It’s After Dark time!
In this recurring series, we capture some of the same After Dark energy that permeates late-night soccer games in the United States. There’s no shortage of crazy things happening in and around this sport — and we’re bringing some of the most entertaining ones straight to you.
This week, we have a presidential announcement, Jedi Robinson clinching his spot as the USMNT’s best Instagram-er, and more.
An all-time crazy transfer announcement
Thursday morning started out just like any other Thursday morning. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and X/Twitter was humming right along with transfer news. It really was your run-of-the-mill Thursday.
That is, until Gadi Kinda’s agent — that’s recent Sporting Kansas City designated player Gadi Kinda — posted an AI-doctored video of President Biden announcing Kinda’s transfer to Israeli club Maccabi Haifa. Mhmm. Yep. Of cour—WAIT WHAT?! Let's run through that one more time. Gadi Kinda’s agent posted an AI-doctored video of President Biden announcing Kinda’s transfer to Israeli club Maccabi Haifa.
“Please welcome the new number six, Gadi Kinda,” some sort of fake version of the President’s voice says while a random (or potentially deepfaked?) video of the President plays. Then we get some aggressively loud music that plays over the top of some b-roll clips of the midfielder.
Here’s the video of what is truly one of the most astonishing transfer announcement videos in the history of this sport:
