Marcos Alonso was humiliated, insulted by this fanbase, all manner of agenda and narratives was drawn against him to force him out. Now tell me, do we have any LB/LWB since Ashley Cole that can do half of what he did? Alonso remain the best LB after Ashley Cole in this club. He was very efficient and important for us winning trophies. A world class LWB
Dear football,
Today, I want to share with you that this season will be my last as a professional footballer. After so many years living my dream, I feel it’s time to start a new chapter in my life.
Being honest, even though I have been preparing myself for this moment, I found it hard to write this letter. After 20 seasons , many people have played an important role in my career.
When I first kicked a ball as a child in Pamplona with my schoolmates, I never imagined the amazing journey ahead. I’m grateful for every moment: the wins, the tough losses, the challenges, and most of all, the people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve made along the way.
To my teammates, coaches, and every staff member at all the clubs I’ve been lucky to be part of, thank you for helping me grow as a person and a player every day. Wearing the shirts of CA Osasuna, Olympique Marseille, Chelsea FC, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla FC, and representing my country at the biggest stages has been a true privilege. Every moment has meant so much to me…
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44 Black students got into Yale Medical School and people are losing their minds.
Folks outraged about Black students in medical school are either just plain racist or do not a good answer for why the NBA is majority Black, why Koreans dominate esports, why Soviets have historically dominated chess, or why White Americans are overrepresented in business schools.
Nobody is calling for diversity quotas in the NFL offensive line. This is why that inconsistency exposes everything.
It is culture. The answer is CULTURE! It’s not IQ, it’s not genetics. Culture!
When a career path becomes a visible route out of poverty and into dignity for a particular community, that community gravitates toward it. African Americans poured into basketball and football not because of biology but because for decades those were among the only arenas where excellence was rewarded regardless of race.
Business ownership concentrated in White families across generations because White were the ones allowed to own businesses, build equity, and pass wealth down. It is not because they are just naturally entrepreneurial. They tend to go to business school and inherit the family business.
Asians dominate STEM fields in America not because of some inherent intellectual advantage but because immigrant Asian families identified education in technical fields as the most reliable path to stability and drilled that into their children for generations.
Culture explains everything that race cannot to us.
The quarterback position in the NFL was considered a “IQ position” for most of the twentieth century, and was subtly understood to be reserved for White players. Now Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, and Jalen Hurts are the best players in the league at that position. They are a result of what cultural shifts and are not exceptions.
Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time. Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time. Both dominated sports historically called White sports due to so called high IQ requirement . It wasn’t like there was a sudden genetic mutation. It was cultural change, and culture changes who shows up, and who shows up changes what is possible.
The 19th century European anthropologists who invented the framework of racial hierarchy and eugenics were not scientists. They were ideologues in lab coats, producing justifications for colonial extraction. Even though their pseudoscience has been thoroughly discredited, its ghost still haunts conversations like this one, dressed up as concern for merit.
Here is what merit actually looks like. A Black kid from a community with no doctors grows up, sees Ben Carson on television, decides medicine is possible for someone like him, works for it, earns it, and gets into Yale. That is culture catching up to potential that was always there.
A Market Day at Asesewa - a famous story in a Basic school text book remembered by many a Basic School pupil.
Market days in this renowned trading community are set to receive new impetus as President Mahama is enroute to cut sod for the construction of a modern market in Asesewa.
When the rate was falling all the way down to 9 cedis we used to jubilate here.
Now the rate has been stealthily increasing but when you ask questions, the same people who jubilated who start blaming you for criticizing the government and say you’re an opposition.
For every policy Sam George supports today, there’s an old video of him saying the opposite when he was in opposition. It’s a very interesting time to be alive