Your experience as a tourist/outsider is going to be a lot more positive and rose-tinted when you interact with people and spaces outside your usual social context imo. See me and live with me is two different tings
He was just 27 here& he used his influence to get government officials and rebels to agree to a ceasefire and peace talks. I doubt if any African footballer currently has that motion.
NBA coaches association president J.B. Bickerstaff on Micah Nori’s year-to-year contract with Portland: “From our perspective, it's like someone's taking advantage of your dream and devaluing what we feel like coaches have earned over the years.”
Hate how Senegal have treated this World Cup like a farewell parade for their legendary old guard when they have some of the best young talent around sitting on their bench. What could have been.
🚨WILD
Folarin Balogun’s Nigerian parents were living in London when they took a trip to New York in the summer of 2001.
When it was time to fly home, airline staff refused to let his mom board the flight because she was heavily pregnant.
3 days later, on July 3rd 2001: Balogun was born in Brooklyn, New York.
That “inconvenience” accidentally made him eligible to play for the USMNT.
Now he’s their striker at a home World Cup 🇺🇸
Mike Brown: “Chris Jent, my associate head coach, I’m surprised he hasn’t gotten an interview. He’s our offensive coordinator. He’s been around for a long time. Somebody needs to give him an interview because he’ll help your team win at the highest level.”