If you think the online campaigns against Messi and Argentina did not affect refereeing and FIFA decisions against them, and also ultimately not being awarded the Golden ball award for best player, then you haven’t been paying attention.
🚨🚨📲 Leo Messi on IG: "The pain is immense, and it will take time for this wound to heal.
"But I also choose to hold on to all the good things, the matches we turned around by giving everything, moments that will remain in our memories forever and the support of an entire country that, together with the work and effort of this group, brought us back once again among the best teams in the world.
"Today, it is difficult to appreciate what we achieved, but this group reached two consecutive World Cup finals.
"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for every greeting and every message. Once again, we managed to come together as a country and stand united, sharing the immense pride of being Argentine.
"I also want to congratulate Spain on winning the championship."
noticed how casual/seasonal male fans mock casual female fans for having no ball knowledge while the extent of their own ball knowledge is just g/a and the offside rule lmao
Some people are just...living. They're not dating anyone. No crush. No one waiting for their texts. They scroll endlessly from app to app with no one to talk to, then go to work, come home, eat, sleep, and repeat it all again the next day.
the few who only engage with football through “stan culture” or selective moral outrage only reinforces the stereotype that women only watch because players are attractive or bc of social media narratives that’s frustrating because all of us end up dealing with the backlash too
🚨 Lionel Scaloni: "If the younger players have to play, they’ll play. It has nothing to do with age or anything like that.
"Flaco López came on today and he did very well.
"We make our decisions based on what each game and each moment requires, but if we need them, we know we can count on them.”
🚨 Lionel Scaloni: “We suffered, but it’s very difficult to reach a World Cup semifinal without suffering.”
“Without the players we have, it would be very difficult.”
“The team kept trying until the very end. That’s something worth highlighting.”
"We suffered in Qatar too, perhaps while playing better, but we suffered there as well.