I’ve never seen—and I don’t think I ever will see—a more complete footballer than Lionel Messi.
Imagine being almost 40 years old, the oldest player on the pitch, in a game full of physical battles and hard tackles, yet still adapting effortlessly. Carrying the ball, dribbling past players, and absorbing challenge after challenge without fading.
Now imagine England scoring first, shutting down the middle completely, defending with 5 defenders, the clock ticking away, your team on the verge of elimination from the World Cup.
So what do you do?
You move out to the wing, take complete control of the game, and start creating chances in every possible way—early crosses, inswingers, outswingers—whatever the situation demands.
Then you complete the comeback.
You turn defeat into victory with 2 assists, including a brilliant one with your weaker foot. You create 4 chances, 2 of them clear-cut. You complete 9 successful dribbles and win 12 duels, more than anyone else on the pitch.
Show me another player in football history who has produced a half like that at 40 years old, in a World Cup semifinal.
You won’t.
Only Messi.
He has now been directly involved in 12 of Argentina’s 19 goals at this World Cup, contributing in every single game.
Now do you understand why Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer in history? 👑💙
Bellingham tried to provoke Messi, hoping that if England won, he’d post the moment on his story and his fans would spend days hyping it up—calling it “aura,” writing poems about it, and celebrating it everywhere.
Instead…
He ended up becoming part of the photo album titled:
“Players who got humiliated by Messi and Argentina.” 😭
They were waiting for Messi to get knocked out so they could spam that picture of Bellingham.
Well…
Now you know where you can put those posts and pictures instead. 🫢
🇺🇸🇲🇪 Telegram's t .me links went dark worldwide over U.S. sanctions
t .me is the short link every Telegram invite, channel, and group runs on, and it stopped resolving in browsers everywhere at once.
The reason, Montenegro's .me registry (t .me sits on Montenegro's national domain) flipped it to "serverHold," which yanks a domain out of the internet's global address book so nothing loads.
Behind it was a U.S. Treasury sanctions order touching Telegram's infrastructure, and the registry told Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder and CEO, it was simply "OFAC compliance," OFAC being the Treasury office that enforces sanctions.
It's back online now, but the lesson stings, one U.S. agency and one tiny registry can switch off a global service overnight.
Source: Hackread / Writer: Daniyal
There are 18 members of FIFA's disciplinary committee but the unprecedented decision to lift Balogun's automatic ban was taken by just one person - the chairman Mohammad Al Kamali of UAE. No one else was consulted.
Full story: https://t.co/DbqEmcPlOT
‼️ Update: Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will delete all user data uploaded to the company "before now" as a precautionary measure, one day after a researcher's wire-level analysis showed the Grok Build CLI shipping entire private repos, unredacted secrets included, to a Google Cloud bucket.
The pledge came in an X post. Still no advisory, no timeline, and no way for affected developers to verify deletion. And deleted or not, any credentials that left the machine still need to be rotated.
@amanpour@nytimes American psyop masterstroke!
Ahmadinejada is just the fall guy, pure distraction while their friendly guy is now firmly installed in Iran.
Mission accomplished.
American psyop masterstroke!
Ahmadinejada is just the fall guy, pure distraction while their friendly guy is now firmly installed in Iran.
Mission accomplished.
You don’t say! Pullout from @nytimes:
“The goal: to set in motion the plan to topple the current regime and install Mr. Ahmadinejad.
The plan failed.”
But my favorite line about this Holocaust denying, Islamic evangelical, is this:
“He abandoned his signature oversize khaki windbreaker and began wearing tailored suits. He groomed his messy beard, appeared to get Botox treatment and began learning English.”‼️
Kudos to the NYT for revealing this farce of nature.
https://t.co/9LAbiZVcbo