Douglas Rogers

Zimbabwean. Author, journalist, travel writer. Books: Two Weeks In November & The Last Resort. Published in Telegraph, WSJ, NY Times, Guardian, T&L.

[BGY @bgyetherr]

🎙️ Zlatan Ibrahimović, Arjantin’in Avusturya galibiyetinin ardından Lionel Messi’nin etkisi hakkında:

“Messi’yi izlemeye takıntılıyım.

Bunun nedeni arkadaşım olması değil.

Nostalji de değil.

Çünkü bunca yılın ardından hâlâ bir futbolcunun, topa her dakika dokunmadan bir maçı nasıl kontrol edebildiğini anlamaya çalışıyorum.

Bugün Arjantin’i izledim ve dikkatimi çeken ilk şey skor olmadı.

Messi hareket ettiğinde Avusturya’nın verdiği tepkiydi.

Sola attığı tek bir adımda savunmacılar onu takip ediyor.

Orta sahaya doğru biraz geriye geldiğinde takımın bütün dizilişi değişiyor.

Omzunun üzerinden attığı tek bir bakış… ve panik başlıyor.

Bu futbol değil.

Bu psikolojik savaş.

İşte bu yüzden insanlar onu sadece gol ve asistlerle değerlendirdiğinde gülüyorum.

Çünkü izledikleri şeyi gerçekten anlamıyorlar.

Messi sadece Arjantin’in en iyi oyuncusu değil.

O, Arjantin’in sistemi.

O, onların özgüveni.

O, onların inancı.

Takım arkadaşlarının sahaya çıkarken imkânsızın mümkün olduğuna inanmasının sebebi o.

İnsanlar bana sürekli ‘GOAT’ tartışmasını soruyor.

Hangi tartışma?

Cidden.

Hangi tartışma?

Benim için ortada bir tartışma yok.

Bu tartışma televizyonların içeriğe, sosyal medyanın ise kavgalara ihtiyaç duyması nedeniyle var.

Ben futbol izlediğimde bir tartışma görmüyorum.

Messi’yi görüyorum.

Sonra da geri kalan herkesi.

Bu, diğer efsanelerin olağanüstü olmadığı anlamına gelmiyor.

Sadece hiçbir oyuncunun bir maçı, bir takımı ve tüm bir futbol neslini Messi’nin etkilediği şekilde etkilediğini görmedim.

Ve bugün bunu bir kez daha hatırlattı.

Hat-trick yapmasına gerek yoktu.

40 metreden gol atmasına da gerek yoktu.

Sadece Lionel Messi olması yetti.

Ve bir anda Arjantin tamamen farklı bir takım gibi görünmeye başladı.

İşte büyüklük budur.

Her şeyin sana bağlı olması değil.

Sen oradayken herkesin daha iyi hale gelmesi.

Kariyerimde büyük oyunculara karşı oynadım.

Büyük oyuncularla aynı takımda oynadım.

Ama Messi, izleyip de içimden gerçekten:

‘Bu normal değil.’

dediğim tek oyuncu oldu.

Üstelik en korkutucu tarafı şu:

Rakipler onun ne yapacağını çok iyi biliyor.

Ama yine de onu durduramıyorlar.

Bu yüzden artık karşılaştırmalarla vakit kaybetmiyorum.

Bazı oyuncular efsane olur.

Bazıları ikon olur.

Messi ise kendine ait bir kategoriye dönüştü.

Ve bugünkü performansın ardından bana hâlâ tüm zamanların en büyük futbolcusunun kim olduğunu soruyorsanız…

Yanlış soruyu soruyorsunuz.

Doğru soru şu:

Futbol bir daha onun gibi bir oyuncu üretebilecek mi?”

[Footysm ⚽️ @Footysm]

🅾️🅾️ Wayne Rooney: On Lionel Messi performance against Austria:

“I’ll say this now, what we’re witnessing right now is just completely mental. I’ve played at the absolute highest level, I know what the physical toll of this game is, and Messi scoring twice today to break the all-time World Cup goal record? It’s just insane.

How are we all sitting here acting like this is normal? The man is 39 years old. At 39, most lads are sitting on a beach, or struggling to get out of bed for a Sunday league kickabout, let alone dominating the biggest tournament on Earth. It defies logic.

He’s out there gliding past players, reading the game three steps ahead of everyone else, and finishing like he’s still in his mid-twenties.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: anyone who still doubts Lionel Messi as the greatest to ever play the game simply is not mentally OK. It’s that simple.

There’s no footballing argument left to have. Even if your brain has been completely disconnected, your eyes alone just sitting there watching what he is doing on that pitch should tell you absolutely everything you need to know. You don't need a tactical breakdown. You just need to look at the screen. To do what he’s done throughout his career was incredible, but to reach the pinnacle of the World Cup record books at 39?

