Hussain Arab

Fortune favors the bold

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Close, but actually it’s this guy

[Aya @ayamavii1]

Stayed with him here and I will stay with him now and forever. Viva RONALDO ❤️

[🅓🅞🅝🅨 @Rmadonyfc_]

POV : You just realized you are getting robbed by Messi

[Yusef @Fede8Y]

2022 2026

[Ballon d'Or @ballondor]

CRISTIANO RONALDO. FOREVER. 🇵🇹✨

Cristiano Ronaldo has played his final World Cup match. 💔🏆

Thank you for the endless memories, CR7. Your legacy and your 5 Ballons d’Or are eternal. 🌕

🔗 All the information: https://t.co/hbrHVmFoyI

#cristianoronaldo #portugal #ballondor #worldcup #cr7

[TC @totalcristiano]

You made me and millions fall in love with this sport.

Nobody will ever be like you.

Thank you, the greatest.

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

Thank You VOZINHA 🫡

[͏͏͏𝐉𝐚𝐲 ⌖ @cagiago_]

There’s nothing to cry about my boy, you went up against corruption and still managed to almost beat them. ❤️

[Marekla Tveitan @MarcelaValak]

- Papá, ¿Por qué me llamo Golazo de Cabo Verde al minuto 103?

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[Danny Hernández 🦴 @danny8002]

“No puedes estar triste por la eliminación de una selección que conociste hace un mes”.

Yo después de la eliminación de Cabo Verde:

[Caleb Noe @CalebNoeTV]

I mean… come on man.

I’ve watched this 100 times and it’s not enough.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Somewhere in America, a movie theater. The boy at the concession counter asked me a question about architecture, and called it butter.

"You want that layered?"

Layered. I looked at the popcorn. I looked at him.

"Explain."

"Instead of all the butter on top, I do butter, popcorn, butter, popcorn." He mimed the strata with a flat hand. He had explained this before. He would explain it again. A craftsman, patient with the public.

I was not prepared. In my land, what is given is given; you do not direct the distribution of a blessing. Here, the boy stood ready to construct my popcorn in courses, like a stone wall — foundation, mortar, foundation, mortar — so that no kernel, however deep, would live unblessed.

"The ones at the bottom," I said slowly, "are usually…"

"Dry. Yeah. Not on my watch."

NOT ON MY WATCH. The oath of a sentry, sworn over popcorn. This is who they have guarding the snacks.

"Then layer it," I commanded, "as your conscience demands."

He built it like a man who would be judged by it. Pour, pump, rotate. Pour, pump, rotate. Four stories. A tower of equal blessings.

The film was fine. I do not remember it. What I remember is the eightieth minute, deep in the bucket, past the depth where popcorn hope usually dies — and finding the kernels there as golden as the first.

The bottom of the bucket. As rich as the top. I confess I held one kernel up in the dark and simply looked at it.

Butter on top blesses the surface. Butter in layers blesses the whole nation.

I tipped the boy on the way out. He had already forgotten me. The best masons forget the wall, and begin the next one.

Layered. Always layered. Some words you only need to learn once.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Ryan Hammer🔨 @ryanhammer09]

This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life

The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful

[Katerina Dimitratos @KDimitratos]

World Cup tourists have discovered New Jersey deli:

[LBW @losblancoswrld]

“Men only want one thing”

That one thing:

[Martin VII @Nedao454]

"PSG win the CL"

Their dumbass fans that same night:

[Adam Analysis @adamemedia1]

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha