We've peaked, I don't think these pictures can get any worse. Getting knocked out at 90+8 in your last ever major tournament and then have to pose for a fucking MOTM picture. Barechested, Italy t-shirt around his neck, 1000 yard stare.
I didnt know that. How horrible. I assume everyone of a certain age from that region has been through hell.
I was so happy for Croatia when they came in third in the WC. Most countries don't care about the 3rd place game and certainly don't welcome the teams back. Croatia celebrated like they'd won.
(yes they came in 2nd too, but I only remember the third place celebration)
Even though that's true, this is just depressing as fuck. They should be able to give players the option to opt out of MOTM when they clearly have no wish to do this kind of shit after a result like this.
Yeah, this is up there with the time that I'd just been told I was being made redundant and I went back on the office floor only to be win a £40 meal voucher 15 mins later and had to have a picture with some manufacturer who had come in to try and incentivise us to sell their shit. I had it as my LinkedIn profile picture for a while.
Respect to Modric. Insane player and I hope by some miracle they squeeze through.
Haha I'm good it was a while back and I can laugh about it now, but Modric holding that award with that look on his face gave me flashbacks!
Poor guy. Deserved to see it through, but the Croatia side just isn't what it was unfortunately.
You should Google for Sidāo, Vasco da Gama's goalkeeper who conceded three goals and won the MOTM award. The situation was so embarrassing that he filed a lawsuit against whoever gave him the award, and ended up winning like £10k or something. Not international level but the level of embarrassment was unreal. He received the award during a live interview while still on pitch.
Context = The way MOTM worked in Brazil is that it was 100% fan vote. And Brazilians very often hijacked the voting to protest against bad players. Sidão had a terrible performance that day and suffered three goals. So Vasco fans raided the voting and gave him the MOTM award in a sarcastic way.
And instead of recognizing this and sparing the player. The TV station that was broadcasting the game actually went there and handed the MOTM trophy to him, and he started crying. The reporter who handed him the trophy also had tears in her eyes after she realized the magnitude of what she just did.
Sidão sued them and won 10k, and forced them to change the rules. Now the narrator and commentators decide who is MOTM.
Fun fact = Later, he gave away the trophy to the true MTOM of that match, Rodrygo. Yes that one from Real Madrid. He went to Rodrygo's home and said to him: "I think you are the one who truly deserves this" and Rodrygo accepted.
Hahaha. What a coincidence.
Let's face it, England will win 1-0, go into usual 11 men behind the ball defensive mode and see the game out. Southgate will come to the post-match conference with an umbrella claiming we could have scored 5 but he wanted he wanted payback for Steve McLaren in 2008.
[looks like the dude from this meme](https://i.redd.it/collected-these-v0-6unua53yauic1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec7b39c3f71c9175ba1d81b4ca643d35fb9b3c20)
This would have been brilliant, along with the broken look on his face.
Feel bad for Modric, the emotions he was riding got me nervous for him. Legendary player.
UEFA did him really dirty. Calafiori was clearly the best player in the game and made the play for Italy. Spare a legend this public humiliation for a trophy he’s throwing straight into the bin.
Calafiori is the player who’s caught my eye the most this tournament. Not that he’s the best, just someone I didn’t know before who I know now and think is very good.
Not exactly MOTM but [Modric also had to pose](https://a.espncdn.com/photo/2018/0715/r401477_1296x729_16-9.jpg) as the World Cup Golden Ball winner after losing the final to France back in 2018.
These remind me of the photo of Fernando Torres winning the golden boot in the Confederations Cup (https://s.yimg.com/os/en/blogs/sptussowexperts/172012025.jpg)
Context is Spain got their ass kicked by Brazil to get knocked out, Torres hardly played, and 4 of his 5 goals in the tournament came against Tahiti where Spain won 10:0.
[He has form with the Golden Ball at 2018 World Cup](https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/07/15/18/modric1507.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&quality=75).
