There’s one fact from the Vozinha story I can’t stop turning over in my head. When Cape Verde’s 40-year-old goalkeeper made his professional debut in 2007 for a small club called Batuque, Lamine Yamal — the Spanish prodigy he kept out of the net last night — hadn’t been born yet. For the next 19… Read more: He Stopped Spain at 40. His Mother Couldn’t Be There to See It. The Vozinha Story.

It’s been almost a month since I last wrote here. Not because there was nothing to say. The opposite. Too much to say, and most of it uncomfortable. So let me put it down plainly. The scale didn’t move Zero weight loss this month. A few weeks of slipping on the diet did the damage.… Read more: What This Month Cost Me — And What It Didn’t

This is my rebuild journey — one month in, no filters. 30 days ago, I said I was going to rebuild. This is what it actually looked like. The gym I joined a gym 2.5 kilometres from home. The first week was brutal. Leg day hit me so hard I couldn’t walk properly for three… Read more: One Month In. Here’s What Actually Happened.