Jose Coronado

[ruan.🩸 @ruanrlx]

Eu vejo muita gente exaltando Mbappé, Haaland, Kane etc (com razão!!!), e tratando como se o Brasil não tivesse um jogador desse calibre.

Mas é o seguinte, o Vinícius Júnior não deve nada para esses caras, ok?

Inclusive, é o único desses que já foi MELHOR DO MUNDO.

Até quando vai ser considerado normal subestimar esse moleque?

[Kimi Regal @RegalKimi]

After Ronaldo won EURO 2016 while Messi was still without a senior international trophy, a common argument across football media, punditry and mainstream football discourse was that international trophies were not essential to determining individual greatness. Football was said to be a team sport, and a player’s legacy should not be reduced to what he won with his national team.

At the time, Messi had lost four major international finals with Argentina and had even retired from international football after the 2016 Copa América final defeat to Chile.

A few months later, Messi returned. What followed was an unusually busy Copa América schedule. The tournament was played in 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2021, four editions in just six years. Many observers could not help but notice that a player who had repeatedly fallen short was being given more opportunities to win in a short period and rightly so. Eventually, Messi won the 2021 Copa América.

For years, the football world had been told that international trophies were not necessary to be considered the greatest of all time. When Messi lacked an international trophy, the importance of international success was routinely downplayed.

Similarly, when Messi lacked a World Cup, it was not considered essential to being the GOAT. Once he won it in Qatar, however, the World Cup was elevated from being one achievement among many to the achievement that supposedly settled the GOAT debate forever.

To many Ronaldo supporters, this is the clearest example of shifting goalposts in football history. The standards appeared to change at every stage until they aligned perfectly with Messi’s résumé. What was once irrelevant became important. What was important became essential. And once Messi achieved it, the debate was declared over.

In Qatar, Argentina received five penalties during the tournament, a World Cup record for a single team in one edition. Several refereeing decisions involving Argentina remain debated to this day, including Messi’s handball incident against the Netherlands that some believe warranted a second yellow card.

For many critics, these were not isolated incidents but part of a wider pattern they believe has followed Messi throughout his career, where controversial decisions repeatedly seem to fall in his favour. They point to numerous moments over the years where they believe punishments that would have been applied to other players were overlooked when Messi was involved. Some supporters have even argued that similar concerns resurfaced only recently, after another incident in which they believe Messi was fortunate to avoid a red card.

Whether one agrees with that view or not, it has become a significant reason why many Ronaldo supporters remain sceptical of the narrative surrounding Messi’s achievements and the way they are discussed by the football establishment and mainstream media.

For many Ronaldo supporters, the issue has never simply been about preferring one player over another. It is about what they perceive as inconsistent standards. They see achievements weighed differently depending on who accomplished them. They see one player protected from scrutiny while the other is subjected to it at every turn.

That is why many continue to side with Ronaldo. Not because to many he is the greatest to ever kick a ball or he has won every trophy or because he is beyond criticism, but because they believe the standards applied to him have often been harsher than those applied to his greatest rival.

They would rather support a player who loses with his honour intact than celebrate victories they believe are surrounded by unanswered questions.

As José Mourinho once said: “If I have to win in that way, I would be ashamed.”

For them, the issue is not simply who won. It is whether the criteria for greatness remained consistent throughout the debate. In their view, they did not.

[Mathias @MathiasChu]

Lo de la FIFA es inédito.

Los condimentos de la competición son todos heinz, pero como no es sponsor de la copa los están tapando con duck tape.

No solo lograron visibilidad y una excusa para comunicar, sino que ahora están haciendo mkt en conjunto con levi’s.

Esto es esencialmente marketing de guerrilla.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Williams: What’s the favorite thing you have in common with your father?

Ivanka Trump: Either real estate or golf.

Williams: Donald, with your daughter?

Donald Trump: Well, I was going to say sex…

[Martín Dandach @MartinDandach]

Impresionante muestra de poder de la delegación iraní en Suiza. Llegaron después, los hicieron esperar a los estadounidenses, se negaron a darles la mano, defendieron sus exigencias y ante las primeras amenazas de Donald Trump se retiraron de las negociaciones mientras lo trataron de desesperado. Hicieron ver a los Estados Unidos como los débiles del acuerdo. Es increíble como los persas manejan lo simbólico, como si jugaran una partida del ajedrez. No hay dudas que Irán ya se estableció como la principal potencia de Medio Oriente.

[Martinalgui @MartinoliCuri]

Algo más latinoamericano que robarle el reloj al árbitro? JAJAJAJA

[CR7STIANISMO🇪🇸🇵🇹 @Cr7stianismo_]

Portugal estaba eliminada en fase de grupos

Y apareció Cristiano Ronaldo para clasificar él solo a su país con una actuación histórica

Solo Cristiano creía. El final lo conocemos todos, y Portugal fue campeón de esa Eurocopa

El mejor de la historia🐐

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I’ve got a better idea. Tell your mate @netanyahu to allow international media into Gaza and they can work out what really happened for themselves.

[Samuel Cuervo @SamuelCuervo]

Japoneses pisteando en la caja de una camioneta rumbo al estadio, ¿hay algo más mexicano?

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

This may just be the single greatest tweet of all time

#worldcup

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.

My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.

They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.

"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."

He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.

And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.

It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.

Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.

It's a real mess, man.

That guy sucks.

[Claudia @ClaudiaReznik]

No soporto a Mr. Chip, pero los datos son los datos. Messi y culés del mundo, un bañito de realidad, ok?

[Cris @CrisLee99]

Muito boa essa pegadinha dos mexicanos pra cima dos coreanos kkkkk
(créditos: chilinypikinoficial)

[Ezzy @EzzyMUFC]

The moment Raphinha went down injured, Vinicius ran all the way across the pitch to check on him… but somehow, this is the side of him the media never shows

[(fan) REAL MADRID FANS 🤍 @AdriRM33]

🗣️ Davo: "Si no te das cuenta que Vinícius es un CRACK es porque te ciega el ODIO, hay gente que dice que Vinícius no aparece en los partidos importantes y en cada uno de ellos mete un GOL, sigan riéndose y haciendo burlas."

CHAPÓ 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[🇵🇹 @cacavinguismo]

A Vinicius y a Bellingham les han bastado dos partidos sin Mbappe para volver a ser los mejores del mundo

[Peski 2.0 @PeskiCensored]

Ni Vitinha, ni Joao Neves, ni Olise, ni Mourinho, ni la madre que me pario. El auténtico galáctico es este. Toca cambiar el relato papá.

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨FACT: There are 57 different goal scorers from 44 different clubs at the 2026 World Cup. Not a single one plays for Barcelona.

[Hater Central @TheHateCentral]

Rapunzel at the World Cup:

0 Goals
0 Assists
7 Matches

JOGA MOSQUITO 💫💫💫