Beelzebub

I think at this point you guys are being naive to not know why West don't condemn Israel so I'll address the elephant in the room. It's simple Israel is a settler project of West in a very key region of the world and to maintain it they will have to pay some price for it from time to time even in the loss of their own citizens. 

That said I think it's not completely accurate to say West is backing Israel, it's Protestant West. Catholic majority countries like Spain, Ireland, Italy etc have been very critical of Israel but they don't really matter tbh so it doesn't show in material effect. 

I was having this discussion with someone actually that Catholics and Sunnis together make the majority of the world but they are totally useless at the moment. not one state that has their majority really matters globally. You could make some excuse for France, Turkey, Saudi but I don't really buy it. And Saudis aren't really Sunni to begin with, they have their own thing. 

It's the Protestant (US-UK) and Shia (Iran) that are the most active global players despite being numerically a minority. Fascinating

I took stickers on a hotel door room without permission once. 

There is this image created of the 'West' that everything good about it material progress, law and order etc is due to some gigantic team effort where everyone from US to Australia works in shifts. 

But when it comes to bad things the blame is individualized as one off 'mistakes'. Hitler, Leopold in Belgium etc they did not come out of isolation. These are systematic things which are again being seen in Gaza. 

Visuals of famine now coming out of Gaza.

It's now also time the term fundamentalist West or something like that is also used. The unsheltering US support for Israel and things like Iraq war before that are not just for strictly geopolitical reasons or for natural resources etc it goes beyond that. Western power circles are the same colonial fundamentalist that they were centuries ago. That EU guy even saying rest of the world is a jungle and Europe is a garden a while back speaks that they deep down still hold the ideas of racial superiority. 

Normal but I hold the pen very hard. 

Being drunk should have no influence in judging heinous crimes like rape or actions that may lead to death, drunk driving imo

Pantheon is a project by MIT university to rank the most notable people in human history based on how much traffic the Wikipedia profile of the personality gets. In order to get in the database the person's Wiki page must be in at least 15 different language versions of Wikipedia then it applies a complex mathematical equation to assign an HPI (historical popularity index) to rank personalities.

https://pantheon.world/explore/rankings?show=people&years=-3501,2023

Based on that these are the most notable footballer figures player+coach born in each country (just born may not have actually played for that country).

The ones I already know about are bolded. Please bold the ones you already knew about

