Frosty Jack

We are lucky in that he only claims that a Pastor predicted that he would one day play for Liverpool, not Jesus himself.

The church is also 100% Bolsonarista. https://verbodavida.org.br/?s=Bolsonaro

Maybe Slot is now ready to UNLEASH Chiesa on the premiership.

It was the shortest goal celebration ever at our table. Here’s the church he is publicly connected to, Verba da Vida. The definition of neopentecostal prosperity theology. Brazil based, with branches all over, founded by American missionaries in the early 90s with funding from Kenneth E. Hagin ministries in the US. Their modus operandi has always been training their followers to convert others. Hagin was against interracial relationships. Gakpo is actually interviewed here. https://verbodavida.org.br/noticias/cody-gakpo-destaque-da-holanda-na-copa-e-do-verbo-em-eindhoven

Practice of faith is very different to using the game as a platform to recruit to their church or faith, which is what all the players who have worn that shirt in high profile games before were doing. I don’t buy the “Kaka homage” explanation at all, not least because a homage to what someone did after defeating Liverpool in a European cup final would be an absurd thing for a Liverpool player to do. If he’s spent his life Pentecostal he knew exactly what it meant. He is constantly trying to recruit and convert from what I’ve read.

Torygraph have.

I’d love to see him start in the same attack as Salah and Diaz, at least once.

Yeah he looked frustrated on bench and a bit self conscious during celebrations. Like didn’t want to do a Josemi as it were. Milan or Napoli for him.

Semiotics update: STAYING

I’m fine with them trying to kiss their own nipples.

He’s an opportunist. Like most of Brazilian politics, clientelism. They go with whatever tide. He was in PSB (essentially social democratic) for years, then drifted right and joined Bolsonaro’s party when he was president. He will switch again soon enough.

They turned the Brazil shirt into a faux-nationalist far right uniform about ten years ago.

Far far bigger but some of their front facing operations might look superficially similar now, for example the branch in Liverpool is called a “Help Centre”.

Just for clarity, that shirt is associated directly with the big 2 Brazilian churches, and the high profile players who’ve done what Gakpo did yesterday are members. It’s effectively advertising for their church. The biggest, richest, and worst, Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, recently opened a branch in Liverpool city centre.

Where I live. Theres no dividing line between the evangelical churches and fascism whatsoever. And losing people you know to those brainwashing and extortion factories is as distressing as you can imagine.