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[🌹° @D021_3]

E pain me say no be lie.

[tag @mxdric]

“If he still had the legs, speed and power he had in his prime, he wouldn’t need anyone”

If that’s the case, then why didn’t he just win it in his prime? Do these people have ANY brain cells

[🌹° @D021_3]

Same has driven their careers, one went the path of self and others around him, one went for self.

I chose my preference long ago understanding what now unfolds in the sport.

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

If Ronaldo doesn’t score, he doesn’t speak to anybody.

I’ll put a link of an interview Bale said similar thing, & said same few weeks ago.

It’s a personal drive, but it can have ripple effect on the team at large. Everyone thinks you’re selfish.

[🌹° @D021_3]

Elsewhere = Messi

He cried.... but he would do it himself... do what? cry again.😪

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🇵🇹 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: A comment from a Cristiano Ronaldo fan on Bruno Fernandes’ latest Instagram post is going viral.

Bruno’s post now has over 20,000 comments, with Portugal fans flooding it and demanding that he pass the ball to Ronaldo more often during World Cup games.

[🌹° @D021_3]

Mentality 🙌🏽
I do live this for a player, just not one fighting Messi.

[ ᝰ.ᐟcccopolo 🇬🇭🇯🇲 @macccopolo]

@_FCBKelvin

[🌹° @D021_3]

Thank you

A lot of the takes here on the game are from playing with friends in the yard and it shows.

[Lukas Not Podolski @OtitoNosike]

Play with Ronaldo because? I cannot believe some of you. This clearly shows that some of us never really played football. Even when we played monkey post, the players who were not good enough, who held the team back, either ended up in goal or were picked last. Funny how we understood this instinctively at the most basic level of football, yet when it comes to Ronaldo, everyone suddenly abandons that logic because of past greatness. Nostalgia is truly a powerful thing.

[Marvin the Paranoid Android @Boboye_Ak]

By this stage 2022, Messi don tell us to calm down and trust him.

[🌹° @D021_3]

Likewise, reading through documents or reviewing things in a closed environment has always had a choke on me.

The need to rush nowhere is also a bit cultural.

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

A while ago, a young Nigerian who works at a store near a place I often stroll to sit struck up a conversation with me. At some point, I mentioned the pressing need for me to earn as much as I could over the next few months. His response amused me.

He said that, of all the young Nigerians he knew, I was one of the few people he did not think was ready to make money. So, I asked why.

At first, he struggled to explain it. Later, he told me that he had been observing me. He often saw me arrive at roughly the same time of day, sit in the same spot, sometimes with a notebook, other times with my phone, and remain there for an hour or more. He said, nobody serious about making money would sit down for that long. They would be moving around, looking for something to do.

I like the guy. But what interested me was the mentality behind his conclusion. One thing I have noticed among many Nigerians is a tendency to confuse motion with progress. If people cannot visibly see you exerting yourself, rushing around, reacting, struggling, or performing urgency, they assume nothing productive is happening. But a person can spend two hours running around in circles and achieve less than someone who spends thirty minutes carefully deciding where to direct his effort.

In reality, many of those occasions when he saw me sitting there, I was reviewing documents, responding to emails, editing work, reading, planning, and organizing my next steps. I simply preferred doing it in an open space rather than staring at the same corner of a room all day. Because the work was not visibly strenuous, it was interpreted as laziness.

I have encountered this mentality in other contexts too. When problems arise, my instinct is usually not to react immediately. I sit and think. Sometimes for a few minutes. Sometimes longer. This has irritated many people.

People often become frustrated because I am not as visibly upset as they are. I am not demonstrably angry. I do not immediately spring into action. To them, my calmness can look like disinterest.

Yet I have repeatedly watched people react first, rush into action, exhaust themselves, and eventually arrive at the very conclusions I arrived at after taking a few extra moments to deliberate. Simply because I was willing to pause long enough to consider possibilities they had not yet considered.

The same mentality appears in how we think about ambition. Some people seem to believe that if you are truly focused on success, you must always look serious. You cannot stop to greet people, laugh, enjoy yourself, think quietly, or take stock of your situation. You must constantly appear busy.

I have never accepted that view. The ability to zoom out, evaluate your actions, learn from mistakes, identify patterns, and adjust your approach is not the opposite of ambition. It is often the very thing that makes ambition effective.

Worthy goals are achieved through a combination of thought and action; knowing when to push, when to pause; when to observe, when to engage.

I am deeply suspicious and often disconcerted by any culture that treats quiet deliberation as laziness and superficial activity as virtuous. Movement is not always progress. Sometimes the most reasonable thing a person can do is sit still and quietly alone and by themselves.

[nebuchadnezzar @chrismyka015]

I’m still yet to clock how they managed to hide all this crazy training moments away from the internet😭

[🌹° @D021_3]

Tears Man.😪

[𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗬 @JossyFCB]

🚨🎙️ Nicolás Otamendi on how Argentina treats Lionel Messi:

“People always ask if we treat Messi differently in the national team.

The answer is yes... and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

We're talking about the greatest player in history.

But it's not about giving him special privileges. It's about understanding who he is and what he means to Argentina.

When Messi speaks, everyone listens. When Messi is on the pitch, everyone runs a little harder. Not because he asks us to, but because he inspires it.

