pestopasta

she/her

[Astropics @astropics]

Eruption on Mount Etna in Sicily creates an effect in the sky that looks like a flaming phoenix.

[🇲🇦 @by_212i]

On est juste complètement fous

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Lamine Yamal's grandmother snuck onto a bus from Morocco and worked three shifts so her son could join her in Spain. That son became a father as a teenager. That baby is now in the World Cup final.

His parents split when he was 3. He grew up shuttling between two towns: Mataró with his dad, in the Rocafonda neighborhood where half the residents live below the poverty line, and Granollers with his mom, who worked such long hours as a waitress that he has spoken about how little of his childhood they actually spent together. The apartment he describes here, kitchen and bedroom in one room, is what two very young parents working every shift they could find were able to give him.

Then football took the rest of his childhood. Barcelona scouted him at 6. La Masia at 7. First team at 15, the youngest debutant the club had fielded since 1922. While other kids were in school hallways, he was carrying the hopes of a 125-year-old institution.

The family has paid for the fame too. In August 2024, weeks after he won the Euros at 17, his father was stabbed multiple times in a Mataró parking lot. He later said he saw himself between life and death.

So when Yamal talks about happiness, he skips the €16.6M salary, the €1 billion release clause, the number 10 shirt. He talks about his mom smiling in the stands and his 3-year-old brother Keyne, the kid the cameras keep finding at this World Cup doing the siu after matches.

Three generations traded away their childhoods to get here. He's using all of it to make sure the fourth one doesn't have to.

[j♡ ̆̈ •. @reidrexia]

consciously getting 10k steps and unconsciously getting 10k steps is two different ballparks i swear

[diana @artjaehyi]

Acabo de ver una publicación donde decía que la final sería entre latinos que se creen europeos y europeos que se creen latinos JAJAJAJAJAJA

[ste ♡ HAALAND @erlingzn]

oooooh galinha velha do rabo depenado

[Ofelia 💓 @ALDRONLover]

Me recuerda a un dramático muy cejudo 😌

[Troll Football Media @TrollFootball2]

Kid offering money to referee during VAR check 😂

[Adarsh Singh @0xadarshsingh]

life before this tweet

[Frnk @MC_frnk]

Fan: “Erling, can I have a picture?”

Erling Haaland: “Wait… *Covers Manchester United badge* Take the picture now. Take another picture like that”

Erling Haaland: “Get yourself a new shirt!” 😂🩵

[nyra @nyrania22]

him reading the poem the drivers in kansas wrote for him, genuinely cherishing it and sharing it 💔 he’s just so thoughtful. he has this way of making everyone around him feel seen and valued, no wonder ppl fall in love with his personality so easily

[𝐉Ø𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏 🇸🇳 @Mustafa_Jehju]

Yamal a 19 ans
Il porte le numéro 19
La finale de la Coupe du monde c’est est le 19
Et il va jouer contre Messi 19 ans après être lavé par celui ci et qui portait le numero 19 à l’époque

[putasinghonit @putasinghonit]

Same energy.

[mememandir @mememandir]

dot & key team waking up and seeing their new competitor is pradhan mantri himself

[هاي©️ @Haeldian]

Imagine telling Messi back then you’ll be facing this baby in a World Cup final in 20 years😭😭😭 this is genuinely some AOT level writing

[aud @mbappefc10]

the 3rd place humiliation match on saturday:

[pestopasta @onefive7zero]

@actuallyimthe INSANE

[Harold Brown, CPA @draftkings76594]

Oh to be a fat English man headed to the pub with his mates for the match tomorrow

[aba @user2419001]

Coming back to support England after tweeting that Ghana should obliterate them and send them back to the slums of Europe a few weeks ago

[Annalise Keating @Ariannnyy_]

You can’t convince me life is just a series of coincidences. What do you mean Lionel Messi was randomly paired with a five-month-old baby after the baby’s family won a UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot while Messi played for Barcelona… and that baby grew up to be Lamine Yamal?

Lamine would go on to become one of the brightest young stars in soccer, wear the same No. 19 Messi wore for the same team when that photo was taken, and now, nearly two decades later, could face Messi in a World Cup Final???????