World Cup Highlights and Reactions

The first thing we're going to do,

the first thing we're going to do is say congratulations to Spain on

defeating Argentina to win the World Cup.

A billion people watched

worldwide as the tournament held its championship match at MetLife

Stadium in Jersey.

There was a star studded halftime show with everyone from Madonna to the Muppets.

And it seems like,

and you know, I'm just saying, look at Shakira moving those hips, man.

I was like, Shiki, what you doing?

I mean, she was doing it. Look at, look at them. They're just so happy.

By the way, she was shaking them hips in front of her ex husband,

her cheating ex husband who was sitting there having to see them hips.

He's too old to be on the field, but she's not.

I don't know anything about any of that.

But I will say, it did seem like some people got a

very chilly,

like a,

Butchely reception from the crowd. So what?

President of the United States on the field.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know.

I wanna know what you all saw cause I didn't get to watch it.

So I'm interested in what you all and what was the

standouts. It was so fantastic. You know, I always forget

and I tell people all the time that my husband is a Spaniard cause he was born in

Spain, his family's in Spain until the World Cup comes around.

Like he goes to the World Cup, he watches games all the time.

He's been wearing his España shirt for about a week.

I know that it must smell, but he invited

tons of people to our house unbeknownst to me.

At one o clock, all these Spaniards start rolling into my house. They are screaming.

I am like caught up in it as well.

It was so exciting, especially because of these two players,

Lamin Yamal and Nico Williams.

They have played for 265 minutes.

They had 20 chances at field goals, at goals rather.

They got one goal, three assists, and they, my husband has explained to me,

they've changed the pace of the game. Look at this when I'm talking about Socrates.

I know, right? I was all up in it.

And I think what's, they, Nico Williams in particular.

He dedicated the World Cup glory to his Ghanaian mother.

Apparently, they're originally from Ghana and Nico's parents endured

a life threatening journey in the nineties,

crossing the Sahara desert on foot with his mother, heavily pregnant, so that they

could go to Spain and get a better,

and you know, reach a better life.

And now he is on the world stage as a member of You know, a fourth,

almost a full fourth of the players that played here.

So there was like 1 248 players.

25 of them were born in a country different than they were playing for. Yes.

So what you saw there for 39 days is a celebration of immigration.

So many of those players were, a lot of them were born

in refugee camps and had to go through some, you know, incredible

conditions and situations in order to get to where they were.

I thought it was a party. For 39 days.

I think it was beautiful to celebrate the different

nations and see all these people walking around our streets now There

is no just can I just point out he looks like somebody inserted his

Like I don't know how this guy thinks that he's not gonna get booed in a

Stadium that's full of Latin Americans and Spaniards. Yeah, right

He's been I was when I was looking at the Argentine team, you know And they've got

all these tattoos and they're going up on stage to get their second place medals

I thought to myself if these

guys weren't on this field if they were standing in front of a Home Depot

Trump's eyes would be racially profiling them and dragging them

Let me just tell you some of the things

he has recently said about Spain we don't have

to trade with them I don't want to do any more trade with them make it immediately.

Don't even talk to them they're hopeless bad people and Spain

is a loser. He said in March. Oh, no, they're not.

No, they're not

Congratulations to Spain,

but I also want to say congratulations to Argentina because that was such an

amazing final to watch a team Teams that could hold each other

at zero until overtime gives every fan a phenomenal.

Wow I will say that Spain Spain actually dominated

Spain did because they were on offense almost the entire game and Argentina

really did kill it on defense for a long time The goalie was very impressive.

Oh my gosh, but the only was 11 saves.

Yes, but we were a bit of a house divided because I'm a I I was cheering on Messi

purely because he's 39.

This is probably his last World Cup.

He's one of the greatest of all times.

But my son is a big Lamine Yamal fan and he was so

excited watching this. And I just want to shout out Lamine Yamal's little brother.

Oh God, yes. This kid, who I think we have a picture of, stole the show.

This is his three year old brother who they show in the

audience. They showed him running up, this little guy.

And one really cool thing about Lamine Yamal is there is a

contest that Lamine Yamal's parents won

where Lionel Messi was holding him as a newborn.

So to imagine when they came to the field, that is Lamine Yamal being washed.

Like imagine going head to head.

He was playing,

Lionel Messi was playing for Barcelona at the time for Barca. And so they

were doing a calendar and it was to raise money for UNICEF. UNICEF, yeah.

And that's how, so it was, so.

And he's 19 years old and Messi is 39. 19 years old on the world stage.

And he is also an immigrant.

Well, he was born in Spain, but his parents are Moroccan and I believe Ghanaian.

Sorry, real quick, the halftime show made me

cry. It was a Sunday. I had been to church earlier that day. I didn't like it.

Oh, I loved it. I thought the uplifting messaging of just watching all the flags,

all the people, and it kept having this message of we don't have to speak the

same language to speak the same language

on a field. Mad Bunny needs to be in charge of every halftime show. No, I loved it.

Madonna killed it, BTS, the cover of Justin Bieber.

It had something for everyone. Shakira, it was amazing.

But I had a really unpopular take that divided my family.

I like the World Cup more than the Olympics. And I have to say why, thank you.

Why, why? It's nearly every nation on Earth, every region thrives in it.

The Arab nations, Latin American, we're getting good at it,

but we're not as good as the Europeans. Like in America, it's

one sport, the whole world coming together to compete in it.

It's not as distracting as love the luge, but it's too much to follow.

It is the most popular sport in the world,

and I think we don't realize that.

Well, because we didn't

start out playing soccer. But we're getting good. We're getting better.

Listen, Pele came over here and said, look y all, you are way behind the thing.

Remember Pele? Oh yeah, no, no, Pele, that was my, yeah, that was my friend.

You know what, next year is the Women's World Cup.

It's gonna happen in Brazil. We gotta give those ladies a flower.

So, yeah, I mean, listen.

I was, from what I saw,

thought it was really good

for people in charge of this country to see what it was like

to be on the world stage with people from other countries and get respect

not disrespect nobody disrespected no to be respected

by people who who you've said terrible things about

it made me happy to see you have to deal with it I

think we should also mention that there was a Somali referee who was

supposed to be at the World Cup and was and he was denied a

visa yeah by this Trump administration many

people were denied visas to come in and do this but you

know what if you you only hurt yourself when you try to hurt the

immigrant community it's just the way it is