Memory cards were actually good. But tech companies destroyed that market and forced us to take cloud storage subscription, giving them access to our personal info
This is literally Mario Gomez, yet somehow a coach saw this and said actually… this guy with elite ballstriking and goalscoring nous, who can’t defend, can’t carry over distance, can’t dribble, can’t cross and is a complete and total blackhole in build up should actually be a LB
One reason many Nigerian players struggle to strike a ball cleanly and consistently has nothing to do with skills.
It is the surface.
A clean strike is a highly repeatable movement. The plant foot lands in almost the same position. The ankle locks. The contact point is precise. The body follows through in a predictable way.
That is how technique is built. Repetition.
On a proper grass pitch, a player can spend hours striking through the ball and brushing the grass in exactly the same spot. The turf provides feedback. Every repetition teaches the body what a clean strike feels like.
On many of our pitches, you are not sweeping grass.
You are trying not to kick stones.
The body knows the difference.
Subconsciously, players adjust. The plant foot becomes less certain. The ankle unlocks a fraction earlier. The strike becomes an act of compensation rather than repetition.
Over thousands of repetitions, that difference matters.
You lean back to protect the shin. You learn to survive, not to master.
You adjust, to improvise, to accommodate the surface.
You are not training the mechanics of a clean strike. You are trying not to remove your toes.
Ankles, knees, shins take constant impact every time you play on these brutal fields.
Then poor medical accessibility compounds the problem.
Limited or no physio support, delayed diagnosis, mean many players never fully restore the range of motion needed for a precise strike. They return with a guarded plant foot or a stiffened ankle. The technique never settles.
This is one reason football infrastructure matters more than many people realise.
The pitch is not just where football is played.
The pitch is part of the coach.
Five years ago, 12 year old Thea Frodin was the stunt double for young Serena Williams in the movie King Richard.
Tomorrow, Thea makes her US Open debut after winning a wild card entry.
Guess who else is competing in this US Open? Serena and Venus.
To understand the feat Tanzania has just pulled off, Uganda has a total installed electricity generation capacity of approximately 2098 MW. This is what it has built in it's entire existence. Tanzania has added in one swoop 2135 MW from a single dam built in 6 years
🚨 Clubs that have made the most money from player sales since 2020:
1️⃣🏴 Chelsea: £1.084bn
2️⃣🇵🇹 Benfica: £757M
3️⃣🇩🇪 RB Leipzig: £706M
4️⃣🇮🇹 Atalanta: £655M
5️⃣🏴 Aston Villa: £648M
6️⃣🇫🇷 Stade Rennais: £625M
7️⃣🏴 Wolves: £624M
8️⃣🏴 Manchester City: £623M
9️⃣🏴 Brighton: £606M
🔟🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain: £522M
(Source: @TMuk_news )
The Nigerian Government (at all levels) needs to be separated from religion, at all costs.
Religion is not a state activity, at least not for a secular society like Nigeria.
Also, its a personal thing for individuals. Hence, this can be likened to sponsoring vacations for people. - they are one and the same.
when I was doing my BSc in political science, I used to glaze over revolution as the only solution to Nigeria’s problems.
but after my several touch-points with reality, I have come to a higher realization that in our bid to sail towards a place of Eldorado, if we by chance toe the line of revolution, people like you and I would first be killed by this kind of people. if that happens, we have lost the revolution. it will just swiftly turn to a looting exercise with no direction.