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[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇦🇷 BREAKING NEWS: LIONEL MESSI RETIRES FROM INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL.

Messi will not play for Argentina national team anymore.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🔴⚽️ Bruno Fernandes gets match ball after hat-trick plus assist today.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

9️⃣7️⃣8️⃣ career goals for Cristiano Ronaldo. 🇵🇹

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

⭐️ OFFICIAL: Bruno Fernandes wins PFA Player of the Year Award for season 2025/26.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Carlos Baleba to Manchester United, here we go! Verbal agreement in place between clubs.

Improved bid sent today after £65m package rejected and player set to join the only club he wanted.

Baleba, new #MUFC player soon. 🇨🇲

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

9️⃣7️⃣7️⃣ career goals for Cristiano Ronaldo who has now scored on his first appearance of the new season.

[MR @MarcusRashford]

I’m very grateful to everyone at Barcelona for making my time here such a positive and memorable experience. I’ve enjoyed every moment and will take many special memories with me.
I wish the club and all its supporters the very best of luck and every success in the season ahead.

[Premier League @premierleague]

David de Gea at his very best 🇪🇸👏

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Lionel Messi’s letter for his father. ❤️‍🩹

Dad, I still can’t believe that you’ve gone. I don’t fall, or rather, I don’t want to fall. It’s very hard for me to imagine that I’m not going to see you anymore, that we’re not going to talk anymore. I know you were suffering and that it’s for the best, but you left too soon. We still had a lot left to enjoy together.

You asked me so much to play in the last World Cup, and it was in the days just before it started that you got the worst. It was the first time you weren’t going to be at a tournament, but Mom told me that you were going to get better and that you’d be well enough to travel. I told you we were going to reach the final so you could travel.

Every time a match ended I waited for and missed your message. That’s when I realized the situation was really bad. Even so, I didn’t stop thinking about going as far as possible, to buy you time and so you could see a match. We reached the final and you couldn’t be there.

I wanted to win it to bring it to you and show you a new one. I couldn’t; my legs wouldn’t give any more. This time I tried to go against my body, but I couldn’t. I never managed to feel good.

When I arrived you thought we had lost the final on penalties. We couldn’t talk about any of everything that happened. You couldn’t enjoy anything.

We weren’t champions, but you have no idea how much we enjoyed every single match. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play it.

I’m telling you this because it was the only thing we couldn’t talk about, since you already know everything else. We talked every day and saw each other whenever we could, given my commitments.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I don’t know what I’m going to do without you, I don’t know how to go on. I only played football and now I have quite a few doubts about whether I’ll keep doing it for much longer.

You were by my side from the beginning; there was so little left until the end. Why couldn’t you hold on that little bit more so we could finish together?

I know your happiness was seeing your family well, your wife, your children, and above all, without the others finding out, watching me play…

It was always like that since I was little. You would take me to all the training sessions as soon as you got home from work. For many of them Mum took me because you were working.

Obviously you never missed a single match. How you suffered watching me and how you enjoyed it, even though you never gave me many compliments.

You were dad, friend and representative.

You were always the person you needed to be in every moment and you never got anything wrong. Beyond a few reproaches or arguments, you were always right. In the end it always turned out the way you said.

I’m going to miss you a lot, but you’ll always be present, and especially in the upbringing of my children, because I teach them and raise them the way you both did with me.

Rest in peace and look after us from above the way you did down here. Thank you for everything.

I love you, Dad. ❤️

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

❤️‍🩹🇦🇷 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”.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🫂 Cristiano Ronaldo sends message to Lionel Messi: “Huge hug to you and your loved ones in this difficult moment, Leo”.

“Stay strong”. ❤️‍🩹

[Luís Figo @LuisFigo]

Today I join others from across our game and call for Gianni Infantino to resign as FIFA President.

Infantino has debased the office that he promised to elevate. He has lied, deceived and tried to feather his own nest at the expense of the game he is supposed to serve. 

He has lost the support of his senior staff, his closest advisers, the vast majority of people who devote their lives to this sport and even, it would seem, the FIFA Peace Prize winner. 

It is too late to save his dignity but it is not too late to save football. He should go. Now.

#Infantinout

https://t.co/j93k5MnlK2

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨📞 Youri Tielemans: “When Manchester United call, you don’t think twice”.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Manchester United want to sign one more midfielder after Tielemans and Andrey Santos.

Plan to add one more defensive player after Casemiro’s exit — not over yet.

🎥 https://t.co/qvAnjiyGKa

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Youri Tielemans to Manchester United, HERE WE GO! 🔴🇧🇪

United activate €41m release clause into Tielemans’ contract at Aston Villa, verbal agreement also with Belgian midfielder.

Andrey Santos done + Tielemans next after Éderson deal called off on Friday. 📈

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🥶🧊 Lamine Yamal: “What is aura? In football, Cristiano Ronaldo”.

“Aura is a person who gives off, something like when they arrive, it's like… WOW. For example, Brad Pitt or like that”.

“In football, Cristiano would be a good example of aura”.

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

Uma vitória de milhões!

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🚨 Egypt’s Ziko: “The referee is unfair, God is sufficient for me and the best disposer of affairs. He's wasting the effort of an entire nation”.

“The cup is being given to Argentina. They win the World Cup”.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Inigo Martinez has already agreed to stay at Al Nassr for one more season.

He’s NOT a free agent. 💛💙🇸🇦

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

This hurts man