Carlo Castillo

If there’s one thing I’m convinced about this Argentinian squad, is the fact that Our Mother is constantly with them. Their devotion to the Virgin Mary is remarkable. These are grown men who play tough in the pitch, yet children before the holy Queen. Beautiful.

Grande Lautaro. Lleva en sus medias a la Virgen de Luján.

I’ll keep saying this boldly, Messi is 100% Catholic. People don’t seem to understand just how profound his Catholic faith influences his personality

After Argentina’s win over Egypt, Lionel Messi met the supporter who had given him a rosary blessed in the Vatican after the Cape Verde match. Messi told him that he still carries the rosary in his bag for good luck. 🙏❤️

Yeah I think Egyptians are one of the most shameless fanbases… yall doing too much

Messi's legacy is done and dusted 😭

@RMCFfann What’s your basis for saying Ronaldo is the better player?

If Messi is better than Ronaldo because of World Cup then does that make toni Kroos Better than Messi 🤔

🚨Lamine Yamal on Julián Álvarez: “We wait for him at Barça with open arms. Julián for sure is that kind of player everyone wants to play with… he’s absolutely perfect for Barça style”

La FIFA doit ouvrir une enquête sur ce tacle de Leandro Paredes 😭

You can clearly see FIFA rigged the ball to fly into the top corner 😡

People are exaggerating Argentinas “fouls.” We can find controversial calls in almost every World Cup game. Yet the world sets their eyes on Messi and Argentina. This isn’t objectivity, it’s jealously and bias in disguise

This is not a good image of Egyptian football

Just stop lying to yall selves 🥀😭

Argentina were robbed! Thank God they went through otherwise we would have seen the biggest robbery in sports history

Egypt coach screaming at Lionel Scaloni's face while Scaloni completely ignoring him.

Since all eyes are on the Egyptian team today, it’s worth reminding the world that Christians are practically banned from playing top level football in Egypt. Despite being 10% of the population, only two Christians have played the national team in the past 36 years. Not a single one has played for Egypt since 2003. The former Ajax striker Mido said in 2018 that the discrimination is obvious and that only 5 Christians have ever plaid in Egypt’s top clubs. He suggested a 10% quota for Copts should be introduced in all clubs to end the discrimination. Ironically, the Egyptian coach made the new “X for racism-sign” recently introduced by FIFA during today’s game to signal to the referee that the Egyptian team was experiencing racism. But religious discrimination has clearly never bothered him. FIFA has also been unwilling to do anything about the longstanding issue of severe underrepresentation and systemic discrimination against Christians at youth, club and national levels in Egypt. Christians are effectively excluded in practice, with virtually none reaching the senior national team or top domestic clubs in recent decades. The exception is Hany Ramzy. The a Christian defender who earned 120+ caps for Egypt in the 1990s and early 2000s. Estimates suggest that fewer than a dozen Copts have played at the highest domestic level in the last 50+ years. Multiple independent reports, player testimonies and comments from figures like Coptic Pope Tawadros II and Muslim former player Ahmed Hossam (“Mido”) have highlighted the discrimination: - Youth trials and club signings where Christian names lead to rejection or pressure to change to a Muslim-sounding name. - Stories of players hiding tattoos (the common Coptic cross on the wrist) or identity in their efforts to advance. - Similar underrepresentation is also noticeable in other sports (zero Copts in Egypt’s 2016 Rio Olympics delegation of 122 athletes) The Egyptian coach made a big point of flying the Palestinian flag in the World Cup and keeps repeating “Free Palestine.” Yet, he has never spoken about the fact that Egypt didn’t give sovereignty to the Palestinians in Gaza when Egypt was occupying it 1948-1967. Likewise, while he won’t stop claiming that there is discrimination of Muslims in Israel, he refuses to acknowledge the religious discrimination in Egyptian football.

#Missi asks Egypt's coach: «What's wrong with you?»

My goodness… these guys are posing a bad image for Egyptian football

🚨 Cristiano Ronaldo: “I’ve won 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒 with Portugal”. 🏆 “Before Cristiano, 𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐆𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐖𝐎𝐍 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆!” 🚨 𝐋𝐄𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈 “The truth is that I am deeply 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐋 to my teammates and I am very happy to compete alongside them” 🫂✨ “Thanks to this team and these teammates, I can be at another World Cup today and I can keep competing” 🥹

🚨 BREAKING: ​Egypt Head Coach Hossam Hassan made FIFA's "no to racism" gesture during the match. Following this move, the referee showed him a card. ​What will be the consequences of this gesture?