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eadniagency · 2 months ago
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Unearthing Underrated Players
by Tom Storvik
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In football, as in so many other spheres, a players success is directly judged by the number of goals they score or by their number of assists. However, not every genius of the game is brought into the limelight due to restrictions on playing time. That's where the power of statistics comes into play.
Going deeper into players performance statistics, one might be able to identify some hidden talent that earlier could not be identified easily. EADNI is an agency that specializes in representing such underrated footballers with advanced statistics to give a chance to its clients to be noticed by the leading clubs.
The Problem: Playing Time is Finite
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Many promising footballers end up on the bench, often more than they would like. This lack of playing time may come from team strategies, competition for places, and if managers prefer one player over another. Such players miss, by definition, the occasion for showcasing their qualities in the reflection of the statistics that traditionally catches the attention of staff, fans and the public in general—for example, goals and assists. And that's where it needs more nuanced approach to surface this potential.
The Fix: Advanced Focus on Performance Metrics
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Football statistics mean more than just the simple metrics of goals and assists. Checking these advanced performance metrics better shows a players abilities. Below are the key statistics that display the skills of footballers with few playing minutes:
Pass Completion Rate: High pass completion rates are reflected in the accuracy and conciseness of any individual player.
Interceptions and Tackles: A look at core defensive metrics that show how successful a player is at stopping opposition plays and regaining possession.
Key Passes: Shows creativity and vision in the number of passes leading to a goal-scoring opportunity.
Dribbles and Take-ons: These are successful attempts to run past an opponent.
Pressures Applied: Other than the raw data, it measures how frequently a player applies pressure to the opponent, which is crucial in high-pressing modern football strategies.
Case Study: Unearthing a Midfield Maestro
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Now, consider this hypothetical midfielder, Alex — a relatively young player who has not been given enough chances but has proven himself during training and in some games. These reduced minutes are shown in Alex's stats and data, where he only:
Pass Completion Rate: 92 %
Interceptions per 90 minutes: 4
Key passes per 90 minutes: 2.3
Successful Dribbles per 90 minutes: 6.2
Pressures Per 90 mins: 18
These are the statistics that illustrate Alex's ability to hold onto the ball, unsettle the other team and create goal-scoring opportunities - even created with a start set in a defensive perspective. By those measures, Alex no longer appears like an extra body on the bench, but rightfully will be viewed as a dynamo on the pitch.
EADNI's Strategy:
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EADNI is skillful in identifying and promoting underexposed football talents. And here is where the stats would help nudge their clients:
Comprehensive Data Analysis: EADNI conducts a detailed analysis of available match data, focusing on advanced metrics to properly evaluate player performance.
Bespoke Player Profiles: They provide tailor-made, in-depth profiles that depict selected players strengths, supported by statistics. These are provided to the clubs to effectively mark off what the player could bring to the club, above and beyond the relevant statistics.
Highlight Reels: EADNI has gone a step further by showing some statistics on the in-game players; this, therefore, fills in the gap in which the stats translate to in the real world.
Networking and Advocacy: EADNI markets its clients to clubs and scouts, allowing them to get noticed, be offered trials and get a chance to live out their full potential as a player on a level their talent deserves to be showcased.
Continual Monitoring and Feedback: EADNI continually ensures that their clients are on top of their game with the necessary feedback and improvements to be ever ready to maximize their opportunities.
Conclusion:
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For those in the football world, talent cannot only be counted by just the number of goals and assists. Advanced stats are the primary resource to reach new skills in their underplayed footballers. EADNI is at the forefront of using data-driven insights to unlock and transform careers towards the recognition its clients deserve. With an emphasis on worldwide, up-to-date performance statistics, EADNI ensures that no talent is left out, keeping deserving players in the limelight and on the lists of top football clubs.
With advanced football statistics going untapped, EADNI Agency is redefining perceptions around under-represented footballers, giving them the platform they require to stand out.
Are you a football/soccer player looking for unique, personal, digitally minded, forward thinking and FIFA Licenced representation to take the next step developing your career and signing for a club perfectly suited for your skills on and off the pitch? Reach out to EADNI through one of the links below and if we discover your personality suit our style of representing players and you discover that we are the right agency to make your dream career become a reality - let us begin the journey to the stars together, today!
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vnessakrby · 1 month ago
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what if captain carter was... invincible?
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Arsenal's iconic striker, Captain Peggy Carter, presents her retrospective Balloon D'or to the Gunners.
