He hasn’t won the Lottery or the ONCE Cuponazo, but it doesn’t matter. Fortune has taken a fancy to Lamine Yamal. We already know how the gods deal with humans. The star of the Spanish national team may be having a better or worse World Cup, but that is irrelevant to the case at hand. The Barça youth player is living what is undoubtedly one of the best weeks of his life.
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He started more than well. Celebrating his birthday on Monday with his girlfriend, Inés García. Only 19 years old. Alongside him was also his mother, Sheila Ebana. “Even though I’m 19, she still calls the shots,” the footballer said in an interview. Good news. The next day, he played in Dallas the match that qualified La Roja for the final. The best birthday gift, impossible. Madness broke out in Spain. Even the royal family jumped for joy watching the match on TV. At the stadium, the VIPs shouted enthusiastically and celebrated almost as much as the players on the field. However, a tender gesture went viral, even though it happened in the quarterfinal match. And no, it has nothing to do with the one we saw a year ago on Coldplay’s kisscam. Penélope Cruz tenderly caressed a small child who could only be the famous Keyne, Lamine’s little brother who has also become one of the tournament’s protagonists. What a pair.
But the joy could have lasted little. Hours later, two masked thieves tried to break into the footballer’s house in Esplugues de Llobregat. Like in the movies. Fortune made an appearance again. Or rather, the footballer’s security staff thwarted the robbery attempt. Now we need to know if the goddess of fortune will stay by his side on Sunday in the big final against Argentina. Who will not be there is the striker’s father, Mounir Nasraoui, due to medical advice. Too much excitement could harm his epilepsy. And who will not miss the event is another god, but of football. Messi. The two youth idols of Barça, together again. Face to face. Like in that photo they took when Lamine was four months old and the Argentine star was so young he didn’t even know how to hold a baby. Whims of fate. Or of the goddess Fortune.
Another goddess who has been seen these days is Zendaya, the new Athena. The actress has taken her role in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey so seriously that she has blended with the daughter of Zeus at the film’s premieres. With the intelligence that characterizes both, the actress has showcased high-flying styling. She even appeared with wings on the red carpet in New York. And with an Eiffel Tower-style mask in Paris. Each dress referred, in some way, to ancient Greece and made it clear that she is the new goddess of fashion.
While Zendaya enhances her beauty, Tom Cruise has done the opposite in what will be his next film, Digger, by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The actor has left behind his attractiveness that sold so well in films like Mission Impossible or Top Gun to grow a belly and appear so aged that he is hard to recognize. What one has to do to finally try to win the first Oscar. Fans need not worry: the transformation was done using prosthetics and wigs. And he keeps smiling as always.
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Although time passes. There is little the goddess Fortune can do about that. It is the realm of Cronos, almost incorruptible. Although it seems he sometimes makes exceptions, as in the case of Mick Jagger. However, the 83-year-old rocker confessed what we somehow already feared: aging “is nothing good.” Word of Stone. In an interview with The New York Times, the rocker explained that with age, “you can’t do things as fast as you’d like. Physically, you have to be more careful.” He gave an example: now when he plays football, he plays as a goalkeeper. Maybe Cronos does have his favorites among humans.
We will see how the almost giant Erling Haaland ages, his Birkin bags, and his stuffed raccoon. For now, the Norwegian national team striker was received, along with his teammates, almost like a hero of the Iliad in his country, with a royal audience included. However, he missed the chance to have dinner with Tom Holland. The actor invited him via a message on social media and received silence in response. The footballer didn’t know who he was and the meal was left hanging. Another time.
For now, the good performance of the national team, which fell in the quarterfinals, seems to have given a breather to the Norwegian royal house. Images of Princess Ingrid hugging Haaland and the heir cheering in the stadium have boosted the popularity of the battered institution. But the footballers are not the only ones who have returned home. Mette-Marit has also returned after her lung transplant. And, above all, Marius Borg, who has left the cell to settle in the Skaugum palace while he remains in preventive detention. That said, the young man sentenced to four years for two cases of rape and for mistreatment of one of his ex-girlfriends sports a good electronic bracelet on his ankle. The least.
Another god who is usually too active, Hades, claimed actor Sam Neill this week in his realm. The star of such memorable films as Jurassic Park died of pneumonia after overcoming an intense and long battle against a rare lymphoma. He still had time to shoot four more projects that, like the rest of his filmography, will perpetuate his memory. After all, there are immortalities that not even the gods can control.
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