picspam: the brothers Alcantara
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meretriculaI have been promising this post for a really long time. sorry that I'm a lazy bum, you guys! and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
distira, I hope this brightens your day a little bit. ♥
this is only one part of the vast sprawling conglomerate of stuff I have made dedicated to my love for FC Barcelona, which can be navigated from this page.
Thiago and Rafa Alcantara (born in '91 and '93 respectively, stop rubbing it in that I'm old now) are brothers, best friends, and players for FC Barcelona. before the 2011-12 season, Thiago was promoted to the first team from Barça B and Rafa was promoted to Barça B from Juvenil A, and because of the age gap, they have never been officially enrolled in the same team at Barcelona, although the divisions between categories are pretty fluid; players often move up or down depending on the needs of a higher level team. (Thiago spent a sizable chunk the 2010-11 season with the first team, and Rafa played several games with Barça B, probably at least in part to fill the gap left by his brother's temporary promotion.) in fact, Thiago commented once that he thought it was very unlikely he would get to play with his brother, since they both play the same position. however, he turned out to be wrong - they both got to start on February 12 2011, against Cartagena, a game that Barça B won 3-0. coincidentally (or maybe not, who knows) it was also Rafa's 18th birthday.
Rafa and Thiago are very close (they share an apartment and most of their friends), occasionally bordering on co-dependent. but in an adorable way! the following is my (attempt at a) translation of an article from Sport about them:
it's not just Rafa, either. Thiago after a day's separation from his brother during international duty: tweeting about how much he misses him. (their twitters are just generally goldmines of adorable, incidentally. Rafa more than Thiago.) how so cute?!
fat-faced babies
fat-faced little kids
fat-faced teenagers
fashion criminals
and then there's Rafa's tattoo. not sure you can tell what it's of? scroll up to the first picture on this page. yeah. because nothing screams "manly tattoo" like a picture of yourself cuddling the daylights out of your big brother as a toddler.
Rafa's 18th birthday was pretty awesome, too, just going by the photographic evidence. as mentioned above, he and Thiago both got to start in Barça B's match that day, which they won. and then apparently they went out.
before
after (note the time stamp...)
birthday wishes from Jonathan dos Santos (we'll get to him in second)
and from big bro: "you deserve it all, my darling. 18 years that you've been bringing joy to the heart of the whole world! I love you. congratulations." (extremely rough translation, with the help of a Portuguese speaker, but yeah. that's what he said.)
at this point we add to the mix Jonathan dos Santos, other best friend, third musketeer and honorary Alcantara. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY HIS INNOCENT FACE. Rafa and Thiago may have forgiven him for the thing with the hookers, but I have not. but they do seem to like him an awful lot.
"people I have a lot of mouths to shut up and I would like to know who you think is cuter? Thiago or Jonathan???"
in conclusion:
distira, I hope this brightens your day a little bit. ♥this is only one part of the vast sprawling conglomerate of stuff I have made dedicated to my love for FC Barcelona, which can be navigated from this page.
Thiago and Rafa Alcantara (born in '91 and '93 respectively, stop rubbing it in that I'm old now) are brothers, best friends, and players for FC Barcelona. before the 2011-12 season, Thiago was promoted to the first team from Barça B and Rafa was promoted to Barça B from Juvenil A, and because of the age gap, they have never been officially enrolled in the same team at Barcelona, although the divisions between categories are pretty fluid; players often move up or down depending on the needs of a higher level team. (Thiago spent a sizable chunk the 2010-11 season with the first team, and Rafa played several games with Barça B, probably at least in part to fill the gap left by his brother's temporary promotion.) in fact, Thiago commented once that he thought it was very unlikely he would get to play with his brother, since they both play the same position. however, he turned out to be wrong - they both got to start on February 12 2011, against Cartagena, a game that Barça B won 3-0. coincidentally (or maybe not, who knows) it was also Rafa's 18th birthday.
Rafa and Thiago are very close (they share an apartment and most of their friends), occasionally bordering on co-dependent. but in an adorable way! the following is my (attempt at a) translation of an article from Sport about them:
HE BECAME DEPRESSED WHEN HE WAS SEPARATED FROM THIAGO
Rafa Alcantara, the goalkeeper/striker who can't live without his brother
After the relentless emergence of Thiago Alcantara, it could soon be his brother Rafa's turn.
Thiago's brother aims at being a "crack" and already leads both Oscar Garcia's Juvenil A and the Spanish U-17 and U-19 NTs. Born February 12, 1993, Rafa Alcantara has already aroused the interest of Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique. Like Thiago, his first surname is that of his mother and his second that of his father, Do Nascimento. "It's nicer. They've always called Rafa 'Rafinha' but he doesn't like it," Mazinho explained.
A big joker, Rafa has a very special relationship with Thiago and the separation was fatal when his brother was signed by Barça. So much, that he started losing his hair and couldn't keep up in school. So his father spoke with Albert Benaiges (the grassroots coordinator) and Rafa had a trial with Barça.
And then he took revenge on his son for his continual jokes. "He's always joking and you don't know if he's speaking seriously. When I learned that he could stay with [Thiago], I told him that they'd told me that he was a bum who didn't work, and they didn't want him. He started to cry, but I picked him up and told him it was a joke. He always gets me and for one day I got to laugh at him," continued Mazinho.
