Today is D-day.
Our boys are now at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma for the Grand Finale of the International STEM Olympiad in Rome, Italy.
I’m optimistic about their victory.
🚨 Infantino said he suffered for Argentina today:
FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed that he suffered tonight while following the Argentina match. 🇦🇷
But he quickly realized what he had said, so he backpedaled and added that he is neutral. 🙅🏻♂️
Why isn't he sacked immediately? 🤔
How are people just realizing Bruno can’t create in a stable system like the likes of Ozil, KDB? He needs chaos to thrive.
He’s at his best when the game is stretched, transitions are constant, and he’s allowed to take high-risk passes over and over again. That’s where his volume of chance creation comes from.
Put him in a team that values control, positional discipline, and patient circulation, and some of his biggest strengths become limitations. He isn’t the type to dictate tempo, manipulate blocks with subtle passing, or constantly find solutions against a settled defence the way Ozil or De Bruyne can.
That doesn’t make him a bad creator. It just means he’s a different profile. Bruno is an elite transition creator, not a control creator, and there’s a big difference between the two.
Nearly 20 years after his death, the body of Ugandan musician Paul Job Kafeero was dug up from the grave for DNA testing to determine which of the 25 children he had were biologically his.
The legendary Ugandan musician died in 2007 at the age of 36.
For nearly 20 years, his 25 children and their mothers fought over his multi-billion Ugandan shilling estate, including land, houses, and music royalties.
The long standing dispute eventually led the court to order that his body be dug up and his bone and tissue samples were collected for DNA tests.
1st June 2026, it was dug up for test and 25th June 2026, the results were released.
Only 4 out of his 25 children were confirmed to be his biological children. The other 21 children were not his.
@ESPNFC@herculezg After the ouster of Germany and the Netherlands, the corrupt FIFA led by Infantino are trying to save the so-called elite teams..
Disgusting lots..
Man city failed him
France failed him
Pep Guardiola failed him
Society failed him
His career got crippled
There’s no way we should share the same earth with false accusers!
Marc Botenga: Europe Fears Losing Access To Sahel Resources After Expulsion From The Region
If it were ever needed, this is confirmation from the metaphorical horse's mouth. In this clip, Belgian EU Parliament member Marc Botemga says the quiet part out loud: that the EU invests heavily in military equipment specifically intended for waging warning the Sahel because the Sahel's solid mineral wealth is seen by Europe as its sole lifeline.
Perhaps the significant but shrinking number of misguided Africans who continue to insist that Europe's modern day colonialism in the Sahel is a "conspiracy theory" can take that argument up with Mr Botenga himself.
For the rest of us who do not concern ourselves with self-defeating, non-sequitur arguments that waste vast amounts of energy and ultimately lead nowhere, Botenga's words are a timely reminder that the Sahel and the rest of Africa are on a timer to develop the necessary military deterrence to stop Europe from repeating the only actions Europe is known for on the continent.
Brother Gbenga, I have read and seen evil of every shade and colour but what happened to me was the kind of evil that i think the devil himself will become depressed if it fell victim of it as I have.
I met my wife in 2016.
She was a single mother of a six year old boy and a three year old girl.
She was 28 years old at the time.
I had never been married but I am four years older than her.
We met at the church I was attending at that time.
She was quiet, modest, humble and easy going.
Her first marriage ended just before she delivered the second child.
Her ex-husband just woke up and walked out of the marriage (according to her)
Since 2016, I accepted her and her children as blessings of God to me and i made sure i showered them with love to the best of my ability.
My wife insisted that i shoukd adopt the children formally and give them my name. I did so.
It was also because I didnt want the stories spreading around in my former church after I proposed to her to get to the children that i left the church.
We relocated to another part of the city to start our lives afresh.
We are a very happy family.
Since we got married, my wife never took in for me.
When we went to the hospital to find out what was wrong, the doctor said it was only a matter of time before I become a father.
Yesterday, I found out accidentally that my wife has been pregnant three times since we got married and she opted to abort the pregnancy without informing me about it.
