Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸

"Winning reveals your skill. Losing reveals your character."

Here's Haaland's philosophy going into the World Cup: you have to find enjoyment amidst the pressure.

And Haaland's post-loss interview: defending the very guy who knocked Norway out with 2 goals.

He's a class act through & through. 🇳🇴🏆

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Hilarious‼️ 😬

Never related to the Spanish team more than seeing their faces when they're up close to that creep.

Lamine Yamal refused to shake hands with Trump, but shook the hands of Claudia Sheinbaum & Mark Carney.

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#10, Martin Ødegaard, is both the captain of Norway's national team & the captain of Arsenal. Here he is pushing his own teammates away from a brawl with Brazil.

Captains are leaders because they know how to communicate with the referees, set the team culture, keep up morale, stop petty fights.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net

I can't get over how Messi twice witnessed Leandro Paredes attack Spain's players & both times was unfazed, unbothered, & nonchalant. 😵‍💫 How did Messi become captain of the team with 0 leadership skills? 😵

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People said an expanded tournament would ruin the games. ⚽️

When what it really did was show us how many phenomenal players have been tucked away in poor countries - hidden from view.

Look at this David & Goliath moment 🇨🇻

Vozinha and Messi are the same age. They should have been club peers at FCB.

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Cabo Verde is playing the biggest disparity in World Cup history in a knock-out game.

Cabo Verde 67-1 Argentina
And they're 2-2 halfway through OT.

8 saves for Vozinha.

If he had been spotted by a talent scout 15 yrs ago he would have been Messi's peer at Barcelona. He deserved so much more. ⚽️

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net

Every World Cup needs a David & Goliath story. ⚽️ 🌎 40-yr old Vozinha (which means grandmother) & his mom, Ana, are making it through to the round of 32. To meet Argentina! Cabo Verde is the 3rd smallest country in WC history & smallest country to ever reach the knockout stage. 🇨🇻 🤍

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I can't get over how Messi twice witnessed Leandro Paredes attack Spain's players & both times was unfazed, unbothered, & nonchalant. 😵‍💫

How did Messi become captain of the team with 0 leadership skills? 😵

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net

Within seconds of the final whistle blowing, Argentina's Leandro Paredes chokes Spaniard: Eric García, and then goes for the throat of Gavi. 🇪🇸 JHC. 🇦🇷

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Current Euro Champions
🇪🇸 Spain v Cabo Verde 0-0
Vozinha: 7 Saves

4x World Cup Champions
🇺🇾 Uruguay v Cabo Verde 2-2

Current World Cup Champions
🇦🇷 Argentina v Cabo Verde 2-2
until 110" min!!
Vozinha: 8 Messi Saves

🇨🇻 Smallest country in knockout
🇨🇻 First time qualifying
🇨🇻 Ranked 67
🇨🇻 Unforgettable

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Belgium head coach, Rudi Garcia, on his conversation with Folarin Balogun after the match:

"He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame. That's what I told him. I really appreciate the intention that he came to see me. I appreciate this player."

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net

There's a lyric that says, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." It means: blame the institutions for the rules, not the individuals operating inside them. Sending love to the USMNT after their loss because they didn't create the system, even if they have to be the faces of the consequences. 🤍 🇺🇲

No two Republican senators spent more minutes of their career trying to break American democracy than Lindsey Graham & Mitch McConnell.

- They believed in nothing
- Lied with impunity
- Created the corrupt system Trump seized
- And did nothing to atone for it

Cabo Verde, Egypt, and Norway give their teams parades for champions. 🇨🇻 🇪🇬 🇳🇴

As one Norwegian put it: "It's nice to be a country that celebrates how far you've come. Not just where you finish." 🏆⚽️

When it concerns FIFA, that's not just a principle of self-love. It's pragmatic survival. 👀 🙃

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We will always have the memory of Haaland looking like he's a lost child wandering on the field before his shark attack. 🇳🇴 🦈

Thanks to Norway for giving us something to RO! 🚣‍♂️ about. 🤍

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Only in an Argentina final could we be so busy talking about Leandro Paredes choking someone, that we forget that Enzo Fernández fucking flipped someone. 🏟

