I won’t hide it from you, here in Gaza we were watching Egypt’s victory while warplanes were flying overhead. Yet we paid them no attention and simply didn’t care.
This is the first moment of joy to reach the hearts of the people of Gaza in more than 1000 days. 🇪🇬🇵🇸
The amount of grief nations like Iran are carrying while being told to just “play football” under awful conditions on US soil, after everything that country has done to their people, is obscene.
a lot of people replying to this seem to be totally unfamiliar with the notion that a film can fail in its attempts at commentary/circle around to succumbing to the very things its attempting to address
There’s something deeply saddening comparing the joy I felt learning the World Cup would take place in North America when I was 17 and the disappointment I’ve felt seeing corporations and governments unfairly raise the prices of literally every fucking public service and game
It makes me want to kill myself when I think about futbol's working class roots and how the entire sport has become so disgustingly commercialized due to greed. WHO DIED AND PUT FIFA IN CHARGE??!? ITS THE GAME OF THE PROLETARIAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know there’s a Chinese equivalent of me that’s far more efficient at tasks and less addicted to his phone but I also know that he’ll never laugh or love the way that I do. And he’ll never have AMC movie pass