🚨 « ON ESPÈRE POUVOIR REPRÉSENTER UNE FORME D'ESPOIR POUR LES ENFANTS. » 🇭🇹
Les mots touchants, plein d'espoir, de Frantzdy Pierrot 🇭🇹 avant de disputer le Mondial pour son pays : 👇
« Les gens pensent qu'on n'a rien à perdre mais c'est FAUX, parce que on a un pays entier qui compte sur NOUS.
Quand on s'est qualifié, c'est la première fois que j'ai vu des LARMES couler sur les joues de mon père. 🥹
C'est comme ça que j'ai réalisé qu'on avait fait quelque chose de SPÉCIAL. ✨
À Haïti, on a beaucoup de violences... Là-bas, vous pouvez y finir votre scolarité mais y'a NI TRAVAIL NI ESPOIR À LA SORTIE...
On espère pouvoir faire quelque chose qui permette aux enfants de croire qu'ils peuvent FAIRE DE GRANDES CHOSES. » 🤩🇭🇹
🗞️ @lequipe
Haiti's independence is one of the most important events in history that transformed the world and the West has not forgiven them. This is the second time Haiti has been reprimanded for honoring it.
🇭🇷 clasificó al mundial enfrentando a:
🇬🇮 Gibraltar (#203)
🇫🇴 Islas Feroe (#123)
🇲🇪 Montenegro (#91)
🇳🇱 clasificó al mundial enfrentando a:
🇫🇮 Finland (#73)
🇲🇹 Malta (#161)
🇱🇹 Lithuania (#148)
🇳🇴 Clasificó al mundial enfrentando a:
🇲🇩 Moldavia (#159)
🇪🇪 Estonia (#129)
🇮🇱 Israel (#77)
Pero "casualmente" eso no les molesta, disfruten la Copa del mundo y dejen su eurocentrismo.
Haiti is one of the only countries frequently subjected to having to re-do jersey’s bc Haiti’s decolonization + independence is deemed “too political” by FIFA. A nationalist tournament where Haiti can’t show pride in successfully winning its independence:
https://t.co/u19m2U67I1
As the World Cup starts tomorrow, I just wanna take a moment and thank God for allowing me to make it thru 4 more years and being able to watch another World Cup. 🇲🇽🙏🏻
Assisti 20 minutos do amistoso do Haiti e me surpreendi. Equipe joga muito bem e tem contra-ataques rápidos, tem jogadores que jogam na Europa (principalmente na França).
Esperava uma equipe bem pior. Brasil é favorito e deve ganhar fácil, mas passa longe de ser um adversário amador como muitos pintavam.
Ryan Cherki faked the corner, slipped it to Doku, got it back and took off. Glided past Caicedo, shaped to shoot so the whole Chelsea defense froze… then sliced a ridiculous pass straight through them and served it on a plate for Guehi. Poetic 😮💨🔥 https://t.co/VsKzpvDwHJ
Yaxel Lendeborg missed three years of High School ball because of academic struggles
He worked to improve his grades and was able to JUST make a team before the season ended, and performed well enough to make it to a community college, where he then became the NJCAA’s all-time leading rebounder
He then transferred to UAB, where he became one of two players in Division I history to record over 600 points, 400 rebounds and 150 assists in a single season. The other player is Larry Bird.
Afterwards, he transferred to Michigan and performed well enough to be a potential first rounder in the ‘25 draft
But he stayed and wanted to build upon that legacy and lift up his draft stock even more.
And he did just that, becoming a national champion and a potential lottery level draft pick.
Yaxel’s story isn’t one that should be ridiculed.
It should be one that’s praised — because worked hard at every level to get to where he’s at