🚨 Diego Maradona in 2018 after hearing the USA would host the 2026 World Cup:
"They will divide the game into four halves instead of two to insert advertisements. Compare it, you will see."
🗣️ Raheem Sterling: "My Mum is a proper warrior. She knows how to make it in this world. She’s probably the most streetwise person I know. She sat me down one day, and she said, “Look, I love you. But I don’t feel you should go to Arsenal.”
I said, “Ehhhh?”
She said, “If you go there, there’s going to be 50 players who are just as good as you. You’ll just be a number. You need to go somewhere where you can work your way up.”
She convinced me to go to QPR, and it was probably the best decision I ever made. At QPR, they didn’t let me slip up. But it was quite hard for my family because my mum would never let me go to training alone. And she always had to work, so my sister would have to take me all the way out to Heathrow.
Three buses. The 18 to the 182 to the 140. We’d leave at 3:15 and get home at 11 p.m. Every. Single. Day. She’d sit upstairs in the little cafe and chill until I was done with training. Imagine being 17 years old and doing that for your little brother. And I never once heard her say, “Nah, I don’t wanna take him.”
At the time, I didn’t understand how much she was sacrificing. She and my mum got me here. My whole family played a massive part in my life. Without them, you wouldn’t even know me."
✍️ @TPTFootball
We went to my son's friend's birthday party this weekend
A bunch of 4-5 year old kids, running around in a backyard, bounce house, etc
A few kids were also playing basketball in the driveway on an 8ft hoop
I overheard one kid say to his dad:
"Dad lift me up so I can dunk!"
The dad's response:
"Not right now son, I don't want to get all sweaty."
I'm not posting this to shame that dad...he probably doesn't follow our accounts (lol jk, but not really)
And I'm not posting it to sound holier-than-thou...Lord knows I've made a dozen mistakes already this morning
I'm posting it as a reminder to everyone reading this, myself included:
ONE DAY your kid will ask you to play for the very last time.
And the more often you say "not right now" or "I'm too busy"...the sooner that day will come.