🇳🇬🗣️ Gift Orban: "I can’t explain it because you can’t understand. You were born in Europe, it’s not like being born in Africa."
"If you’re poor in France, the state can help you, charities can help you and take care of you. In Africa, no one gives you anything and you die of hunger."
"That’s why we all want to play football. Where I grew up, if you’re in a poor family, life is impossible."
"That’s what gives you determination... now, I want to succeed in life in order to be able to help. Not only my family, that’s already obviously the case, but I want to help all poor people, orphans."
"There is poor in Europe and poor in Africa. You can’t compare, it’ll never be the same. You need to have lived it like I have. You get up in the morning and you find nothing to eat, don’t ask me to go into detail." (L'Equipe)
Today, Gift Orban turns 24. ✨
This guy man - nobody relates Kobbie until Donny is on the pitch dictating shit.
Kobbie empties the midfield because he’s a progressive midfielder and keeps the ball or gets it forward - Straight fact. Nothing but positive to a team.
🤨 “He’s looked at his bench and gone, Kobbie Mainoo… I’m gonna put him on?!”
❌ “He empties it too much… that’s the last thing they needed!”
Graeme Souness BLASTS Thomas Tuchel’s squad selection and questions why he brought Mainoo to the World Cup.
📺https://t.co/KHR0JyPSFr
🚨⚪️🔵 Pierre Aubameyang to Deportivo La Coruña, here we go! Deal in place on €1.5m transfer fee.
Auba will leave Olympique Marseille and try new chapter in La Liga. 🇬🇦🇪🇸
🚨Mental Health Protection, The Reason Nwabali Left Chippa Utd.
Stanley Nwabali’s representative Mohammed Lawal, has told ESPN exclusively that the decision to walk away when he did was not just from Chippa United but also from football and was driven by overwhelming grief and a need to protect his mental health.
In order to deal with the emotional toll of losing his grandmother, father and mother within a two-month spell, Nwabali had to step away.
Lawal says the triple tragedy took its toll, telling ESPN: "It has been very difficult for Stanley.
He said: "If you look back, you'll see the difference. Stanley used to be lively and always smiling. During the last AFCON and the World Cup qualifiers, he became unusually aggressive. He was shouting at teammates and confronting opponents. But that wasn't the real Stanley.
"When he first started playing for Nigeria, everyone talked about how calm he was under pressure. Later, people thought he had become overconfident or aggressive. They didn't know what was happening inside him."
Daley Blind, signed after the 2014 World Cup, he made 141 appearances, playing at left-back, centre-back and defensive midfield without ever complaining. Intelligent, technically secure and one of the club's most reliable ball progressors during a turbulent period.
He won:
🏆 FA Cup (2015/16)
🏆 EFL Cup (2016/17)
🏆 UEFA Europa League (2016/17)
🏆 FA Community Shield (2016)
He wasn't the flashiest player, but he was one of the smartest. A footballer's footballer.
Another signing for London City Lionesses 🤝📝
France forward Kadidiatou Diani has joined from Lyon on a three-year deal for a fee exceeding £500,000 🇫🇷💰
Picture credit: London City Lionesses.
A player who has given me so much joy watching but who had reached a point where I had feared the joy had dried up. What do I know? Such a pleasure to be given the chance to enjoy him again.