Imagine this sort of ball knowledge being coached at under 13/14 for a young Rele, WitBooi, Mdu,Mbuthuma,Vilakazi etc. When you hear such stories, you then understand the disparities in quality between us and Europeans.
Cristiano Ronaldo league titles:
🇵🇹 Liga NOS: 0/1
🏴 Premier League: 3/8
🇪🇸 La Liga: 2/9
🇮🇹 Serie A: 2/3
🇸🇦 Saudi Pro League: 1/4
Total: 8/25 😳
He was the league’s top scorer in only one of those title-winning seasons 🤯
Different standards for the GOAT convo 😭
Throw a jersey like that to any other athlete on the planet and he’ll shove it right back in your face. Meanwhile Lionel Messi just picks it up with a smile, signs it and hands it over 🤌🏻🐐
The “This Is Football” doc has great segment of Pep Guardiola watching his Barcelona game tape and adressing idea that Messi walks lazily around the pitch:
“He’s walking. That’s what I like the most. He is not out of the game, he’s involved. He’s moving his head. Right, left, left, right. He knows exactly what is going to happen. But his head is always…moving.
He’s not running, but he’s always watching what’s happening. He smells where are the weak points in the back four. After 5-10 minutes, he has the map in his eyes…in his brain to know exactly where is the space and what is the panorama.
It’s like being in the jungle and I have to survive. And he knows if I move here or here, I will have more space to attack."
In 1884, Ulysses S. Grant was dying of throat cancer and was dead broke.
His money was wiped out by a swindler who stole his fortune.
Desperate to leave something for his wife, he agreed to write his Civil War memoirs and was close to signing a contract for a meager 10% royalty.
Mark Twain stepped in, called the deal robbery and offered Grant 70% of the profits through his own publishing company.
Grant raced death to finish the book, completing it just days before he died in July 1885.
It became one of the greatest memoirs ever written.
The royalties left his widow nearly half a million dollars, about $16 million today, and the book has never gone out of print.
The mystery of Stonehenge!
Today is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The people of Stonehenge figured this out by observation more than 3000 years ago 🤯