Olamide

[Olamide @OlamideAccord]

@ChaaliiyKay Ansu Fati once missed out on player of the match award in La Liga because it is sponsored by Budweiser and he was not 18 yet

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Cynthia Erivo responds to jokes about her being Ariana Grande’s “bodyguard” after defending her from an intruder on the ‘WICKED: FOR GOOD’ red carpet:

“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is. Because that’s what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.”

(https://t.co/pkFv1w9JR2)

[The Middle East @A_M_R_M1]

🚨 The journalist: “What do you think about Lamine Yamal’s actions yesterday during FC Barcelona’s league title celebrations, and should a player avoid interfering in matters unrelated to football?”

Pep Guardiola: “And should you also avoid interfering in things that are not your specialty? You are here to ask me about tomorrow’s match against Crystal Palace F.C..

Despite that, I will answer your question..... A football player is a role model followed by millions, and his opinion is influential, so he should express his opinion when necessary.

What would you do if you found your wife and children under the rubble of homes like them there? Would you come here to the press conference to talk about a player wearing a shirt and running after a ball?? Of course not!!

You do not choose the topics we want to talk about, so those are things outside your specialty. Lamine’s stance is something he should be proud of — he has now become the talk of the world.”

[goma @soigomaa]

There is no "Gender war". Men have been abusive for generations and women are finally refusing to tolerate it anymore.
That's all

[Hasan 👁‍🗨 @flackospalace]

Chris Brown fans talk about his history of abusing women like he was a child who drew on the walls with crayons

[- @MusialaEra]

A simple mistake. The same way Neuer gifted Madrid a goal only last week. Happens to the best. There are multiple ridiculous goalkeeping moments in the men‘s UCL every year, you call them washed for a day & move on. When it’s women you question the whole sport. Double standards

[STOP THAT LAMINE!!!! 🇳🇬🇳🇬 @bayern_MOB]

You’ve never spoken about union berlin but immediately they get a female coach all of a sudden you care??

That is misogyny broski ✌🏾..

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

In 2023, a former football agent asked publicly whether Marie-Louise Eta should be allowed inside a men's professional dressing room. She had just been appointed assistant coach at Union Berlin, and someone with a platform decided the most pressing question about her appointment was not her coaching philosophy, not her development record with the youth teams, not what she would bring to the senior setup.

It was whether she belonged in the same room as the players she had been hired to coach.

When a football club hires a head coach, they are looking for someone who understands the game technically, who can manage a dressing room of professional athletes with different personalities, who has spent years developing players and earning trust inside the sport.

Marie-Louise Eta meets every single one of those criteria. She coached Union Berlin's youth teams. She developed players from the ground up. She worked on the senior staff and earned the respect of everyone inside that environment. So when the agent asked his question in 2023, she gave him the only answer it deserved. She went to work.

Early this morning, Union Berlin appointed her interim head coach, making her the first woman in history to hold that position in any of Europe's Big Five leagues. The Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, the Bundesliga. A combined century of top-flight professional football. Before her, the number of women who had held this position before last night was exactly zero.

The question worth asking is not whether she is qualified. The question worth asking is why it took this long.
England banned women from playing football from 1921 to 1971. Germany banned it from 1955 to 1970. You cannot build a coaching career in a sport you are forbidden from playing, and those bans did not simply delay the women's game.

They severed the generational pipeline through which coaching careers are built, and the structural damage compounded quietly inside institutions that had already decided who belonged. Helena Costa was appointed at Clermont in 2014 and resigned before a competitive match, saying she had been treated as a publicity exercise.

Corinne Diacre replaced her and took the club toward promotion. The top flight never called. Sabrina Wittmann became permanent head coach at third-division Ingolstadt in 2024. The Bundesliga stayed closed.

Until Marie-Louise Eta opened it.

She has five games to keep Union Berlin in the Bundesliga. She will be judged on results, and that is exactly as it should be. The moment every trailblazer is working toward is not the announcement. It is the moment the question stops being whether a woman can do this and becomes simply whether she can keep them up.

Her name is Marie-Louise Eta, and she has work to do.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

[Stepha @StephaEnyinna]

Men have the same rights no matter where they go in the world. A woman's rights depends on the country she lives in or the religion she follows.
Read again.

[Vanessa @cyrillasundays]

An important pivot a woman makes in her feminist journey is deciding to stop debating feminism with men

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Woman: I was abused and violated.

Men: We’ll need 500 photos, 100 videos, about 20 witnesses, a timeline, a psychological report, and forensic proof.

Abuser: I didn’t do it.

Men: Sounds reasonable, we believe you.

[Wolfie 🐺 @TheIgboWolf]

Misandry is women venting. Misogyny has institutions, laws, traditions and festivals behind it.

Misandry is like old women gossiping at the back of the church. Misogyny is what happened in Ozoro today.

One is a reaction while other is a system.

[Stephee🌸🩷 @pretty_stephee]

Can’t walk on the road without men trying to touch you.
Can’t go to a market and tell men not to touch you without being called ashawo.
Can’t go out during a festival without being raped.
This is the sad reality of Nigerian women.

[Mini Skirt Connoisseur😮‍💨 @chioma_mmeje]

Again and again, we see that the reason many men are triggered when women talk about rape is that, given the opportunity, they absolutely would rape a woman.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

First born daughters could be extremely independent but behind the bars they’re actually are just fragile little girls who need assistance, assurance, love and care.

once they love, they love beyond compare.

[Smriti .☘︎ ݁˖ @smriiis_library]

every “i just finished a book” person NEEDS a “tell me everything about it” person.

[dran @daheeverse]

— oh choongnam in #dearmyfriends (2016)

[co-creator with God. 🥼🩺 @MaryRoseMalomo]

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Your life belongs to you and you alone.

[Reg🪼 @rokisrageroom]

Definitely this one🙂‍↕️