we're often too reverent in talking about athletes as gods when they are clearly talented-but-flawed men
but he literally baptized this baby and blessed him with legendary soccer talent, feels like pretty solid evidence he's some sort of saint or perhaps a minor deity if polytheism is real
Rodger Sherman
Amazing. At age 20, Lionel Messi did a UNICEF Barcelona photo shoot for a calendar, of him giving a baby a bath.
That baby was Lamine Yamal.
It’s his first World Cup, and Messi’s last. They’ll play against each other. What a crazy story.