Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane are very different off the soccer pitch. Kane is nearly a decade Bellingham’s senior. He’s played golf with Donald Trump. He harbors dreams of joining the N.F.L. after he quits soccer; Bellingham suggested recently that he’d like to be a movie star. The Athletic once wrote that Kane and Bellingham “contrast in nearly every conceivable way.” But for England to emerge victorious over Argentina tomorrow, the two need to work together, Jon Allsop writes: “England needs them to stay together. Lionel Messi, and the ghosts of the past, await.” Read more about the unlikely duo giving their country its best chance of glory in 60 years: https://t.co/7SsVgGPWKB
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Erling Haaland, Norway’s large, maniacal striker, has several exceedingly Norwegian traits. He sometimes exercises by chopping wood in the forest. He consumes 6,000 calories a day. After training sessions, he drinks raw milk. He owns a tax-sheltered investment company in Luxembourg named Pillage. He bought an edition of the “Heimskringla,” a 13th-century Old Norse saga, for $130,000—then donated it to his local library because, he explained, “I’ve never been much of a reader.” He has flowing blond hair, often compared to a Viking’s. He brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport. Haaland scores goals at a higher rate than almost any soccer player ever. He has said, “I think of football all the time.” His wake-up alarm plays the theme song for the Champions League. He once posted a photo of himself on a plane, staring ahead intensely, with the caption “Just raw dogged a 7 hour flight no phone no sleep no water no food only map.” The Guardian once called him a “ravenous Nordic goal-yeti.”
Haaland’s style of play elicits not wonder but terror. He is enormous: six feet five, 200 pounds, about the size and speed of the N.F.L. wide receiver Randy Moss. “Watching him, I sometimes find myself giggling as I might over a big, obscene crash at a demolition derby,” Zach Helfand writes. Read more: https://t.co/iAtLMOvrv0
What is the value of journalism?
The evidence is clear: independent media boosts economies, helps fight corruption, strengthens human rights, counters disinformation and can even save lives.
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Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today!
We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.