🗣️ Ronaldo: "At one time, Barcelona had Ronaldinho and Eto'o. It was the era of the Galacticos and the Clasicos were difficult matches. Of course, I knew the talent of Ronaldinho. We had won the 2002 World Cup together. But the Barça player who impressed me the most was Samuel Eto'o.
We have the same trajectory, he played in Madrid, Barcelona and Inter like me. I like his mentality, he is fast, technical and efficient. He could play anywhere on the pitch, making vertical runs to press and touch the ball. Eto'o is a fighter and if I had had the opportunity to play with him, we would have formed a beast duo in attack." 🇧🇷😍🇨🇲
Since the 2001-02 season, LALIGA clubs have played in 18 Champions League and Europa League finals against non-Spanish clubs.
They’ve won all 18 of those finals.
Dominance 🇪🇸
🇨🇮👏 Former Mainz 05 striker Aristide Bancé bought 20 players from his academy in Ivory Coast to play & train with Mainz youth teams.
His academy have an official partnership with the German club.
Mainz will now also supply them with kits, boots, and equipment. ❤️🔝
Granit Xhaka: "Mikel showed me a whole new way of looking at football, by focusing on the basics — the stuff from your teenage years you might have forgotten. Pressing. Body shape. Positioning. Movement. Coming out of someone’s cover shadow. Communication on the pitch. Xabi is so similar. The Spaniards see football differently than the others, I think. When I heard Xabi speak about his ideas for the first time, I thought, ‘I’ve done this before, under Mikel’. It’s a different coach, but the same philosophy." [@honigstein, @TheAthleticFC]
Late Dora Akunyili former head of NAFDAC who fought against fake drugs and products speaking on how to make Nigeria 🇳🇬 better.
She fought big companies and cartel and ended up losing her life for a better Nigeria 🇳🇬
Rest on legend 🕊️
🗣️ Benjamin Mendy: “In prison, you only do one thing: Think. I had £4 a day, I spent it in the canteen. In my life before, I could have anything I wanted.
I learned the value of money. I was sad in prison but I learned a lot of things."
💬 "The opportunity to play for the club I support is a dream come true."
Boyhood Gooner James Sweet goes under the microscope in our latest Young Gun feature 👇