❤️🩹🇦🇷 Leo Messi: “Dad, you kept asking me to play in one last World Cup… just days before it began was when your condition got worse”.
“It was the first time you weren’t going to be there with me at tournament… but Mom kept telling me you were going to get better and that you’d be well enough to travel”.
“I kept telling you we were going to reach the World Cup final so you could make the trip, this was my mission once again”.
“After every match, I waited for and missed your message. That’s when I realized how serious the situation really was”.
“I couldn’t stop thinking about going as far as possible, give you more time and the chance to watch one of the games”.
“We reached the final, but you couldn’t be there. I wanted to win it so I could bring the trophy to you and show you another one. I couldn’t”.
“My legs just couldn’t give me any more”.
“This time I tried to push beyond what my body could handle, but I couldn’t”.
“I never managed to feel physically right”.
“We didn’t become champions Dad, but you have no idea how much we enjoyed every match. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play in it… as you told me, always”.
@brittlaff@RandoSamantha Yes, yes it is proving a point. We are tired of being oppressed and silent. Has your mother ever told you to treat others the way you want to be treated? Maybe if the police stopped murdering unarmed nd innocent black people and many others, we would be fine.
@Mattkirkland14 @T_I_O_N_N_A And if you want to talk about the BIGGER ISSUE in this world, Floyd and many other INNOCENT LIVES are being taken by “law enforcement”. Which was created to suppress the black community because the white community felt threatened after slaves were deemed as free men and women.
@brittlaff@RandoSamantha And yes, George would want justice for the many other lives taken by police brutality, but I think he would want to also be alive with his family tonight.
We as athletes are sometimes pressured to keep our mouths closed and opinions unspoken because of the image we hold for our universities and ourselves, but what is going on in our world right now, is much greater than our image. #BlackLivesMattter@penn_state