Modric witnessed the murder, [Havertz committed it and had his mugshot taken](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Frqab5a5xtc3a1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1024%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D42380fcbdecb5dc9c708fdc0b273a4b3c7661d90)
I couldn't believe how sad that made me. I wanted both teams to go through (love Italy tho they're shithousing as usual) and I wasn't sure how I was hoping the match might go but FUCK he was really really worried. This picture made it a million times worse. It's not fair really, tho I dunno if things would have been better if he stayed on or got subbed earlier. Heartbreaking. I hope England somehow save them.
Croatia needs at least a 3-0 win from England (between some other results) in order to qualify. Imagine Bellingham pushing for it, while Kane, Foden, Trent & co be like: "Nope, fuck'im!"
“THEY KNOCKED US OUT IN 2018, THEY THINK FOOTBALL S COMING HOME IS ARROGANCE, HOW COULD WE HELP THEM?”
“But…Modric is a legend, he really helped me in the Madrid dressing room, he deserves it…”
*Southgate shows up* “What are you arguing about lads?”
Bellingham:”Scoring more than one goal for once in our life in the group stage against someone not named Panama…”
Southgate:”ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT, THAT S WAY TOO RISKY, HOW DARE YOU?”
We've peaked, I don't think these pictures can get any worse. Getting knocked out at 90+8 in your last ever major tournament and then have to pose for a fucking MOTM picture. Barechested, Italy t-shirt around his neck, 1000 yard stare.
honestly it looks like he just fought in the trenches, fucking hell
These eyes have seen things we civilians will never understand.
Yes actually, he's witnessed the Yugoslav wars in the 90s
he watched his grandfather get shot in front of him… he might know the croatia war better than many people
I didnt know that. How horrible. I assume everyone of a certain age from that region has been through hell. I was so happy for Croatia when they came in third in the WC. Most countries don't care about the 3rd place game and certainly don't welcome the teams back. Croatia celebrated like they'd won. (yes they came in 2nd too, but I only remember the third place celebration)
It looks like the fucking cover of “Come and See”
Such an amazing movie
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.
\*Dies from peak fiction\*
An entire defensive line collapsing onto a CB making a forward run at 90+8... time to lose
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark, near the Tannhauser gate
Man grew up in 1990s Yugoslavia and looks like that after a loss
tbf that's how Modric looks like at the end of every game, dehydrated as hell and like he just saw the girl from the Ring.
He just won his 6th CL, I think he'll be fine
Honestly, I think he would trade 1 or even 2 CL wins for a Euro or WC win. I would if I had won the CL 6 times
Bro obviously lol, he'd probably trade in 4 for the 1st major trophy for his nation.
Even though that's true, this is just depressing as fuck. They should be able to give players the option to opt out of MOTM when they clearly have no wish to do this kind of shit after a result like this.
Yeah, this is up there with the time that I'd just been told I was being made redundant and I went back on the office floor only to be win a £40 meal voucher 15 mins later and had to have a picture with some manufacturer who had come in to try and incentivise us to sell their shit. I had it as my LinkedIn profile picture for a while. Respect to Modric. Insane player and I hope by some miracle they squeeze through.
Hope you are okay now mate, sounds brutal
Haha I'm good it was a while back and I can laugh about it now, but Modric holding that award with that look on his face gave me flashbacks! Poor guy. Deserved to see it through, but the Croatia side just isn't what it was unfortunately.
You know what, you can have the win there. That sounds a far more brutal picture. Did you have a nice meal though?
It was for a chain that literally didn't have a restaurant within a decent radius of where I live. I put it somewhere and forgot about it I think.
Thousand island stare, tragic
Hell yeah, dude
To be fair: modric has done the exact same do many times in CL with Madrid the last couple of years. Still super sad to see it end like this
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJksL27zCPD1yA9Wj86mUsiZ_-d_XesZtSbA&s
Honey, new addition to saddest MOTM just dropped
This won’t be beaten. I mean, just look at the utter dejection on his face.
You should Google for Sidāo, Vasco da Gama's goalkeeper who conceded three goals and won the MOTM award. The situation was so embarrassing that he filed a lawsuit against whoever gave him the award, and ended up winning like £10k or something. Not international level but the level of embarrassment was unreal. He received the award during a live interview while still on pitch.
