This 14-year-old kid offered himself as a volunteer since he was skinny enough to fit with a pulley system, he went down 49.2ft and successfully rescued the baby.
Who writes the football history? FIFA or the FANS? WALK WITH ME
Football history was never or has never really been written by the fans. FIFA’s been the one writing it the whole time, and they’ve always needed a clean, marketable god they can control.
That’s why in the case of PELE and MARADONA, they went with Pelé over Maradona. Pelé was perfect for them. Always smiling, never political, never caused problems, sponsor-friendly. He retired early and became the face of Coca-Cola and FIFA. Safe black icon they could sell without any drama.
Maradona on the other hand was the opposite. He was Poor, angry, anti-establishment. He called out FIFA’s corruption, stood with the workers, talked about the Falklands, exposed how they treated players. He was Too real, too dangerous, too loved by actual people instead of boardrooms. So they tried to erase him.
Look at what they did. When Maradona won the 86 World Cup basically on his own,(still the greatest individual World Cup ever), they immediately started drug testing him obsessively as if that was not enough, In 90 they let teams kick the shit out of him in the final with no punishment. In 94 they kick him out mid-tournament on live TV just to humiliate him. Then they gave Pelé “Footballer of the Century” and force a shared award when the public voted for Maradona, because even they couldn’t hide what people actually thought. They needed Pelé as the official story even if everyone on the street knew Diego was greater.
💣Now to the man reason of this post
Same exact script is happening now with Messi and Ronaldo.
Ronaldo is the Maradona of this era. Self-made, outspoken, not owned by anyone. He left Europe, challenged their new money projects, speaks his mind.
Messi is the new Pelé, quiet, sponsor-safe, Adidas, well-managed, never attacks the institutions. Perfect face for FIFA to push after Infantino needed a fresh legacy.
That’s why Ronaldo can score 50goals a year, carry his country, hit 900 goals and still get pushed out of the Ballon d’Or talk.
That’s why Messi wins one Ligue 1 and a World Cup where he got a pen in every knockout game and every FIFA campaign, every Club World Cup promo, every Inter Miami push is all about Messi while Ronaldo still the biggest audience in the sport gets treated like he doesn’t exist.
They did it before. Turned Pelé into a statue and tried to make people forget Maradona was the people’s player. Now they’re trying to do the same with Messi and make the next generation forget Ronaldo was the one who didn’t play by their rules and still won everything.
History keeps repeating because the same people are still writing it.
I fear for Mbappe as he is the next Maradona and Ronaldo 💔
When the horse is the most professional actor in the scene. Tonto + Silver carried this one masterpiece just for the horse spa treatment scene. 10/10 no notes 🔥🔥🎥🎥