💢 Players with the most direct free kick goals in the history of national teams (7+):
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi ➜ 💢12 🆕
🇨🇱 Jorge Aravena ➜ 💢11
🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo ➜ 💢11
🇷🇸 Siniša Mihajlović ➜ 💢9
📋Full list: https://t.co/m2mKUWornr
Lionel Messi, has now scored in 7 consecutive World Cup matches - a run which started in the last 16 at the 2022 World Cup.
This breaks the record of Just Fontaine, who scored in all six matches at the 1958 World Cup - including four in the match for third-place.
🇨🇩 Así se celebró la clasificación de RD Congo en el campo de refugiados de Musasa en Burundi.
Recordemos que muchísimos congoleños viven exiliados en campos por la guerra civil que asola al país en el este. Es sólo futbol, solo 11 tipos atrás de una pelotita... si, claro
it is fuckin ludicrous how well the stars aligned for Argentina
my model suggests that with an average path, Argentina would have a 64% chance of making the quarters, but an 88% chance on their actual path through the knockouts
📌Winter, 1978, Buenos Aires The most beautiful colors suitable for the World Cup final! Argentina blue and Dutch orange! That winter, on June 25, at Estadio Monumental, the field was like a battlefield. The fierce atmosphere was filled with tackles, kicks, and elbows. The incredible determination of the players that day gave a football party to the whole planet. Argentina won the match 3-1 and claimed the World Champion title. A truly amazing football country!
Dennis Undav
✅ At the age of 22, he was playing in the fourth division in Germany.
✅ At 23, he was competing in the third division.
✅ At 24, he made the move to the Belgian second division.
✅ He did not make his top-flight debut until the age of 25, and that came in Belgium.
✅ He became a champion, league MVP, and top scorer with Union Saint-Gilloise in the Belgian league.
✅ After dominating Belgian football, he earned a move to the Premier League in England. However, he was unable to establish himself there.
✅ At 27, he returned to Germany to play for Stuttgart.
✅ At 28, despite never having represented Germany at youth level, he scored his first goal for the German national team.
✅ After recording 57 goals and 29 assists in 117 appearances for Stuttgart, he earned a place in Germany’s World Cup squad.
✅ And today, at nearly 30 years of age, he has registered 3 goals and 2 assists in his first two World Cup matches, leading Germany to the knockout stage of the biggest tournament in football.
It took him a long time to reach the top flight, and for a while it seemed as though the opportunities would never come. Yet he never gave up. He kept fighting, and today he has become the new hero of the German national team
Via @InvictosSomos@MarkusFjortoft
10 - Excluding own goals, each of England's last 10 goals in all competitions have been scored by either Harry Kane (5) or an Arsenal player (Eze x2, Saka, White, Rice). Rivalry.
🥹🇳🇬 This is incredible. 18-year-old Zadok Yohanna signed for Premier League team Brighton. His father was not aware of the transfer... Zadok was in tears whilst the news was revealed to his family. ❤️🩹