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Realist.

☕.

Xennial.

Bouts of random anger.

Been kicking the can down the road all my life...and I'm still here.

I have no stake in the outcome.
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By far.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 Many fans believe Spain's legendary 2010 World Cup-winning XI is still ahead of the 2026 World Cup-winning XI.

Some even say no player from the 2026 XI gets into 2010.

[Football Factly @FootballFactly]

👨‍🌾🍉 Former Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Kevin Kampl, who retired earlier this year following the deaths of his father and brother, has moved to Mallorca to become a farmer.

He now grows melons, watermelons, tomatoes, onions and peppers, and also produces his own olive oil.

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🚨💰 Spain may have won the World Cup... but FIFA hit the REAL jackpot. 🏆

Spain earned $50M for lifting the trophy, while Argentina collected $33M as runners-up. 🇪🇸🇦🇷

FIFA distributed a total of $871M in prize money across all 48 teams:

▪️ Group stage: $9 million.
▪️ Next round: $11 million.
▪️ Round of 16: $15 million.
▪️ Quarter-finals: $19 million.
▪️ Fourth place: $27 million.
▪️ Third place: $29 million.
▪️ Runners-up: $33 million.
▪️ Champions: $50 million.

FIFA also provided an additional $216M to help cover team preparation, delegations and logistics. 🌍💰

But the governing body's own earnings are even more staggering:

▪️ $4 BILLION from TV rights. 📺
▪️ $3 BILLION from ticket sales. 🎟️
▪️ $2 BILLION from sponsorships. 🤝

With estimated costs of $3.8 BILLION, FIFA have made a big profit from the tournament. 🏆💰

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1916, a pack of dogs attacked a private zoo in Hawaii. Two terrified wallabies broke out of their cage and escaped into the mountains.

What happened next is one of the wildest accidents in wildlife history.

After the wallabies vanished into the forested cliffs of Kalihi Valley, the zoo's owner called for a massive public hunt. Nobody caught them.

A local newspaper joked that they might eventually "produce a breed of Hawaiian wallabies."They were exactly right.

Despite being 5,000 miles from Australia, the steep volcanic rock faces in Hawaii turned out to be the perfect habitat.

By 1984, researchers counted roughly 250 wallabies thriving in the valley. They had even started developing their own unique evolutionary characteristics.
The craziest part?

They aren't considered invasive.They only eat non-native plants.

They don't compete with native species (Hawaii has no native land mammals).
Because they peacefully coexist with the ecosystem, the state of Hawaii officially protects them. It is strictly illegal to hunt or harm a Hawaiian wallaby.

Back in their native Australia, the brush-tailed rock wallaby is fighting for its life. Predators, habitat clearing, and the devastating 2019-2020 bushfires wiped out an estimated 70% of their remaining habitat.

But that accidental Honolulu colony?
They have no foxes. No feral cats in the cliffs. No bushfires.

Two wallabies that broke out of a cage 110 years ago accidentally founded what might be the most secure population of their species anywhere on Earth.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Norway’s 1994 squad wasn’t just a group of players, it was a generation that punched far above its weight. Thorstvedt, Haaland, and Sørloth were part of a rugged, disciplined era when Norway shocked giants, climbed into the FIFA top 10, and qualified for back‑to‑back World Cups.

They were workmanlike footballers who carried a small nation into its golden age, building a legacy rooted in grit rather than glamour. No one in that moment could have imagined that three decades later, their own sons would not only follow in their footsteps, but become the faces of a new Norwegian football renaissance.

Fast‑forward to 2026, and the parallel feels almost cinematic. Kristian Thorstvedt, Erling Haaland, and Alexander Sørloth aren’t just players, they’re global stars, leading Norway with a level of firepower the country has never seen. The symmetry is uncanny: same surnames, same positions, same red shirts, but a completely different footballing world.

What was once a hardworking underdog team has evolved into a squad with genuine world‑class talent, and the fathers’ legacy has transformed into the sons’ promise. It’s not just a coincidence, it’s a generational echo that feels like sports destiny.

#archaeohistories

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

🚨 ¡UFFFF… QUÉ POSTAL! 🤯🇳🇴

Justo después de marcar un DOBLETE para clasificar a Noruega a los Cuartos de Final, Erling Haaland protagonizó una imagen que ya le está dando la vuelta al mundo.

En plena celebración, dos de sus compañeros se subieron a su espalda… y el noruego ni siquiera se inmutó. Siguió caminando como si no llevara absolutamente nada encima. Pura aura.

Para ponerlo en perspectiva: Andreas Schjelderup mide 1,76 m y pesa 73 kg, mientras que Oscar Bobb mide 1,74 m y pesa 70 kg. En total, Haaland cargó aproximadamente 143 kg sobre su espalda… segundos después de eliminar a Brasil del Mundial.

Y lo mejor de todo: la expresión de su rostro no cambió ni un poco.