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speedybeta · 6 months ago
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The pitch invasion has me so pissed and disappointed like bro how the hell r u gonna invade a charity match game
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kvtnisseverdeen · 2 years ago
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cavalierzee · 6 days ago
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The Israelis Who Cried Wolf
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The reality of the Amsterdam riots is in the response of the original poster (iAnnetnl).
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geeky-nightphilosopher · 1 year ago
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Friendly reminder today Eliot is making a feast and slapping Parker's hand away from all the desserts.
Breanna and Hardison are sitting there judging Eliot's food making skills.
Harry and Sophie are drinking wine.
And Nana is the only other one helping in the kitchen.
All for a proper Thanksgiving!
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scrollsofhumanlife · 3 months ago
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Mary "Pearl" Teats nee Albert and Al C. Teats Jr. on their wedding day, December 21 1974
Born May 26 1948 in Los Angeles, California
Riverside, California
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the-fbi-agent-in-your-phone · 2 months ago
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The FBI's favorite thing about Football season: We don't have to constantly push patriotic commercials as the celebration of sports is just nationalism but smaller.
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driveintheaterofthemind · 1 year ago
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5 Random Pulps
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letmeapologise · 1 year ago
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❝ 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟑 𝐧 𝟐𝟒 ❞
ೀ.ᐟ⭒๋࣭ ⭑ 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢'𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 *ೃ༄
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⋆ 。 ˚ ⋆ 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞 ੈ✩‧₊˚
❝ 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 ? ❞ ↷ 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐧'𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 !
౨ৎ 𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟑 ⌇ 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐥 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐣𝐤 ❝ 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟑 ⌇ 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐤 𝐬𝐳𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐳𝐥𝐚𝐢 ❝ 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫. 𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐯 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐢𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟑 ⌇ 𝐤𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞 ❝ 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐢𝐯 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫-𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐝 ❝ 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐢𝐭 ? ❞
౨ৎ 𝐯 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐦 ❝ 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐯𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 ❝ 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰 𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝. 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐯𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 ❝ 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐰 𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 ! ❞
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.ೃ 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐰𝐨 ✰ ´ˎ˗
❝ 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲 '𝐧' 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ! ❞ ↷ 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 !
౨ৎ 𝐯𝐢𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐫 ❝ 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧. 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐫 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐧 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 '𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.' 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡��𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫. 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲'𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐢𝐱 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐲 ❝ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐮, 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐮 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬' 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 ❝ 𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐰 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤. 𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 ? ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐦𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 ❝ 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬. 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 ��𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧 ❝ 𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲. 𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐢𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐮𝐧-𝐡𝐨 ❝ 𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐮 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐢𝐯 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 ❝ 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 ! ❞
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ೀ.ᐟ⭒๋࣭ ⭑ 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 *ೃ༄
❝ 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭, 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 ! ❞ ↷ 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐧 '𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬' !
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐯 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐣 ❝ 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫. 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐯𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐜 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❝ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠. 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐯𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 ❝ 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 ��𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐮 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐯𝐢𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 ❝ 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝-𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐬𝐨 𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮 ? ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐢𝐱 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 ❝ 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭. 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 ! ❞
౨ৎ 𝐱𝐱 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐤 ❝ 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 ! ❞
𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐱𝐱𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐢𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐢𝐯 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐯 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐯𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐯𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐯𝐢𝐢𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐢𝐱 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐱 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒 ⌇ 𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐢 𝐨𝐜𝐭. 𝟐𝟒
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୨୧ @𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐞. 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝. 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 ୨୧
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thedailyplatypics · 2 years ago
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Super Bowl time
I have not been watching football at all
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pure-jeff-ward · 3 months ago
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oflights · 4 months ago
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Are you American??
hello! yes i am?
i could not for the life of me figure out why i got this until i looked at my blog and saw the singular euros post i tipsily reblogged lol. so to clarify:
i'm american but i have dual italian citizenship
my mom was born and raised in naples and i spent basically every childhood summer there with my grandparents
i hate england
i think that covers it all?? hopefully? lol this ask felt weirdly accusatory but also i get it so. there we go, allie lore for u.
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wordswithloveee · 5 months ago
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pernillecfcw · 1 year ago
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Havertz is actually going to arsenal 🫠
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takiki16 · 2 years ago
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so what’s the deal with your new blorbo? assume 1. i know how football works (used to actually watch) but not how/why some players get famous; (2) i know nothing about messi except that he. exist; (3) feel free to go bananas to your heart’s content if you decide to answer this.
fuuuuUUUUUUUQ ME. Can litchrally any Argentinian, any FC Barcelona supporter, ANYONE who has followed fuutyball for more than *checks watch* TWO WEEKS spot me for this one?!?! I am GROSSLY underqualified to answer this question Cunningham's law is about to hunt me for SPORT.
