🎙️ Miroslav Klose: “I stopped playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved. At Lazio and in the national team, after each training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injuries. But the young players on the team systematically refused.
When they saw me picking up the bags of balls to put them away at the end of training, they said to me 'But who tells you to do that?'.
At that moment, I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and you can't help a 60-year-old worker?'
They care more about whether their boots go with their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I knew no longer exists.
Today's young players think first of cars, contracts with their sponsors, and their new boots. It is only after all these things that football comes. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form.”
Messi has won his 8th Ballon d’Or for the 2022/23 season, and arguably it is his most deserved win yet.
👕58 games
⚽️45 goals
🅰️26 assists
🏆World Cup
🏆Ligue 1
🏆French Super Cup
🎖️World Cup Golden ball
⚽️Scored 2 goals in World Cup final
⚽️🅰️Scored and Assisted in World Cup Semi Final
⚽️Scored in French Super Cup
⚽️6 Free kick goals
⚽️15+ outside the box goals
Awards:
🎖️MOTM in World Cup final
🎖️MOTM in French Super Cup
🎖️FIFA The Best 2022
🎖️Laureus Best Sportsman
🎖️World Cup top Assister
🎖️World Cup Silver boot
🎖️IFFHS World's Best Player
🎖️IFFHS World's Best Playmaker
🎖️IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer
Russell Westbrook noticed this loyal young fan who wore 4 of his jerseys to the Clippers game.
He decided to give him a signed, game-worn 5th jersey in his first NBA game ever ❤️
(via @TomerAzarly)
Here's another clip of how great Norm Macdonald was at taking the most awkward comedy and making it so funny you couldn't help but laugh.
Norm is doing a bit about Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) dying... 10 days after it happened.