EL VERDADERO: “CARGAR A TODO UN PAÍS” 🤖🇳🇴

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[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Erling Haaland just scored twice to knock Brazil out of the World Cup. And the fuel behind the freight train is the most fascinating nutrition story in sports — because it quietly rejects almost everything the "performance nutrition" industry sells.
No protein powders. No shakes. No engineered supplements. Just real food — around 6,000 calories a day of it.
Beef heart. Beef liver. Tomahawk steaks. Sea bass. Eggs on sourdough. Raw honey. And milk he drives to a Cheshire farm to buy fresh from grass-fed cows.
He said it plainly in his documentary: "People say meat is unhealthy. Which meat? The one from McDonald's — or the local cow eating grass right over there?"
That distinction is the whole thing. And as a cardiologist, it's the distinction I wish every patient understood.
Here's the science under the eccentricity.
Organ meats — heart and liver — are the most nutrient-dense foods on earth. Beef liver is arguably nature's original multivitamin: staggering levels of B12, folate, vitamin A, copper, and iron in a form your body absorbs far better than any pill. Beef heart is loaded with CoQ10 — the exact cellular-energy molecule I recommend to patients, the one statins deplete, the one that powers every heartbeat. Our ancestors prized these organs and ate the muscle meat second. We reversed it, then wondered why we needed supplements.
His food philosophy, in his own words: "Eat real, with as few ingredients as possible." That is, essentially, the entire evidence base for cardiovascular nutrition compressed into six words.
Now — the honest caveats, because I'm a physician, not a hype man.
6,000 calories works for Haaland because he's a 6'4" elite athlete burning through it across a 50-game season. For a sedentary adult, that's a fast track to metabolic disease. Copy the principle, not the portion.
Raw milk carries genuine infection risk — the CDC and European food agencies warn against it, and I don't recommend it for most people. Grass-fed and pasteurized captures nearly all the benefit without the danger.
And that much red meat isn't automatically optimal for everyone. Your ApoB, your Lp(a), your genetics, your metabolic health all determine how your body handles saturated fat. I've written about this — same diet, different DNA, different arteries.
But strip away the extremes and Haaland is teaching a lesson worth learning: the "performance nutrition" aisle is largely a marketing invention. The most powerful fuel on earth isn't in a tub. It's food your great-grandmother would recognize.
There's a detail I love most. Despite earning £525,000 a week, he still cooks his own food. And before big home games, he eats his father's homemade lasagne — the same father, a former Premier League player, whose legacy he told himself as a boy he'd surpass. The man he's trying to eclipse is still in the kitchen, feeding the monster he helped build.
Talent gets you noticed. Discipline in what you put in your body — every single day, when no one's watching — is what turns a gifted kid into the machine that ran through Brazil.
Most people will just watch the goals and say "he's built different."
He is. Because he decided to build himself that way — one plate of real food at a time.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇦🇷🇪🇬 Egypt's head coach said Argentina's comeback win happened because the game was rigged.

This is a compilation of moments he wants you to see.

Writer: Mhedi

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@ZarvikPyro @MarioNawfal "..the most undesired demographic of females on earth..."
You say!

[Zarvik @ZarvikPyro]

@MarioNawfal When you culturally appropriate a global ethnic minorities historic epic
Remove all of the natives from it

Insert a woman from the most undesired demographic of females on earth to represent the replaced indigenous native Greek
Pretend women are men
Folks are gonna say something

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Conor McGregor just slapped away Max Holloway’s handshake attempt during their face-off.

McGregor: "Get that out of my face."

He was definitely not having it 🤣

Writer: Lucas

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 A 2,800-year-old poem just became a culture war, and the movie isn't even out yet.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey hits theaters July 17, but the trailer already picked the fight.

It's sitting at around 600,000 dislikes, one of the most disliked in Hollywood history, right behind the Snow White remake.

The complaints:
-Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy, a character the poem calls fair-skinned.
-Elliot Page as a Greek warrior.
-Not a single Greek or Mediterranean actor in the cast.
-And characters saying "dad" and "let's go" where you'd expect something that sounds like Homer.

Nolan says the modern dialogue was on purpose, going for words with "emotional, not intellectual meaning." He even admitted it "might bite me on the ass."

Then Nyong'o went on the promo tour and said if she met Homer, she'd grill him over how little attention he gave the women in the story.

To skeptics, that confirmed the fear: a movie less interested in telling the story than in correcting it.

And that's the real split. Studios treat these old myths as clay to remold.

A big chunk of the audience sees the same moves as rewriting a founding story to fit today's politics, and they're voting no before tickets even go on sale.

The Odyssey has survived 28 centuries of retelling. Then the woke agenda showed up and decided its real problem was a lack of diversity training.

Source: Variety, Britannica, Fox News / Writer: Julie

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

I think our success comes from the quality of education in talent identification, which is neglected in many countries, and also from African immigration. When you look at the history of French football, our history is closely tied to immigration.

ARSÈNE WENGER on French football