Her mother called from the USA where she went to do omugwo and she asked her what the delay was regarding her getting pregnant for me.
My wife replied her mother through a voice note that she had taken in three times but chose to abort the pregnancy because she felt if i had my own children, i might change my good behaviour to the children she brought into the marriage.
It was her mother that mistakenly forwarded the message to me.
I have listened to it over fifty times.
I have dropped her and her children off at her father's house this morning.
I didnt tell her what i know
I just told her and her children to pack all their clothes.
I packed mine too.
I told her my house was due for a remodelling courtesy of my recent promotion at work and we will have to keep out of the way for two weeks until it is done.
I am forty two years old now. I am done with being used this way. I admit i have nothing and i have no one.
It is not too late for me to build something tangible with my life.
(Sorry i am sending this into your DM sir. I would have called but I am too heart broken to talk about all this at the moment.)
E. M.
The Cursed Generation of France football.🇫🇷
Platini's generation won Euro 1984 and reached two World Cup semi-finals.
Zidane's generation won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.
In between, Eric Cantona, David Ginola and Ballon d'Or winner Jean-Pierre Papin failed to qualify for the 1990 and 1994 World Cup finals.
An entire generation of genuine world-class players produced almost nothing at all. French football itself has a name for this stretch, 1984 to 1998: the cursed generation.
Papin scored 30 goals in 54 caps for France. He was the league's top scorer in France for five consecutive seasons, won the Ballon d'Or in 1991 while playing for Marseille, the only player ever to win it from a French club.
Cantona was widely regarded as more naturally gifted than either Platini or Zidane.
Ginola was elegant, unpredictable, the kind of winger defenders simply couldn't plan for.
All three were at their peak at exactly the wrong moments in history.
Cantona's international career imploded largely by his own hand. In 1988, dropped from the squad, he went on television and called national coach Henri Michel "a bag of shit."
He was banned from the team for a year. Michel was sacked soon after, having failed to qualify for the 1990 World Cup, and Michel Platini, the new coach, recalled Cantona immediately.
It didn't matter. By the next time France had a real chance to qualify, in 1994, the chaos around Cantona's career, club suspensions, a thrown shirt, a kicked ball into a crowd, meant he was never fully settled into the side that came so close.
That 1994 campaign produced the single cruellest passage of football this generation ever lived through.
The very last qualification match. France against Bulgaria, at home, needing only a draw. Cantona put them 1-0 up in the 32nd minute. Bulgaria equalised five minutes later. The score stayed level deep into stoppage time, France seconds from the World Cup.
David Ginola, on as a substitute, won possession deep in Bulgarian territory with the clock almost out. All he needed to do was shield the ball into the corner and let the seconds disappear. Instead he hit a loose, overhit cross toward Cantona that never had a chance of reaching him.
A Bulgarian defender collected it. Sixteen seconds later, Emil Kostadinov scored at the other end. France out.
Houllier went on television that same night and called Ginola "an Exocet missile through the heart of French football." The French press branded him the assassin of the national team. He carried that label out of the country entirely, moving to England within two years and never really looking back.
Off the pitch, the era had its own dark comedy. A satirical puppet show called Les Guignols de l'Info had spent years mocking Papin as a lovable idiot obsessed with nothing but scoring goals. When his form genuinely dipped during a difficult spell in Italy, the same show ran a sketch in which God himself appears and begs Papin to come home, because, the show insisted, "France needs you."
It was a joke built entirely on how much this generation's failures had become part of the national conversation, season after season, tournament after tournament.
By 1998, France finally got it right, on home soil, with a different generation built around Zidane, Deschamps, Thuram and Henry.
Papin's prime had already passed. Cantona had already retired, a year earlier, at 30, choosing acting and silence over one more attempt. Ginola wasn't selected at all, watching former teammates lift the trophy from the outside.
Three of the most gifted footballers France has ever produced. A combined World Cup record between them that adds up to almost nothing.
The cursed generation never got its tournament. Some curses just don't lift in time.🇫🇷