Lei

whether puns or poetry, if it's an impressive enough play on words, I'll love it // she/her

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

They should write epics about this Cape Verdean team. We need movies. We need statues. We need poems. We need to teach about this team in schools.

[Lei @xmarkslei]

if y’all don’t see what is insane about all this idk what to say…

[Lei @xmarkslei]

this game is INSANEEEE

[𝐍𝐞𝐤𝐮 🇮🇷 @nekounamball]

Teams that lost at the World Cup: Algeria, Austria

Teams that went undefeated at the World Cup: Iran

[Lei @xmarkslei]

there is literally NO fucking way omfg

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Taylor Swift will reportedly perform music at her wedding.

🔗: https://t.co/enj2rWn7yN

[char @brooklynbroke]

“she’s always been tacky” INCORRECT. she’s always been CORNY. the tacky stuff is recent!!!!!!!

[Lei @xmarkslei]

@eightandtwenty I’m cackling

[Lei @xmarkslei]

Oh what’s that?????? The only team two R16 teams (Belgium & Egypt) couldn’t beat was Iran??
iktr 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[𝐍𝐞𝐤𝐮 🇮🇷 @nekounamball]

Algeria and Austria purposely drawing just to both get bounced in the R32.

[𝐍𝐞𝐤𝐮 🇮🇷 @nekounamball]

Iranians after watching Algeria and Austria get eliminated:

[Alireza Talakoubnejad @websterkaroon]

The total destruction of Austria is complete. The armies of Karma now march to the gates of Algiers

[Lei @xmarkslei]

no I truly had the same reaction because WHATTTTTTTT

[ᴍʏᴀ ᥫ᭡. @belairestt]

“you’re disregarding what u did to Corbin”

IS THIS MF SINCERE SERIOUS???
#loveislandusa

[Taremi (C) era @TMplayersource]

Austria don’t let the door hit you on the way out ! 😘

[Alireza Talakoubnejad @websterkaroon]

Kanani & Khalilzadeh were the only defenders who shut down Lukaku for a full game and didn't concede goals against Belgium

[🧘🏻‍♀️ @eightandtwenty]

choosing to catch up on love island instead bc i can’t afford to be pissed off for a third time today

[Lei @xmarkslei]

Taylor is so fucking tacky I’m over it

[Lei @xmarkslei]

@eightandtwenty oh my god…

[Lei @xmarkslei]

@brennasconnelly @MoonkissedStar @studlov3r literally when? give me an ep timestamp and I’ll download it for all of us to watch and see what you’re talking about (not you, Zara)

[Nilo Tabrizy @ntabrizy]

What happened with Team Melli succinctly sums up the story of being Iranian: regardless of talent and work ethic, the cruelty of being structurally and systemically thwarted at every turn.

On the visa front and border anxiety, it’s destabilizing in a way that’s difficult to explain unless you’ve personally experienced it. I was navigating discriminatory Visa issues for the month of May and it was so stressful. I couldn’t shake the anxiety of the limbo, despite knowing it would be eventually solved at some point. So to imagine a team having to deal with this on the daily, and the compounding effects of being treated so differently than any other team is heartbreaking.

As talented and full of fight as this year’s team was, deep down I never expected us to go through. There were too many challenges for these athletes: a country destabilized by AND still reeling from the trauma of the IRI’s massacre in January, then subject to relentless bombing campaign by a World Cup host country, AI doctored images of the athletes trying to sow division amongst the diaspora and potential fans, never being allowed to stay overnight on American soil and properly recover, the stupidity of the VAR crimes that many top international announcers were bewildered by. The list goes on.

The scales were intentionally imbalanced. Our Team Melli had an unequal hill to climb. And yet through it all, these men played with their full hearts, despite immense pressure intended to flatten them. Seeing them cry in their post game interviews was too heartbreaking. All of my respect to Team Melli for playing with all they had despite the machinations working against them.

“I don't know why we've been so unlucky. I hope we qualify so we can bring some joy back to our people.

People of Iran, we love you so much. Please forgive us,” Ramin Rezaeian, tearfully to camera after the 1-1 draw with Egypt where the team experienced VAR disqualifying a second consequential goal in the tournament

[Rohan Alvares @toi_rohanA]

Iran honoured a tournament that repeatedly spat in their faces. Forget corrupt Fifa, what was sad to see was none of the other participants spoke up for them. Just imagine if the US or England teams had been treated this way in Russia or Qatar, we'd have never heard the end of it