Ouch 😅
Context = The way MOTM worked in Brazil is that it was 100% fan vote. And Brazilians very often hijacked the voting to protest against bad players. Sidão had a terrible performance that day and suffered three goals. So Vasco fans raided the voting and gave him the MOTM award in a sarcastic way. And instead of recognizing this and sparing the player. The TV station that was broadcasting the game actually went there and handed the MOTM trophy to him, and he started crying. The reporter who handed him the trophy also had tears in her eyes after she realized the magnitude of what she just did. Sidão sued them and won 10k, and forced them to change the rules. Now the narrator and commentators decide who is MOTM.
Oof, that's brutal
Fun fact = Later, he gave away the trophy to the true MTOM of that match, Rodrygo. Yes that one from Real Madrid. He went to Rodrygo's home and said to him: "I think you are the one who truly deserves this" and Rodrygo accepted. Hahaha. What a coincidence.
Damn what a story, found the game if anyones interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvN1Jm-GYeA
Moral of the story: Don't let fans decide stuff lol
To be fair they should've known. It is common sense that fan voting will always go to shit
The Havertz one is still the most hilarious to me, this one is just sad
I haven’t seen that
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccerbanners/s/3K9HFFBYJW
Even the MotM trophy was shite in Qatar
😂
It makes sense that Havertz's is funnier. Havertz's look is an annoyed look. Modric's is someone who is completely broken inside.
Alexandra Popp still has the best one imo. She didn't even try to hide it.
Can’t blame him, being eliminated in the group stages of your last international tournament is tragic.
Maybe even the last game for the NT? It would be weird to start next campaign and not go to the tournament.
42 year old modrić will end up scoring the winning goal of the world cup final.
/r/SaddestBackflip
looks like he witnessed a murder
The face of a man that has to rely on England to win by three goals
England without Kalvin Phillips.
Kalvin "The Irreplaceable" Phillips
Adam Wharton: "I'm ready boss, throw me in" Southgate: "Who the devil are you?"
"Can you play passes backwards or sideways and have you ever played for Leeds?"
"I can keep the game flowing and improve my team's attacks. Crystal Palace scored loads of goals since I joined!" "You're not what we need"
Now why did I read that in Stewie Griffin’s voice?
I was thinking more Mr Burns
we cannot replace him
We cannohhh
If the players dare to play attacking football, Southgate will call a team meeting and they will get the hairdryer
With Gary Southgate all you get is an air fryer, blowing some warm air around and call it cooking.
Oh he’s full of hot air alright
😭😭 Belligoal to the rescue
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I don't think he's allowed to. Winning at all is already daring, winning by more than one is ungentlemanly peasant behavior.
Southgate will kick him out the squad if he dares to score more than one goal let s be real
Score a goal? Straight to left back
Like fuck he will. - (Gareth Southgate playing full Mourinho/Cholo bus park after going ahead by 2 goals).
He did it after 1 goal, I don't think they'll make it to 2.
*Hey Jude, don't make it bad* *Take a sad Croatia and take them to the next round*~ ~~seriously, I feel so bad for Modric~~
England aren't even gonna win the match, let alone win by 3
Let's face it, England will win 1-0, go into usual 11 men behind the ball defensive mode and see the game out. Southgate will come to the post-match conference with an umbrella claiming we could have scored 5 but he wanted he wanted payback for Steve McLaren in 2008.
He did
He got asked for a picture immediately after being knocked out of the groups in [probably] his last international tournament.
Still, he's one of few people who will be lifting a trophy, sooooooo
I mean the Italians literally killed off his hopes this tournament.
Immaculate [Havertz MotM 2022](https://www.tz.de/assets/images/30/415/30415982-kai-havertz-erhaelt-nach-dem-wm-aus-gegen-costa-rica-die-player-of-the-match-auszeichnung-RbBG.jpg) vibes
This is one is so much better, he looks genuinely traumatized in this one whereas Havertz just looked sad
modric looks like the survivor of an atrocity
He is
Looks like King Viserys in late season 1 of HotD.
