As Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal face off at the FIFA World Cup final between Spain and Argentina, the image of Messi bathing Yamal as a baby has gone viral. Here’s what photographer Joan Monfort said about the photoshoot.
Hermoso detalle de Shakira al invitar a los Triplets Ghetto Kids de Uganda a la final del Mundial. No solo les dio un escenario, les dio visibilidad, esperanza y la oportunidad de demostrar que el talento no tiene fronteras. Gracias @shakira
Lamine Yamal on Lionel Messi after Spain’s FIFA World Cup triumph over Argentina.
🗣️ Lamine Yamal: “Tonight I lifted the World Cup for Spain, but I also experienced something I’ll tell my children one day. The man who once held me as a baby was standing on the other side of the pitch, fighting for the same dream. Football has a beautiful way of bringing stories full circle.”
“When I looked at Messi after the final whistle, I didn’t just see an opponent. I saw the player who made millions of kids, including me, believe football could be art. I saw the man whose videos I watched over and over, trying to copy things that nobody else could do.”
“I know this defeat will hurt him. You don’t play with that much passion, carry your country again and again, and lose a World Cup final without feeling pain. Even in defeat, he kept demanding the ball, creating chances and refusing to stop believing. That’s what champions do.”
“People will talk about Spain winning this World Cup, and they should. But they’ll also remember that, at an age when most legends have already retired, Messi was still making the world’s best defenders panic every time he touched the ball. That’s extraordinary.”
“The photo of Messi bathing me became one of football’s most iconic images. Today we took another picture together, but this time I could thank him face to face. Without players like him, kids like me wouldn’t dare dream this big.”
“One day another generation will replace mine too. That’s football. But there will never be another Lionel Messi. Records can be broken and trophies can be won, but inspiring an entire generation to fall in love with the game is something only a few people in history will ever achieve.”
“Tonight belongs to Spain. Tomorrow, the debates will continue. But my respect for Lionel Messi will never change. He didn’t need to win this final to prove who he is. For me, he’ll always be one of the greatest players football has ever seen, and sharing the pitch with him was a privilege I’ll carry for the rest of my life.”
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Moments leading to the unfortunate incident involving Ghanaian media personality Kofi Adomaa.
A new video that has surfaced online shows the moment, the seasoned media personality was struck in the face with gunpowder from a musket in Dormaa.
CHIEF ARCHITECTS IN AKUFO-ADDO DAUGHTERS’ US$108MILLION AMBULANCE CABAL TRAVEL OUT OF GHANA FEW DAYS BEFORE DECEMBER 7, 2024 ELECTIONS
I can today authoritatively reveal that Stephen Okereke Elendu Kalu Okoro, Frank Agyekum Boateng and Vivian Oppong Kyekyeku — three chief architects of the infamous US$108million Akufo-Addo daughters’ ambulance sweetheart deal have all left Ghana.
Unimpeachable tracking and impeccable parliamentary oversight confirms that they flew out of Ghana few days before last Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
Stephen Okoro, the longtime special business partner of Gyankroma Akufo-Addo and Edwina Akufo-Addo, and a proud father of Akufo-Addo’s grandchild, left KIA Terminal 3 aboard British Airways flight BA2066 to Gatwick on the night of 27th November, 2024. His stated travel destination was the UK.
Mr. Okoro presented two passports to immigration authorities. One is a Nigerian passport with the last 3 digits being 923 and the other a Ghanaian passport with the last 3 digits being 742.
Mr. Stephen Okoro is a director of Elok Consult and Services Limited, one of the crony companies hurriedly incorporated and single-sourced to import the ridiculously inflated ambulances. But for my timely exposé in July, Mr. Okoro and other members of the ambulance cabal were on the verge of receiving an additional US$34.9million spare parts payment as dubiously authorized by Ken Ofori-Atta without parliamentary approval on the eve of his exit from the Finance Ministry.
As earlier disclosed, the inseparable trio, Mr. Stephen Okoro, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo and Edwina Akufo-Addo have together registered SFO Initiatives Limited, Goodbox Limited and Good Grow Limited.
The second person who appears to have fled is Mr. Frank Agyekum Boateng.
Mr. Boateng left our shores a day before Mr. Okoro — that is, on November 26, 2024.
Mr. Boateng opted for Washington using United Airlines flight UA3010. He travelled with a Ghanaian passport with its last 3 digits being 970.
Mr. Frank Agyekum Boateng and Alvin Mensah are both directors of the notorious BEFT Engineering, another company hurriedly incorporated for the ambulance sweetheart deal.
As for Vivian Oppong Kyekyeku, of Luxury World Auto Group Limited, she promptly flew out a few weeks after I published the ambulance exposé and filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
She used a Delta flight (DL157) to New York on August 31, 2024. She also presented two passports to immigration authorities — a US passport with 777 as its last digits and a Ghanaian passport with 020 as its last three digits. She has not returned to Ghana since August 31, 2024.
Continuous diligent tracking affirms that all three top ambulance directors have remained outside the country and did not return on December 7 to vote for the party which made them instant dollar millionaires, albeit from a stinky deal the Auditor-General has documented a litany of damning illegalities.
ORAL is obviously going to require high-level collaboration with Ghana’s international partners to track down all those who have fled the jurisdiction.
They can run but they surely can’t hide.
Judgment day has come.
The Ghanaian people shall have the accountability they have been yearning for.
For God and Country.
Ghana First.
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NEW: Ghana's illegal gold mining crisis - galamsey - is poisoning the country's water and devastating forests. It's an "existential threat," an expert told CNN.
Are mercury and other heavy metals used in mining causing stillbirths and deformed babies? Researchers think so