People talk about "honour culture", but there is a very real "no shame" culture that exists outside of the West. Look at how Argentinians act over the Falklands, they genuinely believe having invaded another country and lost, they are somehow the wronged party.
In that split second Enzo Fernandez has only one choice. Yes, he can lose his nation the World Cup. But then he would miss the chance to commit an amazing, amazing, incredible foul. And if you understand Enzo Fernandez, you would understand he never even had a choice to make
watching my Hail Mary parlay crumble because Messi did not get a single shot on target all game has hurt me more than when the first woman I loved left me. Lord I’m one Lord I’m two
🚨🇳🇱 Gregory van der Wiel: "Tonight, two teams walk out of a tunnel. Sixteen years ago I was one of them. 22 years old. Youngest man on the pitch. 84,000 people. I do NOT remember feeling any of it."
"Not the anthem. Not the Iniesta goal. Not receiving the silver medal at the end. I executed. Like I'd been trained to since I was seven. Whoever wins tonight will be told it's the best night of their life."
"Some of them will believe it. Some of them will wake up the next day wondering why it didn't land. And that's not because something is wrong with them. It's just a system that's been running for so long they don't even know that it's running them."
"So maybe the biggest loss that night was not because of Iniesta's goal, but the fact that I wasn't there for any of it."