World Cup is the biggest indicator of life, it’s also very easy to use to track your life, and I’m talking from a fan angle. If you’re watching your 4th World Cup, you can easily picture where your life has been in those 4 cycles.
You remember who you watched it with, the house you were in, the phone you used, the friends you had, the dreams you were chasing at that time. One World Cup you were still in school, another you were struggling to find direction, another you’re working, paying bills, growing up without even noticing it.
That’s why World Cups feel bigger than football sometimes. They come every four years, so they almost act like checkpoints in life. The gap is long enough for everything around you to completely change, but the tournament stays familiar. Same emotions, same nerves, same songs, same feeling when the anthem plays before a big match.
You can literally measure your growth through football memories.
2010? I was just a kid.
2014? Secondary school days.
2018? Different phase entirely.
2022? Real adulthood started hitting.
2026? You’re probably Married
And by the time another one comes around, you realise life never waited for anybody. Players you grew up watching are gone, new stars arrive, and somehow your own life changed just as much too.
@ItsMphatso@9alefootball I hate it because the base gameplay and the celebration and close up graphics are actually BETTER than the past PES 21, but they are not capitalizing on it.
@ItsMphatso@9alefootball To actually listen to community feedback and follow up bringing the old game modes back, or STOP LYING. I can handle it being a free game but for example they brought Smart Assist which does nothing. And they keep saying old modes are gonna come "soon".
I know this goal has been talked about a lot, but every time I think about it I still get stunned. A 16-year-old kid turned the tide back in his team’s favour in a European Championship semi-final against Kylian Mbappe’s France.
Crazy when you actually think about it.
Sam Kerr leaving Europe without a UWCL medal is the definition of poetic justice. All that mocking, only to spend years getting escorted out of the tournament by the same club she laughed at