Progress Not Perfection

Club World Cup: Salzburg's 4-2-2-2

fifatrainingcentre 🎯 Barrios breaks the deadlock!

Atlético have counter-attacking in their DNA.

Two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion Tobin Heath breaks down what makes the La Liga side so dangerous: „It’s team-counter-attacking football. This isn’t just one player going.”

Seattle set up for a long goal kick, thinking they’re in control—but in just a few seconds, instinct, intensity, and perfectly timed runs flipped the script. From first contact to fourth runner, it’s classic Atlético: transitional football at its ruthless best.

CP: We're bad gays. And we don't know anything about gay culture, gay community, or how to be a good lesbian.

So it was an upsetting turn of events that led us here to this chair, because for me, my rule of gayhood is- ... and lesbianism, is that you just get to be true to yourself, and then here I was studying the Encyclopedia of Lesbianism and I didn't know a thing on it.

I texted my older sister, who is married to a woman, and I said, "What gay things are you into?" And she said, "I'm not into anything trendy. I'm a grandma gay."

TH: Yeah, but she is a good grandma gay.

CP: But she said she is a good grandma gay.

TH: Yeah.

CP: And then she gave me a list of things. I knew nothing.

Tobin's Thoughts:

There is a magical place called The Dump. And growing up, my family went every summer day. Few people who arrive at The Dump would think it was anything special. But there, we’d jump off the dock. We’d catch crabs and sun burns. And we’d collect things. 

It was a place where we’d go to go somewhere else. Where our imaginations would run wild. And at the end of the day, we’d all pool together what we found - stories, treasures, laughter. 

As a kid, you always wanted to find something out of the ordinary. The most unique shell or sea creature. There was nothing cool about the status quo. There still isn’t, at least to me.

At The Dump, I could be anything but ordinary too. I was safe there, with my peculiarities and unfurling uniqueness. I was free to explore. Free to exist beyond boundaries, labels and binaries. Those feelings of freedom and safety that I had as a kid have stayed with me. Even as I got older, even as I ventured beyond the little island. 

Today, I think of being queer like being at The Dump, which I know sounds funny. It’s true, though. 

My queerness is running barefoot down the dock and launching myself into the sparkling blue water, curious to uncover the hidden world beneath. It is plopping myself down into the warm sand, unbothered by everywhere it's getting, and digging around for treasures I knew I’d find. It is family, sunshine, and adventure. 

My queerness is a place with no boundaries, no labels. With only the freedom to explore as far as my imagination will take me, and with only one rule: come home for supper at sundown. 

CRIMINAL MINDS EVOLUTION | 18x05 "The Brutal Man"