🚨🇨🇻 Vozinha to Colo Colo, here we go! Verbal agreement in place for Cape Verde goalkeeper.
Documents yet to be signed, likely to happen over the weekend and then time to travel for medical tests.
Vozinha, ready for new chapter in Chile. 🇨🇱
This doesn't even sound like a conspiracy anymore. Something clearly happened behind the scenes before the World Cup Final. Too many things don't add up.
• Scaloni arrived at the stadium and got off the team bus in tears.
• Messi "missed" every shot in the warm-up. In over 20 years, I genuinely can't remember ever seeing that. Was he doing it deliberately, or was his mind somewhere else?
• Messi's family didn't even come to the stadium despite living in Miami.
• The entire squad walked out of the dressing room with their heads down, completely shaken up. Enzo and Licha were both seen crying.
• Messi was heard saying: "Let's forget about everything. Let's just play. Forget about everything." Everyone around him looked devastated.
• Scaloni completely abandoned the tactical approach that had worked throughout the tournament, leaving the midfield exposed against a team whose biggest strength is midfield control. Messi and Julián were isolated all game.
• Argentina had 0 shots on target in 90 minutes, yet Lautaro, one of their biggest attacking weapons, never came on.
• Both Cuti Romero and Lisandro Martínez asked to be substituted because of "injuries", yet neither looked to be in obvious pain. These are arguably the two toughest players in the squad. Interestingly, both also ignored Trump during the trophy presentation.
• Spain committed over 20 fouls without receiving a single card. Oyarzabal's challenge on Messi's knee and Cucurella's foul on Simeone were both obvious booking opportunities.
• Cucurella also somehow escaped a red after covering his mouth during a confrontation with Messi.
• Even Spain's celebrations felt strangely subdued. From a neutral perspective, that's understandable given Argentina never really put on a fight.
This isn't meant to take anything away from Spain. They were World Cup favourites for a reason and fully deserved the title based on what happened on the pitch.
But I've watched this Argentina team since 2021, and I've never seen anything remotely like Sunday. This team's identity has always been its passion, intensity and willingness to fight for every ball. None of that was there.
I'm not claiming to know what happened. Maybe it was connected to the Malvinas incident. Maybe there was pressure from someone powerful. Maybe it involved their families. Maybe it was something else entirely.
But I refuse to believe that what we watched was simply Argentina having an off day.
Too many signs pointed to a squad that looked emotionally broken before the match had even kicked off.
I just hope that one day we find out what really happened behind the scenes.
“A quantidade de brasileiros, especialmente nas redes sociais, se acabando de inveja porque o Brasil não tem nada parecido com o Messi é muito triste, muito pobre de espírito. Gente se desfazendo da jornada fantástica desse cara porque a final dele foi muito ruim.”
“A final dele foi muito ruim, mas a responsabilidade maior é do técnico e de todo o time. A Argentina só estava na final por causa do Messi. Sem ele, não teria chegado.”
“Aliás, é até constrangedor dar o prêmio para o Rodri. Melhor da final? Ok. Mas, melhor da Copa, cara? Não dá para ignorar os contextos. Os problemas da Argentina, como a Argentina conseguiu avançar… tudo passou pelo Messi.”
“Antes da Copa, muita gente, inclusive eu, achava que o Messi não ia nem jogar direito.”
🎙️ Mauro Cezar, no @UOL.
📸 AFA/Seleção Argentina | Canal UOL
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Tapia faced a binary choice: lose or face arrest. A pact involving Infantino, UEFA, and Trump ensured Argentina fell to satisfy global agendas and avoid total international isolation.
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The broadcast felt hauntingly empty—not a single family member of any Argentine player was shown on camera, regardless of whether they were in the stands or not. It felt like a deliberate blackout. Something was fundamentally wrong with this final. 🔐