didn't expect Tunisia to get out of this group
didn't expect them to be the biggest chumps of the whole tournament tho
Curaçao’s blue man is crying!
maybe I'm overreacting to the last 2 times I saw them play -- a 5-1 defeat to the US B team and a draw against this same Saudi Arabia -- but I think maybe Uruguay is terrible
Lalas is America's most 1990s/Gen X athlete, happy to deploy all the alt-rock-style markers of "authenticity" and "nonconformity" until they went out of fashion, at which point he rejected everything they supposedly represented
Bleah
This is hilarious and deathly accurate, yes. But if you were around in 1994 and remember the long-haired, guitar-playing, counterculture-coded, *likable* version of Alexi Lalas, it's also just sad