🗣️ Antonio Rüdiger: "Where I come from, pressure is not about football.
Pressure is not knowing what you will eat tomorrow.
I mean …….. Pressure??? No, no, no.
Every time I feel the slightest pressure when I lace up my boots before a football match, I think about a specific memory, and I am instantly at peace.
The first time I ever went back to Sierra Leone with my parents after the civil war, we were riding in a taxi from the airport, and we got stuck in traffic. We were sitting there, not moving, and I was looking out the window at all the poverty and hunger. All these men and women were selling fruits and water and clothes and things by the side of the road to the people coming from the airport.
And that’s the moment when I understood why my parents would never call our neighborhood in Berlin “the ghetto.”
They would always say that it was heaven on earth. And it wasn’t until I went to Sierra Leone that I finally understood their perspective, because this guy came up to our car selling bread, and he looked really desperate. We said, “No, no. We’re O.K.”
Then another guy came up to our car selling bread, and he tried to sell it to us even harder. He was talking about how fresh it was.
“No, no. Thank you.”
Then a third guy came up to our car selling bread, and he was really hustling. He was talking about how this was the best bread in the city, and to please, please, please buy the bread from him.
I think about this memory when I start to feel any pressure from football. Because the truth is that all three of those guys were selling the exact same bread, from the exact same bakery, to the exact same cars.
One of those families would have a plate of food on the table.
The other two, maybe not.
That is pressure. That is real life.'"
@Imadkarr@basilthegreat Let get real, you don’t do it when you respect a cultural thing as a Christmas market. You just don’t. Just as you would want us to respect your culture when we would visit your country or live there. Celebrations does not mean disturb other cultures in their celebration.
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@GyllKing@benonwine I am so sick and tired about free speech and all everyone is doing is hate speech…
Left right middle…
Were did commen sense go.
@elonmusk thanks for X it’s finally visable how fcked up the world really is these days in the west.
Charlie Kirk was not a racist and I will not sit back and allow people to spread that lie
I gave Charlie Kirk his flowers last year and thanked him for helping 100s of young black people get an invite to the White House back in 2019
He helped pay for most of their flights and hotels because it cost so much to travel and he didn’t want them to miss out
He have gave them an experience & opportunity of a lifetime and yes he helped me get an invite as well.
I’m going to miss him so much! ❤️
@Suffragent_@OxfordUnion Maybe there should be a discussion about values and respect at @Oxford. What do they stand for and weter if activism is not crossing into a toxicity.
Cause if you fight for sociale rights and social justice you can not preach violance no matter what.
@OxfordUnion I just can’t believe that people from a renowned university elect someone who can make a remark like that. I thought the intellect could discuss their views without wishing those they don’t agree with this kind of harm whatever the views are.