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[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Lionel Messi missed Inter Miami's Leagues Cup match against Monterrey on Saturday following the death of his father, Jorge Messi.

(via Leagues Cup on Apple TV)

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 The Moment Trump Leaves the Iran War, the Petrodollar Dies Forever

Professor Jiang explains how the US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme dependent on Gulf nations investing in American tech. If Iran forces the Gulf to abandon the petrodollar for food security, the US economy will face total collapse and revolution in the streets.

Jeff Currie, former Goldman Sachs head of commodities and lifelong insider of the dollar system, just laid out the one line America cannot cross. Handing control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran is not a tactical retreat. It is the formal end of the United States as global hegemon and the death of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that Iran had its “throat on the Strait of Hormuz” for 45+ years and told the Trump administration to “finish this thing and finish it right.”

Bank of America reports that U.S. now only has 43-day emergency buffer of crude oil left in 45-year low.

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

Bookmark it and practice 🙌🏼

[LALIGA @LaLiga]

Lamine Yamal. ⏳

[KTLA @KTLA]

A shark was captured on video leaping high out of the water in Newport Beach Saturday.

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

Keep asking the board to sign a different player every other week.

I’ll just keep counting down the next five years until I finally get to see this kid play for the first team.

Hugo Galdeano has been one of Barcelona’s biggest discoveries from the U12 World Cup. He’s been trending for months, and almost every day I come across a new clip or highlight that makes me wonder how someone who’s only 12 years old can be this good.

The only way I can describe him is this: he plays as if he and the ball are in love. Fearless, intelligent, skillful, creative, and incredibly entertaining to watch.

The best description I’ve read about him was:

“He hunts opponents like Gavi, glides past them like Pedri, and treats the ball like Iniesta.”

La Masia used to produce one star every season. Now it’s producing stars for the distant future as well. La Masia truly is a gold mine.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Barcelona lost Messi in 2021 because they were €1.2 billion in debt and La Liga slashed their wage cap from €347 million to €97 million. The emergency fix was fielding children. Four years later those children won La Liga, and one of them carries a €1 billion release clause.

The cap crisis meant Barcelona couldn't register signings. Academy kids on entry-level wages were the only players they could afford to put on the pitch. So Lamine Yamal debuted at 15 years and 9 months. Pau Cubarsí debuted at 16. Gavi, Pedri, Balde, and Casadó all got minutes a healthy club would never have risked on teenagers.

Then the desperation play turned out to be the best roster strategy in football. Yamal joined at age 7 from CF La Torreta, a local youth club. Transfer fee zero. Barcelona turned down a €250 million bid for him. He made 106 senior appearances before turning 18. Messi made 9.

The cap math makes it even better. Real Madrid operates with a €761 million squad cost limit. Barcelona's is €432 million. They won the league anyway, because half the starting lineup was developed in-house at academy cost.

Messi's final Barcelona contract was worth over €500 million. His replacement cost nothing.

Those 11-year-olds in the video are the next batch. A pipeline that began as a bankruptcy workaround is now the entire plan.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

I bet these kids could beat the US men’s soccer team.

Incredible talent.

We are so far behind Europe in football.

[Marshal of Science 🧬🔬 @amazing13_13]

Barcelona's youngsters are incredibly terrifying; look at the one wearing the number 8 shirt

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

Another La Masia gem is on the way... 😳💫

[PurelyFootball ℗ @PurelyFootball]

The talent in Barcelona’s youth system is ridiculous.🔥

These kids are 11/12 years old.🤯🔵🔴

[TC @totalcristiano]

This is AURA.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

SPANISH BROADCAST CALL OF ARGENTINA'S WINNING GOAL IS ELECTRIC 🔥

(Via @TelemundoSports)

[SFGiants @SFGiants]

Jackson Flora is taking his talents from SB to SF 💪