I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.
🇪🇸 This is Spain at EURO 2012. You could not get near them.
And they played 𝗘𝗫𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗟𝗬 the same way in the 2026 World Cup. That's what you call a football identity.
Argentina became the first team in World Cup history to go without a shot attempt in regulation 😳
Their first attempt came late in extra time. Keyne had more shots on target during the celebrations 😅
lost the final
lost the golden ball
lost the golden boot
lost the playmaker award
I was patient and everything got delivered same day, overnight shipping 👏🏾
It is ridiculous to claim that Spain’s World Cup victory puts the lie to allegations that Argentina has been receiving preferential treatment.
The preferential treatment of Argentina was consistent, and consistently visible throughout the tournament.
Even in the final, Spain had a perfectly legitimate goal disallowed, and although Argentina received six yellow cards (with one player sent off after receiving a second), they deserved many more.
Any other team playing similarly would have had at least two players sent off and been handed a full deck of cards.
It seems to me quite clear that the FIFA leadership determined that its commercial interests dictated that Argentina needed to stay in contention beyond what the team’s performance warranted.
Ensuring Messi continued to play throughout the tournament was a FIFA priority. Not because of his indisputable qualities as a great player, but because of his unparalleled ability to draw viewers.
World Cup finals are often anti-climactic. This one was doubly so because one team had no business being in it, and would under normal circumstances have been eliminated several games earlier.
Gianni Infantino’s only significant accomplishment has been to make the world nostalgic for Sepp Blatter.