🚨 Diego Simeone: “It seems Barcelona is playing a different sport from the one we're playing”.
“They didn't have a number 9 striker, then Raphinha showed up and scored 12 goals”.
“And Yamal, if I'm not mistaken, scored 7”.
“They press you in your own stadium and steal your time, and they don't fear taking risks and conceding a goal”, told ESPN.
“They are the BEST now”.
They’ll kill me for saying this but if you’re good enough at your job you can roll in a few minutes late with an iced coffee on a regular basis and no one says shit about it
When you stop reading books, you start losing verbal dexterity, depth of thought and imagination. A closed book is a closed mind. Don't EVER stop reading.
There are 196 tribes on Earth that still refuse all contact with outsiders. Brazil has 115 of them, more than any country, and its government flies planes over their villages on purpose.
The flyovers exist because of a brutal catch in how Brazil protects land. Forest only gets shielded as Indigenous territory if FUNAI, the Indigenous affairs agency, can prove isolated people actually live there. No proof, and loggers and miners move in. So agents photograph longhouses and gardens from the air, confirm the tribe exists, and never land.
The word "uncontacted" hides the real history. Most of these groups descend from people who met the outside world during the rubber boom a century ago, when enslavement and disease killed roughly 90% of western Amazonia's Indigenous population. Their ancestors ran deeper into the forest and never came back out.
The ones who did come out show why.
The Nahua in Peru were contacted in 1984 after oil exploration opened their land. Half of them were dead within a few years, mostly from colds and flu. The Matis in Brazil were contacted in 1978. Five years later, 87 of them were left. The Panará lost 80% of their people in the eight years after a highway was bulldozed through their forest.
A respiratory bug that costs you three days on the couch can erase half a village with no immunity to it.
So Brazil settled on the strangest conservation policy on Earth. Prove they exist. Guard the borders. Never say hello.