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[Imran @Obafemi010]

Uni funny gan. You fit dey struggle with food and academics and person go enter your DM sey him dey aspire for post in the department/campus
"David is coming"
Ooni de layo

[Sir Philli Diamond III @SirPhilli3]

Only one demographic says this and thinks like this.

And before one of you Buffalo soldiers comes up here saying “it’s a joke” you hoes are not funny in any capacity and your life is a joke

[Andy™ @TheMilanAddict]

What direction is this shit even facing

[LLONER 🦅🪐 @eyojoel77]

She broke it off. I accepted. She got upset...

[🌐 @isoquince]

Jude should’ve won the 2024 ballon dor I’ll forever stand on that

[Dan Patrick Show @dpshow]

"You are part of the problem!"

– @KevinFrazier doesn't hold back on Alexi Lalas and U.S. Soccer 😳

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 SENATOR OF PARAGUAY, CELESTE SINEZOR OPEN LETTER TO KYLIAN MBAPPÉ:

The problem is between you and me. I have never said anything against France. On the contrary, I stand with France. I studied at a French school from the age of 2 until I was 17, where I completed my education. I am who I am thanks to the Collège de l’Immaculée Conception and the education it gave me. We sang La Marseillaise and honored the French flag alongside our own. I speak French and I love visiting France. Last Christmas, I spent the holidays with my family in Courchevel, and we welcomed the New Year in Saint Tropez. This has nothing to do with France. The problem is with you.

Your arrogance and contempt angered me long before the match, when you said, “If we have to put our hands in the dirt, then let’s do it.” We are not stupid. We understood perfectly that by “the dirt,” you meant the Paraguayan team, and the Paraguayan team represents all of us. Then you said you were going to remove our makeup. We understood that too. All of Paraguay remained silent, myself included. We endured it.

During the match, your arrogance was obvious. Your contempt for every Paraguayan player was clear, as if they were beneath you. Without even covering your mouth, you shouted, “La concha de tu madre,” an extremely offensive insult in Latin America, and you know it.

Finally, you showed complete disregard for the health of our goalkeeper. That is something you simply do not do. Respect between rivals after a match is almost sacred, in war and in peace, in defeat and in victory. Yet you refused to shake his hand and shouted your victory in his face. In a single moment, you displayed contempt, arrogance, and poor manners. It hurt me, it hurt my entire country, and it hurt deeply. France should hold you accountable because it is a nation of honor, with centuries of history and savoir faire.

My posts were written in the heat of the moment, with my blood boiling, the blood of a mixed heritage, a beautiful blend of Indigenous and Spanish ancestry that runs through my veins. I wrote them while watching you mock those extraordinary Paraguayan players who fought as equals until the final whistle. However, I immediately regretted responding to you with the same insults that I myself receive. I realized I was repeating the very behavior I despise, so I deleted the post. I understand that my words offended you because humiliation hurts.

Now I demand that you also retract your statements and apologize to me. I will not tolerate your violence either. You do not know me. You have no idea who I am, and you have no right to say that I AM A DESPICABLE WOMAN, UNWORTHY OF THE OFFICE I HOLD.

I am a Senator of the Paraguayan Nation, elected by the people. Before that, I was a National Deputy, also elected by the people. Thousands of Paraguayan men and women voted for me and consider me their voice. My foremost duty is to speak for the Paraguayan people, to say what they cannot say, and to defend my country with my life if necessary.

I represent my country because I was freely elected. I was chosen in democratic elections to help make its laws and to be its voice. You have no idea what it means to be elected to defend your nation and represent its people.

Who are you to call me unworthy or despicable when you do not even know me? This is blatant gender based violence. This is political violence against a woman who earned her position through the democratic vote of her people. You insult me because I am a woman. You attack my dignity as a woman and as a political representative.

Retract your statements, honor your French citizenship, and apologize. Otherwise, I may pursue legal action for gender based violence.

Celeste Amarilla
Senator of the Paraguayan Nation

[Nobody @dharnyyoung]

Portugal finally out and a well deserved loss. A cowardly, lethargic campaign throughout and every single one of them should be ashamed. Only at the brink of death, for the last 3 or 4 minutes did they start to play with any sort of urgency. Too little, too late. Good riddance.

[AC @TakesofAC]

There’s real human beings out there that think Pedri keeping “things ticking” and Vitinha “dictating tempo” is more valuable than what Bellingham does

[OptaJohan @OptaJohan]

0 - Since the introduction of yellow and red cards at the 1970 edition, no player has ever received a red card and gone on to play in his team's next match at the FIFA World Cup.

Unprecedented.

[J. @TotalKroos]

FIFA isn't corrupt. Qatar and the USA got to host the World Cup deservingly. Negreira didn't get paid by a club. The Ballon d'Or is the most fair individual award. The Copa América is hosted 4 times in 5 years for fans. And "Penalty to Argentina" is a rare-earth metal.