I've played with him for many years, and what surprises me most is his humility. A player who has won everything could act like a king, but Leo is one of the most normal people you'll ever meet.

That's why the dressing room protects him.

Not because he's Messi the superstar, but because he's Messi our captain, our teammate and the man who carried the dreams of an entire country for so many years.

Some teams have great players.

We have Messi.

And trust me, that's a privilege none of us take for granted."

[Neto @docneto]

Bros remain for that your dark abeg. I no fit wake person wey dey pretend to sleep.

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

I like that we talk about this often on Twitter, but I don’t think much will change until the justice system becomes effective. People want to appear well-to-do because, if they aren’t, they can easily be fucked over. And when they are, they know they can’t rely on the police or the courts.

A large part of why people are often cruel to one another in Nigeria isn’t simply because they’re evil people—though many are both evil and stupid—but because cruelty is a way of establishing dominance.

Cruelty is a form of packaging; a defence mechanism. It says: “I shall do this to you, so you wouldn’t even dare think of crossing me.”

That being said, I suspect that more than half the people who liked this tweet would reassess a person’s worth the moment that person failed to fit a desired aesthetic. In Nigeria, stupidity isn’t merely individual; it is cultural.

[🌹° @D021_3]

That final career interview where Messi finally calls Ronaldo half-baked will so bang.

[EnjoymentMinister @EnjoymentMamaa]

No reasonable person who is truly objective, needs an interview to convince her/him to vote PO over an incompetent incumbent whose deeds and failures are clear as day.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Ronaldo will probably play till he’s 90 just because he doesn’t want Messi to be remembered as the greatest of his generation. The people who are setting Ronaldo up are his fanboys, who put him above Messi purely for non-footballing reasons, like he physique and star power, but will never admit it. They keep pretending like they choose him over Messi based on footballing skills, pushing him to chase Messi till eternity. Ask them to put their money where their mouth is, and none of them will bet on Ronaldo ahead of Messi.

I’m particularly concerned because this has become an unending source distractions for African youth who should otherwise be doing something more productive with their time.

[🌹° @D021_3]

Damn, luckily it's usually both.

[Hamilton @hamiltonawah]

See my bro as someone who has lived that life and regretted it I’ll tell you something nobody will tell you. Learning how to love when you’re financially down is one of the best decisions you can make in your life especially if you’re with someone you see as long term cause love goes beyond your ability to provide.
It’s generally how you speak to her, listen to her, how you react to stuff, your attitude towards her, how well you keep your emotions in check. Your change in reaction when you’re down is as a result of you tying your ability to love as your ability to provide and you have to unlearn that.
I get It’s not always easy going from spending on her to not being able to and they don’t understand that your change in reactions isn’t because you’re angry at them but rather you’re angry you can’t do those things anymore. It’s best to start now to decentralize your ability to love as your ability to provide cause it’ll be a huge problem when you get married.
I’ll always say it if a woman leaves you cause you can’t do the things you used to cause of finances then let her go but let your attitude towards her during that period not be the reason she leaves you.

[🌹° @D021_3]

@AfricaFirsts Yes but why that first Bafana dey take the second one job.😪

[🌹° @D021_3]

I say Baba score hatrick people dey flood my WhatsApp dm with I should post.

All the post I been post before that 2014 WC sef no be insult una follow me with.😂🤣😭

It's a regular day here.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

If it took you this long to realise Messi is the GOAT, you do not know things.

I would even argue that the recognition of Messi as the greatest of all time is a reliable litmus test of a person's discernment and the quality of their judgement, broadly speaking.

Messi has been the best human to kick the leather ball since he was 21.

That conclusion was available long before it became fashionable. Those who reached it early, not out of sporting tribalism, but from a honest appraisal of what they were witnessing demonstrated perceptiveness.

Those who saw it late did not.

Those who accepted it only after the majority did so are low-T consensus-seekers filtering information through a unanimity filter as a safety mechanism because they are incapable of independently defending their observations.

So they do not ask "is this true?"
They ask "do the people around me believe this is true?"

But I digress.

Those who still refuse to see it are living in denial.

Either way, "I now accept that Messi is the GOAT" in 2026 is not a good look on the man making the confession.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

If it took you this long to realise Messi is the GOAT, you do not know things.

I would even argue that the recognition of Messi as the greatest of all time is a reliable litmus test of a person's discernment and the quality of their judgement, broadly speaking.

Messi has been the best human to kick the leather ball since he was 21.

That conclusion was available long before it became fashionable. Those who reached it early, not out of sporting tribalism, but from a honest appraisal of what they were witnessing demonstrated perceptiveness.

Those who saw it late did not.

Those who accepted it only after the majority did so are low-T consensus-seekers filtering information through a unanimity filter as a safety mechanism because they are incapable of independently defending their observations.

So they do not ask "is this true?"
They ask "do the people around me believe this is true?"

But I digress.

Those who still refuse to see it are living in denial.

Either way, "I now accept that Messi is the GOAT" in 2026 is not a good look on the man making the confession.

[🌹° @D021_3]

APC hooligans >>>> CR7 fans

[Marvin the Paranoid Android @Boboye_Ak]

Before 2021, the narrative was that Messi was a bad leader. #NeverForgiveNeverForget