Highest-rated attacking midfielders at the World Cup so far (3+ apps):
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi - 9.06
🇫🇷 Michael Olise - 7.89
🇩🇪 Florian Wirtz - 7.73
🇨🇭 Johan Manzambi - 7.36
🇪🇬 Mohamed Salah - 7.27
Would shuffle Argentina’s players and flip to 4-2-3-1 with Messi RW vs Switzerland to get some more wide threat. Enzo now cooking in a role tucked in off the left so can keep that. Which probably then means Almada at 10 and would drop MacA for a RDP-Paredes double pivot.
Argentina had won two World Cup (in 1978 and 1986) before Messi's debut, and had won about 14 Copa America titles. It took the national almost 40 years to win another trophy, fourty good years in 2022. Now despite all Messi's accomplishments since his debut, that is, 35 titles in 17 seasons, Messi also won his first major international title in 2021 which was the Copa America, taking 16 years into his career, and almost 17 years to add the World Cup trophy to his collection.
Now during his years of Int'l trophy drought he was heavily criticized even by Argentines, especially after missing the crucial PK in 2016.
Messi lost four international finals back to back, almost quit the team, and had to struggle to win his first Copa America and World Cup, but all of a sudden it was rigged for him? Be serious.
So far, two of the best scenes in House of the Dragon was shot in the throne room.
1. Viserys unexpected entry into the throne room during the petition for heir of Driftmark.
2. A reflection of Rhaenyra ascending the throne being shown in Otto’s puddle of blood.
"I laughed over the Ycee 'Olodo Uprising' topic, not because I found it funny, but because he was identifying something in his time. However, he was seeing the latter stage of something that started in my own generation when I was probably his age.
I spoke about weaponized ignorance for the first time in 1994 when I wrote a piece on it. He is identifying the same phenomenon. The 'Olodo Uprising' was fathered by weaponized ignorance."
— Dele Farotimi