If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
“I wrote this because I can’t speak about it.
I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.”
@RBLeipzig and @equipenatciv winger Yan Diomande on the life of his sister, Roxane. https://t.co/6wQmpdWTSi
For those wondering the visa bond implemented by the Trump admin against Cape Verde is $15,000 per person. Many players in this tournament are here without family or personal support because they literally cannot afford the visa.
The Knicks/Arsenal crossover has been impossible to ignore of late, especially after OG Anunoby’s Game 4 winner
Had fun exploring the sporting and cultural similarities between them with those who support both teams in what could be a season of a lifetime
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“My relationship with my club began the same way it does for most football fans: before I was old enough to understand what I was getting myself into. When I was nine, my uncle introduced me to a team with a cannon on its shirt, a grizzled captain named Tony Adams, and players like Nwankwo Kanu who had been born in Africa but now lived somewhere else, just like me. Arsenal felt familiar before I even understood why.
“And then there was the manager, a man who I initially thought had been named after the club and then believed that somehow the club must have been named after him. Arsene Wenger may have struggled with his raincoat, but rarely with his orchestra. The football his teams played sang.
“But what was once the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present.
“We won. We are champions of England. And we are just one game away from being crowned champions of Europe too.”
@ZohranKMamdani, mayor of New York City, writes for The Athletic on what Arsenal means to him.
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