Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams, the sons of African immigrants, helped lead Spain to a World Cup title.
Lamine Yamal is the son of two teenage immigrants.
Nico Williams’ mother crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot while pregnant to escape Ghana. His parents walked for days across the desert without food or water.
Stories like theirs remind us that immigrants don’t weaken nations, they help build them.
U.S. soldiers were sent to die in the Middle East for Israel’s wars.
Meanwhile, the families of the people who pushed those wars are enjoying the World Cup from luxury seats.
The ruling class gets the view.
Ordinary families get the coffins.
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Lamine Yamal grew up the son of a Moroccan house painter and an Equatorial Guinean waitress, in a neighborhood where he was taunted as a kid and where his own father was later stabbed. Nico Williams is the son of two Ghanaians who crossed the Sahara on foot, his mother pregnant, and entered Spain as asylum seekers. Today they won the World Cup in the same arena attended by men who've built careers keeping people like their parents out.
The 2026 World Cup prize money is officially in 💰
• Spain, 1st place: $51 million • Argentina, 2nd place: $34 million • England, 3rd place: $30 million • France, 4th place: $28 million • Quarterfinalists: $20 million each • Round of 16 teams: $16 million each • Round of 32 teams: $12 million each • Group-stage teams: $10 million each
(via @FortuneMagazine )