Johnny Ventura

[Yuri Dantas @yur1dant4s]

A Seleção 2016-2017 foi a melhor que tivemos pós-Ronaldo. Se a Copa do Mundo fosse em 2017, o Brasil ganhava.

Não só coletivamente, mas tecnicamente essa seleção era absurda também. Neymar no auge, a dupla de laterais, a zaga, Gabriel Jesus e Coutinho voando, e o meio-campo com Casemiro, Paulinho e Renato tava que nem mágica. Foi a última vez que a Seleção deu espetáculo.

[chris 🇧🇷 @crsxsa]

Seeing a lot of people picking Norway early against Brazil.

IF BRAZIL LOSE I WILL DELETE MY ACCOUNT AND MY PODCAST.

We won’t be able to put in crosses? No problem. What happens when Vini or Rayan takes their defender on 1v1?

I’m putting my entire life that Brazil beats Norway, easier game than Japan.

[BrazilFCguru🇧🇷 @BrazilTeamWJohn]

Crazy how before the Morocco game, people didn’t even see Bruno Guimarães as a starter for Brazil. 😭🇧🇷

Some fans actually wanted him coming off the bench, with Danilo being used in midfield instead.

Now look at him.

Bruno has become one of Brazil’s most important players this World Cup — controlling the tempo, creating chances, winning duels and leading the team in assists.

He didn’t just prove people wrong.

He made the debate look ridiculous. 🇧🇷🔥

[BrazilFCguru🇧🇷 @BrazilTeamWJohn]

Bruno Guimarães and Gabriel Magalhães are the biggest reasons Brazil are through to the Round of 16. 🇧🇷

Guimarães vs. Japan:
• 100% duels won
• 92% pass accuracy
• 69 touches
• 19 carries
• 4 passes into the final third
• 4 defensive contributions
• 4 chances created
• 3 progressive carries
• 1 assist

🌎 World Cup leader in assists.

Gabriel vs. Japan:
• 144 touches
• 130/135 passes completed (96%)
• 1 assist
• 26 passes into the final third
• 2 chances created
• 0 times dispossessed
• 2 interceptions
• 3 recoveries
• 2 clearances

These two have completely controlled games from the spine of the team. They don’t always get the headlines, but they’ve been Brazil’s foundation this tournament.

[Rvssian Roulette @Welisville]

Brazil is the only big country who had to open its game with a tough side

Brazil still has the toughest round of 32

Brazil still will have the toughest round of 16

Brazil will still have the toughest round of 8

Brazil will still have the most difficult semis

Now with all these,they still depend solely on Vinicius to fight for them at every stage — yet a fool will light up ring light to belittle him and call him names

Bookmark this Brazil is winning the WC

[Puma @pumamethod]

Kobe Bryant woke up at 4am every day for 20 years. everyone knows that. what nobody talks about is what he did with the hours before anyone else was awake and how he described the energy that fueled the mamba mentality

Kobe didn't just train more than everyone else. he lived with a level of discipline that his own teammates found unsettling

he described the mamba mentality as total channeling. pouring every drop of energy into one singular pursuit. eliminating every distraction. every wasted motion. every unnecessary expenditure of focus or force

his trainer said Kobe in peak preparation mode was a different human being. the look in his eyes changed. the way he moved changed. his presence in the room changed. people could feel it before practice even started

- 5 championships. 18 all star selections. 81 points in a single game
- practiced full intensity for 6 hours before team practice started at 10am
- watched more film than most coaches. studied opponents' eye movements and breathing patterns before games
- said he modeled his discipline on the great warriors and monks he read about

he spoke about energy openly. about how the body has a finite amount of it each day and that most people scatter it across 100 different distractions. he said his only advantage was that he aimed all of his at one target

the players who competed against him described the same feeling. that something was different about his intensity. not just physically. energetically. as if the space around him was charged

he called it the mamba mentality. the old traditions would call it something else. channeled life force. transmuted energy. the reservoir that most men empty and kobe kept full

the greatest scorer in modern basketball history said his edge wasn't talent. it was where he pointed his energy while everyone else was wasting theirs

[chris 🇧🇷 @crsxsa]

Cristiano Ronaldo was right.

The World Cup isn’t won over four years. It’s won in 7 or 8 games.

Brazil had the worst qualifying campaign in our history. Four different managers. Endless chaos.

None of that matters anymore.

The World Cup has always been about one thing: getting hot at the right time.

And if there’s one manager who knows how to do exactly that, it’s Carlo Ancelotti.

Every four years I believe in the hexa.

This time… it feels different. 🇧🇷🏆

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The most effective learning is not a massage on your brain. High-performance mental workouts are about as taxing as high-performance physical workouts. That's just how it goes. That's what training is.

[𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 @Shadaya_Knight]

Church people are on some crazy delusion, your pastor will say "you'll be richer than Elon Musk" and they will loudly scream "I receive" 😭

[Victor Okafor @TheVictorOkafor]

The greatest talent football had ever seen couldn't stop destroying himself.

We talk about the goal against England. We talk about the left foot that redefined football.

We talk about the man who dragged a mediocre Napoli side to a league title and an entire country to a World Cup.

That's the Maradona they put on murals.

But I've been learning about the other one.

The one who grew up in Villa Fiorito - a slum outside Buenos Aires where the streets were unpaved and the sewage ran in the open.

His family of eight shared a house smaller than most people's living rooms.

There was no running water. He got his first football at three and didn't put it down for a long time lol.

He was playing professionally at fifteen. Carrying Argentina at nineteen. And by the time he was twenty-five, he had an entire nation's identity balanced on that left foot.

Then came the cocaine.

It wasn’t a phase. He did it for years. A full-blown addiction that bloated his body, collapsed his relationships, nearly stopped his heart — twice — and turned the most gifted athlete of his generation into tabloid wreckage.

He was banned from the 1994 World Cup mid-tournament for ephedrine. Walked off the pitch with eyes that carried regret.

Maradona punched journalists. Fired guns at reporters outside his home. Befriended dictators.

And the Hand of God - he cheated. In front of the entire world. And smiled about it. Called it divine.

Here is the thing nobody wants to sit with:

The same recklessness that put cocaine in his veins was the same audacity that made him even conceive the idea to dribble past five English defenders with a football glued to his foot.

The same ego that made him claim God's credit for a handball was the same belief that let a boy from a sewage-lined slum look at the richest clubs in the world and say I'm better than all of you. Then go to Napoli and become a mini god.

The discipline would have saved him. But the discipline would have also made him ordinary.

Maradona was never wired for moderation. Not in the slum. Not on the pitch. Not in the nightclub afterward.

The volume was always at ten.

He died at sixty. Alone. In a house that wasn't equipped to care for him.

The boy who had nothing gave everything to the game. And the game took everything back.

Again,

The flaw was never separate from the genius.

The flaw was the genius with nowhere else to go.

My favorite page of the last 2 months - @StudyTheGreatz

[jamaalwvetose @jamaalwvetose]

The Black community will celebrate the athlete, the entertainer, and the hustler before it celebrates the thinker. That hierarchy was not self generated. It was installed by a system that needed Black intellectual power to remain socially undesirable within the community

[jamaalwvetose @jamaalwvetose]

The Black intellectual man is the most misread person in his own community. Too Black for white spaces. Too articulate for street credibility. Too thoughtful for the masculine archetype. He exists in a gap that nobody built infrastructure for and navigates it mostly alone.

[Specter @DemonFramed]

A 9-5 corporate slave is just a modern version of a slave from the 1800s.

The ship they bring you in on is college. The chains are student loans.

The plantation is the cubicle. The slave master is your boss.

You spend 40 years working so your paycheck can go straight to rent, debt, insurance, taxes, and bills.

Slavery never ended, it evolved.

[Johnny Ventura @JohnnyVnotB]

@ppppp1245688 Knowledge copounds. Thats why knowledge is POWER!!!!

[Black Archie Character @ppppp1245688]

that companies can't get anywhere else. If something weird happens or they have to do something very important, they call them. These people might not know what justifies their salary, but many of these employers do. Something that looks easy doesn't mean it's worthless.

[Black Archie Character @ppppp1245688]

It's easy to call these jobs bullshit, but many of them are not. A major reason why these people aren't working so hard is that knowledge compounds. So they can do things in one day that would've taken a lesser team days or weeks to do. Others are also paid for a specialty task

[Dr Boyce Watkins - Wealth is Power @drboycewatkins1]

Nobody taught you how to build wealth because the people teaching you never had any. They passed down survival strategies and called it wisdom. Stop taking financial advice from people who've never been financially free.

[Joe Lampton @joelampton_]

Working hard doesn't guarantee you get RICH

Plumbers work hard

KFC employees work hard

Construction people work hard

Winning in business is more about smart work, systems, delegating tasks, making intelligent decisions, understanding marketing, sales.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Major cheat code in life: Stop punishing your younger self for decisions they made with less information than you have now. You weren't stupid. You were working with what you had. Every choice made sense at the time with the data available. Forgive that version of you. They were doing their best.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Your competition is so painstakingly stupid you overestimate them while underestimating yourself. All you have to do is have the slightest bit of resourcefulness and you will wipe the floor with them. The average person is looking at their phone 300x a day and can’t focus on a single task for more than a few minutes. Every goal they start they give up on within 3 months. Back yourself. The competition is the least of your worries.