{"id":754408,"date":"2026-07-10T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754408\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:54:09","slug":"world-cup-2026-anthony-gordon-says-javier-aguirre-swearing-jibe-just-a-bit-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754408\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Anthony Gordon says Javier Aguirre swearing jibe ‘just a bit of fun’"},"content":{"rendered":"

England winger Anthony Gordon says being sworn at by Mexico boss Javier Aguirre in a viral moment of their World Cup match was “just a bit of fun” and a “compliment”.<\/p>\n

During a first-half hydration break, Aguirre first spoke to midfielder Jude Bellingham before calling out to Gordon when they were both close to the touchline during England’s dramatic 3-2 win<\/a> in the last 16 at the Azteca Stadium.<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old then shouted an explicit remark to the forward before both of them laughed.<\/p>\n

“I remembered it,” said Gordon, who moved from Newcastle United to Barcelona this summer.<\/a> “It’s just a bit of fun.<\/p>\n

“With all the heat and tension around the game, it was a bit of fun. <\/p>\n

“I’d just run the full-back down the line so it was a bit of a compliment from him. That’s how I took it anyway.”<\/p>\n

It was one of several funny moments from the match widely shared on social media including Harry Kane’s post-match interview after losing his voice and England defender John Stones pretending he was injured.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bellingham scored twice to put England 2-0 up before Julian Quinones pulled a goal back for the World Cup co-hosts.<\/p>\n

Jarell Quansah was red-carded for England, who restored their two-goal advantage through a Kane penalty.<\/p>\n

Raul Jimenez put away a Mexico spot-kick to make it 3-2 before England held on during a tense finale to secure a quarter-final against Norway on Saturday, 11 July (22:00 BST).<\/p>\n

Aguirre, who has previously led Atletico Madrid, Mallorca and Espanyol over a 31-year managerial career, has since left his post and been replaced by Rafael Marquez.<\/p>\n

“He seemed like a good guy, he was talking to me and Jude throughout the game,” Gordon added.<\/p>\n

“There was a lot of tension in the game so to speak to me and Jude, I quite liked it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England winger Anthony Gordon says being sworn at by Mexico boss Javier Aguirre in a viral moment of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-754408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}