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Amante de la vida...

[aether @bluewdrift]

your relationship with discipline changes so much when you shift from doing things from love rather than shame. from 'i have to clean'- to realizing i deserve to have a clean home. from 'i need to work out'- to i deserve to have a healthy body. you deserve the best from yourself

[DataFut @DataFutebol]

Talvez a década 2010 tenha sido o auge desse esporte. Olha esse vídeo.

[𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟵 @Barca_Archive]

Camp Nou, 2008.

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

The mood after losing 3-1 against Bodø/Glimt, both in the dressing room and in training, was very low.

Pepijn Lijnders played a hugely important role in bringing the spark back and takes us through:

1) The role of the leaders in the dressing room, Dias and Bernardo.

2) What he, as Pep’s assistant, had to do to bring the boys back.

This is just proper stuff, man.

[Rilwan @Real1_balogun]

There was a December 2024 article on @TheAthleticFC that laid out Pep Guardiola’s obsession with football.

The article started this way:

“Pep Guardiola’s list of symptoms is long and unsettling. He has trouble sleeping. He can only take light meals in the evening. On some days, he does not eat at all. He finds it difficult to read because his mind keeps wandering. He feels, at times, intensely lonely. Things can get so bad that they begin to take on a physical form: bouts of back pain, breakouts on his skin. 

“They are not isolated to moments like the one in which the Manchester City manager finds himself trapped, when his team are locked in a tailspin he has spent the better part of two months trying and failing to halt. By his own admission, he is always like that. Guardiola cannot sleep, or eat, or relax even when things are going well at work.

“Manel Estiarte, perhaps Guardiola’s most trusted confidant, used to call it the “Law of 32 minutes”. Estiarte had spent enough time with Guardiola to calculate precisely how long his friend might last talking about another subject — literally any other subject — before his mind wandered back to football.”

He told his friend, Luca Toni that he no longer digests food properly and revealed how lonely he becomes after games.

Coaching is strenuous. It’s extremely stressful. You have long shifts. Guardiola said he resumes 8a.m everyday. I once read that Emery did 7a.m-7p.m when he wanted results to improve at Villa.

The main issue is that Guardiola and others like him who’re obsessed with anything aren’t able to stay away from it for too long.

Something must give. He’s made a hell lot of money. He’s famous, and is generation-defining, but all that never come for free.

Broken body, broken heart, broken home. I call it the torture of triumph.

You’re victorious yet you’re deeply vacuous — shorn of yourself in pursuit of essence.

That’s the life.

[mp @memopena14]

@rioferdy5 @Trabzonspor @MoSalah @AndreyOnana what a lad

[Rio Ferdinand @rioferdy5]

👏🏽👏🏽 @Trabzonspor @MoSalah @AndreyOnana

[Nahyan Chowdhury @kungfunahi]

The look on Salahs face. What life is about

[LIFE @Podcastvault101]

Flirt. For fuck sakes. Dance with life. Stop waiting for everything to be perfect before you let yourself enjoy it. Say yes to the random invitation, take the unfamiliar road, talk to someone new, follow whatever makes you curious. Let yourself be excited, surprised, spontaneous, even a little foolish. You only get this exact version of your life once. Don’t spend it trying to look composed while missing everything that makes it worth living.

[Veronica Brunati @verobrunati]

Pep Guardiola ya estaba llorando mucho antes de que se publicara este clip.

Cada vez que empezaban a grabar, Pep volvía a quebrarse y el director tenía que detener el rodaje.

Lo intentaban de nuevo. Y volvía a pasar.

Hay despedidas que son imposibles de actuar. 🥹💔

[G @Gideoomatic]

If he turns out to be another Pep I'm going to lose it. They can't keep getting away with it

[Pain.𝕏 @GBarca_]

Xavi at the Netherlands.
Iniesta at the UAE.
Busquets at Barca Atletic.
Fabregas at Como.

This is football heritage.

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

Next August , 2027 at this exact time, you will be standing in the places you used to dream about. Living your most beautiful rich life. Send this to yourself.

[SIR AHMED @midopido21]

Jamie Vardy vs The Big Six

[𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟵 @Barca_Archive]

“Not Di Stéfano, not Pelé, not Maradona… only Messi. He can already be considered the greatest of all time.”

Messi was just 22 years and 3 months old at the time, 2009.

[‏ً @Bk8iP3]

Take Me Out is only reserved for nostalgia comps I’ve clocked it, it’s cash money

[𝐋𝐚 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐠’ @La__Tang]

Voilà à quoi doit ressembler un joueur qui vaut 100M.

Pied gauche, pied droit, vitesse, physique, bon de la tête, bon dans la surface comme à l’extérieur, bon sur CPA, qui te fait gagner des matchs tout seul.

Maintenant c’est Barcola, Enzo, Rogers, Joâo Félix, Tonali…

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Kobe Bryant hits hard:

“Everyone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition. If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.”