#world cup 22

[sheisbeautyweareworldass]

a whole ass essay can be written about european national teams refusing to play against teams from other continents (africa, asia and south america) and closing themselves in continental championships instead - because they’ve convinced themselves they’re the only ones who can play “good” football - and how they’re only now facing the consequences of their superiority complex and pride: netherlands struggling against ecuador and senegal, belgium and germany being eliminated on group stage and losing their spot to african and asian teams instead, denmark not winning a single match, etc.

[cheekyoreo]

so france is playing the final again ok fine congrats whatever morocco was the first african nt to get to a semifinal and this is the only conversation i’ll be willing to have until sunday

[masons-tours]

1 year ago 🥹🥹

Uncle Mason at the World Cup

[amelmajrii]

achraf hakimi scores a panenka in the penalty shootout against spain to send morocco to the quarter finals of the 2022 world cup.

[hello-there-42]

[sweetbouquetartisane]

Feliz 7mo aniversario a uno de los partidos más caóticos de la historia: un récord mundial de 19 tarjetas amarillas

not pictured:

walter samuel 31' 🇦🇷 coaching staff

lionel scaloni 90' 🇦🇷 manager

nicolas otamendi 90+12'

denzel dumfries 128'PK shootout

denzel dumfries 129' red card

noa lang 129'PK shooutout

[belltaviasbff]

we still care about football? good.

23 year old palestinian footballer ahmad atef daraghama was killed by isr*eli gunfire during an overnight raid.

isr*el has killed over 160 palestinians this year alone.

more here:

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[smithrowed]

Hwang Hee Chan’s strike sends South Korea into world cup last 16

[julianalvarez9]

IF, by Rudyard Kipling x Lionel Messi

[sadiiomane10]

watching the moroccan nt as a muslim just brought me so much joy, we dont really get much positivity in main stream media ever, so to watch this team just be unapologetically muslim in front of the whole world was beautiful

[wehelddarkness]

[cheekyoreo]

if argentina ends up winning this don’t be blinded by the messi fanatism. argentina played the hell out of this wc and every player gave it their all. messi might be the goat, but he didn’t win alone, the argentina nt won this wc

[masons-tours]

Just waiting for Mason and Shaw training content

[amelmajrii]

🥹❤️

[hello-there-42]

IM SO FERAL RIGHT NOW

[belltaviasbff]

western news outlets and reporters are claiming that messi wearing the bisht, the black garment/overcoat, “ruined” (the telegraph) the best moment of his life.

“it’s a shame they’ve covered his argentina shirt” (gary lineker, bbc pundit). “just why, why would they do that?”

do you have any idea how tone-deaf that comes across as? do you know how expensive this piece of clothing is? did you consider that this is a way an arab host is honouring his guest? by giving him the same cloak their royalty wear? did you consider the fact that no one else cares??????

messi himself posted the picture on instagram 😭. anyone can see that he didn’t look at all uncomfortable when they were putting it on him. western media is clearly more disturbed about it than he is. he just looks like he’s having the best moment of his life and he couldn’t care less if he was wearing a spacesuit right now, but thank you to western media for enforcing the idea it was a problem.

oh and even if he did have a problem with it, can i just make it clear that NO ONE, less still you morally superior westerners, is allowed to talk about someone else’s culture with such a ridiculously distasteful and arrogant tone.

honestly in a way i’m so glad this world cup is over because now i can stop hearing western media’s constant passive aggressive, frankly racist attitude towards arab/muslim culture. good riddance…

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edit: thank you to all the wonderful argentines and others taking the time reblogging saying that you understand it was something meant to honour messi and that u honestly don’t care that he wore it, im loving reading what you guys think and im glad most of us have brains here, much love to you all ‼️🫡