Okay. LIONEL MESSI. I can't summarize everything about this Guy who is currently one of the Main Characters of the most watched sport in the world, but I CAN summarize how he has started cooking my brain!!!
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(that is him!!!! my guy!!!! HIM JUMP)
I have been trying to read a book with @rhaeneystargaryen for at least a couple years now, but somehow never had the spoons or the right overlapping interest. And then she told me that she was reading this:
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I figured I would give it a try! I wanted something low effort, low investment, something I didn't care a whole lot about that I could put down at any moment bc work has been hell lately. And then I hit THIS line in the introduction, and I could literally FEEL the cursed hyperfixation key in my brain start to turn:
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GUESS WHICH ONE IS MESSI!!!!!
I'm not a twitter stan, I swear. I am AWARE there is a media layer here. These people are real, actual human beings with documented flaws and mistakes, I am WELL AWARE that they are ungodly wealthy pro athletes and not "stars who are just like us!!! ✨✨✨." It's also obviously reductive and unfair to view anyone solely through a comparative lens - no living being could live up to the marketing hype that has been generated around Messi, Ronaldo, or indeed any pro athlete in the elite leagues.
BUT GOTDAM IF THIS FUCKER DOESN'T MAKE IT HARD!!!!
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Bare bones: Lionel Messi is a football player born in Rosario, Argentina, who at 13yo moved to Spain to play for FC Barcelona. He joined the adult team at a whole ass 17 years old. Ensue absolutely RIDICULOUS teen prodigy meteoric rise, with both Messi and Barcelona winning all the Best Football Awards ever and Best Individual Sports Achievements in Everything. I have spent the last two weeks spending FAR too much time reading football books, and all the gotdam graphs look like this:
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People talk about Messi being the player who made them fall in love with "the most beautiful game," and I can SEE WHY!!! HERE I AM!!!! A CLOWN!!! ALSO FALLING IN LOVE!!!! I am googling sports highlight reels of his plays like a CHAD FOOTY HOOLIGAN!! WHO AM I, I AM HAVING AN IDENTITY CRISIS. It is just so much fun to WATCH him! Listening to commentators screaming "Eight, ten, IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY DEFENDERS THERE HE GOES THROUGH THEM!!! MESSI GOAAAALLLLL"
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What makes it WORSE is the whole fukken rivalry business the book was about. Cristiano Ronaldo was another super-gifted player who debuted at about the same time and had a similar prodigy teen genius rise. He signed for a rival club in the same league at the same time Messi was playing with Barcelona. The story reads like a gotdam Hollywood sports drama, on both an individual and a team level!! I cannot IMAGINE what it was like watching this unfold as it was happening!
For starters: on an individual level, they were constantly thrown up against each other for every award imaginable. The Ballon d'Or awards list, which crowns you King of Soccer for the year, has looked like this since 2008:
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(there is obviously talk that Messi is up for an EIGHTH award this year, but I don't think about the future bc it is bad for my cooked brain 😊)
On a team level, there was (and IS) of course the clubs. I am ABSOLUTELY not qualified to get into the weeds on this, but the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid has deep, deep political, historical, and cultural roots going back (among other things) to Catalonian oppression under the fascist Franco regime in Spain. Josep Suñol, then-president of FC Barcelona, was shot in 1936 by Francoist troops.The matches between the two clubs and the two players with their drastically different teams and styles at the time were super-charged - an ACTUAL QUALIFIED Barcelona supporter is going to have to get in here and explain the history and emotion behind the Clasicos bc THAT IS SEVERAL BOOKS IN AND OF ITSELF!!!!!
The whole point of THIS particular book was not, in fact, a blow-by-blow comparison of the players. The point was that by being WHO they were and WHEN they were, Messi and Ronaldo changed the shape of the game forever in terms of marketing, branding, team strategy, finances, etc etc etc. It's an interesting read (if not entirely unbiased on all points), if you enjoy the absolute blood and oil-soaked clown show that is professional football money!
But ANYWAY.
AFTER I finished the book Messi ended up cooking my brain bc (1) all of the context above re: rivalry in league football, and (2) his PERSONALITY. Someone made him in a lab to ruin my life!
I mean, the club loyalty gets me. For his entire professional career, Messi has played for exactly two teams - Barcelona and his homeland Argentina NT. He only left Barcelona in 2021, VERY much against his will (per him, his agent, his friends, his family, AND FC Barcelona) due to an absolute hot mess of a league financial situation that is apparently still sorting itself out. I don't know how common it is for pro athletes at his level to move around, but I feel like it's more common than that!!! THE CLUB LOYALTY gets me, the HOME LOYALTY gets me!!!! Especially as he's gotten better and better, and there's been more and more pressure on him to keep delivering even in the absence of anything else!
