Leo Messiโs letter to all Argentinians the night before the World Cup Final. ๐ฉต๐ค๐
โThe most beautiful thing about all these years was ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฒโ.
โSharing day-to-day life with this group, competing together, picking ourselves up in the difficult moments, and ๐๐ง๐ฃ๐จ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฉโ.
โThanks to each one of my teammates, to the coaching staff, and to all the great people who work every day to keep this National Team as a ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒโ.
โWhatever happens tomorrow, this group has already written ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ญ and that no one will be able to eraseโ.
โ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐, ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ.
๐จ๐๏ธ| Messi: "Lamine is truly amazing, and I've followed him a lot because he plays for a club I love so much. He has a chance to achieve something historic, and we're going to try to make sure that doesn't happen this time. He has all the qualities to dominate football in the coming years, and he's one of the best players in the world. I wish him all the best, because his good will be good for Barcelona." โค๏ธ
the whole "rigged for Argentina" online discourse is a great case study on how the general population is frighteningly easy to manipulate with simple propaganda. and how it's especially effective on the less educated, or "casuals"/"larpers"
Football is a funny sport.
Four years ago, it was the decision to bench Paredes in favour of Enzo, Mac Allister and De Paul that played a huge role in winning Argentina the World Cup.
Four years on, it was the decision to reintroduce Paredes to the XI, now playing outside of Europe, that has been a complete game-changer for Argentina on their quest to retain the World Cup.
Gary Neville has crashed out so much on Stick To Football this morning๐๐๐
Bro is almost crying, he said they should have been man marking Messi, Roy said don't you think teams have done that for 20 years?
Messi just proved modern wingers suck. 39 year old man showing you how to put in a cross with his weak foot while these 120 million dollar primadonnas overhit or cant send a good one on their strong foot.