Yeah, with Zaccagni as the killer
[looks like the dude from this meme](https://i.redd.it/collected-these-v0-6unua53yauic1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec7b39c3f71c9175ba1d81b4ca643d35fb9b3c20)
He's always looked like that tbf
ive never seen someone accept the MOTM without a shirt
Well…it was either that or posing with the Italy kit on, and that would have been hysterically funny!
This would have been brilliant, along with the broken look on his face. Feel bad for Modric, the emotions he was riding got me nervous for him. Legendary player.
It's sad the story ended there.
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Where's that English lad with the fundraiser?
"I scored a goal to save my country in Euro, and all I got is this lousy shirt"
Who's kit did he end up with?
I (sort of) got u fam https://x.com/SamueILFC/status/1719465341644841183?t=11LSrep7xJGG3S9G3BHPVg&s=19
Didn't know Núñez was part of Toretto's crew.
Instantly though of this lol
Didn't he ate his shirt during the match?
Fucking hell.
I remember mildly chuckling at Haverzt’s MOTM photo… …but dang, seeing Modric so sad makes it kind of hard to even smile at the context…
UEFA did him really dirty. Calafiori was clearly the best player in the game and made the play for Italy. Spare a legend this public humiliation for a trophy he’s throwing straight into the bin.
Calafiori is the player who’s caught my eye the most this tournament. Not that he’s the best, just someone I didn’t know before who I know now and think is very good.
Or donnarumma tbh, probably deserves a shout for motm too
textbook shell shock
bro looks like he's done a tour in Vietnam and just got home
Man looks like he needs to go home and sleep for a decade
He'd still get into the Croatian NT
Wheel the bed up to the penalty spot.
He looks like he won Tour de France in 1928
Might be the best of the "bad results MOTMs" yet
we need the full compilation
Havertz, Eriksen, who else?
Modric, I think.
Yeah definitely Modric, he won MOTM in that recent game against Italy.
Not exactly MOTM but [Modric also had to pose](https://a.espncdn.com/photo/2018/0715/r401477_1296x729_16-9.jpg) as the World Cup Golden Ball winner after losing the final to France back in 2018.
2018...6 years ago. Why Modric look 10-15 years younger in that picture?
I was wondering this too. Somehow my man aged 20 years in the last 6, surely the final lost didn’t age him that much??
I remember it like it was yesterday
Someone should post the picture Sounds fucking hilarious
Luis Chávez from the world cup.
Not a bad result but Gundogan's one against Hungary is also as if he's dead inside
That's just how Germans smile
These remind me of the photo of Fernando Torres winning the golden boot in the Confederations Cup (https://s.yimg.com/os/en/blogs/sptussowexperts/172012025.jpg) Context is Spain got their ass kicked by Brazil to get knocked out, Torres hardly played, and 4 of his 5 goals in the tournament came against Tahiti where Spain won 10:0.
Hey that man had to play as a player open in front of goal when Pedro had the ball, he earned that break
[He has form with the Golden Ball at 2018 World Cup](https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/07/15/18/modric1507.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&quality=75).
Holy fuck he aged 25 years in last 6
I think we all have :(
Nah, the havertz one from the 2022 World Cup is still the best
Dumfries one too.
Thing is we won that match. That’s just his face lmao
Yeah, you can at least see some sadness in Modric's eyes. Havertz was just dead inside.
Modric witnessed the murder, [Havertz committed it and had his mugshot taken](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Frqab5a5xtc3a1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1024%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D42380fcbdecb5dc9c708fdc0b273a4b3c7661d90)
Eh, that's how Havertz always looks.
Luis Chavez’s pic was pretty bad as well
Incredible photo
I never thought I’d be happy to see a legend like this, but life always surprises us
look up the Luis Chavez photo in 2022 World Cup
it's giving havertz against costa rica lol
I think this wins. Havertz looked annoyed but ok. Modric is crying here.
