In Nigeria, the money to buy the “device that just happened to be close by” is funding the lavish lifestyle of cronies.
They are flaunting it in our face and we are screaming “ST!!!!”
When Muslim women cover themselves from head to toe, whether out of modesty or simply to keep warm, it’s labelled oppression & regression. When white/Western women do the same, it’s fashion or personal choice.
Apparently, the clothes aren’t the problem, it’s who’s wearing them.
2008.
Before that year, football was still polite.
It was Ronaldinho's smile. Kaka's grace. Messi the prodigy. We thought greatness had to be soft.
Then came a boy from Madeira with bad perms and worse teeth and something insane in his eyes.
He didn't want to play football. He wanted to devour it.
42 goals. Not as a striker. As a winger. In England, where they kick you for breakfast. Header against Roma. Free kick against Portsmouth that still hasn't come down. Backheel against Bolton. The bicycle kick at Inter before bicycle kicks were cool. And that header in Moscow, in the rain, in the Champions League final, when he thought he had won it and then thought he had lost it and then won it again on his knees.
Ballon d'Or. FIFA World Player. Premier League Golden Boot. European Golden Shoe. Champions League Top Scorer. PFA Player of the Year. FWA Player of the Year.
He swept everything. Not because people voted for him. Because you couldn't vote for anyone else without lying.
2008 was the year football learned a new kind of greatness.
Not the one you're born with. The one you build. Brick by brick. Gym by gym. Late night by late night.
It meant the old gods were dead. It meant a kid could decide to be the best in the world and then go and become it through pure, violent work.
2008 didn't just give us Ronaldo. It gave us the template for what Ronaldo would be for the next 15 years — a man who refused to be second.
And from that year on, Messi had to become Messi, because Ronaldo had already become RONALDO.
He is the victim of his own longevity. You watch his clips and find things you’d expect from top midfielders, strikers and wingers, all in one player. Literally made a goalkeeper’s pass look like genius here. He’s genuinely the most complete player in history. 🐐
Throughout the event today , no one really said what the party has achieved in the last 4 years , NONE of them could mention one thing , including BAT himself
You think we grew up as kids watching this and was going to drop him for a guy that spams body feints 😂😂😂😂😂. This is the greatest and most complete player the game has seen whether you like him or not.
With all the American propaganda I’ve been exposed to, if you told me a place like this existed in Yemen before I saw these pictures, I probably would’ve disagreed.
It’s crazy how much our perception of a country can be shaped by what we’re shown about it.
Couldn’t even watch that video completely. We are defeated people man, an cuce mu. Allah ka kawo mana karshen bandits, enablers dinsu da sponsors dinsu.
A baby with no clothes subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment in a Country where leaders are paid to defend citizens will never ever be okay.
Allah ya isa!