#97 // Suárez → Messi Barcelona 2 – 0 Real Betis

The next X-Men movie should be set at a youth soccer academy.

A young Lionel Messi. A young Luis Suárez.

The true story—of how telepathy made its way onto a field in Seville.

#64 // Lo Celso → Canales Real Betis 1 – 1 Real Madrid

A nifty little La Liga through ball, and a tie game with Real Madrid.

Giovani Lo Celso to Sergio Canales.

Have a look:

We know Ronaldo left for Juventus, but still.

Real Madrid… what’s going on, big guy?

Look at that. Look at that!

He’s got eyes in the back of his head, Leo Messi.

Or, as they’d say in Spain, in Argentina:

Tiene ojos en la nuca…

Fernando Torres joined the Atletico Madrid youth team in 1995, when he was 11.

Twenty-three years later, after a long sojourn away, Diego Costa fed him a through ball for the ages, and El Niño rode off into the Atletico sunset.