What few know is that a good goalkeeper was lost in Rafa. "At Vigo, he was goalkeeper in the first half and an outfield player in the second. He's quick and he does very well between the sticks," said his father. After he came to Barcelona, he joined his brother's group of friends "and now they seem more Rafa's friends than Thiago's," said Mazinho. Although he only lived for four years in Brazil and he is happy in the U-19s, "La Canarinha" (the Brazilian national team) pulls at Rafa. "He's very happy with the treatment of the Spanish Federation, but... he has doubts," concluded his father.
it's not just Rafa, either. Thiago after a day's separation from his brother during international duty: tweeting about how much he misses him. (their twitters are just generally goldmines of adorable, incidentally. Rafa more than Thiago.) how so cute?!
fat-faced babies
fat-faced little kids
fat-faced teenagers
fashion criminals
and then there's Rafa's tattoo. not sure you can tell what it's of? scroll up to the first picture on this page. yeah. because nothing screams "manly tattoo" like a picture of yourself cuddling the daylights out of your big brother as a toddler.
Rafa's 18th birthday was pretty awesome, too, just going by the photographic evidence. as mentioned above, he and Thiago both got to start in Barça B's match that day, which they won. and then apparently they went out.
before
after (note the time stamp...)
birthday wishes from Jonathan dos Santos (we'll get to him in second)
and from big bro: "you deserve it all, my darling. 18 years that you've been bringing joy to the heart of the whole world! I love you. congratulations." (extremely rough translation, with the help of a Portuguese speaker, but yeah. that's what he said.)
at this point we add to the mix Jonathan dos Santos, other best friend, third musketeer and honorary Alcantara. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY HIS INNOCENT FACE. Rafa and Thiago may have forgiven him for the thing with the hookers, but I have not. but they do seem to like him an awful lot.
"people I have a lot of mouths to shut up and I would like to know who you think is cuter? Thiago or Jonathan???"
in conclusion:
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Date: 2011-09-17 02:27 am (UTC)"Messi applauded my goal, you think I care what anyone else thinks?"
"Messi is from another planet"
CAREFUL IBI YOUR CRUSH IS SHOWING JUST A LITTLE.
but I am seriously conflicted! because I ship Ibi 100% equally with Leo and with Thiago? I try to think which I like better and I can't. and nobody writes Ibi/Thiago (sulk sulk sulk) even though it is TOTALLY CANON that they have awkward English conversation practice together and Maxwell could be their reluctant duenna and and and. and they're adorable. but Ibi and Leo are adorable too!
...yeah I might have just gone through the archives of fuckyeahafellay looking for both of them. pretty much equal representation. and this video (http://meretricula.tumblr.com/post/10299862319/fuckyeahafellay-since-im-not-allowed-to-edit) OH MY GOD. ALL THE HEARTS IN THE WORLD.
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Date: 2011-09-17 02:41 am (UTC)IKRRRRRRRRRR
JUST A LITTLE
Leo doesn't even help at all. "This one's a warrior" indeed... he's never going to get over it now
hahaha when san and I were writing crack back and forth with each other, one time, everyone was in highschool and ibi was a transfer student with a massive ridiculous obsession with Leo and Thiago was his very understanding boyfriend who carried around paper bags in case Leo said "hi" in the hallway and ibi started hyperventilating
/cool story bro
but seriously though there has to be a way to incorporate all three
THERE HAS TO BE
is my messi-is-acutally-the-team-mascot and-by-mascot-i-mean-favourite-whore bias showing? thiago and ibi can get goodtimes as a couple because they're nervousThat video. Ibi detaches from the mass hug to give Thiago a special hug! :333333 and also that was such sexy football
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Date: 2011-09-17 02:59 am (UTC)idek man, like, I was totally fine with Ibi/Leo being a background unrequited crush and then
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Date: 2011-09-17 03:22 am (UTC)Leo was like the kid everyone in the entire school is in love with regardless of their sexuality and he totally never, ever realised so Thiago didn't feel too bad. Except maybe Xavi who only had eyes for his english teacher who was Iniesta (just go with the age fuckery, go with it) and wrote him extremely intense poetry a la Richard Siken and sometimes they'd just like stare at each other and have ~feelings for an entire lesson so Leo would quietly help everyone else with their homework so no one would interrupt them
i mean whut
HANA KIMI AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA YES. C R Y I N G. Does that mean Leo kisses everyone if you give him alcohol? DID THEY CUT SCENES FROM DRUNK!LEO ON A BUS?
I read those
mannnnnn
I need more
SO PERFECT
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Date: 2011-09-17 05:06 am (UTC)poor unenlightened souls.
hahahahahaha omg there is a reason last year Leo was like "fuck you guys I'm not getting drunk again"! HE JUST FELT A LITTLE BIT USED WHEN HE WOKE UP IN A PILE OF NAKED BODIES AND THEY EXPLAINED WHAT HE'D DONE THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. THEY FAILED TO EXPLAIN IT WAS A ~LOVING MASS ORGY.