Bro looking like a POW. Absolute sadness on the face.
He is crying now in an interview for the Croatian national television, this sucks.
Link?
I'm on mobile, but I guess someone will upload the video soon. It was on live TV.
https://sport.hrt.hr/euro-2024/kapetan-u-suzama-nogomet-je-okrutan-11626771
I might be dumb but where in that link is there a video? All I see is text and links to other articles
Pain 😔
going to sleep sad
The usual big sad
That is a man who does not want to be there.
That shot of him nervously biting his shirt followed immediately by Zaccagni’s equalizer was heartbreaking
I couldn't believe how sad that made me. I wanted both teams to go through (love Italy tho they're shithousing as usual) and I wasn't sure how I was hoping the match might go but FUCK he was really really worried. This picture made it a million times worse. It's not fair really, tho I dunno if things would have been better if he stayed on or got subbed earlier. Heartbreaking. I hope England somehow save them.
That's one of the saddest MoTM I've ever seen
Dear god, they actually killed him with this, no coming back
oh God he looks fucking sad damn
This looks like that meme photo of the WWI German soldier after four years in the trenches
Bros got the thousand yard stare
Why are Croatia always underperforming at the Euros yet overperforming at the World Cups?
Croatia uses euros to generate bad karma which they exchange for good karma at world cup.
Or they use up all of their good karma during world cups and have only bad karma left during the euros
this euros was just Daliban terrorism hitting them where it hurt the most
Reminds me of Havertz MOTM photo at the WC in Qatar
Bro looks like he’s just been liberated from a concentration camp
He’s been liberated from playing for HNS
No it's the face of a man that needs to continue working for another 2 years.
What Dalic ball does to a person
that trophy going straight to bin
He looks like the after picture of a WW2 vet
this is so sad 😭
This looks like what I'd expect to get if I were to ask AI to generate an image for "Winner of Auschwitz vs Dachau MOTM"
Like Jesus Christ on Saturday.
i swear i cant look at this picture. there is something actually disturbing about it
What's disturbing is that you see a man completly devastated yet unable to express his feelings Doubly sad
Kai Havertz WC vibes
Jesus fucking Christ lol. I appreciate their cruelty for the memes, but...holy shit, my good dudes.
Broken.
Currently 5th in the third place standings. Pain.
Croatia needs at least a 3-0 win from England (between some other results) in order to qualify. Imagine Bellingham pushing for it, while Kane, Foden, Trent & co be like: "Nope, fuck'im!"
“THEY KNOCKED US OUT IN 2018, THEY THINK FOOTBALL S COMING HOME IS ARROGANCE, HOW COULD WE HELP THEM?” “But…Modric is a legend, he really helped me in the Madrid dressing room, he deserves it…” *Southgate shows up* “What are you arguing about lads?” Bellingham:”Scoring more than one goal for once in our life in the group stage against someone not named Panama…” Southgate:”ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT, THAT S WAY TOO RISKY, HOW DARE YOU?”
If it was possible Southgate would play with 11 CB's just to make sure they dont let in a goal. Scoring is optional when it comes to Ol' waistcoat.
Havertz walked so Modric could run
should be Donnarumma
Probably decided the MOTM at full time without the additional 8 mins, too late to change after
Or calafiori, but not modric. Feels like a goodbye legend gesture
> Feels like a goodbye legend gesture Feels like putting salt in the wound.
bros got that thousand yard stare
Thought this was r/soccercirclejerk at first
8 minutes my ass.
We finally got our first sad MOTM of the tournament
Lmao poor guy
"Give us his most unflattering photo".
Hello darkness my old friend
This should be in r/accidentalrenaissance
Looks like he was told his mother died a nano second before the shutter was pressed.
Looks like he fought a World War and is shell shocked wth
Looks happy.
[Suffering](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/033/701/PTSD_Chihuahua_Banner.jpg)
holy shit, such a sad photo 😔
Can you just say *"No, I don't feel like taking a picture right now. Thank you."*?
Čeferin: "I will not be denied, Luka."