The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
TL;DR: Thierry Henry is completely clowning Alexei Lalas in their joint post-match commentary. Humiliating Lalas is ridiculously easy. But of course King Henry is doing it with subtlety, class, and withering wit.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/21/thierry-henry-alexi-lalas-fox-world-cupOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
Alexi keeps getting play on Fox because he is one of a very small number prominently pro-Trump voices in soccer. There are so many better commentators they could put in there who had great careers with the US and/or in the United States -- Ale Bedoya, Bill Hamid, Diego Valeri, heck I bet even Sam Mewis could learn the boys' names in time -- but they're not white republican men. Watching Telemundo is much more enjoyable.
As an Earthquakes fan, FAL.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Very entertaining read.