We will never, ever see anything like this again. We just need to stop trying to analyze it and appreciate that we're looking at the absolute best to ever lace up a pair of boots”

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

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[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

It’s much more likely cutting USAID SAVED 4.5 million kids lives by no longer funding the dozens of USAID-funded civil wars that had been raging across Africa, Central Asia, LatAm and beyond.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

The Director of National Intelligence has just reported that Anthony Fauci funded a bioweapons lab in China in the creation of the COVID pandemic that killed millions.

ABC has crack reporter Jonathan Karl headlining an algae story.

[Prep Baseball VA/DC Scouting @PrepBaseVAS]

‘28 Whitaker Rogers (@WoGroveBaseball l @DirtbagsVa)

Rogers has had some comfortable AB’s this weekend & gets himself another knock here with this single into CF.

@PrepBaseballVA

#MAPI2026

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

Let me break it down in a simple way that I’ve been reporting from the beginning.
To invent a vaccine for a disease that didn’t exist, our scientific Einsteins used taxpayer money to partner with communist China to create the dangerous virus in a lab—So that they could create a vaccine for it.
Covid was a result of primarily US funded vaccine research, and that’s the thing they could not let you know.
They stopped at nothing to obfuscate, misdirect, cover their tracks, protect themselves, and controversialize anyone telling the truth.
The scientific establishment and media aided and abetted.
I can think of no more impactful, crimes and violations that have occurred in our lifetime.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Thank you, Tulsi, for documenting Dr. Fauci's central role in causing the COVID-19 pandemic — among the most consequential crimes in human history.

[Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer]

Golfers and bowlers get more exercise than Lionel Messi gets while scoring a hat trick.

[Prep Baseball VA/DC Scouting @PrepBaseVAS]

‘28 Whitaker Rogers (Woodgrove || @DirtbagsVa)

Hits a Sacrifice fly deep into Left-Center for an RBI.

@PrepBaseballVA

#MAPI2026 #VA52

[Prep Baseball VA/DC Scouting @PrepBaseVAS]

‘28 Whitaker Rogers (@WoGroveBaseball)

⭐️ 6’0”
⭐️ 180-lbs

Full arm swing from L3/4 slot, showed feel for CB landing it early in counts & worked well off FB up.

FB: 78-80 T81
CB: 66-68

@PrepBaseballVA

#VAFGTrials

[Prep Baseball VA/DC Scouting @PrepBaseVAS]

‘28 Whitaker Rogers (@WoGroveBaseball)

⭐️ 6’0”
⭐️ 180-lbs

@PrepBaseballVA

#VAFGTrials

[Prep Baseball VA/DC Scouting @PrepBaseVAS]

‘28 Whitaker Rogers (@WoGroveBaseball l @DirtbagsVa)

☠️ 6’0”
☠️ 180-lbs

@PrepBaseballVA

#VAScoutDay

[Douglas Rogers @douglasprogers]

Fluid swing, still head @whitakerRogers

[Prep Baseball VA/DC Scouting @PrepBaseVAS]

‘28 Whitaker Rogers (@WoGroveBaseball l @DirtbagsVa)

☠️ 6’0”
☠️ 180-lbs

@PrepBaseballVA

#VAScoutDay

[Douglas Rogers @douglasprogers]

Classy swing @whitakerRogers

[Prep Baseball VA/DC Scouting @PrepBaseVAS]

‘28 Whitaker Rogers (@WoGroveBaseball)

⭐️ 6’0”
⭐️ 180-lbs

@PrepBaseballVA

#VAFGTrials

[Jesse Livermore @Jesse_Livermore]

100% true. Corporate media jammed the stupid Elizabeth Holmes blood thing down everyone's throat b/c she was female, but then when a real female engineer spends 20 years working her way up to leading the most innovative company in the world, no interest, b/c Elon.

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Envy is a primitive, immoral, and self-destructive impulse.

You grew up rich, went to rich schools and beg rich people for donations.

You don't create wealth; you just covet the wealth others have built.

You need the rich and hate them for it. And it's so juvenile, so tedious.

[Jejune The Annihilator @Midnight_JJ0]

@Kasparov63 The truth is treason. You have become the same kind of Orwellian totalitarian you supposedly fought against.

[Melanie Young 🔧 @FreewheelinMY]

ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY BY MARTIN SCORSESE was released on this day in 2019.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

It is criminal that our government enabled a bat virus to infect and spread between humans. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a bigger betrayal of our species.

It is equally troubling that the mad scientists who did this then gaslit all the people of the world about it, including those who CORRECTLY interpreted the evidence.

Then, of course, the very same monsters amped up fear of the Covid frankenvirus and steered the panicked public away from safe medicines, and toward an obviously dangerous gene-therapy which they falsely called a vaccine in order to lure us into acceptance.

These are among the greatest crimes EVER committed against humanity. We now have persuasive evidence of everything I have said above.

If we don't correct the record and hold the perpetrators to account, this pattern will happen again, and again, and again--shortening our life expectancy, and degrading our quality of life each time that it does.

This is our Nuremberg moment. We can not simply move on from this ghastly chapter of history. We must finish it.

@brownstoneinst