I wonder, did anyone ask Messi at the end, was it all worth it? 😵

FIFA paved a yellow brick road to the final for the ugliest team. 🇦🇷

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net

Within seconds of the final whistle blowing, Argentina's Leandro Paredes chokes Spaniard: Eric García, and then goes for the throat of Gavi. 🇪🇸 JHC. 🇦🇷

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Messi: FIFA's new poster child for fair play. 🏆⚽️

Just picturing how fast Haaland would've raced to Bellingham's defense if he'd been there. 🆘️ 👀

Commentators bragged about how they built this Argentine team around Messi's needs. 🇦🇷

I guess Malfoy needed his Crabbes and Goyles. 👀

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Within seconds of the final whistle blowing,

Argentina's Leandro Paredes chokes Spaniard: Eric García, and then goes for the throat of Gavi. 🇪🇸

JHC. 🇦🇷

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net

When you bribed Infantino only to get you to the final & the referee suddenly starts giving you the yellow and red cards you would have gotten in all the games leading up to it. 🙃🏟⚽️✌🏻🏆

Reply to @resistrebelrevolt.net

Just reminding you how France & England treated each other after the whistle blew.

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net

Human beings just being good human beings. ⚽️🏆🏟 Frankly - getting third & fourth place (out of 48 teams), while still maintaining your soul, is a hell of a lot better than selling your soul to get to #1.

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May I introduce you to José Andrés:

The Spanish chef who owns 7 fabulous restaurants in DC & elsewhere - celebrating Spain's goal. 🇪🇸

Andrés founded World Central Kitchen after Haiti's earthquake to bring chefs to disaster areas to feed people.

They've gone to Ukraine & Gaza as well. 🤍

wck.org

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"Dear World Cup 2026
You gave us Vikings rowing
A Scottish invasion
You dared us to dream.
You gave us one last chance to say goodbye to the legends
And introduced us to the future.
You unleashed Haaland
And reminded us why Mbappé is inevitable
You gave us Keyne."

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The Norwegians have tricked everybody into World Peace. 🌎✌🏻

🥁 Ro! 🚣‍♂️ means, both, "row" and "tranquility, calm, peace." 🤍

They told us they were rowing us into battle. While subliminally bamboozling us into being happier people. 🇳🇴 ⚽️ 🥁

That is just so Norwegian of them.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net

Sending love to this little country of 5.6 million. 🇳🇴 🤍 They were ranked #31 when they came in the tournament. They hadn't qualified in 28 years. They're usually reserved & humble. But the whole world fell in love with their fans 🚣‍♂️ & their Haaland. 🤍 🏆⚽️ Come out of your shell more often.

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First Ukraine began the Kursk offensive (striking Russia without NATO).

Then Orbán fell.

Then Russia went into a fuel crisis.

Now they don't even have the money to pay their American propagandist podcasters.

How many more dominoes before we see the end of Putin's era?

NIGHT SOCCER! 🏟

The restaurant industry has a huge number of fútbol fans.

Instead of making the assumption that night owls are hooligans, Mamdani accommodated their schedule. 🤍⚽️

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

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Last Words of Joan Sebastian Guerrero: "I tried to stop."

Last Words of Alex Pretti: "Are you ok?"

Last Words of Renee Good: "I'm not mad at you."

Last Words of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: "They're killing me."

-Via Headquarters

Norway's Viking Row 🇳🇴 is definitely inspired by their star player, Erling Haaland.

After a 28 yr hiatus from the WC, Norway found themselves a proper viking.

He's 6.5". Eats 6,000 calories per day.

Has 57 goals in 58 Champions League games

& 62 goals in 54 games for Norway!

& he's hilarious! 🤣👇🏼

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Marc Cucurella, defender for the Spanish World Cup champions, talks with his partner about having to adapt to his Austic son, Mateo's, needs.

When he receives an offer to transfer to a new club, the first thing he does is find out if the city has the right schools to help his son. 🤍 🇪🇸

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