pritha꩜

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[‎ ‎ ‎ ⊹ ོ @sighswoon]

I LOVE whenever the opportunity comes to do this. Take advantage of it. You’re not like that all the time. It has to take a really specific period of desperation to do this. Enjoy it

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A reporter asked Lamine Yamal how he handles the pressure of carrying Spain at 18. His answer: my mother had me when she was 16, that's real pressure. My father picked things off the street to bring food home, that's pressure. All I have to do is play football.

That's the whole story of who he is, and most fans only know the surface of it.

Before he was born, his teenage parents fell behind on rent. Two neighbors named Lamine and Yamal covered them, and his father vowed his son would carry both names forever. His legal name is a permanent record of a debt his family couldn't repay in money. In Arabic, the names mean "the trustworthy" and "beauty."

His parents split when he was around 5. His mother raised him in Granollers on a fast food wage. And here's the detail almost nobody knows: that job is the reason he became a footballer. Through work she met the daughter of the youth coordinator at CF La Torreta, his first club. When she worried she couldn't cover the fees, he told her that if the boy wants to play, money will never be the reason he can't.

As a kid, Lamine told his parents: if you're counting on me getting a normal job, we're in trouble. But if I become a footballer, you'll never have to worry again.

He signed with Barcelona at 7. He was right by 15.

Every goal, he flashes 304 with his fingers. The end of 08304, the postal code of Rocafonda, the neighborhood where strangers paid his family's rent before he existed. It gets credited on every goal since.

Today, at 19, he plays for the World Cup. And if he scores tonight, somewhere in the biggest broadcast on Earth, two neighbors will hear their names, and a postal code will flash on 2 billion screens.

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[tallulah bankhead @diandrasdiandra]

the way #they do this every single game and see nary a card

[pritha꩜ @abiteoflife]

VIVA ESPAÑAAAAA

[bel 🐛 @4419lk]

people missing out on france vs england because it's a 3rd place match when it's genuinely like this

[tallulah bankhead @diandrasdiandra]

he said i'm leaving here with something

[pinkie @pinkamaniaa]

i’m strange but friendly so people tell me things

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

“you did it queen” i whisper as I move everything from Friday’s to do-list to Monday’s to-do list

[a @a8065287968522]

ill block a bitch on fragrantica

[nico @fotodocorte]

deveria ser um crime um diabo como o messi ter o mesmo nome de uma musica tão perfeita como essa

[Will Sennett @Senn_Spud]

Soccer I love when they hold up the sign and a brand new beautiful boy takes the place of a dirty sweaty ruined one

[tallulah bankhead @diandrasdiandra]

neither of these are close to happening

[Kenpachi @Kenpachi1070]

C’est le match le plus corrompu de l’histoire du football

[Lila @LilaL_Hrv]

Where’s the ball sensor FIFA??
You picked up a Croatian player’s hair but not a wire cable?!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[meg. @wondermeg_]

a movie about broke stoner cat chicks? this was literally made for me.

[tallulah bankhead @diandrasdiandra]

its so funny how he doesn't mind sounding like a cokeranting egomaniac overdosing on cope everyday

[giuliana 💫 @giulianamp3]

and that’s for luka modric