a rich state as California with more inhabitants can probably do it too. 25% of California inhabitants is almost 10 million that is the same as inhabitants in Portugal. And California has a GDP per capita that is more than twice that of Portugal
Not all adults are sports fans though, so those numbers are still inflated. Proportions may still work though. While I have no issues with sports, understand people following them and enjoy playing them, I don’t follow any sports myself. There are people like me and people who do the tired scoffing “sportsball” joke all around in the us (not like our interests are any less affordable).
I wonder if there’s any country above 84%. Some small countries like Bosnia seem even more obsessed than Brazil, but they have such a small population that they don’t have the reputation of Brazil.
The problem with the current Brazil team is that they all play like jugglers. Like yeah man it’s super cool that you can pull nifty tricks while you’re juggling with your friends at the beach, but that’s not the game you’re in now so lock in
Not being able to play as a team has always been a weakness for Brazil. The country also expects them to attack and play other teams off the park. It’s a team that always has superstars, and those superstars want to have their moments, and a coach that doesn’t allow that doesn’t last long. Meanwhile teams like Japan put the team first and aren’t too proud to focus on defending.
But, the bigger issue this time is that Brazil is a really aging squad lacking decent players in some key positions. Their main GK plays for Liverpool. Their CBs play for Arsenal and PSG. Their central midfielders play for or just left big European clubs. But, their fullbacks were major weaknesses. One is about to turn 35 and left Juventus a year and a half ago after barely playing in his final year, and he’s mostly a CB not a fullback. The other is a 32 year old who has been playing in Russia for the last 7 years. Brazil used to have world class fullbacks. Marcelo, Dani Alves, Roberto Carlos, Cafu, etc.
Age was also an issue. Despite having 2 teenagers in the squad, the third youngest player was 25, and they had almost as many over-30 players as they do under-30s. They were the 6th oldest team at the World Cup, and 3 of those 6 didn’t make it out of the group stage. Only 2 of the 6 were reasonable contenders, Brazil and Colombia, the other one that made it out of the group was the surprise story of the tournament Cabo Verde.
So, I don’t think it was really that Brazil played too many tricks. They always do that, and they frequently win. The problem this time was that their aging squad lacked good fullbacks which put them under pressure when opponents could get down the wings.
Watch it buddy, I’m 32
Nah football is football. You play it with your foot and a ball, however you see fit and within the rules. Shenanigans are Brazil’s trademark, they have always been. Stop trying to europeanise football.
No one implied they shouldn’t be allowed to. People just have opinions on what works.
You can think what you like, I for example think the rest of the world understands perfectly well that soccer isn’t one of your primary sports.
For a sport in its infancy in your country, I didn’t think the US team were that bad
It actually is one of the primary sports for women in the US. And their womens team is one of the best, having won the world cup 4 times, 91, 99, 15 and 19
And for 1 in 4 sportsfans to follow football in the US isnt THAT bad. More than i expected.
Interesteling info. I just got vibes of “we didn’t lose, we weren’t really trying”. Mix that with an american suggesting the rest of the world isn’t culturally aware is the perfect ragebait lol
That’s even more scathing haha
What amuses me is the soccer fans here who think we’re going to get better. I first encountered this in '94 when we (the US) hosted the world cup and got spanked by a Brazil team playing with 10 players. It’s like Indians saying they’re going to be good at basketball soon (they aren’t, because they love cricket).
So, because they love cricket, they can’t love basketball? Spain, which has 2 orders of magnitude less the population, is a powerhouse both in football and basketball.
All American sports are dying because of private equity:
isnt Middle east practically the Private equity of sports right now, the oil generating countries are just buying up sports team and sportwashing them.
This, it is sucking the life out of kids sports
I think the US is going to get better, but I don’t think they’ll be challenging any of the global powerhouses. Soccer / futbol is getting more and more popular over time. And, typically, when a country hosts the world cup, 10-15 years later there’s a new group of players who were inspired by the tournament and who have spent the time since then focusing on it.
American athletes generally are multi-sport players when younger, and tend to follow the best money. The players who have the best chance at being star soccer players simply end up playing football or basketball. The sport being less popular than at least 4 other sports in America is a huge problem for developing homegrown talent for the national team.
soccer/football seems to be the only sport that our state uni in my area has as a legit sports team, and msot of them want to be part of AN EU team after graduation anyway, they likely know the US one isnt very lucrative or very good at getting them to level of the EU, BRAZIL,etc. they only go for other sports if a specific university has the teams for those sports like FOOTBALL , or basketball.
I mostly mean before college. There is definitely a path for american soccer players, but its not in America like you say. World class players still “retire” and then go play in America, which says a lot.
america only care about the americans only sports, football and basketball, and baseball. ive only ever seen heavily played in a university where students want to be professional in the eu.
Japan would like to disagree about Baseball. They love it and have pretty good leagues.
