Balkans

Maybe, we're dumb to try to pin significance onto every little thing.

Periodista🎙️ y Madridista 👑

[Balkans @Luka11m]

Gasté 30mil en la Medusa

[Arancha Rodríguez @AranchaMOBILE]

Zidane: “No hay excusa”.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Equality Before Death, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1848, 📸 by Mathias Schulz

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

There are more Cape Verdeans living outside Cape Verde than inside it. Nearly a million people abroad, around 530,000 at home. The islands look like a postcard, but their whole history runs on one hard fact: for centuries, the main thing to do here was leave.

When Portuguese settlers landed on these ten islands off West Africa in 1462, nobody lived there. No people, no big animals, just volcanic rock rising out of the Atlantic. The town they built on Santiago, Ribeira Grande (now called Cidade Velha), became the first lasting European settlement anywhere in the tropics. Within a hundred years it was one of the richest cities Portugal had, and the money came from a single trade: enslaved Africans, shipped through here on the way to the Americas.

The name is a little ironic. "Cabo Verde" means green cape, taken from a green point of land on the coast of Senegal a few hundred miles east. The islands themselves are mostly bone dry. Rain can fail for years, and the famines that followed killed tens of thousands at a time. Each drought pushed another wave of people onto boats headed for New England whaling ports, Lisbon, Rotterdam, Dakar. The biggest Cape Verdean community on earth now sits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, not on the islands.

That history is why the music sounds the way it does. Morna, the slow guitar-and-voice style Cesária Évora carried around the world, comes down to one word: sodade, Creole for the ache of missing a person or a place you might never reach. UNESCO added it to its heritage list in 2019. A whole style of music built around goodbye.

The modern story runs the other way. These small, resource-poor islands became one of Africa's steadiest democracies, with power passing peacefully between two parties since 1991. In 2007 Cape Verde became only the second country ever to leave the UN's "least developed" list, after Botswana. Tourism now brings in about a quarter of the economy, money sent home by Cape Verdeans abroad covers close to a tenth more, and over 90% of the food arrives by ship.

And on the island of Fogo, people live inside an active volcano. When Pico do Fogo erupted in 2014, lava swallowed two villages and the only road in, and buried the school under rock. Everyone got out alive. Then they moved back onto the cooled lava and replanted the vineyards, because that volcanic soil grows what nothing else on the islands can. They keep rebuilding on the thing that keeps destroying them.

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 Most BRACES in World Cup history:

- KYLIAN MBAPPE: 7 braces
- Messi, Ronaldo Nazario, Miroslav Klose, Just Fontaine: 4 braces each

SNIPER 🇫🇷

[Interesting World @_fluxfeeds]

A mid-flight scratch, then an effortless roll to face the pursuing raven. Apex predator aura.

[(fan) Mario @Mario___RM]

Infantino diciendo que estaba nervioso porque casi eliminan a Argentina y cuando se da cuenta de lo que ha dicho lo intenta arreglar😭😭.

[BRIOCHE @BrioEnfurecida]

Llevan sin ir a 3 mundiales seguidos, van a poner a los niños a jugar al fútbol hasta en los tanatorios.

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

‼️ RÉCORD HISTÓRICO ‼️

Con 41 años y 147 días, Cristiano Ronaldo 🇵🇹 es el jugador más veterano elegido MVP en un partido de eliminación directa en TODA la historia de la Copa del Mundo.

Y por mucho: supera a Giroud 🇫🇷 (36a) y a Leo Messi 🇦🇷 (35a).

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

BREAKING: Two people climbed atop the Empire State Building’s 1,454-foot spire and unfurled a banner reading, “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.” Police are working to bring them down safely.

[Helena 🇮🇨 @HdeHelena_RM]

💸 Acaban de contar en el programa "El Temps Afegit" de RAC1 que el Barça habría pagado €24M en comisiones por el fichaje de Anthony Gordon.

De ser cierto esto, sumando los €70M de traspaso y los €10M en variables, el fichaje del extremo inglés podría irse a más de €100M.

[Fľøkï @Dee_Floki]

Concrete completely broke the rules.

[Tage @Tagelca]

El puto Mbappé ha llevado el meme del dictador a otro nivel este Mundial

[Gennaro ♟️ @chefoss]

Endrick: “guarda lì c’è l’ultimo posto del parcheggio”
Ancelotti:

[433 @433]

𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘 𝐊𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈. 😮‍💨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

With 72 goals for club and country this season, only Lionel Messi's iconic 2011/12 campaign (82) now stands above him in the 21st century.

82 - Lionel Messi (2011-12)
72 - Harry Kane (2025-26)
69 - Lionel Messi (2012-13)
69 - Cristiano Ronaldo (2011-12)
66 - Cristiano Ronaldo (2014-15)

𝐒𝐢𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐞. 🫡

[ᗰᗩᖇIE✨ @MariescaMata]

El cuarto de un joven Venezolano

@realmadrid hasta el final siempre 🤍
( dale RT)

https://t.co/eDiXlelgSd

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

💥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 71 goals this season for club and country for Harry Kane.

[Diario AS @diarioas]

😅 Ojo al LAPSUS de TEBAS en la toma de posesión dd LAPORTA como PRESIDENTE del BARÇA…

[Mundo Deportivo @mundodeportivo]

🔵🔴 Joan Laporta agradece la presencia de Javier Tebas a la toma de posesión como presidente del Barça:

💬 "Te considero un amigo"

💬 "El estadio nuevo nos generará muchos más ingresos para que el comité económico de LaLiga pueda darnos el Fair Play que siempre necesitamos"

[Álvaro @Alvaro_varito]

A mí esta imagen me parece tremenda. Habla por sí sola.

[El Chiringuito TV @elchiringuitotv]

😳 DESLIZ de JAVIER TEBAS en el ACTO de INVESTIDURA de LAPORTA:

🗨️ "Estoy seguro que VAMOS A TENER... EL BARÇA va a tener muchos éxitos".

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

‼️ RÉCORD HISTÓRICO ‼️

KYLIAN MBAPPÉ 🇫🇷 supera a Leônidas 🇧🇷 y a Ronaldo 🇧🇷 (8) y se convierte en el MÁXIMO GOLEADOR en partidos de eliminación directa en TODA la historia de la Copa del Mundo.

9 - KYLIAN MBAPPÉ 🇫🇷 (+1 hoy)
8 - Leônidas 🇧🇷
8 - Ronaldo 🇧🇷
7 - Nejedlý 🇨🇿
7 - Just Fontaine 🇫🇷
7 - Pelé 🇧🇷
7 - Vavá 🇧🇷

Tiene 27 años y aún no ha completado su tercera Copa del Mundo. Va a dejar un récord inimaginable e insuperable.