Diomande est la preuve que les recruteurs regardent seulement la nationalité sportive.
S'il avait été brésilien, je pense que le monde entier parlerai de lui. Il est beaucoup trop fort.
At 20 years old, Sidney Poitier was a dishwasher in New York City. He had come from the Bahamas and could barely read beyond a 3rd-grade level. Three-syllable words stopped him cold.
After losing his dishwashing job, he scanned the want ads and was about to throw the paper away when he saw: Actors Wanted. The word wanted felt like an invitation.
He went to the address, was handed a two-page scene, and slowly read it aloud in his Caribbean accent. The man listening grabbed him by the collar and belt and shoved him toward the door:
“Stop wasting people’s time. You can’t speak and you can’t read. Go back to dishwashing.”
Walking to the bus stop, Poitier thought, How did he know I was a dishwasher? Then it hit him: that was how the world saw him — useful only for his hands, not his mind. Right there on the street, he decided he would become an actor to change that perception.
He returned to dishwashing, but began working on himself. He auditioned at the American Negro Theatre in Harlem. Not knowing plays came in books, he memorized a magazine article instead. He wasn’t accepted — but offered to work as a janitor for free if they’d let him study. They agreed.
Months later, he was told he had no talent and asked to leave. Unknown to him, fellow students intervened and he became an understudy. When the lead couldn’t perform one night, Poitier went onstage — terrified, scrambling lines — but the audience loved him. Critics noticed.
Later, he turned down a film role paying money he desperately needed because it portrayed a Black father with no dignity or agency. He pawned his furniture instead.
That commitment to humanity changed cinema.
Sidney Poitier didn’t just break barriers — he refused to step through doors that required him to leave his dignity behind.
À froid, y’a quand même pas mal d’éléments qui me gênent à l’issue de cette finale de la CAN.
- les supporters sénégalais qui veulent pénétrer sur le terrain et qui tapent des stadiers
- les ramasseurs de balle marocains qui veulent voler la serviette de Mendy et qui s’attaquent au 2e gardien du Sénégal
- le niveau de l’arbitrage et l’utilisation de la VAR
- les Sénégalais qui décident de quitter le terrain et de revenir, comme s’ils pouvaient faire ce qu’ils veulent car ils s’estiment lésés
- la panenka effroyable de Brahim Diaz
- le comportement des coachs à la limite de se monter en l’air
On est sur pas mal de choses qui, en dehors du « divertissement » que ça a pu procurer sur le moment, viennent quand même ternir considérablement le bilan de cette CAN qui présentait auparavant bien des bons points.
Pas persuadé que le football sorte grandi d’une soirée comme celle d’hier…