List A

Afghanistan: Zohaib Islam Amiri

Albania: Panajot Pano

Algeria: Rabah Madjer

Andorra: Oscar Sonejee

Angola: Fernando Peyroteo

Argentina: Diego Maradona

Armenia: Henrikh Mkhtitaryan

Australia: Graham Arnold

Austria: Josef Bican

Azerbaijan: Tofiq Bahramov

List B

Bahrain: A'ala Hubail

Belarus: Sergei Aleinikov

Belgium: Jean-Marrie Pffaf

Belize: Dean McCaulay

Benin: Stephane Sessegnon

Bermuda: Shaun Goater

Bhutan: Wangay Dorji

Bolivia: Ulises Saucedo

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Vahid Halilhodzic

Botswana: Dipsy Selolwane

Brazil: Pele

Bulgaria: Hristo Stiochkov

Burkina Faso: Jonathan Pitroipa

Burundi: Shabani Nonda

List C

Cambodia: Chan Vathanaka

Cameroon: Roger Milla

Canada: John Van't Schip

Cape Verde: Rolando

Central African Rep: Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa

Chad: Japhet N'Doram

Chile: Ivan Zamorano

China: Lie Tie

Colombia: Rene Higuita

Congo DR: Claude Makelele

Congo Rep: Delvin N'Dinga

Costa Rica: Keylor Navas

Croatia: Davor Suker

Cuba: Jorge Romo

Cyprus: Michalis Konstantinou

Czech Republic: Josef Masopust

List D

Denmark: Peter Schmeichel

Dominican Republic: Junior Firpo

List E

Ecuador: Alberto Spencer

Egypt: Mohamad Salah

El Salvador: Jaime Rodriguez

England: Bobby Charlton

Estonia: Valeri Karpin

Eswatini: Bongani Khumalo

List F

Fiji: Roy Krishna

Finland: Jari Litmanen

France: Zinedine Zidane

List G

Gabon: Mario Lemina

Gambia: Omar Colley

Georgia: Murtaz Khurtsilava

Germany: Gerd Muller
Ghana: Abedi Pele
Greece: Theodoros Zagorakis

Guatemala: Carlos Ruiz
Guinea: Naby Keita

Guinea-Bissau: Ansu Fati

List H

Haiti: Emmanuel Sanon

Honduras: David Suazo

Hong Kong: Chan Siu Ki

Hungary: Ferenc Puskas
 

List I
Iceland: Eiour Guojohnsen

India: Sunil Chetri
Indonesia: Beb Bakhyus

Iran: Ali Daei
Iraq: Ahmed Radhi

Ireland: Roy Keane

Israel: Yochanan Vollach

Italy: Giuseppe Meazza

List J
Jamaica: Raheem Sterling

Japan: Kazuyoshi Miura (I knew he's the oldest player but didn't knew his name)

