A BOY IS A GUN*

Nada interesante que decir la verdad

[A BOY IS A GUN* @sramad0r]

Tengo 0 dudas que saul tendria su bufete en el centro XD

[Zagueiro Argentino @GabrineoG]

Messi depois de colocar a Argentina em uma final de Copa pela 3º vez: 👍😌🙂

CR7 ganhando um arabão depois de ser vice 80 vezes:

[UnCulemas @UCulemas]

El Domingo para los madridista será como entre elegir si ser ahorcado o fusilado:

[♡ @Bonmatimessi]

Argentina is a team that runs on pure homosexual love for Lionel Messi and there seems to be no tactic that could counter that

[Luisma @GxlDeLuukDeJong]

No muchachos ustedes no odian a Argentina, odian a Messi, no quieren que gane es Messi. Messi jugara para Alemania y hoy estarían felices y apoyando a Argentina. Solo lo odian porque es mejor que su ídolo, ha ganado todo lo que quería su ídolo y todo lo ganó contra su equipo.

[A BOY IS A GUN* @sramad0r]

Comanme la pija los que están llorando que Messi este en la final 😭😭😭😭

[🇦🇷☣️ @BaldeWaves]

Run the save football gimmick now pussy ass btches

[A BOY IS A GUN* @sramad0r]

@Unicornia_najar Colombiano mamaverga

[Paquito @FranciscoFCB97]

Catalogar como “terraplanistas del fútbol” a los madridistas y fans de Cristiano Ronaldo es TOP 3 mejores apodos del fútbol.

[Ñatismo ⚡ @Termolalismo]

El hecho que pregunten ¿desde cuando el VAR puede revisar una amarilla por simulación? Cuando exactamente eso paso hace 3 semanas en fase de grupos demuestra que no solo no saben de fútbol si no que directamente no han visto el mundial.

[V for Valery ✝️🇵🇸🇨🇴 @ValeryLaColom]

Mk podrán decir lo que sea de los católicos, pero sus líderes son personas que estudiaron en un seminario, se formaron teológicamente. Los evangélicos, cualquier rehabilitado con labia monta una iglesia de garaje, dice que el pobre es pobre por qué quiere y que es elegido de Dios

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

EVANGELICALISM AND THE DECLINE OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL 🇧🇷

After yet another World Cup defeat Brazil is again soul searching - “Why has Brazil become so bad at one of the only things it still used to be good at?”

One of the most popular explanations among Brazilians this time is the rise of evangelicalism in Brazil, especially Pentecostalism. The argument goes that this has ‘spiritually’ undermined the Brazilian team. At the 2022 census about 27% of Brazil’s population over 10 identified as evangelical Protestants. In 2000 the percentage was 15.4% and in 1980 6.6%. A common explanation for this growth is that Pentecostal and evangelical churches were able to expand so rapidly over the past half century because they offered a new version of Christianity that prioritised close-knit local communities, energetic worship and a ‘message of personal transformation’ (and some also say in a derisive sense more ‘accessible’ ‘lower barrier to entry’ version of Christianity, with everything that entails) that especially resonated with ‘urban and lower-income’ Brazilians during Brazil’s comparatively economically and culturally stagnant recent history. In particular, with the kinds of demographics who lived in or adjacent to Brazilian favelas that football wunderkinds used to be drawn from

This is a kind of version of the other main explanation I have heard for Brazil’s decline; that it lost its swag, its samba, its Latin flair - or ‘duende’. You can’t really empirically prove these claims of course and both arguments (see more of this other argument below) make different root claims but the commonality they share is that Brazilian football used to have a kind of playful Latin - maybe you could say Catholic - magic to it. It was very flashy and improvised but it was also a sort of highly skilled dance that you ‘flowed’ with, it was almost liturgical. (Argentina for instance a team that still has a bit more of this)

The Evangelical argument extends into how it has affected social dynamics in the favelas too. I can’t really speak on how accurate these claims are but apparently it has made families more cautious and less communal, less inclined to ‘let kids go out and play’ ie play football with other favela kids - the focus is instead on ‘staying safe’ and ‘individual hard work at school’. For the players from this new milieu that still do get selected for top-flight football then the effect is it makes them more individualistic, less inclined to cooperate, less likely to see it as ‘a group dance’ and more inclined instead to ‘just charge in’ etc

This is what they say! You are free to buy into that however much you want. Possibly a lot of this is just ‘cope’ so-called from a country that maybe too much ties its entire identity to football. Does seem to me that part of the finger-pointing too is you can spin it as a kind of neo-colonialism, in a cultural sense. That it comes from America, from the West. You can see quite extreme left wing Brazilian accounts repeating this claim so you do have reason to be a little sceptical in that

In any case the decline is obviously multi-causal - you can also point to the rise of European football, lack of money, bad tactics or coaching, changing tactics worldwide that no longer favour Brazil, everybody else is just that good now etc. On the right, you will hear too that the decline is related to the decline of the Brazilian nation generally ie greater incompetence all round. It isn’t just that lost their Latin - or Catholic - flair, it is that they became more ‘Third World’. Evangelicalism in this sense then would be less a problem of Calvinist Predestination Teutonic Weberian Protestant Work Ethic Protestantism - more a problem of, in the extreme, Sub-Saharan African village church with a corrugated iron roof Evangelicalism

Either way there is a general feeling that the death of Brazil football represents the loss of a version of the national soul - that Brazil has now somehow changed for the worse

[A BOY IS A GUN* @sramad0r]

@NickRTFM England Norway 1-1
Argentina Switzerland 2-0

[Luisma @GxlDeLuukDeJong]

Menos mal ya vi a Messi campeón del mundo, no me imaginaba verlo eliminado en 8vos sin haber ganado nunca un mundial, debe ser muy triste ver a tu ídolo retirarse así del fútbol

[David Medano @SrG0laz0]

Ese ha sido el gran problema de Cristiano, navega con bandera de víctima a pesar de haber robado a manos llenas con el Real Madrid, sin embargo se volvió en un héroe de los resentidos por que les hicieron creer que todo lo que ha ganado lo hizo con su esfuerzo y sin ayudas arbitrales, falso, está documentado todo lo que robó en Champions y pues nunca le alcanzó para ganar un mundial, normal

[🇦🇷☣️ @BaldeWaves]

Yes the World Cup is rigged for Messi, cry about it. You'll watch him lift his 2nd World Cup in a row and there's nothing else you can do. Then you'll watch the GOAT debate disappear in real time to the point where picking Ronaldo as the goat will become a hot take 😹😹😹

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

Need that type of Argentina comeback in my life

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Scriptwriters cooking up the worst possible scenario to make Ronaldo fans suffer