A beautifully curated excerpt from the Akwasidae Festival USA, captured by @codyblanestudios. 🇬🇭🇺🇸
From the breathtaking drone shots to the intimate moments on the ground, the video beautifully captures the grandeur, culture, and spirit of the celebration.
Akwasidae USA 2026 will undoubtedly go down as one of the most historic African cultural festivals ever held in the United States. 👑✨
🚨⚪️ Real Madrid have agreed to sign 21 year old Ghanian centre back Oscar Naasei.
Deal agreed for €2m fee from Granada as Naasei seen as talent for future initially joining Castilla team.
There was a German club keen but Naasei signs for Real Madrid. Medical also done. 🇬🇭
Hermano,
Has ganado el mundial. Has hecho historia. 🥹❤️
Pero más allá del trofeo, gracias por esto: has hecho que millones de inmigrantes como nuestros padres se sientan orgullosos de que sus futuros hijos algun dia puedan vivir lo que tu has vivido y de que millones de españoles empaticen con nuestra historia que no es solo la nuestra sino la de todas las personas que dejan todo atrás por un futuro mejor, porque has tocado el cielo con los dedos y has demostrado que con trabajo y esfuerzo todo es posible.
Hoy el mundo te ha conocido mas si cabe y has puesto nuestro apellido en el infinito, por lo siglos de los siglos.
Te admiro. Te amo. Campeón del mundo ✊🏿🏆🥹
World Cup Exit Reactions:
🇰🇷South Korea: immediate national inquiry, special tribunal. Coach canceled from polite society
🇳🇴Norway: Massive rowing party in downtown Oslo. Everyone’s drunk on aquavit and happy
🇺🇸USA: sorry? what is this sport? oh right, it's gay anyway
🏴England: TUCHEL OUT in 48-point Impact font on the front pages and endless streams of commentators dissecting the 4-2-3-1 formation. Total self-flagellation and promises to never believe that football's ever coming home again
🇧🇷Brazil: 18,000-word philosophical treatises tracing the decline of the Seleção to the rise of neopentecostalism
🇯🇵Japan: Coach performs polite post-match bow; promises to further develop youth academies and do better
🇩🇪Germany: Emergency DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) Summit to analyze what went wrong with soul-searching German efficiency and thoroughness. Already produced tactical white paper titled “Gegenpressing 2.0: Rebuilding the German Soul.”
🇦🇷Argentina:
🚨🇬🇭 Sevilla agree deal for 18 year old Ghanaian international Emmanuel Abrokwa from Adabraka Elders. ⚪️���
The talented winger makes history as the first Ghanaian player to sign for Sevilla and also directly from Ghana. Agreement in place on a deal until 2029.
Represented by Daniel Boifio Junior and Jorge Garcia of SBE Management. Deal done.
🔴⚪️🇬🇭 Emmanuel Abrokwa becomes the first player from Ghana to join Sevilla, directly from the country.
Fee agreed and contract until June 2029, as reported earlier — deal done.
🚨🇦🇷🇪🇬 Rio Ferdinand: “Football Needs Fairness, Not Different Rules For Different Teams”
🗣️ “I’ve sat here and watched football for many years, both as a player and as a pundit, and what frustrates supporters the most is inconsistency.
When Argentina go down under a challenge, the whistle seems to come immediately. The officials are quick to spot the foul, quick to stop play and quick to protect them. But when Egypt are on the receiving end of similar incidents, suddenly the game is allowed to continue and everyone is told to move on.
That’s the issue people have tonight. Not the result itself, but the lack of consistency in the decision-making.
Then you look at the build-up to Enzo Fernández’s winning goal. Egypt were screaming for a foul, their players were surrounding the referee, and millions watching expected VAR to at least take a proper look at it. Instead, it felt like everyone in the VAR room had gone to sleep.
What exactly is VAR there for if not to review the biggest moments in the biggest matches?
If that incident happened against Argentina at the other end of the pitch, do you honestly believe it wouldn’t have been checked? I find that very difficult to believe. We’ve seen much softer incidents reviewed throughout this tournament.
That’s where the frustration comes from. Fans just want the same standard applied to every team.
And let’s talk about the disciplinary side of the game. Argentina seem to get away with an awful lot. There are challenges that would normally bring yellow cards, yet the referee appears reluctant to reach for his pocket. It’s almost as if officials are afraid of making decisions that might upset Argentina.
When you look at some of Argentina’s matches in this tournament, there have been several moments where opponents felt hard done by. One incident can be debated, two incidents can be debated, but eventually people start noticing a pattern.
Football cannot afford that perception. The integrity of the game depends on supporters believing that every nation is treated equally.
Whether you’re Argentina, Egypt, Brazil, France or anyone else, the laws of the game should not change depending on the badge on your shirt.
The officials tonight had a responsibility to be fair, balanced and brave. Instead, they have left millions of people questioning why some decisions are given so easily for one side while similar incidents involving the other side are ignored.
Football deserves better than that. The players deserve better than that. And the fans certainly deserve better than that.”
#ARGEGY
🚨 Peter Drury Breaks Silence: Questionable Calls, Cancelled Goals & FIFA Favouritism – Has Football Become a Scripted Show?
🗣Peter Drury
“After years spent analyzing football matches and commentating on the game at the highest level, I can honestly say that what we witnessed today between Argentina and Egypt was unlike anything I’ve seen in my entire career.
How that was awarded as a penalty remains a complete mystery. The contact, if any, looked minimal at best, yet the decision stood. It’s becoming harder and harder to watch the sport without feeling that the beautiful game is slowly turning into something of a joke for millions of fans around the world. The officiating has been strangely “clean” almost suspiciously so yet it leaves serious questions about consistency and impartiality.
Then there was Egypt’s goal, ruled out for reasons that still aren’t entirely clear. Why was it disallowed? In the same match, when Argentina scored their decisive goal, there appeared to be a clear foul in the build-up that neither the referee nor VAR chose to review properly. These are the moments that make supporters feel the outcome is no longer decided purely on the pitch.
There’s a growing narrative out there and it’s hard to ignore that Lionel Messi is being protected as FIFA’s golden boy. With Cristiano Ronaldo no longer part of the international scene, some believe the powers that be are determined to keep Messi’s story alive for as long as possible because his presence still drives massive global interest and viewing figures. Whether that’s true or not, the pattern of decisions in key moments only fuels that conversation.
passion, and the unpredictable nature of who wins on any given day. But when decisions repeatedly go one way, when valid goals are chalked off and questionable ones are given, and when VAR seems to miss obvious incidents, it starts to feel like something else is at play. The game deserves better. Fans deserve transparency, consistency, and the simple belief that the result is earned not influenced.
These are the moments that test our love for the sport. And right now, that love is being stretched thin.“
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