first racoon

according to the filth uncovered by romain molina, one of the most well-known international sports journalists, of the 300 million dollars they got from the 2022 world cup, they used 42 million directly in money laundering, which has now both become the subject of an fbi investigation and prompted the european parliament to launch an effort to investigate all member countries' fifa ties.

the interesting part is that the biggest chunk of the money laundering, meaning 30% of the championship prize, was given to a shell company called tourprodenter through a contract they signed 9 days before the tournament final. guess a revelation came to them from on high.

another interesting development today was that the website for the petition campaign to have argentina disqualified from the cup got hit with a big israel-based ddos attack and was rendered useless, and it had over 1 million signatures.

screw their world and screw their cup. and the dipshits are still reading the whole thing on a messi-ronaldo level.

there's no way a country this damned and this filthy exists, man, these guys have every single road open to them and it's all happening right in front of all our eyes.

and i won't be able to give a source, sorry. i gave the journalist's name. find him on twitter and read it. it took the guy 2 hours to upload his documents, go open it and read it yourself.

there are guys out there who manage to make even this woman unhappy. they are truly brainless. if a woman is the one ending a marriage that lasted years, i blame the woman's idiot husband there. i wonder what all he did to this woman. she's beautiful, smart, and a businesswoman. what more could she have possibly done? she seems to have found the happiness she was looking for. i hope she stays happy for good.

(see: #1844)

you can find her sexy, i've got nothing to say about that, but she is not a leader who calls a spade a spade. when trump was elected, even though the entire eu said don't do it, she became the first and only eu head to go running to congratulate trump and pose for photos with him. italy never forgets this. their falling-out wasn't because of any principled politics on meloni's part but because trump is crazy and a misogynist. of course the tops weren't going to let themselves be used, and boy would it have been something if she had. though if it were up to meloni, she'd have let herself be used, by the way. also, everything she said to macron before being elected, she was forced to eat her words on after he was elected.

after the second goal they conceded, he looked up at the sky with a pained expression on his face. i thought to myself, i guess it's not going to happen this time. turns out the guy was feeling sorry for what was about to happen to egypt.

one way or another this guy is going to find a way onto the squad in 2030 too and screw portugal over.

when is fifa going to stop being the usa's lapdog, i wonder? does this kind of nonsense make any sense? they won't let a referee into the country, and fifa doesn't say a word. what's being done to iran is out in the open, fifa doesn't say a word. they hand donald trump a peace prize. they won't ban israel from any tournament. they bring in these ridiculous water break rules. fifa deserves a very serious boycott.

canada might be the best team at applying a high press since the tournament started, they are pressing up top with 6 guys. let's see how long they can keep it up, but they have really rattled morocco. for 30 minutes now they have been running a very effective tactical setup.

trusting someone isn't easy to begin with. you can't approach everyone the same way, you get selective over time. but the real issue, i think, is trust being broken. because after that point you don't just lose your trust in one person. you can't talk as freely as you used to, you can't believe as easily as you used to. even when something's going well, there's always a question mark in the back of your mind. as if what you went through before is going to happen all over again. and the worst part is this: the people who let you down in the past make you wary even toward people who've done nothing wrong. maybe the person in front of you is someone different, but you're not who you used to be anymore. because when a person's heart is broken, it isn't just their trust in one person that goes. a little of your ease, your innocence, and your goodwill toward everyone fades too. and the most painful part of some losses is exactly this; not the person who left, but the old version of you that you lost along with them.

if they answer you when you call, then they've got time to spare for you, why not look at it from the positive side for once? the person across from you might be using their time terribly, might be depressed, might be burned out, might be a wreck, might have all sorts of anxieties, for instance. you just call, sir, your pearls won't fall out. in some periods my life spirals so far out of control that i can't even make time for myself, because of the busyness and the way the worry of not keeping up that comes with it locks me up, and consider that i'm one of my own favorite people.

the goals he scores aren't just center-forward goals or goals tapped in around the penalty spot. goals that reek of hard work... i can say he's a truly great player and, without question, the best active footballer. if messi surpasses even this guy despite his age, then after he retires let the name of football itself be messi.

men who are loveless, merciless, and prone to violence of every kind.

it looks like it'll stick in people's memories for the close, entertaining matches of the round of 32. a lot of the games were the scene of great excitement. i just wish japan could have pulled off an upset too. it would have added something special to the tournament.

this man is a living legend! he breaks his own record every day. his only rival is himself. maybe we never got to witness maradona, but we witnessed someone even better. thank goodness you exist, messi!

shall i tell you the biggest difference between this guy and messi? talent, contribution, intelligence and so on, i’m skipping all that. ronaldo gets unhappy deep down when a teammate scores, i can feel it. purely because he wasn’t the center of attention. the guy’s concern isn’t winning or anything, he just wants the attention on him. messi, on the other hand, does the complete opposite, doing the best he can to set up his teammates to score. for him what matters isn’t being the one who scores the goal but being the one who wins the match. and this difference right here is what we call character.

day 73. for me there's no turning back from this road now. it's done me a world of good so far, my body and my mind feel amazing, i regret not doing it sooner, but in a word it's hard. i've never smoked, so i can't compare it to quitting cigarettes. but it isn't easy. because when you think about the place refined sugar holds in our lives, you're reshaping not just your diet but your social life too. staying indifferent to the smell of cake drifting in from the kitchen. zeroing in on just the cheeses and the like at a beautiful spread-out sunday brunch. not reaching for gels, chocolate, and so on during a run. keeping your distance from the redbull they hand out at a marathon/half marathon, and so forth. it takes major concentration. i wish i could go back 20 years to make this decision.