🚨 Carlo Ancelotti on why Paolo Maldini could never be compared to most modern defenders:
“Today, many defenders think passion means diving into tackles, shouting, and playing with constant aggression. Paolo showed that true greatness comes from control.”
“I remember one Serie A match where a striker spent the entire first half trying to provoke him pushing, talking, looking for reactions. Maldini never responded once.”
“At halftime, I asked Paolo if the striker was annoying him. He looked at me and said: ‘If he is talking this much, it means he already lost focus on the football.’”
“In the second half, Maldini completely dominated him without making the game dirty. That was his mentality. He defeated opponents mentally before he defeated them physically.”
“That is why he was special. He defended with elegance, intelligence, and authority not chaos.”
🚨 Wesley Sneijder fires shots at FC Barcelona fans after they mocked Cristiano Ronaldo with Lamine Yamal’s 3 league titles.
🗣️ “Barcelona fans comparing a 18 year old to Cristiano Ronaldo because of league titles tells you everything about how far standards have dropped at that club.
This is a club that hasn’t won the UEFA Champions League in almost 10 years, gets embarrassed in Europe every other season, then celebrates league titles like they’ve conquered football again.
Cristiano Ronaldo dominated England, Spain, Italy and Europe for nearly 20 years. Barcelona fans should worry more about surviving knockout rounds before trying to troll one of the greatest players ever.” 😳🔥
Le match de Gattuso en 2006 contre la France. Malouda comme il s’était fait malaxé ptdr
17 duels remportés, record dans une finale de Coupe du monde face à un mitar Zidane-Makelele-Vieira, record toujours pas égalé et qui ne le sera pas.
I can’t believe I almost missed this.
Skanderbeg, the Albanian noblemen who fought off the Ottoman Empire for 25 years, was born today in 1405.
He is one of my favorite leaders from the Medieval period.
Did you know Skanderbeg was taken hostage by the Ottomans as a boy?
They converted him to Islam and raised him in the Sultan’s court to become one of their own.
Instead, he returned to Christianity, rebelled against the empire, and spent 25 years humiliating Ottoman armies.
One chronicler wrote:
“Skanderbeg caused more harm to Islam than any other Christian prince of his age.”
Lisa Nandy waking up to see 24 of 25 seats in her area of Wigan go Reform.
Angela Rayner waking up to see 18 of 19 seats in Tameside go Reform.
If Labour think the answer is to relax immigration & ape the Greens they have no idea what’s going on in their own backyard.
"Pardon me if I be somewhat immoderate or superstitious in admiring his excellency, for what almost can there be in any man that was not abundantly in our Scanderbeg? So many were his perfections and so few his imperfections, as it may justly be imagined, that God created him as a mirror for the world rather to wonder at than any way possibly to be matched, and yet, most worthy of all men to be imitated."
- Zachary Jones