I cannot believe Cape Verde actually convinced this guy to play for them via LinkedIn😭. Monster of a defender.
His mother is Irish, his father is from Cape Verde. He was born and raised in Ireland, and currently the captain of Shamrock Rovers.
He represented Ireland at youth level before switching to Cape Verde.
In 2018, Cape Verde were looking for professional footballers with Cape Verdian heritage and the coach came across Pico Lopes.
He messaged him on LinkedIn to play for them, Lopes was working part time as a Mortgage advisor in a bank then and still playing professional football.
He didn’t respond because the message was in Portuguese and he didn’t understand, he thought it was a spam.
A year later (2019), the coach messaged him again, this time he did it in English. Lopes agreed to play for Cape Verde and the rest is history.
A very good addition to the squad, a pure leader. Ladies and Gentlemen, Pico Lopes.
Congratulations to this group for becoming champions! A beautiful moment. Come on the @Arsenal! Enjoy, rest and let’s go and win our first champions league! @RealRomfordPele
Everyone at Arsenal is sad to learn that Peter Simpson has died, aged 81.
Peter was a major part of the 1970-71 Double-winning squad, making 478 appearances during his time at the club. All of us are thinking of his loved ones at this time.
Rest in peace, Peter ❤️
In 1998, a 13-year-old girl was abducted and raped at knifepoint in Alicante, Spain. The rapist, 63-year old Antonio Cosme, was sentenced to 9 years in jail.
7 years later, in 2005, the victim's mother, María del Carmen García, was waiting at a bus stop when she saw a man approaching.
"How's your daughter doing?" the man asked with a smirk on his face.
It was her daughter's rapist.
Antonio was out on day release.
Enraged by what had just happened, Maria ran to the nearest store, purchased 1.5 litres of gasoline, and walked into the bar that Antonio had just entered.
She doused him head-to-toe with gasoline, lit him up, and stood back and calmly watched as her daughter's rapist burned alive in front of her eyes.
Maria was sentenced to 9.5 years in jail for her act of revenge, but was released in 2018 after serving 5.5 years.
Today, she lives freely in Spain after being reunited with her daughter.
Antisemitism will spread.
This was one of the first I posted a few years ago but I think I spelled it wrong. I was spelling it antisemiticism or something. So now it is lost.
I also got suspended for it.
Watch live @PhilipDwyer_MOI
at the fuel protest.
This man says it brilliantly, the Irish government are on a road of destruction, they need to be stopped. Billions to foreign aid while Irish people can’t afford to heat their homes or put fuel in their cars. It can’t continue.