Jordan: Amer Shafi

List K

Kazakhstan: Serhiy Skachenko

Kenya: Michael Olunga

Kosovo: Xerdan Shaqiri

Kuwait: Faisal Al-Dakhil

Kyrgyzstan: Ilzat Akhmetov

List L

Laos: Visay Phaphouvanim

Latvia: Maris Verpakovskis

Lebanon: Yousef Mohamed

Liberia: George Weah

Libya: Claudio Gentile

Liechtenstein: Rainer Hasler

Lithuania: Arminas Narbekovas

Luxembourg: Louis Pilot

List M

Macedonia: Dragoslav Sekularac

Madagascar: Anicet Abel

Malawi: Russell Mwafulirwa

Malaysia: Mokhtar Dahari

Maldives: Ali Ashfaq

Mali: Salif Keita

Malta: Michael Mifsuda

Mauritania: Adama Ba

Mexico: Antonio Carbajal

Moldova: Itzhak Shum

Montenegro: Dejan Savicevic

Morocco: Just Fontaine

Mozambique: Eusebio

List N

Namibia: Collin Benjamin

Nepal: Rohit Chand

Netherlands: Johan Cruyff

New Zealand: Wynton Rufer

Nicaragua: Oscar Duarte

Niger: Moussa Maazou

Nigeria: Jay-Jay Okocha

North Korea: Lee Yoo-hyung

Northern Ireland: George Best

Norway: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

List O

Oman: Ali Al-Habsi

List P

Pakistan: Rubin Okotie

Panama: Jorge Dely Valdes

Paraguay: Jose Luis Chilavert

Peru: Teofillo Cubillas

Philippines: Paulino Alcantara

Poland: Udo Lattek

Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo

List Q

Qatar: Akram Afif

List R

Romania: Mircea Lucesu

Russia: Lev Yashin

List S

St Kitts & Nevis: Keith Gumbs

Saudi Arabia: Majed Abdullah

Scotland: Kenny Dalgish

Senegal: Jean-Pierre Adams

Serbia: Drajan Dzajic

Seirra Leone: Trevoh Chalobah

Singapore: Terry Butcher

Slovakia: Ferdinand Daucik

Slovenia: Branko Oblak

Somalia: Abdisalam Ibrahim

South Africa: Bruce Grobbelar

South Korea: Cha Bum-Kun

Spain: Santiago Bernabeu

Sudan: Almoez Ali

Suriname: Edgar Davids

Sweden: Gunnar Nordahl

Switzerland: Robert De Mattio

Syria: Mahmoud Dahoud

List T

Tajikistan: Rashid Rakhimov

Thailand: Kiatisuk Senamuang

Togo: Emmanuel Adebayor

Trinidad & Tobago: Dwight Yorke

Tunisia: Sadok Sassi

Turkey: Hakan Sukur

Turkmenistan: Rolan Gusev

List U

Uganda: Pione Sisto

Ukraine: Andriy Shevchenko

UAE: Adnan Al-Talyani

USA: Bert Petanaude

Uruguay: Jose Nasazzi

Uzbekistan: Vasilis Hatzipanagis

List V

Venezuela: Leonardo Jardim

Vietnam: La Cong Vinh

List W

Wales: Ryan Giggs

List Z

Zambia: Godfrey Chitalu

Zimbabwe: Benjani Mwaruwari

Nuclear weapons are almost a century old technology no tech can be made exclusive for that long. Before we see an actual county using one we will see more Beirut like explosions. 

lol Shoaib Akhtar and Sehwag give me funny and sad vibes.

Both talented players with bling in their prime but after retirement they have become trolls who don't really have any proper job, doing anything to make money. It's kinda sad like seeing someone from highschool who was really popular but isn't doing great in life now. 

10 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

Are you in shape, have you been conscripted, and have india crossed the border with a trillion dothraki screamers?

– Relatively better

– I think conscription will not be needed here for a while bcz we have a huge population

– Definitely it's on the cards. A second major front has opened in the world since then. Current Indian govt is right now in the phase of internal conquest once it will be done they will go for external expansion i.e the first country Nazis conquest was Germany

 

Same as Spike. The idea of sending off players for a while does work in sports like hockey but don't think it can be executed in football. 

Israel now bombing Rafah crossing with Egypt after it told Palestinians to move there for safety. 

17 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

This kind of propaganda hitting the UK is pretty concerning

Khamenei's probably so pleased he's got people in the west calling him the leader of the Muslim world though.

Which is so far from reality. IR already has a negative reputation in any Middle Eastern countries for the proxy wars and they spoiled the recent support they were getting after Oct 7 by striking countries like Pakistan which they never really had any hostilities with. 

 

5 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

Misbah-Ul-Haq did not average like 60 as captain and lead Pakistan to test number 1 ranking following the spot betting scandal to not be on this list you POS.

A contemporary great but not an all-time top 10. He became permanent in the team in his 30s and was in and out of the team before his peak.

The spot fixing scandal was actually his breakthrough. He told in the WC show that after he was dropped from that infamous 2010 England tour his mom asked him what are you planning to do now ? he was 36 and getting dropped at this stage of career means it's over. 

But the scandal happened and he got a phone call from the Chairman to get back into the squad and become captain. 

2 hours ago, Spike said:

@Beelzebubdont worry mate, he means ‘Position Of Sale’

Not gonna lie I did googled it

KO matches in this Asia Cup have been fun so far. 

Daily reminder whether it's Nethanyahu Putin or Bush decision to start a war can be an individual decision but how it is conducted is always a collective institutional approach. 

Western countries cut aid of UN agency providing relief work in Gaza over Israeli 'allegation' its 12 memebers were involved with Hamas. If you were wondering why a lot of countries were indifferent to Ukraine, not that they hate Ukraine or like Russia.

 

My WhatsApp messages were leaked about a teacher for which I had to pay a fine so I feel her.

14 hours ago, Cicero said:

Damn so Lampard was right. One title…

That too a Covid interrupted one. 

Ukraine is now fucked as a country for eons regardless of how this ends. Even Afghanistan is making a recovery because it's now firmly a no man's land left alone by everyone after consecutive global powers strategically failed there.

Ukraine will never be left alone. 

Algerian coach is getting roasted. This was one of Algeria's greatest set of players and they've had only failures even after winning Afcon in 2019.

2021 Afcon group stage

2022 WC didn't qualify

2024 Afcon group stage

Even if Nethanyahu goes Messianic Zionism is here to stay

100% on point about Baluchistan being a difficult terrain.

Even the British never tried to bring those parts fully under their control bcz they are sparsely populated with hostile terrain. If British with an Empire didn't bother about it then expecting cash strapped countries like Pak Iran to invest as much resources in those parts as their main population hubs is not realistic.