[🇬🇭 @Playboi_Gandhi]

This Ghana team is easily one of the worst Ever African sides that has played at the World Cup and it’s not even close

[Enoch Δ @agyeitah]

Totally missed your response.

But this isn’t about pride, @garyalsmith. It’s about false narratives being given the time of day.

Underdogs lose leads to favourites. Everywhere. In every confederation.

When Japan lost a 2–0 lead to Belgium, people praised Belgium, gave Japan some slack and moved on. Nobody indicted Asian football.

Croatia scored first and lost yesterday.

It’s football.

But I find the way you build this supposed 30-year pattern strange.

Your most obvious pull was Nigeria in 1994. So I went back and checked the actual data.

All of it.

Since 1970, African teams have taken the lead in 79 World Cup matches.

They won 44, drew 21 and lost 14.

That means African teams avoided defeat 82.3% of the time after taking the lead.

Even in this tournament, the full picture is different from the story being told.

Yes, Côte d’Ivoire led and lost to Germany. DR Congo led and lost to England. Senegal led and lost to Belgium.

But Morocco led and drew with Brazil.

Egypt led and drew with Belgium and Iran.

Cape Verde led and drew with Uruguay.

Algeria led and drew with Austria.

South Africa led and beat South Korea.

Côte d’Ivoire led and won two games.

Egypt led and beat New Zealand.

Senegal led and beat Iraq.

Ghana led and beat Panama.

Algeria led and beat Jordan.

So African teams have led 15 times in this tournament: 7 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses.

That is not a continental pathology.

That is football.

And if this were an African problem, Africa should at least be uniquely bad at it.

We aren’t.

From 1970 to 2022, African teams lost 17.2% of World Cup matches after taking the lead.

AFC teams lost 20%.

CONCACAF teams lost 23.4%.

Even if we start from 1994, your 30-year window, it is CAF 16.4%, AFC 20% and CONCACAF 22.9%.

So where exactly is this unmistakable African pattern?

You have built a continental theory from a few painful games spread across decades.

To do that, you have to ignore Algeria holding against West Germany in ’82.

Cameroon repeatedly holding in ’90.

Nigeria seeing off Spain in ’98.

Ghana killing games in ’06.

And just four years ago, African teams led nine times at the 2022 World Cup and didn’t lose once.

Cameroon held against Brazil.

Tunisia held against France.

Morocco held against Belgium, Canada and Portugal.

That was four years ago. Not 30.

And before someone says these numbers are inflated by games against weaker opposition, let’s narrow the sample further.

Let’s look only at games where African teams took the lead against European and South American opposition.

Since 1970, it has happened 53 times.

African teams won 27.

Drew 14.

Lost 12.

That is a 77.4% non-loss rate after taking the lead against the two historically strongest footballing regions in the world.

So what you have identified is not a pattern.

It is a highlight reel of pain with the denominator deleted.

Yes, the collapses were real. Senegal’s was bad. DR Congo’s was bad. Côte d’Ivoire’s was bad.

But Japan’s against Belgium was bad too.

Croatia scored first and lost.

Spain’s collapse against Nigeria in 1998 was spectacular.

The difference is that those failures were attributed to the people who actually oversaw them: the players, the coach, the team.

Nobody said, “Croatia blew a lead, so Europeans lack concentration.”

Nobody built an Asian theory from Japan doing it more than once.

As for the coaches you cite, Thiaw was diagnosing Senegal’s game management.

That was his team in a game his team blew.

Senegal is a team.

Africa is a continent.

A coach owning his own failure is accountability. Stretching it into a verdict on 54 countries is your addition, not his.

And that is my pushback.

You may be coming from a place of good intentions. But Africa, and I must say this to you as an African, is diverse.

Sometimes coaches make bad decisions. Sometimes players panic. Sometimes underdogs sit too deep. Sometimes the better team comes back.

Sometimes a team just blows a lead.

[StaticTokyo🐍⚡️🩹 @StaticTokyo]

you cant make this shit up

[Bd@irB@ll @Bd_irB_ll]

Kessie was over there fucking talking about "sometimes you see the difference in experience" about a Norway team that hasn't been in a fucking tournament since 2000. They're showing up with their tail between their legs

[Chuks Ohax @ChuksOhaxx]

Cunha carried Wolves for two straight seasons and still didn’t cost us £85m. Yet you expect INEOS to pay that for Fernandes, who’s already been relegated twice at just 21? 😂

[𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗬 𝗢 @_BarnyO]

Poor man eyes dey see something o😩😭😂

[Weffrey Jellington @jeffwellz]

RB Leipzig, your “$150 million” valuation player has no goal, 3 shots with zero on target, and one assist in the 2026 World Cup after 4 games. Might need to review that price tag

[James Nalton @JDNalton]

An official within a World Cup host country celebrating one of the teams getting knocked out suggests they aren't fit to host the tournament. If a qualified team is such an inconvenience to you, maybe don't host a World Cup.