Never forget when Cristiano Ronaldo broke an autistic child's phone after losing a game in 2022. I still don't understand how so many people idolize this psychopath
🚨Sergio Agüero on the strange way Argentina played against Spain:
Sergio Agüero 🗣️:
“I’ve watched football my whole life, and I’ve never felt as confused after a World Cup final as I do now. Something about that night didn’t make sense. Maybe one day we’ll know the full story, but right now there are too many questions that nobody wants to answer.”
“Before the match, Leo stood in front of the team and simply said, ‘Let’s forget about everything. Let’s just play. Forget about everything.’ It wasn’t a speech to fire everyone up. It felt like a man trying to hold a broken room together. You could see Enzo Fernández and Lisandro Martínez fighting back tears. Nobody clapped. Nobody shouted. Everyone just stood there with empty faces. I’ve never seen an Argentina dressing room like that before.”
“Then the warm-up started, and Leo kept putting his shots deliberately wide. That’s not him. He lives for that routine. It looked like his mind was somewhere else.”
“There were strange absences too. The President, who was expected to be there, never arrived. Diego Simeone wasn’t in attendance. Lautaro Martínez, who had been part of every match during the tournament, suddenly vanished from view. Everything surrounding that final felt unusual.”
“On the pitch, Argentina didn’t resemble the team that reached the final. Enzo and Paredes, usually the heartbeat and aggression of the midfield, looked restrained. Lisandro Martínez and Cristian Romero both went off injured in the biggest game of their lives. After a solid first half, Scaloni unexpectedly retreated into a defensive shell. That’s not the Argentina we’ve watched throughout the tournament.”
“The hardest thing to understand was the attitude. Argentina looked disconnected. Even when Messi found space, the ball rarely reached him. When they recovered possession, they’d carry it into midfield and then hand it straight back to Spain with the very next pass. It happened over and over again. It didn’t feel like the same team.”
“Even small moments stood out. Romero didn’t shake hands with Donald Trump. People will say that’s irrelevant, but when you put every unusual detail together, you start wondering why everything felt so different that night.”
“And then came the Golden Ball. Tell me honestly, after everything Messi produced at 39 years old throughout this tournament, how was Rodri considered the better player? I genuinely cannot understand that decision.”
“This reminds me of 1990. Diego Maradona left that final in tears, convinced João Havelange had taken the World Cup away from Argentina. Today, people will call me crazy for saying it, but I can’t shake the feeling that history echoed itself. Throughout this tournament, all we heard was ‘Messi is FIFA’s boy’ and ‘everything is rigged for Argentina.’ Maybe FIFA wanted to silence those accusations at any cost. Maybe not. I don’t know. But too many things happened for me to believe it was just another football match.”
One day the full story will be told. Until then, the questions remain.”
Algo claramente aconteceu nos bastidores antes da final da Copa do Mundo. Muitas coisas simplesmente não fazem sentido.
1. A família de Messi não foi ao estádio, sendo que foi em todos.
2. O presidente da Argentina era esperado no evento, mas nunca apareceu.
3. Diego Simeone foi visto nas arquibancadas em quase todos os jogos da Argentina, mas estava ausente na final.
4. Lautaro Martínez nem foi mostrado na tela por um único minuto, quanto mais recebeu algum tempo de jogo.
5. Enzo recebeu dois cartões amarelos e foi expulso, um deles sendo sem motivo algum.
6. A lesão de Lisandro Martínez. Ele é o tipo de jogador que continuou jogando mesmo sangrando em jogos comuns, mas em uma final de Copa do Mundo ele se machucou sem nenhum contato aparente de um adversário.
7. A lesão de Cristian Romero.
8. As substituições estranhas de Scaloni.
9. A Argentina não registrou um único chute a gol nos primeiros 90 minutos. Mesmo após 120 minutos, eles conseguiram apenas dois chutes a gol.
10. A Espanha completou quase 800 passes, enquanto a Argentina completou menos de 300. É difícil de acreditar.
11. A Argentina continuava perdendo a posse de bola. Mesmo quando conseguia recuperá-la, muitas vezes a devolvia imediatamente para a Espanha com a próxima ação. Vez após vez, eles saíam com a bola da própria área de pênalti, chegavam ao meio-campo e então imediatamente perdiam a posse.
12. Cristian Romero não apertou a mão de Trump.
13. Até agora, Messi, Julián Álvarez, De Paul, Lautaro Martínez, Enzo Fernández e Lisandro Martínez ainda não retornaram à Argentina.
14. Finalmente, Messi não recebeu a Bola de Ouro. Por qual medida estatística Rodri mereceu mais do que Messi?
Considerando tudo, tenho que dizer que algo aconteceu aqui, assim como aconteceu na era de Maradona em 1990.
O presidente da FIFA brasileiro da época simplesmente roubou a Copa do Mundo de Maradona. Maradona chorou e disse que Havelange (o então presidente da FIFA) havia tirado a Copa do Mundo dele.
Hoje, Infantino talvez tenha feito exatamente a mesma coisa. Como narrativas falsas como 'Messi, garoto da FIFA, manipulado' se espalhavam por toda a Copa do Mundo, talvez eles tenham feito isso para que a imagem da FIFA não fosse manchada e o negócio de bilhões de dólares pela Europa não fosse arruinado.
A verdade é que a Argentina não perdeu, foi forçada a perder. A copa foi vendida pra Espanha.
Forget the teams... The real winner of the 2026 World Cup so far is TINDER.
International app usage in host cities jumped 47%, matches in the US are up nearly 60%, and Monterrey spiked over 80% around the Sweden vs Tunisia game.
Turns out the tournament's biggest score isn't happening on the pitch.
It's happening in everyone's DMs🤣
Source: The Independent / Writer: Daniel