🧠🇦🇷 Diego Maradona in 2018 after hearing the USA would host the 2026 World Cup:
🗣️ "They will divide the game into four halves instead of two to insert advertisements. Compare it, you will see."
Chinese shoes that let you walk on water!
Designers in China have created special footwear that allows users to move across the surface of calm lakes and ponds. This remarkable innovation blends fun, recreation, and a unique sporting experience.
This South African team might be the worst team ever 😭
Their free-kick taker literally ran to the coach for instructions… only to come back and play THIS 😭😭😭
🏆 Referee announced for 2026 #SuperCup!
We're pleased to share that Somali referee Omar Artan will officiate the highly anticipated match between PSG and Aston Villa in Salzburg.
It has emerged that Somali referee Omar Artan, who was denied entry to the United States for the #2026WorldCup, was interrogated for 11 hours at the border.
Artan described his experience with the following words:
“I am just a referee trying to live out his biggest dream, to go to the World Cup.
I am really, really disappointed. I had the proper documents and the correct visa. I think they have a problem with my country.”
A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.
She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.
Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.
Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.
Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.
She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.
By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.
🚨 stop scrolling.. do you understand what this CEO delegation actually means in dollar terms..
because most people are only thinking about the handshakes..
these 12 companies have a combined market cap above $10 trillion..
every single CEO on that plane needs something specific from Beijing..
Musk needs China to keep building Teslas without a 100% tariff eating the margin..
Huang needs chip export licenses that let Nvidia sell into the world's largest AI market..
Cook needs Apple's $70 billion China supply chain to stay intact..
Fink and Solomon need Chinese financial markets to open so Wall Street can actually operate there..
Boeing needs China to unfreeze $50 billion in plane orders sitting in a backlog since 2019..
and here's what nobody wants to say out loud..
every one of those CEOs is on that plane because they already calculated that staying home costs more than the flight..
the combined revenue exposure to China across those 12 companies is over $300 billion a year..
that's not a diplomatic trip.. that's a $300 billion ask dressed up as a state visit..
if Xi says yes to even half of it.. the trade war framework changes overnight..
if Xi says no.. 12 of the most powerful CEOs in the world flew to Beijing for a photo op..
and markets will price that answer in real time.
if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..