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The gotdam STOICISM also gets me!!! Call it shyness, call it humility, call it down-to-earthness or reservedness or whatever you want - what everyone kept mentioning about him in the books (and what certain French marketing departments are still probably saying about him) is how QUIET he is. Journalists would complain about how he "made it to age 30 without ever uttering an interesting sentence in public." A Nike exec who lost a bid with his agent for a sponsorship waved it off by saying "Imagine how much trouble we would be in if Messi had a personality." Relative to his peers in the elite football world, he doesn't have a flash lifestyle with a huge entourage. He doesn't do a lot of press. He doesn't try to push a personal brand, even though it's a big chunk of income for wherever he plays. Even though he obviously COULD, he doesn't go around talking about Greatest Of All Time (TM). When he DOES give interviews he doesn't even talk super loudly. He keeps to his immediate family and his closest circle of friends.
AND YET. AND YET. ON THE PITCH, HE PLAYS LIKE HE DOES. He creates not just for himself, but for his TEAMMATES the way that he does! I realize that NO ONE gets an award for being a team player in a team sport, or for "not being as much of a dick as you could have been," but HE STILL HAS HIS HOMETOWN ACCENT!!! He dedicates his goals to his GRANDMOTHER! He met his wife when he was FIVE YEARS OLD, he has never had a relationship with anyone else ("It has always been Antonella, for me"), he has three beautiful kids, his teammates keep apparently falling in love with him and doing Intricate Rituals, I AM ENDEARED I AM ENDLESSLY ENDEARED
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Did I mention he is also very short? Allow me to mention that. 5"7 / 1.7 meters in pro-athlete world is PICK-UPABLE SIZE. Multiple reels out there of his teammates celebrating goals just by PICKING HIM UP it MAKES ME SO FOND
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(on an Intricate Rituals note, Messi's size and his evasive style of play has caused a lot of opposing team's strategy to be "make a cage, kick him as soon as you can and tackle often," which has in turn prompted a lot of specific protection strategies for him as a forward and also over-protective teammates :)))). WHICH OF COURSE COOKS MY BRAIN EVEN MORE YOU KNOW HOW IT IS.)
And that isn't even STARTING on his saga with the Argentina NT, which reads like YET ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD SPORT DRAMA that I cannot believe actually happened!
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Again, I am begging ANY Argentine to jump in here, I AM GROSSLY IGNORANT as to the history of this sport I got here two whole weeks ago how is this HAPPENING to meeeeeeee
My very basic understanding of the situation is that Messi has played for the national team ever since 2004, whenever he was on break from Barcelona. Over the years since then, Argentina (with Messi) has tried again and again to win the World Cup (and the Copa America), but consistently failed despite regularly advancing to finals. BECAUSE Messi was on the team, Argentina routinely and perhaps unfairly got billed as "favorites" to win, with criticism in the press being focused disproportionately on Messi when they didn't. I don't know how bad the situation in Argentinian media got, but even the western English outlets were picking it up. "Messi plays better for Barcelona than for his home country, Messi isn't Argentinian enough, Messi keeps too much to himself and doesn't sing the anthem,etc etc etc". Maradona famously commented that Messi was "a great person, but had no personality," and that it was useless to try to make a leader out of him because he caved under pressure (referring to Messi reportedly being sick from nerves before the world cup games).
(note: gotdam rivalry. Of the people named who would be better and more stylish leaders, Cristiano Ronaldo was up top )
The pressure DID get to Messi in the end - he issued a statement in 2016 saying he would retire from international football, but there was a huge home campaign to get him to come back to the team. Argentina still didn't win the 2018 World Cup (players of opposing teams said that their strategy against Argentina was not letting them pass to Messi). And so on, and so forth.
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AND THEN!!!!! 2021!!!!!
I THINK I HAVE POSTED FAR TOO MUCH ALREADY about the current Argentina NT for someone who, as I said, JUST ARRIVED AT THIS GOTDAM SPORT, but I'm going to make everyone look at these quotes again. These are quotes the team has given ABOUT MESSI HOW IS THIS REAL????
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Argentina would go on to win the Copa America - and then...well 🥰
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I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE EXPLAINED THIS ADEQUATELY!!! I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE SUFFICIENTLY REPRESENTED THE DEGREE TO WHICH MY BRAIN IS COOKED!!! Did that mean anything to anyone???? I don't know!
HELL
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