Ayeni Oreoluwa

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

You may not mean what you are saying.

The Indiana gals were flying publicly and they almost got mobbed at DFW when CC came to play Dallas in the Pre-season

Pre-season !!
For the WNBA ?!

That pre-season game not even a regular season game caused them to begin flying private

[Yinka Ayinde @Saxyprince]

Yall have to stop this. Caitlin Clark brought her fan base to the WNBA, but she was not responsible for the pay increases.

Napheesa Collier, Nneka Ogwumike and many more are responsible for this. They were the ones in the actual room arguing for new CBA.

Just because you started watching the WNBA when CC joined doesn't mean thats when everything in WNBA started.

You can enjoy that player and the excitement she brings you without dismissing the work of the other women that made the WNBA what it is today.

[Ajowele Abayomi @ajowhales_bobo]

We were asked to come to church in our Jerseys. I had to show up wearing my personal GOAT's jersey @CaitlinClark22 of the @IndianaFever while ensuring Pops represented the undisputed league champions .

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

@KodeKloudHQ Hi Kodekloud :(

I tried using the Mobile App and its not loading any videos for me except the intro videos.

Is there anything you can do to fix this. You can DM me if you want more info.

Or I can DM you my details if you wish. Please treat with seriousness

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

Its as though only the English dont share the world's perspective of beautiful or fine football.

I get it anyway, this is beautiful football to them. Hard Tackles, deep runs and towering heading clearances sum up the word for Brits.

Each to his own.

[Daily Mail Sport @MailSport]

England 'are like having world's ugliest daughter who you say is beautiful': Three Lions torn apart on American TV for 'really poor' World Cup - despite being two games from glory https://t.co/onZ6VOizuO

[S.T.A @Jefe_STA]

@oreballin Exactly. Ronaldo taught them how to win, but he also hid their identity. This squad has the depth of a luxury yacht but looks terrified of a stormy sea. It’s time to stop playing like superstars and start playing like starving artists again.

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

It was after this game I knew wassup.

I was laughing all throughout seeing how obvious it was FIFA had favorites.

Anyway, Big Ups to him. He really needed that support.

[Sandra van Dam @Sandra_van_Dam1]

The messiest, most controversial football match in worldcup history.

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

Portugal only need to recall that the expectation of them in the past decade or what has been stoked by CR7

This generation has enough like Figo,Rui Costa,Pinto's generation to make a splash, perhaps without the added pressure.

Yet I fear they are not hungry enough.

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

I can go on and on. Regardless of all thats said,the old adage still holds

..... when the ovation is loudest

Its been fun, I enjoyed it all, the tantrums,shenanigans, the missiles ,the stepovers, the headers, the sheer audacity!!!

What a pleasure, Thank You.

CR7

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

From his acrimonious exit - which a lot of Utd fans are still torn about - to his Portuguese NT exit.

In both scenarios, both parties clung on longer than they should have.

Utd, a shadow of itself. Seeking identity. Portugal, a Nation modest in its ambition, almost to a fault

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

Seeing a lot of posts Re: CR7 and all and its tough to take in.

I'll miss him. Made me enjoy soccer and Man Utd again after David Beckham left Utd. Some may not agree to give him the same status as Cantona but I do

Utd to me had magic about her with CR7. Much like Eric brought

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Obrigado CR7 🐐 https://t.co/49m6o6wIkq

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

@NwaenieN @AfroVII You know..You get it!

I explained this very same mentality to someone and they dismissed it as arrogance. A boy who had no right to get here. Got here by that very unwillingness to back down

Now he should diminish himself and his self belief for some folks online.

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

Their spineless manager*

He is risk averse.
CR7 can and should've deployed in a certain manner.

If Portugal wanted to play with CR7 they had to be willing to be an attacking side.

All of his career,He willed Portugal to attack. The DNA of Portugal as a Nation is timid.

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

You can take a player out of MLS, you cannot take MLS out of the player

[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

In the spirit of 4th of July, read this except from Nnamdi Azikiwe (the 1st President of Nigeria) reflecting on his time in America.

Opportunities in Nigeria under British colonial rule were limited. So in 1925, Azikiwe came by ship to the U.S for higher education. He was only 21 years old.

Life wasn’t easy for him in the new country. While there, he worked menial jobs to get by and pay for school. He also experienced discrimination & lived under segregation at the time.

But he gained so much too. He made lifelong friends, found mentors & discovered more of himself through public speaking, writing and taking on leadership roles at school.

When he left the U.S. 9 years later, he was moved to tears, writing, “My life is a testimonial that Americans shared life's pleasures and walked the honest road with me… I am a living witness”

These experiences shaped him & shaped Africa: He founded UNN (the first indigenous Nigerian university), modeled after the American education system. He started West African Pilot, a publication that revolutionized journalism & challenged colonial rule.

No, America wasn’t perfect, but his story reminds us that it has long been a place where people from anywhere can grow into their fullest potential through hard work & “pioneering” spirit.
America took a young man with no fortune or fame & helped shape him to someone who changed history.

