Former all-time World Cup top goalscorer Miroslav Klose:
“I stopped playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved.
At Lazio and in the national team, after each training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injuries. But the young players on the team systematically refused.
When they saw me picking up the bags of balls to put them away at the end of training, they said to me 'But who tells you to do that?'.
At that moment, I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and you can't help a 60-year-old worker?'
They care more about whether their boots go with their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I knew no longer exists.
Today's young players think first of cars, contracts with their sponsors, and their new boots. It is only after all these things that football comes. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form.”
“I guess when you are young, you believe that you will meet many people with whom you'll connect with, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.”
— Before Sunset (2004)
The Maple Leafs announced the following additions to its hockey operations department:
Steven Reinprecht and Eric Lacroix have joined the organization as Pro Scouts.
Mikael Kotkaniemi has joined the organization as a European Amateur Scout.
Mark Giordano has joined the Toronto Marlies as a Coaching Advisor.
RIP Harry Frey 🖤
Pavel Richter, Jiri Dolezal, Aufnahme in die @DELoffiziell , Bau der Arena, die Rettung in so mancher finanzieller Schieflage…
Ohne Harry Frey würde es Eishockey in der heutigen Form in Nürnberg nicht geben.
.@Arsenal is a great club. We have standards.
Which is why Visit Rwanda needs to end. This is the same regime that's funding a brutal militia with thousands of victims in Eastern Congo. We think anything - literally anything - would be better than Visit Rwanda.
Even Tottenham
The prospect of Brandon Hagel-Anthony Cirelli-Nick Paul going head-to-head against Brad Marchand-Sam Bennett-Matthew Tkachuk in the first round has me wishing the playoffs would start, like, tonight.
On this day in 1959 we lost Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in a tragic plane crash...They may be gone but their legacy lives on, forever etched in rock n' roll history...Rest in Peace...🕊❤