"I can assure every fan in the country we have 26 committed players, who know their role and are ready to to be committed to the idea of team spirit and being unselfish," Thomas Tuchel #ENG
GOAL OF THE SEASON CONTENDER?! 😱
Harry Chapman doubles his tally for the night from long range after a sensational run! 🚀
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The covering of the mouth with a hand or shirt should be banned from pro football.
If players can't converse ( team mates or opposition) within the laws and spirit of the game then they should be sanctioned.
Nobody cares that one player tells another to fuck off or two opposition players walking off tell each other there was a shit decision or are they meeting up in town later. But hiding homophobic, racist, religious or any other sanctionable communication isn't acceptable at all.
A modern trend which is as much about molly coddling men babies as much as hiding anything that anyone would be interested in.
Time to outlaw it @FIFAcom, if you need to hide what you're saying then you shouldn't be saying it. Plenty of time in the tunnel or dressing room or players lounge.
🚨 Incredible that in these last 10 years Leicester City won the Premier League title, the FA Cup, the Community Shield and even reached the Quarter-Finals of the Champions League, and now thanks to terrible mis-management they are fighting to avoid relegation to League One, England's third tier. 🥲🦊
🇦🇷🗣️ Every time I rewatch Messi’s speech before the World Cup final, I get insane goosebumps.
And this is the same guy the media once tried to label a “bad leader.” 👏
🇵🇹🎙️ José Mourinho and Dider Drogba. It was a love story from day one:
"He came into my life in the fifth minute of a Champions League game in Marseille’s mythical Vélodrome. I’d hardly sat down when that giant with the 11 on his shirt scored. He celebrated that goal like it was his last, the crowd went mad, the noise was deafening.
"At half-time I found him in the tunnel and told him: ‘I don’t have the money to buy you, but do you have any cousins that can play like you in the Ivory Coast?’ He laughed, hugged me and said: ‘One day you’ll be in a club which can buy me.’
"Six months later I signed for Chelsea. I had found a super powerful club which everybody wanted to negotiate with, everybody wanted to be linked to – and everybody wanted to play for.
"I had a number of options, but I arrived and said: ‘I want Didier Drogba.’ Doubts and questions were raised by a few people: ‘Why this one?’, ‘Why not that one?’, ‘Are you sure he will adapt?’, ‘Is he really that good?’
‘I want Didier Drogba,’ I said.
"A few days passed and I met with Didier in a private airport in London. Again he hugged me, but this time in an unforgettable way: an embrace that showed this man’s gratitude, and the affection he feels towards people who mean a lot to him. Indescribable.
"Then he told me: ‘Thank you. I will fight for you. You won’t regret it. I will stay loyal to you forever.’
And that’s just what he’s done.
"His loyalty came out in his leadership and in the way he always faced up to the difficult moments. Moments when nothing else matters than to be there for your leader and your colleagues. This was a person I knew I could count on whenever and wherever I needed.
"When the team was under pressure he would help defend; when he felt pain he would stretch himself to the limit and then of course came what he did best: scoring goals.
Those goals brought him titles & awards, but what stays with me are the countless stories we have together." 👏❤️
✍️ MARCA: "The Ballon d'Or this season should be Luis Enrique. It's neither Lamine, Dembélé, nor Vitinha. The real star is Luis Enrique, who built the perfect football machine."