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Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana (born 13 July 2007) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for the La Liga Club Barcelona and the Spain national team.
Regarded as one of the best players in the world, he is known for his dribbling and playmaking ability.
Imagine being Lamine Yamal and youâre 19 years old youâve only been on this earth for like 228 months total you just wrapped up puberty like 2 maybe 3 years ago you watched Haalingham yaoi get shot on live tv so you lowkey gotta defend gay rights by murdering Lionel Messi most famous soccer player in the world FIFAâs little 39 year old baby boy and the man who coincidentally baptized you and thus began the prophecy of his own defeat by your hands or the whole world will burn
For anyone not in the loop about why this World Cup final and its outcome mattered so much:
For many fans, the upcoming Spain-Argentina match symbolises a lot more than football
This doesnât even address the blatant discrimination and sickening levels of corruption and favouritism that weâve seen in favor of Argentina in this World Cup :
ARG having an easy shot towards the finals while the heavy hitters wiped each other out in other brackets (and they still barely hung on! Mostly through bias)
Egypt players being openly thrown across the pitch , elbowed, slapped and kneed without repercussions while Egypt had an entire goal reversed because a player stepped on anotherâs foot, all the way on the other side of the pitch , a charge and a half prior. The goalkeeping coach getting a straight red card and sent off for protesting the bias and the head coach being given a yellow for invoking FIFAâs symbol against racist behaviour.
Something similar happened with Switzerland, when their star attacker was shown a second yellow and therefore a red card out of âmistaken identityâ and for simulating a dive. Embolo left the pitch in tears , destroying the Swiss momentum completely , severely impacting their offence and allowing ARG to scrape off a win.
It should be noted that ARG players have been playing their injuries up and simulating dives all through the tournment and in this match against Spain , they used it to completely erase a goal. During the replays even the commentators who have tried their best not to actually say anything pointed , were forced to say that thereâs nothing there. But just like that , an entire goal wiped out.
Throughout the match , everytime they tried to build momentum , someone dropped the leading player. I watched them grab someone in a near full Nelson and flat out shove someone from the back just as they were about to shoot what could have been a match-deciding shot. They marked Lamine Yamal and took him out every time he tried to make a run. But Spain kept attacking them. Mercilessly. Overwhelmingly. If not for their goalkeeper, who was absolutely phenomenal, they would have lost 10-0 !
Look at this graph :
Sorry I mean , look at this graph :
Itâs not like ARG are slouches, they are Titans for a reason. Messi is a legend for a reason. They hardly needed such ugly sportsmanship and favouritism.
Only one I could find that shows the moments leading up to the confrontation. This is the guy who exagerrated a foul to wipe off a goal and gain a free kick
All the more reason this victory tastes so much sweeter. They won 1-0 , but had two goals erased by referee meddling, which would be fine if it werenât a one way street. But evidently 3 goals against Argentina count as 1 and youâd better make sure that goal was bulletproof because theyâll use anything to give them the edge. They almost got it too, they very nearly equalised in the final moments.
I only started properly tuning in during the knockout stage, with their match against Egypt. I have never cared that much about football, and grew up surrounded by staunch supporters of Argentina and loving Messi simply by osmosis. You didnt hear a peep from me during the last World Cup. But this time, this time itâs so much more than that.
The hate that Lamine Yamal, a 19 year old Muslim player got for waving the Palestinian flag, the rejection and vitriol that he received from his own people for prostrating after scoring , with AI generated videos of him prostrating to eat pork instead of being carried away and replaced by the Christian cross.
"I am Muslim alhamdulilah... Football is for entertaining and uplifting [people], not to show a lack of respect towards people because of what they believe."
From Lamine Yamal to Yasin Ayari and Cape Verde's converts, a new generation of footballers is challenging the notion that Islam is somehow
All while the the World Cup is hosted by the US of all places. All compounded by Messi being denied the cup in the final World Cup of his career by the same boy he once bathed for a charity event:
The Rags-to-riches narrative of the boy going from a neglected working class immigrant neighbourhood in Barcelona, where nearly half the people lived below the poverty line (hence the charity event), to beating the purported âGOATâ in the international stage and becoming the front runner for the Ballon dâOr at 19.
It all just makes this a triumph , not a victory. The kind of story that you would see happening at the movies.
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