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Search results for "Lionel Messi is the second player in history to score 17 goals at a World Cup."

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Facebook posts stated on August 27, 2023 in a Facebook post:
The mothers of Major League Soccer players “file complaint against Leo Messi.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 30, 2023
X posts stated on July 11, 2021 in a tweet:
Says this crowd video shows the ongoing protests in Cuba.
By Samantha Putterman• July 13, 2021
Threads posts stated on December 10, 2024 in Threads posts:
“Pride flags permanently prohibited at FIFA Club World Cup 2025.”
By Sofia Ahmed• December 16, 2024
Facebook posts stated on June 16, 2024 in a post:
Cristiano Ronaldo was the only European soccer captain who did not wear a rainbow armband at Euro 2020.
By Grace Abels• June 21, 2024
Viral image stated on November 25, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“Saudi team gets $460K Rolls-Royces for upset win.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 29, 2022
Facebook posts stated on July 08, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Soccer players on the U.S. women’s national team "stomped" on the American flag.
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 25, 2019
The Other 98% stated on March 31, 2016 in a Facebook image:
"Last year (the U.S. women’s soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men’s team and were paid almost four times less."
By Lauren Carroll• April 6, 2016
Bloggers stated on July 12, 2014 in a post on the blog "Outside the Beltway":
"North Korea is telling its people that their men’s national team is in the World Cup final."
By Jon Greenberg• July 17, 2014
Nancy Pelosi stated on June 17, 2014 in a tweet:
Says 11 soccer players on the U.S. Men’s National Team are immigrants.
By Steve Contorno• June 19, 2014
Instagram posts stated on November 21, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Qatar refused “to receive the German national team’s plane, which bears the gay logo, which forced them to return the plane to the airport of the Sultanate of Oman.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 29, 2022
Facebook posts stated on August 25, 2023 in a Facebook post:
As of Aug. 25, "Luis Rubiales has resigned as the president of the Spanish Football Federation."
By Tom Kertscher• August 29, 2023
Instagram posts stated on December 06, 2021 in a post:
Suggests "108 FIFA registered players/coaches have died" because of COVID-19 vaccines.
By Yacob Reyes• November 22, 2022
Viral image stated on August 07, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Golfer John Daly commented on soccer player Megan Rapinoe “choking” during the World Cup.
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 9, 2023
Roger Goodell stated on January 20, 2014 in an interview on NFL.com:
"The extra point is almost automatic. … (The NFL) had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd" attempts.
By Katie Sanders• January 31, 2014
Peter Beinart stated on July 06, 2014 in comments on CNN:
"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."
By Derek Tsang• July 10, 2014
Eric Cantor stated on February 19, 2013 in a news release.:
"The National Science Foundation spent $1.2 million paying seniors to play World of Warcraft to study the impact it had on their brain."
By Sean Gorman• February 22, 2013
John Oliver stated on June 08, 2014 in a segment on "Last Week Tonight":
Brazil built a $300 million stadium in the Amazon rainforest that "is only going to be used for four World Cup games," and there’s no team "that can fill it afterwards."
By Katie Sanders• June 11, 2014
John Calipari stated on January 20, 2018 in an interview:
"We have the highest graduation rate of basketball players in the history of the NCAA. We have the highest graduation rate of African-American basketball players in the history of the NCAA in basketball."
By John Kruzel• February 1, 2018
Facebook posts stated on July 21, 2021 in a Facebook post:
A photograph shows members of the U.S. women’s soccer team kneeling during the national anthem at the Tokyo Olympics.
By Madison Czopek• July 26, 2021
Viral image stated on January 19, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Four players have dropped out of the Australian Open with “chest pains.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 21, 2022

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