@TouchlineX Watered down the quality of the tournament, jacked up prices, crappy stadiums and they wonder why it didn’t sell out. I planned to attend but it’ll be cheaper for me to take a trip to Europe and watch multiple matches.
🇮🇹 Meloni: "Preventing the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Custodian of the Holy Land from entering, especially on a solemnity as central to the faith as Palm Sunday, constitutes an offense not only to believers, but to every community that recognizes religious freedom"
⚫️⚪️ Andrea Barzagli – "My career has only one title: JUVENTUS."
"I was fading. I no longer had that spark in my eyes or any reason to get out of bed in the morning. I felt distant from everything: from my city, from my own identity, even from myself.
In Palermo, I regained a bit of peace. Lippi even considered me as an alternative for the World Cup—an enormous honor. Then came Wolfsburg: a strong team, but an environment that burned me out from the inside.
I was 30 years old, and I felt like a football wreck: without enthusiasm, without motivation, without the strength to fight. I was a defender who couldn't even defend himself anymore.
It was 2011.
Dinner with friends. My phone vibrates, rings, won't let up. I ignore it. I thought it was someone from the club—and I didn't have the energy or the headspace to talk to anyone.
I get home around 10 p.m., check the missed calls… and suddenly my breath catches: DEL PIERO.
I call back, my hands shaking:
— "Alex, am I bothering you?"
— "Come on, Barza. I need to ask you something: how are you feeling physically?"
I was speechless. I mumble:
— "Physically? Not like back when we won the World Cup…"
He laughs. Then he pulls out the ace up his sleeve:
— "Juventus asked me to recommend a defender. I gave them your name. Get on a plane and come. We need someone to lead the defence. We need you."
I was dumbstruck.
As a kid, I'd watched Del Piero destroy opponents and light up stadiums—and now this icon was calling me to bring me back to life.
— "I can't do it, Alex. I think I'm done."
Silence. Then an explosion:
— "Done?! Are you crazy? You haven't even started showing what you've got inside you. Come to Turin. We need to be reborn. And you need to be reborn with us."
I try to protest:
— "I'm 30 years old, I don't have the hunger anymore."
— "30 years old? That's right in the middle of the road. You've got great seasons ahead of you. Especially at Juventus."
That conversation didn't just convince me.
It saved me.
Even with a thousand lives, I'd never be able to thank Del Piero enough.
At Juventus, I didn't just play—I found myself.
I lifted my head, I fought, I discovered the true essence of football.
Talk about Real Madrid, Barcelona… Juventus can't be compared to anyone.
It's a universe of its own.
One day, Fiorentina offered me a higher salary—400 thousand euros more. I turned it down—without even thinking for a minute—because this isn't about money.
My story, my soul, my name—they were already etched somewhere else.
My career has one title: JUVENTUS."
[via @piotr_1905 ]
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Rules are simple:
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Winner chosen 15 October. Will send worldwide.
Good Luck!
@JasminLaine_ Taxation is theft, but these people are also low iq individuals who don’t understand how marginal tax rates work. Unlikely they’re in a high bracket