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FC Barcelona 🦾✨ | Leo Messi 🐐 | Livin' a little

[𝐕𝐒¹⁰ @_vedant03]

The little boy from Rosario on behalf of every little boy in the World, Messi on a million backs.....He's done it! This is his redemption, it's the fairytale we all wanted, man it has been tough, but in the end HE prevails, he deserves every bit of this

[dro 🇲🇽 @FutbolFax]

This Spain team is missing a player with some dawg in them, Fermin Lopez would have put a hole in the net by now

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

I'm sure many people did not see this in real time.

Licha dropping that pass to Messi was planned. Messi is a fucking genius, watch his movements.

He's read the whole C. Verde defence, tells Licha, and they execute it.

Haaland learned from the master

[£. ViNcE' ChImA @morebeestings]

Graceful even in defeat. No discreting the tournament, no individualistic thinking, no rigged claims. He said in an interview after the loss that Argentina had clear chances and missed, so they only have themselves to blame.

That's accountability, maturity and God rewarded him.

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

After Argentina’s shocking defeat to Saudi Arabia—a result that stunned the entire world—fear and anxiety spread across the Argentine fanbase.

Just hours later, Lionel Messi came out with the statement that would become iconic:

“I ask the fans to trust us. This group will not let you down.”

Yesterday, Cristiano Ronaldo was asked about the World Cup and said:

“I lack nothing in life. Winning the World Cup won’t make me a better Cristiano, and not winning it won’t make me a lesser Cristiano.”

Imagine that. Instead of using the moment to lift his teammates and reassure the fans, he chose to talk about himself and his own legacy.

And then people wonder why reports keep surfacing that many Portugal players don’t get along with him.

They laughed at you and said Messi didn’t have the personality to be a captain.

Time revealed who the real leader was—the one who put the team before himself.

In the end, time has a way of exposing narratives that people spent years trying to sell as the truth.

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

Was Ronaldo expecting his Portugal teammates to comfort him the way Javier Mascherano comforted Messi after the 2016 Copa América final?

Mascherano told him, “Keep your head up. You’re the best player in the world. Don’t blame yourself.” The Argentina squad used to say they played to prove Messi was the best.

That was never going to happen with Ronaldo.

How do you expect your teammates to love you when you insist on taking almost every free kick—even from impossible distances—despite a short pass often being the better option? On the rare occasion he let Nuno Mendes take one, he immediately pointed to his own head, as if to say it was his decision. If that chance on the wing had ended in a goal, he probably would’ve celebrated it like it was all about him.

This is the same Ronaldo who, when Bruno Fernandes scored against Uruguay at the World Cup, appeared on camera insisting he had touched the ball and even appealed for the goal to be credited to him.

The same Ronaldo who looked visibly unhappy when Bernardo Silva won the UEFA Nations League Player of the Tournament award while everyone else congratulated him.

The result?

No one seemed willing to carry him through his farewell to international football.

A fan poll by A Bola had around 70% voting for Ronaldo to start on the bench. Some teammates reportedly described him as just another player among the squad. And when Portugal were eliminated, there was no iconic scene of the team rallying around him.

Cristiano Ronaldo—the player who left the international stage without a farewell. 🤷🏻‍♂️🇵🇹

[Laurie @LFCLaurie]

Ronaldo doing “it’s his last World Cup” gimmick when we know full well there is no way he’s staying away from a home World Cup in 2030 😭😭😭

[Makavelli @RedTifosi16]

@PatMcAfeeShow No you guys just aren’t as good as you thought you were, now getting humbled against the first average team you face

[Islam Bouafif 🇹🇳🇵🇸 @BouafifNour]

I can't lie, I'm very relieved Portugal are out. Besides supporting Spain, i wanted them specifically to get out. Not out of hate to Ronaldo but I just can't deal with the noise his fans would make if they won the World Cup.

Even though we all know even if Portugal won it, with his current contribution, it wouldn't change anything in the GOAT debate, but I know his fans would still force that narrative, and I wouldn't be able to handle it.

[𝐕𝐒¹⁰ @_vedant03]

@UTDTrey Jinx juju

[tag @mxdric]

Oh we're doing the "European teams are better" thing again, but you got knocked out in the group stages of 2014 behind USA, lost to Uruguay in 2018, Morocco in 2022, and got the bad side of the draw in 2026 because you couldn't beat Congo or Colombia. Funny how that works

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

This is always the problem. He diminishes everything he is not number one or he cannot achieve.

Zero sportsmanship.

When he was winning BDOR, he never imagined another person would win more than him, all of a sudden, it became an award that has no value.

Now, Euros is at par with the World Cup, just because you can’t win it.

Always talking down on things he can’t achieve, not nice at all.

[(Journo) Xabhi 🔮 @FCB_Xabhi]

Even in 2022, I kinda felt sad for Ronaldo when he got knocked out.

This time though, the happiness is through the roof.

The amount of hatred, jealousy and narcissism he has for Messi, the instagram comments, interviews, everything.

He completely deserves this brutal ending.

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

I will win the 2030 World Cup

I will win the 2030 World Cup

I will win the 2030 World Cup

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

TURN THE 6 UPSIDE DOWN IT'S A 9 NOWWWWWW

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

Big games, Big Balls

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

5 Games
5 Clean sheets
0 Goals Conceded

ROCK SOLID.

[𝐕𝐒¹⁰ @_vedant03]

Spain are static AF! No threat whatsoever

If you want to play like this might as well get subbed off(Pedri)

Sub in Gavi, his press and shithousery will benefit us more than whatever the hell Pedri is doing.

PS. Lamine still has a long way to go, WC just showed that.

[ѕιᴅ @_iamSids]

@AlbicelesteTalk Whatever the fuck they wanna do need to be done quickly

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

UEFA said that FIFA, by making an exception with Balogun and doing so in the middle of the World Cup, has put the integrity of the game "at stake" and set a precedent.

"Football, like any other sports, relies on rules, which are the basis for fair, honest and transparent competition," the UEFA statement added.

"Sometimes rules are open to interpretation. In this case not. A minimum automatic suspension of one match following a red card is not a discretionary option and does not require the decision of a competent body to be enacted.”

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🗣 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Jurgen Klopp on Donald Trump calling Gianni Infantino directly:

"If that really was the case, then that's crazy. Let's just say this is our game, not theirs."

"These two people, who both have no idea about football, should have nothing to do with that."

"That was a red card. There are no two ways about it. We're sorry for Balogun because he didn't mean to do it. But that's what the rules say."