This week has given us something truly special. 🤯🌍
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi scored a World Cup brace.
🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé scored a World Cup brace.
🇳🇴 Erling Haaland scored a World Cup brace.
🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo scored a World Cup brace.
🇧🇷 Vinícius Júnior scored a World Cup brace.
In the space of just a few days, the two greatest players of all time and three of the biggest stars of the next generation all delivered on football's biggest stage.
We're witnessing history.
This World Cup has been nothing short of incredible. 🏆✨
FIFA’s broadcast cameras appeared to avoid showing this moment, likely due to rules around political gestures and protests.
But today, Lumumba covered his mouth and mimed a gun to his head in a powerful protest against the silence surrounding the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
One of the world’s most active crises has displaced thousands, and he used the World Cup stage to make sure people could not look away.
This is what true influence looks like. 🇨🇩👏
23-year-old Daniel Cressy just became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy https://t.co/snRE0wOGaP
The longest time EVER between a player's first and latest World Cup goal:
-Ronaldo: 20 years and 11 days
-Messi: 20 years and 11 days
We'll never see anything like this ever again 🐐🐐
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON IN SEATTLE 🔥
🏈 1996: Antonio Freeman - 7 REC/108 YDS/2 TDS vs. Seahawks
⚽ 2026: Alex Freeman - 1 goal vs. Australia at the World Cup