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As Americans sit on the sidelines with our collective thumbs up our asses to watch the world duke it out at the World Cup, we feel the compulsive need to insert ourselves into the narrative somehow. WE ARE AMERICA GODDAMNIT.
And for the sixteen Americans who tuned in to watch Panama play in its first-ever World Cup Monday against Belgium, they succeeded in making the tournament about the U-S-of-A. Turns out, Panama midfielder Gabriel Gomez is an exact replica of Celtics guard Kyrie Irving (mixed with a dusting of Arian Foster).
https://twitter.com/FootyHumour/status/1008734153075052545
Pretty spot on, no?
Props to the entire United States’ soccer community for hopping on Twitter to make light of the important news.
https://twitter.com/OfficialGoom/status/1008752583098486784
And no surprise he's hurt there too
— Corey Borgert (@Borgert15) June 18, 2018
"My Next Chapter" 😂
— KB (@kevbarraza) June 18, 2018
panama got a dude who looks like he’s kyrie’s daddy.
— bomani (@bomani_jones) June 18, 2018
Wow guess Kyrie was healthy enough to play in the World Cup pic.twitter.com/OEdW5oD7AE
— 12up (@12upSport) June 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/TrillSmith/status/1008734206749544448
https://twitter.com/MrPryority/status/1008773356513058816
Kyrie Irving can go and play in the world cup but can't even support his team in the arena during the playoffs smh pic.twitter.com/9D6OtvcptA
— e͎d͎☠︎︎ (@slicktalkk) June 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/IAmPhillyC/status/1008776647301042179
Belgium went on to win, 3-0. Apologies, Kyrie.
[h/t Total Pro Sports]