ESPN Chile is insufferable with the betting ads. Most of which are extremely cringeworthy while at it.
Let’s bet on this granny crossing the street before the lights change! Betting is so cool!
Not to say the people shilling them in every show. How they sleep at night.
In the case of Ecuadorian football, all it took was for one team to focus on developing youngsters (Del Valle), and that boosted the whole ecosystem in the country
We brought Luis Roggiero who was one of the key people involved in IdV’s project to be our DoF and his tenure ended a complete failure. It was one single man though, I can imagine the amount of forces that didn’t allow him do his job
The FA chairman at the time was a massive crook, but a crook that wanted Chile to do well nonetheless. Even women’s football grew during his spell.
The people now in charge are massive crooks who don’t give a fuck.
Sinner
Actually because of him I recently discovered there’s a German speaking region in Italy
That’s the one reason I cut some slack to CR on his meltdown before going to Saudi Arabia. Yea he has personal responsibility for the bridges he burned, but I can understand to some extent why he wasn’t thinking with clarity.
OLED’s at the wheel
One is not like the others
He was going toe to toe with a player from Kuwait I think, but seems the latter slowed down.
EDIT: his name is Bader Al-Mutawa and he has 196 caps but the last was in June 2022, probably won’t reach Ronaldo.