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[Ayo Sogunro @ayosogunro]

Christianity in Africa started as a tool of colonialism. Christianity in Africa will continue to be a tool of colonialism. The same goes for Islam.

We are the only people whose major deities are not made in our own image and skin colour.

[CAF @CAF_Online]

The journey ends.
The standard you set will forever remain.
Thank you, Morocco. ❤️🇲🇦

#FIFAWorldCup

[Derrick X @DerrickAshimwe]

Always died on the hill that the movie with Johnny Depp's best acting is Donnie Brasco.....brilliant acting so much so that he outshone Al Pacino

[David Ornside @David_Ornside]

🚨🗣 Egypt's Coach Hossam Hassan couldn't control himself after full-time:

"I will say what's on my mind regardless of the consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it"

"And I want to say one more thing, if they want them [Argentina] to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"

[CAF @CAF_Online]

History has already been written, Pharaohs.
Thank you for everything. 🇪🇬❤️

#FIFAWorldCup

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Incredible Egyptian goal is disallowed because of a foul far away, then same situation a few minutes later and goal for Argentina not disallowed! No VAR, nothing? FIFA again looks like a corrupt joke, playing favorites for stars.

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

The racist, dehumanising remarks against @KMbappe by Paraguayan Sen. Celeste Amarilla are despicable, regrettably not isolated.

States & sports organisations must prevent acts of racism & discrimination, and ensure independent and effective accountability. Social media must also prevent and address racial discrimination on their platforms.

https://t.co/TVawwmw3Qo

[NEDU @Nedu_brazil01]

A drone farewell was done for Cristiano Ronaldo in his hometown in Madeira after he played his last game for Portugal 🇵🇹 against Spain in the World cup …… He really put them on the map❤️

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

And so, inevitably, we arrive at the USAians. Their goalscorer got a red card. A ban. A game in the stands. The rules every nation on Earth accepts. You foul, you sit, you come back. Simple.

Now, the Americans insist it was never a red card at all. And who knows, maybe it wasn’t. Even if the opponent’s leg looked like it might snap in half, referees get things wrong all the time. That is football. We love it and hate it for precisely this reason. But here’s the thing everyone else on the planet understands: a red card means a suspension even when the referee is wrong. Even when VAR is wrong. You can rage about the decision all you like, but the consequence stands. It always stands. That is the entire deal.

Think of it this way. A defender hacks someone down in the box, the whistle goes, penalty. Maybe it was soft. Maybe it was a dive. Doesn’t matter. The other team takes the penalty. What does not happen, what has never happened in the history of the sport, is a president ringing FIFA afterwards and having the goal quietly removed because his team didn’t fancy the outcome. The decision on the pitch is the decision. Full stop.

Except America’s response was to have the President of the United States, the actual man with the nuclear codes, telephone FIFA. FIFA, the most gloriously bent organisation in world sport, an outfit so crooked it makes a corkscrew look principled. And lo, the ban evaporated, the rulebook was rewritten, and Balogun trotted back onto the pitch as if nothing had happened.

Belgium complained. Obviously. And the American answer? A lecture. “We don’t understand the whining. We Americans always want to beat the best team. That’s when victory feels earned. Anything less is loser mentality.”

What a load of drivel. Belgium wants exactly the same thing. They want to beat the best American team. Nobody in Brussels is hiding under the bed because one striker is good at football. That was never the complaint.
The complaint is that this is cheating. Plain, old-fashioned, unambiguous cheating. Getting your head of state to lean on a governing body until an ordinary suspension disappears.

And everyone knows what we say about cheaters. Nothing they win counts. Ever again. Every goal from here carries an asterisk the size of Texas. If they lift the trophy, the entire planet will know how it was done, and nobody, not one single soul outside their own borders, will ever accept that this team won anything. What they’ll see instead is a squad of snivelling, cowardly, crying children who screamed until daddy fixed it.

There is no honour in this. None. A tournament that began so well for them now ends the only way it can: as a permanent embarrassment for American football. Forever.

And the tough-guy speech about always wanting to face the best? LOL. Embarrassing as well.
If they win now, they’ll never admit how. And honestly, they’ll never need to. The whole world already knows.

[John Færseth @JohnFaerseth]

It is irrelevant whether Balogun deserved a red card. Referees make stupid decisions all the time. If personal diplomacy and power can override decisions and the USA wins, it means outcomes are being decided off the field. That's match-fixing, and the end of sports.

[Arjun Sethi @arjunsethi81]

FIFA won’t intervene when Iran is forced to relocate to Mexico and banned from training in the U.S., but they’ll break their own rules to reinstate a U.S. player.

[Yannick Bolasie @YannickBolasie]

All I’ll say is if this was AFCON and they let a man play after he got a red card, the nonsense being said would be crazy

[No Score Draws ✍️ (Alex & Sian - BOOK OUT NOW!) @CheapPanini]

The noise I made

[Augusto @1cesgusto]

Vocês viram como Cabo Verde jogou nesta copa, organizado, limpo, jogando sério e com inteligência.

A forma como jogaram diante da atual campeã mundial e bi campeã sul-americana é uma prova cabal contra o maldito estereótipo de que africanos são só força física e correria.

E Ceferin? Gattuso? Vão se foder.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Cape Verde's second goal against Argentina is the type of goal you score against FIFA, and they can’t even use the referee or VAR against you.

[No Score Draws ✍️ (Alex & Sian - BOOK OUT NOW!) @CheapPanini]

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[Zito @_Zeets]

Cabo Verde are giants of Africa

[Bd@irB@ll @Bd_irB_ll]

Nah they won. Fuck a goal, fuck a scoreline, fuck a tournament. Cape Verde are World Cup champions