Will Slattery
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He then posted a picture of him holding the flag on Instagram.
Insofar as I can tell, it's the first time that he's done that.
We are talking about the natural heir to Messi and Ronaldo.
He will be for a time, probably for a good chunk of his career, the best player in the world.
He's likely to have a huge World Cup.
And it was striking.
We played the audio earlier.
Hansi Flick said, well, I told him not to do it.
Yeah.
I thought, well, there's a strength of character here when your manager is saying, look, don't do this.
So it was a very brave thing to do.
You could say it's the exuberance of youth.
Who knows?
And he may come to regret the backlash because I'm sure there will be a backlash of some sort.
But it was a very striking thing for such a high profile player to do.
It's rare.
Could you give us a sense of...
Umal the person, you know, in so much as we know how politically minded he is.
I know he's a Muslim.
What's going on here?