Batsirai Mugomba

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.

[Isaiah @fcbfootballblog]

39 year old Messi to lift his second consecutive Cup in 2026 you heard it here first https://t.co/4e8fF0Q1wl

[Ulugbek S. Kamilov @prof_kamilov]

Academia is fascinating. You spend years becoming the world’s expert on something eight people care about, and three of them disagree with you.

[Thando @Ta_Fitty]

Do these ones know us Messi people we also love Mbappe? 😂😂😂😂😂

[Hon. Mohammed Bello El-Rufai @B_ELRUFAI]

‘The Arabs in old times used to say. Four things separate brothers: wealth, women, jealousy, and death. Four things make you lose your value among people: talking too much, laughing too much, lying and gossiping. Four things by which a wife ruins her home: stubbornness, anger, suspicion, and raising her voice. Four things by which a man ruins his home: distance, neglect, harshness, and stinginess.’

[impala @wwildimpala]

Be like Scaloni. Ignore the noise 🧊

https://t.co/QQF9njcwxx

[Hazel Kaizoku @meister_kwame]

Okay agenda aside . I want someone to explain the rigging to me . Break it down . Explain how Infantino rigged the games in messi’s favor

[Abdul Haseeb babar 🇵🇸 @haseebbabar87]

Egypt scores 1st goal : haha pessi

Messi gets a penalty: rigged rigged

Messi misses: hahaha pessi ....ghost

Egypt scores 2nd goal: haha haha pessi getting knocked by egypt

Messi assist: rigged

Messi goal: rigged rigged rigged

3rd argentina goal: rigged robbed rigged robbed

[Thebigsol @Thebigsoll]

As a Ronaldo fan, it gets to a point you’ll just tell yourself a subtle truth. The other guy might actually be better. Messi is actually him.

[J. 🇵🇸 @Messilizer0]

Crazy how Argentina are the only team expected lose all their games, losing their games means it’s fair and winning them means it’s rigged

[Tunde Young @realtundeyoung]

Messi btw! Was completely denied space in his favoured central area and shifted to a different plan, went out wide and rolled back the years.

Egypt were clearly not prepared to play against winger Messi today and that cost them.

This fluidity, this constant reinvention is exactly what he’s always had over Ronaldo!

[Islam Bouafif 🇹🇳🇵🇸 @BouafifNour]

Since Messi haters will call it rigged no matter what happens, I need Switzerland to knock out Colombia and Norway to knock out England. Give Messi the easiest path possible to the final without facing any big team. if they’re going to cry anyway, I might as well enjoy the tears

[fan VOZINHA 🇨🇻 @V0ZINHA1]

GOAT.🐐👏🏽

@SocialSight

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. If you’re a night owl like me, this is a good late-night read.

Do you know the worst thing about Cristiano Ronaldo?

It’s that he set the standards for what defines a legend… and in the end, he couldn’t even live up to the standards he created himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo said:

“You can’t become a legend until you win a trophy with your national team.”

It was an obvious dig at Messi.

Argentina had just lost the 2014 World Cup final to Germany, and Messi was going through the toughest period of his international career. Those words only added fuel to the fire.

Where was the respect for a rival, Ronaldo?

The surprising part was that social media completely embraced that narrative. Messi was labeled a bottler, while Ronaldo was declared the winner of the rivalry—at least in the media, not on the pitch.

Then Messi retired from international football, came back, won the Copa América, and suddenly they were level in major international trophies.

What happened next?

Ronaldo fans started saying that one Euro is worth more than a hundred Copa Américas, claiming there was no competition in South America. Not true—but that became the excuse.

Then Messi went on to win the World Cup.

This time, the excuses changed again.

They claimed FIFA had fixed the tournament for Messi. That the World Cup was scripted in his favor. They simply didn’t know what else to say.

Then Ronaldo himself came out with one of the strangest quotes imaginable:

“A legend’s career can’t be defined by just seven games.”

At first glance, it sounds reasonable.

But beneath it was another attempt to diminish what Messi had achieved.

Before the World Cup, they insisted it would be Ronaldo’s tournament. On paper, Portugal had a fantastic squad. If the manager couldn’t get the best out of them, that’s Portugal’s problem—not Ronaldo’s.

Yet that same Portugal squad wasn’t any weaker than the Argentina team Messi led to the 2014 World Cup final—the same team people mocked Messi for not carrying to the title.

Just a couple of days ago, Ronaldo said:

“The World Cup doesn’t define my career, whether I win it or not.”

A statement that directly contradicts what he had said years earlier, when he admitted that winning the World Cup would make him feel completely fulfilled.

Now you’re 41 years old, Cristiano.

By your own standards:

* You have 5 Ballon d’Ors, not 8.
* You have one European Championship, not two Copa América titles.
* You never won the World Cup.
* You have four European Golden Shoes, while Messi has six—even though you’re an out-and-out striker.

So what now?

Will you keep playing until the next World Cup and become the first player to appear in one at 45, hoping to finally win it?

If we judged you by the standards you created, you wouldn’t qualify as a legend.

Of course, nobody actually judges you that way. Everyone still recognizes you as one of football’s greatest legends.

The real mistake was comparing Ronaldo to Messi in the first place.

That rivalry was exaggerated from the beginning by the media and figures like José Mourinho.

Messi conquered every major trophy available to him, shattered records that once seemed untouchable, and at 39 years old he’s still competing with Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland—the stars of the next generation—for the Golden Boot. And honestly, he could still win it.

What made Messi beloved by so many fans is that he never tried to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements.

Ronaldo, on the other hand, repeatedly made comments that many interpreted as attempts to downplay his greatest rival’s accomplishments—and that’s never an admirable trait.

Cristiano helped create a generation that thinks belittling other people’s achievements while constantly glorifying your own is a way to establish dominance.

Good bye. Ronaldo.

[LawJhay 🇦🇷 @Jlsesugh]

These videos will be very useful this night

[LSPN_FC @LSPN__FC_10]

This video of Messi nutmegging a reporter from 50 yards will never stop amazing me

[Uma @uwouma]

Apply for as many jobs as you can. Target roles that are above your qualification. Go to the interviews that scare you. You will gain so much confidence from that experiece that you'll naturally become a better candidate. This is one of the things that job hunting taught me.

[shaka ⚡️ @shxkxbabu]

why was messi and ronaldo not bagging this much world cup goals early in their career?

[Amenyah @G2Amenyah]

Forget 48 countries, I want EVERY single nation next World Cup for the 100 year anniversary!!

No group stage, straight knockouts. Don’t ask me about logistics 👍🏽