📢 Calling on all Nigerian Rossoneri! 🇳🇬🔴⚫
Come out and support the *AC MILAN FANS CLUB NIGERIA* football team as we take on Dona FC.
📅 Date: Saturday, August 22
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM
📍 Venue: Gbagada Recreational Centre
Let's paint Gbagada red and black with our passion and support!
We Are Milan9ja. 🇳🇬🔴⚫
#WeAreACMilan 🔴⚫
there was a plan I did in 2021 or so, it was saving according to the number of goals your favourite football club scores each weekend.
So I was doing 500 naira per goal they scored, back then I used to like watching Manchester united games so they were my fav club.
On this certain day, compared to their usual 1-2 goals they outdid themselves and it took me by surprise that weekend. Cos it was my last 5k in my account. In my head I already said at most they will score 1 or 2 goals and I will save 1k highest out of that 5k.
Guess what? Manchester united beat that team by 9 goals or so. Wo I drank garri that week ehn😪
I have a tenant, a single dad with two little girls. He’s never late. In fact, he usually pays early. Last December, he came to my door with the rent, but he looked gutted. He handed it to me and said, “Here it is… and I’m sorry, but I won’t be able to renew the lease in January. I have to move to a cheaper place.”
I asked why. He admitted that after taking care of the bills and home expenses, he barely had anything left for Christmas gifts or even enough groceries to last the month. He told me he chose to give me what he owed instead of giving his daughters a Christmas.
I handed it back to him.
I said, “this month is on the house. Go buy those girls some presents and fill your fridge. We’ll talk about the lease in February.”
He broke down right there on my porch.
He’s still my tenant three years later, and I’ve never had a better one.
A roof is important, but memories are essential
Building Netflix taught me that your first idea is rarely your best idea.
We started mailing DVDs, not streaming movies.
Stay married to the problem you’re solving, not the solution you THINK will solve it.
If you can leave, leave
If you can stay, hustle
If you are hustling, be smart
Don't be an island; get together with friends or classmates and activate the power of groups
If you belong to the Chelsea supporters club, Edo branch, you can contribute cash, buy a cow, share meat.
1. Join Esusu (collect first or second)
2. Join a cooperative society, take a loan
3. Buy in bulk, as a group
4. Monetize everything
5. Pay in advance, lock in discounts for rent & school fees
6. Don't hold depreciating assets like cash
7. Eat only at home, pack lunch
8. Take high-quality vitamins
9. You can't invest if you have bills
10. Pray, faith helps
Vamos, @RafaelNadal!
As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.
Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.
I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.
And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more.
OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.
We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.
I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.
I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.
And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.
Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.
Rafa that!
Best always, your fan,
Roger