🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's World Cup squad landed in Mexico wearing pins bearing the number 168.
Not a jersey number. A body count. The 168 children killed when a U.S. missile hit a school in Minab on February 28th. Most of them were young girls.
The strike was later confirmed to be a U.S. military mistake. 175 people total died.
Now the same country that launched that strike is hosting Iran at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Monday.
The players didn't need a press conference. They let the pins do the talking.
This is the first World Cup in history where a host nation is fielding a team from a country it's actively at war with. The optics were already impossible. Iran just made sure nobody looks away.
Source: Daily Mail/Writer: Jamie
🚨 Before Florentino Pérez (1902–2000)
• €270M–€300M debt.
• Struggled to pay players' salaries.
• Revenue: ~€100M.
• 8 European Cups.
• 29 La Liga titles.
🏆 Under Florentino Pérez (2000–Present)
• World's most valuable football club ($9.5B+).
• Record revenue: €1.185B.
• 7 Champions Leagues.
• 7 La Liga titles.
• 7 Club World Cups.
• 6 UEFA Super Cups.
• 66 trophies across football and basketball.
• Signed multiple world-record superstars.
🐐 From near financial collapse to the biggest sports institution in the world.
Ronaldo coming out alive from a house of fire (referencing how everyone thought it was over for him in 2022 WC but he's still here in 2026) is peak creative man
NIKE COOKED MAN
#OUGANDA#RDC: #CULTURE.
Quand la rumba congolaise résonne dans une cour d’école à Kampala.
C’est une scène qui témoigne de l’immense popularité de la musique congolaise au-delà de ses frontières. Dans un établissement scolaire de Kampala, en Ouganda, des élèves ont été filmés en train d'entonner, avec un enthousiasme communicatif, un extrait du célèbre titre « 77x7 » de la légende Nyoka Longo.