🗣️ Arda Güler: 'Do you remember Alex Hunter? Some of you are probably too young. But FIFA 17 had this mode called The Journey, and you played as this random kid named Alex.
You started out as a nobody and tried to get signed by the big clubs. If you “made it,” they would show you going out of the tunnel next to stars like Cristiano Ronaldo.
It was more than a game for us. It was our actual dream, on the TV screen. We were so addicted. Every time I came home from my friends’ house, I begged my dad for a PS4.
“I’ll be so good! I’ll study so hard!”
One day when I came home from school, there was a package on the kitchen table. It was a PlayStation shaped box.
I went crazy.
I looked at him like, “Really?!”
He said, “Really.”
When I switched it on, there were lots of games on the PlayStation already. No disc required. It seemed almost too good to be true. I was like, Wait, I had to beg Dad for one game, and now he’s giving me 20?
I asked him, “Hey Dad, did you win the Lottery?”
He was like, “Actually …… I got a deal.”
I was like, “You mean at the store?”
He was like, “No, no, at the market …….”
Then I found out that my FIFA had no Journey mode. I couldn’t find Alex Hunter. Some of the names were weird. When I wanted to be Cristiano Ronaldo, I had to select this club called “MD White.”
I played like this for weeks. I had never tried any other football game except FIFA, so I honestly thought mine was just a different version. But then one day my friends came over to play, and they were like, “Arda ........ what is this?”
I said, “What do you mean? It’s FIFA.”
I said, “No, come on guys, this is the football game.”
They said, “Bro, where is Fenerbahçe? What are all these weird names?
Your dad got scammed.”
They were all cracking up. I was trying to laugh along with them, but I was actually so embarrassed.
But I didn’t care that I had the fake FIFA. I loved it anyway. I don’t need a real pitch or a real goal or a new PlayStation. Even if I have rocks for goalposts, I am happy.
That’s the Turkish mentality.'
BREAKING:
🇺🇸🇦🇫 Trump says he wants to return the US troops to Afghanistan
"By the way, we are trying to go back there.
It is located an hour's drive from where China produces its nuclear weapons"
Israel bombed a hospital.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Arteta on Gyokeres:
"The best data was my first Zoom call with him. I told him the idea I had,
Imagine yourself putting that shirt on, walking into a dressing room expectation is around you. How do you handle it?"
Gyokeres: " That's my dream."
Starmer & Lammy have:
Backed Netanyahu 🇮🇱 ‘right’ to starve Palestinians 🇵🇸
Sold 🇬🇧 weapons to 🇮🇱
Flown 🇬🇧 spy missions for 🇮🇱
Refused to call it a genocide
Welcomed ‘genocide IDF generals’ to the UK 🇬🇧
They are partners to 🇮🇱
They should answer to The Hague.
For 21 months, @BBCNews you have disinformed the public as to the scale, illegality & disproportionality of Israel’s actions in Gaza. Actions that amount to a genocide. BBC journalists, myself included, have been raising the alarm since 2023. This statement comes far too late.