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The First Touch is just one of many new features that we're offering content creators on the new Breaking The Lines platform. Ready to get stuck in? Go ahead, complete your profile, and start breaking the lines. breakingthelines.com/registe…

Last but not least, select a cover to officially complete your onboarding process and create the perfect profile. But choose wisely: after all, you only ever get one First Touch.

You don't just get to compete with your friends and see who's the best at predicting results: you also get to rate each match and explain your thoughts, similarly to Letterboxd for movies.

Next, you're going to follow whichever creators you're interested in and select your tier. If you're in the mood for predictions, you can use our gameday predictor to pick which teams will win, and which players will stand out for the right and wrong reasons.

Here at Breaking The Lines, we’re enabling creators to make their First Touch. 1) Go to the breakingthelines.com 2) Click login and set up your account 3) Choose your persona and claim your display name / handle 4) Choose the leagues, players and teams you want to follow

How's your touch? In football, a First Touch tells everyone everything. It sets up everything that comes next, it highlights your creativity and mental acuity, and it can be the difference between a win or a loss. What's more, you only ever get one First Touch.

Mauricio Pochettino said that ‘American sports reward losers’ when asked about the style of play in top European nations vs. in the U.S. 😯🇺🇸 QUESTION: “We know how England, France, Spain play… Players from countries with a strong tradition have a recognizable style. What is the style of the US team? What kind of football do the Americans want to play?” ANSWER: “Their culture is playful. They want to play. We told them, “Guys, playing soccer is one thing, competing is another.” They’re two completely different sports. They grow up in a culture of playing. Why? If you start in MLS and you haven’t won a game in three months and you’re at the bottom, what’s the consequence if there’s no promotion or relegation, no international competition? American sports reward losers! But soccer is different: if you reward those who don’t win… If you don’t have goals, you don’t fight. If I lose, what happens? Nothing. They just fire the coach. Also, the American player is disciplined. But with a sense of complacency that isn’t good in soccer. It took us a year and a half to change that mentality.” [EL PAIS]

Ac Milan’s formation next season

One of the wonderful things about this World Cup is the celebration of each other’s cultures and identities without repudiating someone else’s. Something we so badly needed in the current moment.

Imagine what that means to Cape Verde. What a result

Now that these “hydration breaks” have a monetary benefit to them we will never get rid of them & they will be all over club football in no time. Commercial hawks have been trying to break the game up in to 4 quarters for years and they finally got there.

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IT'S NOT A WORLD CUP UNTIL THE ORANGE ARMY ARRIVES 🧡 The vibes ahead of Japan vs. the Netherlands are immaculate 🇯🇵🇳🇱

It’s 33 years to the day since this quite incredible Gary Pallister tackle on Careca in the US Cup. Bobby Moore eat your heart out.

Remember the night before your match when you got new boots?? God, i miss that kind of innocent excitement being an adult..

Noussair Mazraoui against Brazil: 78 minutes played at left-back 2/3 successful dribbles 4 tackles 4 clearances 6 recoveries 3 passes into the final third What a performance! 👏