U.S. soccer star Christian Pulisic added some flair to his performance during a Concacaf Nations League match against Jamaica, scoring a spectacular goal and joining the latest dance craze sweeping the sports world.

Pulisic opened the scoring by skillfully flicking the ball over Jamaica’s goalkeeper and into the net. In celebration, he sprinted to the corner and broke into a dance move inspired by President-elect Donald Trump, a gesture that has been trending among athletes.

The celebration wasn’t his only highlight of the game. Pulisic struck again in the 33rd minute, while teammate Ricardo Pepi added another goal in the 42nd minute, giving the U.S. a commanding 3-0 lead at halftime. With a 4-0 aggregate advantage, the Americans appeared to have the match firmly in hand.

Pulisic’s dance move connected him to a growing trend among athletes. Over the weekend, several NFL players and UFC fighters performed the same move in public displays of support for Trump. Athletes such as Brock Powers, Calvin Ridley, Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, Za’Darius Smith, and Malcolm Rodriguez all joined in on the viral moment.

At UFC 309, Trump’s influence was evident from cageside. Heavyweight champion Jon Jones celebrated his knockout of Stipe Miocic by replicating the dance and later handed his championship belt to Trump. Rising UFC star Bo Nickal also embraced the moment, chatting with Trump about golfing after his victory.

From soccer fields to UFC cages, Trump’s signature dance has become an unexpected cultural crossover, blending politics and sports in a uniquely viral way.

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Amad was named Man of the Match after a brilliant performance in Manchester United’s 2-0 win over PAOK at Old Trafford. He was the clear favorite among fans, receiving an impressive 93% of the votes in our post-match poll.

Wearing the number 16 shirt, Amad scored both goals in the second half, securing United’s first European victory of the season at the Theatre of Dreams. He was a standout in the first half as well, showing creativity and energy in a scoreless opening period.

The game came alive early in the second half when Amad connected with a cross from Bruno Fernandes, cleverly directing a looping header over PAOK’s goalkeeper, Dominik Kotarski, and into the net via the inside of the left-hand post. This gave United a 1-0 lead.

Amad’s second goal came with just 13 minutes left. After pressing PAOK’s defense, he won the ball from former Chelsea player Abdul Baba Rahman, drove past him, and curled a stunning shot with his left foot into the goal from 35 yards out. This remarkable goal was Amad’s third of the season and his sixth overall, perfectly highlighting his skill and tenacity.

Speaking to TNT Sports after the game, Amad expressed his delight in the victory, saying, “It’s been a long time since we won in Europe. Today we showed why we are one of the best teams. It was important to win today.”

He also shared his excitement about scoring twice, adding, “It is important to score every time. This season I have been unlucky, so I am happy to score two today. But the most important thing was to win. I like to celebrate with the fans and make people happy.”

Amad’s work off the ball also impressed fans. His relentless pressing, which helped him score his second goal, was a result of focused training. “It came from work we did in training. We have to press the opposing team,” he explained.

His first-half efforts nearly earned United a penalty after a challenge from Rahman, but the VAR check dismissed the appeals. Amad also set up Rasmus Hojlund for a header that was saved by Kotarski and drew another save himself with a powerful shot in the second half.

Amad’s remarkable performance earned him not only the fan-voted Man of the Match award on ManUtd.com and the United app but also TNT Sports’ equivalent award.

Congratulations to Amad on an outstanding performance and his well-deserved Man of the Match recognition!

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Four times Barcelona cut through, Raphinha scoring a hat-trick on his 100th game and Robert Lewandowski getting another in a 4-1 win that felt like a revelation, a new life.

“You owe us one,” Barcelona’s president, Joan Laporta, had told Hansi Flick; here the former Bayern coach who, like Lewandowski, had been on the other side during that 8-2 humiliation four years ago, a painful, pathetic portrait of the Catalans’ decline, repaid them handsomely.

“The past doesn’t count; what counts is here and now, that’s what we can influence,” he had insisted, but he knew this was about the past too. And about the future: there were six players under 21 in his starting XI, an immensely talented generation emerging. As for right here, right now, they look genuinely good again.

A decade since they last won this competition, a long while since they even thought they might, how ­Barcelona had needed this, players falling into the arms of astonished fans at the end. How they did it too, an exhibition in incision and fear­lessness, danger embraced and defeated. Maybe that’s also about youth, Marc Casadó, Pau Cubarsí, Fermín López and Lamine Yamal superb, not scared of anything. This was a football match played on a cliff top, and all the more enjoyable for it, a sense of jeopardy in every move.

So determined were Barcelona to play high, so willing were ­Bayern to do something similar, that it produced a breathless game often squeezed into the narrowest strip, an abyss on either side. The threat was always there because far from edging their way around the drop, nervously looking down, they were sprinting round it, fighting for every inch where there was no space and the chance to release the pass beyond the line, where there was loads of it. And where the game would be won.

Barcelona were the first to do so, after just 45 seconds, López’s quick, clever ball sending Raphinha ­sprinting free, the Brazilian going round Manuel Neuer to make Montjuïc erupt. And so it began, a fine and very fun line trodden by both teams. Bayern took advantage next, Harry Kane heading in on six ­minutes, or so he thought. VAR ruled that one out for offside but not the next, when he volleyed Serge Gnabry’s cross beyond Iñaki Peña to make it 1-1.

Chasing offsides is Barcelona’s policy but in truth it felt like a hell of a risky one at this stage. Bayern were taking hold, more opportunities looking like a matter of time, Kane’s cross-ball to Raphaël Guerreiro almost creating the second. And yet with Bayern also stepping high – if not quite so high – Barcelona fought their way into the game, one centimetre at a time, then suddenly in 40-metre leaps, and it was the Bavarian team who would get caught.

Chasing offsides is Barcelona’s policy but in truth it felt like a hell of a risky one at this stage. Bayern were taking hold, more opportunities looking like a matter of time, Kane’s cross-ball to Raphaël Guerreiro almost creating the second. And yet with Bayern also stepping high – if not quite so high – Barcelona fought their way into the game, one centimetre at a time, then suddenly in 40-metre leaps, and it was the Bavarian team who would get caught.

The first time they were it was with a simplicity that infuriated Vincent Kompany and the hint of a push which did too. Lamine Yamal’s clipped delivery eliminated two lines. Kim Min-jae leapt, misjudging the flight. López, lingering behind, a hand in the back, turned, ran into the box and lifted beyond Neuer. And, from there, Lewandowski put it into an open net.

The plan was coming together, to be executed again with a ­precision that would prove breathtaking. Seemingly cornered deep in his own half, Casadó worked a way out and struck a wonderful long diagonal to Raphinha, running free again to send a fantastic shot into the corner. And so, while Bayern sought a way back after half-time, they did it again. Lamine Yamal produced a superb swinging delivery into space and Raphinha was away again, guiding his shot past Neuer to make it four. Time then to enjoy this in a way no one expected, every completed pass another cheer, Barcelona’s bete noire toyed with this time.

What a night it had been, vindication for the Brazilian who had felt pushed out in the summer and was thrown to the air at full-time here, teammates giving him the bumps, the celebrations speaking to the significance of this. Released and embraced, life is different now. For all of them.

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