Italy didn’t even qualify this year.
Everything Trump touches turns to shit. He really has the reverse Midas touch.
Mierda’s touch.
Are you suggesting Fifa or football in general wasn’t already shit?
Nothing is so shit that Poopypants couldn’t make it shittier.
Pidas touch.
Poo Midas
Seem like everyone got successfully distracted over the epstein files and the ongoing genocide and wars
Can we please talk about the aliens please
Dont worry, ICE is taking care of them
US played badly. That first goal was just embarrassing. The third one was even worse. Belgium absolutely dominated.
The fourth was extremely embarrassing as well, although who cares at that point. There’s a defender there watching Lukaku literally flat-footed, even though there was nobody else around for him to guard.
At least with the header we had two defenders closely marking the guy, even though that just made it an even more spectacular goal.
The extra minutes goal… Man, it really would have been better if they put us down at 1-3 instead of 1-4.
Oh well, we’ll just go back to being awesome at everything else.
Can I get some of that copium? It looks like particularly good shit.
It’s america bruv everyone is welcome. Come join in the fun.
lmao
There are a lot of other memes that could be made for this situation. This is really fucked up.
Like the US or not, thousands of innocents died in this attack, including both victims and emergency service members trying to save lives.
Despite what you may think, these people didn’t deserve to die.
Infinitely better. Got a good chuckle from this one.
Perfection.
We’ve found it. Peak comedy.
Daaamn
This is the uniting post we needed.
Don’t forget Irish car bombs!
Ah yes, any other atrocity is obviously a joking matter…
Tragedy plus time equals comedy.
I don’t think OP was making fun of the people who died at all. Rather this is probably how Trump (a demented narcissist btw) probably sees this whole situation. We gotta have some room of humor. I would agree with you if OPs joke was just “9/11 lol” but there’s a lot of context here.
Sir this is a shitposting community
Pretty sure most all shitposters have some class. Or are you shitting on the shitposters?
Edit: Guess I was mistaken.
First time here? 9/11 jokes have been on the table online since, like, 9/12.
Ah, yes, I remember 2001 lemmyshitpost like it was yesterday.
It was a quieter time
Boubou imperialism has consequences
People joke about everything, stop with this US exceptionalism
It’s been longer than 22.3 years.
Wow. Somehow saying that making fun of a mass casualty event is wrong translates into US exceptionalism… You’re as warped as a MAGAt.
Neither did the millions america then slaughtered across the middle east.
Welcome to “lemmyshitpost”
Too soon?
It’s almost like Trump made things worse. What a surprise…
most likely, the usa team isnt going to be taken seriously now, if any of the players as aspires to become a player for another country, if thats even possible.
Actually our team only has 7 players that are from Major League Soccer.
If someone has duel citizenship, isn’t good enough to make the national team where they live, they will definitely be able to make the USA team.
I’ll have you know that this is the GoLdEn AgE oF aMeRiCa!
You’d think he’d have learned his lesson from the Knicks game. I mean no, obviously he didn’t learn his lesson, but other people should have predicted what would happen because he destroys everything he touches.
You’d think he’d have learned his lesson from the Knicks game
That’s implying he’s capable of learning the lesson and not just lashing out because that dementia-ridden puddle where a brain is usually located can’t comprehend he’s not 100% right all the time
You know they overturned the red card because we weren’t going to win anyway.
My thinking was that it may have/should have been overturned anyway since it was a bad initial call, but the orange wanted to put his name on it and everyone is giving him too much credit. I genuinely believe they would have rescinded the red regardless of him and he just had to put his rancid stank all over it.
I played all growing up, in college, and in coed leagues post-college and to this day. A couple of my friends were opining about different calls nd it made me realize one of the quickest ways to get me mad is to talk about a game you can’t even play. I know ball. It was the right decision and also the US team looked like clowns. I was at the game and nearly got heatstroke and they never deserved to even get this far but can we stop giving credit to the slug man?
oh you know nothing Jon Snow… that never happened before… de FIFA never overturned a red card in the history of FIFA and there where much worse calls than this one. Its just something that never happens, best you get is a officials report stating that it was a wrong call…3 or 5 weeks after said incident happened. That was pure corruption.
Sweet summer child…are we talking exclusively in boring meme language now? Is this the level of discourse on this site? Disappointing. All I was saying was that overturning reds is not unprecedented and the cheeto demon should not be given sole credit, much as he wants it.
I love it when people who can’t play sports argue with me about them. Coed game is on Thursday, come play with me and then we can talk.
Are you dense? Never mind, if I have to ask then I have my answer.
I can’t imagine being so rude to a stranger over a football game. Dense how?
Considering how you treated the other person I would say you and I are of a similar ilk.
Also - not playing a sport does not exclude others from being aware of the issues.
Your standard is impassable.
Who is giving him credit for it? It is like you made up something in your head.
