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[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Isaiah:1.17 - learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

“Not to oppose error is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and, indeed, to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them.” — Pope Felix III

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Sane bɛgye wayeyie - Dasebre Gyamenah

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

@KeskineP Congratulations Keskine! You have fought a good fight

[Dr. Keskine Owusu Poku @KeskineP]

Victory ✌️ ✌️ ✌️

[Krishna Agrawal @Krishnasagrawal]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Weffrey Jellington @jeffwellz]

You can actually do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Like for real for real

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Still, God is good!

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

"You will never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have." - Mother Teresa

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

@real_Yawcliff In the water

[Naa Shɔmɛ @_shorshor]

I’m trying to hate watch Morocco, but the African in me keeps defaulting to supporting them against the Netherlands

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Africa unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our Father's land, yeah
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man, yeah

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Amaga ne amaga hyia a na yɛbɛhu amaga hoho!

[𝕏 Ghana 🇬🇭 @xghana_]

Guys did we make the right decision 😳 ?

This Columbia playing 🙆‍♀️

[Gabby Otchere-Darko @GabbyDarko]

Is this FIFA World Cup revealing something subconsciously darker than many of us care to admit? Or these are merely isolated incidents?

Following England’s goalless draw with Ghana, the England captain referred to his opponents as “these type of nations.” The remark has understandably not gone down well with many Ghanaians, who felt it was insulting and diminished what was, in truth, a highly disciplined and tactically accomplished performance.

Yes, the draw was frustrating for England but only because they believed Ghana to be a cool chop. But, they rather got exposed not to have a response to Ghana’s game plan and yet still talked down how they were out-manoeuvred in post-match reviews!

It also brought to mind comments by Bastian Schweinsteiger (please don’t ask me what it means in German), the former German midfielder and now a television pundit, after Germany’s narrow victory over Côte d’Ivoire. Germany needed a late chance to escape with the win, yet his assessment struck many as surprisingly dismissive of the Ivorians, despite the balance of play suggesting a contest between two evenly matched sides.

Perhaps these are isolated examples of poor wording. But they are more than likely not.

One thing this World Cup is making increasingly clear, however, is that the more FIFA opens the competition to teams from every continent, the higher the standard of football becomes. Greater inclusion has not diluted the tournament. It has enriched it. Nations once regarded as outsiders are proving, through regular exposure to elite competition, that they possess the tactical sophistication, technical quality and mental resilience to compete with anyone.

The question, then, is whether our mindset and language have kept pace with that reality.

Too often, when traditional football powers are frustrated by African, Asian or CONCACAF teams, the discussion subtly shifts from praising the underdog’s quality to explaining the favourite’s disappointment. European teams are often applauded for their tactical discipline; African teams employing the same discipline are sometimes described merely as making the game “difficult.”

Words matter. They shape perceptions. And perceptions often reveal assumptions we may not even realise we hold.

Let us use this World Cup to not only change the footballing landscape. Let us use it to also help change some long-held assumptions about where world-class football comes from and reminding ourselves that excellence has always been more widely distributed than the game itself once allowed us to see.

Let us all learn from Declan Rice that prejudice is wrong. Let’s give all teams the opportunity to prove themselves where it matters, on the pitch.

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

33millien lions to the rescue!

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Nigerians and South Africans, log out!

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Ghana Blackstars yɛn na yɛnie?

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” - I Corinthians 1:18 NKJV

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

"If you let yourself be influenced by all the noise, you’ll end up getting worse." - Vincent Kompany

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Experienced this in 2021 In Takoradi, I was so surprised

[Meistermind @mistameister]

I didn’t know there was a rule in most hotels outside Accra that doesn’t allow people of the same gender to share a room. Did you know this?

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

@Roarmotive Amen

[Kayleb ✨ @giantcobat]

Speaking at Harvard next year.