He makes all things beautiful in its time. ||
It's possible to do great things from small places .||
The incredible thing about miracles is that they happen
To the little boy from Rosario 🇦🇷,
One who was once too quiet, too fragile, too weak, too small - with a body that betrayed him but with dreams strong enough to power through.
The little boy from Rosario who left home before he was ready, burdened with the hopes of millions before he was old enough to carry his own.
To that little boy, I write as tonight might be your final dance. 🇦🇷 🇪🇸
You conquered Europe, conquered every record that they said would never fall - to the world, you were an undisputed genius but everytime you put on the Argentine camiseta, he felt like a curse trailed you.
One final lost after another. What mattered to you the most, to bring joy to the cot that cradled you was constantly out of your reach.
Every defeat you suffered kept reminding us, that maybe, you're just as human as we are.
Every time you cried from the bench with swollen feet, we watched and are reminded, maybe you're just as human.
You retired and we thought your story was over - we could still make peace with the joy you've given us from club spectacle.
Like the Phoenix that you are, you rose from the ashes that was designed to bury you - you walked back into storms that was orchestrated to sink you.
My dear little boy from Rosario 🇦🇷,
you walked back to the pitch - fingers pointed to your grandmother who first believed, doubled the joy you've always brought us, fulfilled your lifelong dreams, made new records and broke your own records.
I'm not even Argentine but you've spurred me to permanently chant:
"Soy hincha de la Selección,
La aliento con el corazón
Ganamos la tercera con Lionel
Queremos ser campeones otra vez"
Tonight is not just another final, Muchacho. Tonight is not just about the hunt for another trophy, Lionel.
Tonight is about the compression of a 2-decade story line from 2006 to 2026.
All the tears, heartbreaks, all the doubts & how you repeatedly resurrected with no points left to prove.
We might not have existed in the times of Shakespeare, Alexander the Great, Michangelo, Plato, Isaac Newton - but it's been the absolute privilege of our lives to have existed while you did, the absolute honor of our lives to have been your audience.
Long after stadiums rot into the ground in silence, and goals get forgotten - we will always remember how you made us feel.
One day when we're all frail and rottening in our grandpa era, our grandchildren will feel electric surges just from touching us - and it will be difficult for us to explain that it was your gift to us 70 years back.
Maybe your last dance, maybe one more dance - but we're privileged to be dancing with you again, Mi Capitan.
🐐 🇦🇷
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I am being severely threatened by the Belgian Ministry of Defence to delete this tweet.
The threat, for anyone who can read between the lines, is that they will make it impossible for me to get asylum in the U.S.
To be clear: I'm not planning on applying, but given that the Belgian regime is trying very hard to imprison me, they know that this is a possible escape.
My conscience wanted to refuse their demand, but my brain decided to comply. Eight years of lawfare and state terror have bled me dry. I have to pick my fights carefully. So I deleted the post.
Then it appeared deletion wasn't enough. The threats continued. Now they demand that I post a retraction. I will do no such dishonourable thing, as the tweet is correct. I will provide all the details so the facts are clear to everyone.
The first quote is by Conner Rousseau. He is the president of the governing Socialist Party and without any doubt one of the most powerful politicians in the country. He is a political and personal friend of the prime minister.
The second quote is by An Lemmens, a famous media personality that went along with MoD Theo Francken to Auschwitz. The segment on national television included a statement by her and a statement by MoD Francken.
I did not mention her name because it is irrelevant to my international audience. What is relevant, is that the War Heritage Institute, which falls under the authority of the Ministry of Defence, brought along a media personality to severely slander the U.S.A. and its president Donald Trump.
Equating America's migration policy to the Holocaust is both insulting to the rightful desire of the American people for strong borders and sovereignty and insulting to all those who suffered horrors in the Holocaust.
The fact that the Minister of Defence and his cabinet, who are always keen, 24/7, to make statements about the most trivial things, are now completely silent about this abhorrent statement, made on a trip organised by one of their Ministry of Defence branches and propped up by the presence of the MoD himself, is shameful and cowardly.
The current narrative in the Belgian MSM (subsidised by the government) is that Trump is Hitler and ICE are nazi's. Instead of going against this, the MoD was happy to get some publicity and chose not to challenge this insane narrative that was reinforced during the trip.
My tweet was thus 100% correct.
The MoD could have gone against the anti-American narrative and denounce the abhorrent statements made by his travel companion, but instead he chose to threaten and silence me so that he won't get any difficult questions from American allies.
If you got here, please retweet. Only public pressure can protect me against their threats.
I am not suicidal.
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