As Azikiwe wrote, “It is only in the United States that any human being can live in a free environment which will give that individual full scope to develop his personality to the full, in spite of the vagaries of human life.”

To me, that's one of America's greatest strengths. For 250 years, it has never stopped re-examining itself, improving & growing. Here's to the next 250.

Happy America Day!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

Does England have a football identity ?

They were mad opportunistic today but I didnt see them dominate in any way or for any stretch display any control of the game.

Mex played, England were ruthless. A good team. Yes, but is this enough to win out ?

Maybe I expect to much

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It always astonishes me how there is virtually ZERO public debate - or even public awareness - in Europe about the decisions that will most shape ordinary people's lives.

These days, the EU is drafting a new anti-China legal framework where - quite literally - the more affordable and competitive Chinese products are, the more illegal they'd become.

You'd think EU citizens would want to be informed about such things - as it couldn't be more consequential for their prosperity.

Yet I bet virtually no EU citizen is even aware of it, beyond a vague sense that there is some sort of trade dispute going on.

So what's going on exactly? It all centers around a new legal instrument the EU is drafting called the "overcapacity instrument" (https://t.co/mNpCMudYyS).

First of all, the very notion of "overcapacity" is pretty ridiculous to begin with, especially the way it's being defined by the EU, as it basically means being competitive enough to export.

By this definition of "overcapacity," pretty much every European industry that's ever run a trade surplus - German cars, French wine, Italian fashion - has been guilty of "overcapacity."

I'm not even exaggerating: if you read this study by the EU Parliament on "Industrial overcapacities, with a focus on China" (https://t.co/TcwEBoL8mD), they define "overcapacity" as building more capacity than your domestic market can absorb. So the moment you build capacity to export abroad, you're in "overcapacity."

Utterly ridiculous.

And what this "overcapacity instrument" is about is creating a permanent legal mechanism for the EU to block Chinese competition across whole sectors of the economy, if they happen to be in "overcapacity."

In effect, this means that if China is competitive globally in a given sector in such a way that it exports a lot, that's proof of overcapacity, and legally it'd mean that the entire sector can be restricted from the EU market.

Which means it really, factually, is a legal framework where the more affordable and competitive your products are, the more illegal they become.

Which is a CRAZY economic concept! 🤦‍♂️

Please note that it's different from the anti-subsidy legal instrument, which the EU has already put in place in 2023 (the "Foreign Subsidies Regulation": https://t.co/SvPKFyN0zo).

This "overcapacity instrument" would be above and beyond this: it wouldn't even matter if a particular sector was subsidized by the Chinese government or not, the mere fact of its competitiveness in exports would be grounds for restrictions in the EU.

It doesn't take a genius to understand how badly this could impact everyday people: this is European consumers being forced to pay more for worse products by law, so that uncompetitive European firms don't have to improve.

Politicians frame it as avoiding a "China shock 2.0" but really this is choosing an even steeper self-inflicted decline than is already the case, where EU citizens would subsidize mediocre EU companies that would have even less pressure to catch up. It's a hidden tax: subsidies for uncompetitive firms paid by consumers instead of governments, which in turn makes them less incentivized to become competitive.

The first "China shock" did de-industrialize Europe somewhat, but at least it made things cheaper for European consumers. If this becomes Europe's response to a second "China shock" not only it'd make everything more expensive but it'd do nothing for EU industry: you don't become competitive by banning the competition...

Look at China itself: the way it industrialized was NOT by banning Western firms but on the contrary by welcoming them strategically and learning from them. You learn to compete by... competing, duh!

What I find most shocking in all of this isn't even the policy itself - you can make arguments for and against protectionism, and reasonable people can disagree.

What's shocking is that virtually no European media outlet is explaining any of this to the public. This is unarguably one of the single most consequential economic decisions the EU will make this decade, affecting the price of everything, and it's being drafted in near-total silence.

No newspaper is running the headline "EU plans to make Chinese goods illegal if they're too affordable" - even though that's essentially what's happening.

But that's what you call a "democracy" with "freedom of expression" these days apparently...

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

Reminds me of Netherlands Vs Brazil in France 98

Kluiverts headed equalizer was exactly around this time !!

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

@danilitos @FOXSports Like Brooooo!!!!

You captured my exact thoughts. I wonder if these Professional defenders forget their drills at times .

Perhaps wasnt a defender

[Ayeni Oreoluwa @oreballin]

I hear you and I understand you want respect

And the low blocks you are getting should mean they respect you enough to lay low

England generally dont strike fear in opponents like that. Even getting to the Euros final, the team wasn't terrifying to opponents as such. So enjoy

[Benjamin @HelloBenWhite]

The level of disrespect England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 are receiving despite topping their group and only conceding 2 goals…

Jaw dropping!!

Time you all understood the difference between Group stage, and knockout football.

It’s coming home! 🦁🦁🦁