2016, a few weeks before before local government elections, I left Bloemfontein for my hometown for the weekend. I got there and everyone was busy preparing for a speaker from a political party to campaign for the elections.
I got bored, there was nothing to do so I …
I used to be such an international football hater. The Champions League is the pinnacle of the sport, the level is higher in the club game, international breaks suck, blah blah blah — all the classics.
But the more money gets pumped into club football, and the more unfair and lopsided it becomes, the more I’ve grown to love and appreciate the international game. It feels like the last “pure” version of football.
No bullshit billionaire owners, no state owned clubs, no hoarding the best teenagers on the planet, just the players from your country and that’s it.
Maybe it’s just as because I’m older and getting more pessimistic lol, but I really enjoy and admire international football more than I ever have.
Not only did Real lose 5-0, Ronaldo's freekick hit an ad board that predicted the country and year Lionel Messi would lift the World Cup at 13 years later.
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