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[Foundational Nupe Lawyer @egi_nupe]

Did GheGhe ever preach against marriage? What I have always known about him is that he encourages men or guys to be wise and not let women feast on them or be undeservedly entitled to their hard earned money.

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

TOP 25 GREATEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS OF ALL TIME ⚽️

1. 🇦🇷 LIONEL MESSI
2. 🇧🇷 PELE
3. 🇦🇷 DIEGO MARADONA
4. 🇳🇱 JOHAN CRUYFF
5. 🇦🇷 ALFREDO DE STEFANO
6. 🇵🇹 CRISTIANO RONALDO
7. 🇫🇷 MICHEL PLATINI
8. 🇧🇷 RONALDO
9. 🇭🇺 FERENC PUSKAS
10. 🇫🇷 ZINEDINE ZIDANE
11. 🇵🇹 EUSEBIO
12. 🇧🇷 GARRINCHA
13. 🇩🇪 GERD MULLER
14. 🇬🇧 GEORGE BEST
15. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 BOBBY CHARLTON
16. 🇳🇱 MARCO VAN BASTEN
17. 🇮🇹 PAOLO MALDINI
18. 🇪🇸 ANDRES INIESTA
19. 🇩🇪 MANUEL NEUER
20. 🇪🇸 XAVI
21. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 KENNY DALGLISH
22. 🇧🇷 ZICO
23. 🇧🇷 RONALDINHO
24. 🇮🇹 FRANCO BARESI
25. 🇩🇪 LOTHAR MATTHAUS

Source: Sport Bible

[Winna F.C. @WinnaFC]

🚨| WORLD RECORD: Lionel Messi becomes the first player in World Cup history to reach double digits in both goals and assists.🐐

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. If you’re a night owl like me, this is a good late-night read.

Do you know the worst thing about Cristiano Ronaldo?

It’s that he set the standards for what defines a legend… and in the end, he couldn’t even live up to the standards he created himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo said:

“You can’t become a legend until you win a trophy with your national team.”

It was an obvious dig at Messi.

Argentina had just lost the 2014 World Cup final to Germany, and Messi was going through the toughest period of his international career. Those words only added fuel to the fire.

Where was the respect for a rival, Ronaldo?

The surprising part was that social media completely embraced that narrative. Messi was labeled a bottler, while Ronaldo was declared the winner of the rivalry—at least in the media, not on the pitch.

Then Messi retired from international football, came back, won the Copa América, and suddenly they were level in major international trophies.

What happened next?

Ronaldo fans started saying that one Euro is worth more than a hundred Copa Américas, claiming there was no competition in South America. Not true—but that became the excuse.

Then Messi went on to win the World Cup.

This time, the excuses changed again.

They claimed FIFA had fixed the tournament for Messi. That the World Cup was scripted in his favor. They simply didn’t know what else to say.

Then Ronaldo himself came out with one of the strangest quotes imaginable:

“A legend’s career can’t be defined by just seven games.”

At first glance, it sounds reasonable.

But beneath it was another attempt to diminish what Messi had achieved.

Before the World Cup, they insisted it would be Ronaldo’s tournament. On paper, Portugal had a fantastic squad. If the manager couldn’t get the best out of them, that’s Portugal’s problem—not Ronaldo’s.

Yet that same Portugal squad wasn’t any weaker than the Argentina team Messi led to the 2014 World Cup final—the same team people mocked Messi for not carrying to the title.

Just a couple of days ago, Ronaldo said:

“The World Cup doesn’t define my career, whether I win it or not.”

A statement that directly contradicts what he had said years earlier, when he admitted that winning the World Cup would make him feel completely fulfilled.

Now you’re 41 years old, Cristiano.

By your own standards:

* You have 5 Ballon d’Ors, not 8.
* You have one European Championship, not two Copa América titles.
* You never won the World Cup.
* You have four European Golden Shoes, while Messi has six—even though you’re an out-and-out striker.

So what now?

Will you keep playing until the next World Cup and become the first player to appear in one at 45, hoping to finally win it?

If we judged you by the standards you created, you wouldn’t qualify as a legend.

Of course, nobody actually judges you that way. Everyone still recognizes you as one of football’s greatest legends.

The real mistake was comparing Ronaldo to Messi in the first place.

That rivalry was exaggerated from the beginning by the media and figures like José Mourinho.

Messi conquered every major trophy available to him, shattered records that once seemed untouchable, and at 39 years old he’s still competing with Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland—the stars of the next generation—for the Golden Boot. And honestly, he could still win it.

What made Messi beloved by so many fans is that he never tried to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements.

Ronaldo, on the other hand, repeatedly made comments that many interpreted as attempts to downplay his greatest rival’s accomplishments—and that’s never an admirable trait.

Cristiano helped create a generation that thinks belittling other people’s achievements while constantly glorifying your own is a way to establish dominance.

Good bye. Ronaldo.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

The tournament was set up for Argentina to play either Spain or Uruguay in the round of 32.

Spain topped their group, Argentina topped their group. So they avoided each other. Uruguay refused to finish second, so they avoided Argentina too and chose to go home.

Now FIFA is responsible for choosing Cabo Verde for Argentina. LOL. This thing don dey turn to mental problem o.

[Foundational Nupe Lawyer @egi_nupe]

Subsidy Removal, you are against it.

Students Loan, you attack it.

Coastal Road, you talk down on it.

Tax Reform, you say it’s anti-poor.

Local Government autonomy, you say it’s a scam.

State Police, you still don’t support it.

What exactly do you want?

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

It will be hard to top Pele's 1,279 goals.

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:

Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18

Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28

Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18

Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489

We are witnessing history.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Messi repeatedly conquered club football and took Argentina to within 3 matches of back to back to back tournament wins. Lost 3 finals. They wouldn’t have made any of those finals without him.

Before then, he had won the U/20 World Cup and the Olympics. They pretended those events never happened.

He was trolled like he hadn’t done anything. He was bantered like a villain. It was an all or nothing situation. He was bantered for the margins left of the all.

Take today’s banter as you find it. It is nowhere near what Messi was served, including on his birthdays.

There is nothing new under this sun. Take it on the chin or continue to cry. But if a man who was the best player at the World Cup got trolled for not winning it after losing a final they did enough to win, everyone should take what they get. Especially if you can’t even smell finals.

“Where is Messi?” became a thing after Messi scored a goal and dominated against Saudi Arabia. He wasn’t a passenger. He played. He scored. But they lost, so the world started to look for a man who wasn’t lost. Now you want to police people for asking for the invisible homelander?

Wasiu Adelabu Ogunmepons please!

I don’t want to hear pim!

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Nigeria killed more than 13,000 ‘terrorists’ in the past year, says President Bola Ahmed Tinubu https://t.co/g64Vjrife2

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

DIDIDER DESCHAMPS: "El único penal polémico a Argentina fue el del partido contra Polonia y aún así fue errado".

"Argentina metió 15 goles en el Mundial y solo se metieron 4 penales, les anularon 3 goles en el primer partido y frente a Países Bajos le cobran una falta polémica sobre el final con 10 minutos añadidos, para mi exagerado el tiempo de adición".

"No entiendo a los que dicen que hubo ayuda a los argentinos en la final, mis jugadores y yo, no nos quejamos del penal porque sabíamos que sí lo era. Solo me queda felicitar a Argentina y Francia que nos dieron la mejor final en la historia de los mundiales".

[Bloomberg @business]

Lionel Messi has joined Cristiano Ronaldo in football's billionaire club — and he did it without a big money Saudi contract.

@rorihuela breaks down how he got there https://t.co/CX7Z3G5bBA

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