🚨 Dani Alves on facing Cristiano Ronaldo in Madrid:
🗣️ “No one in Barcelona ever liked him, both the club, players management. It wasn’t because of Messi or the rivalry, it was because of the damage he could do in just one moment.”
🗣️ “The worst feeling back then was losing the ball and seeing Real Madrid break with Cristiano involved. Once he had space, you knew you were in trouble. He was too direct, too powerful and too ruthless. You could defend perfectly for eighty minutes and he’d still find a way to punish you.”
🗣️ “It’s difficult to admit but there were moments when you looked at him and thought, ‘Imagine having that kind of beast on your side.’ Every team wants a striker with that mentality, that aggression and that hunger to decide games.”
🗣️ “Rivalries make you dislike players, but they also make you respect them. Cristiano was one of those players you hated facing, because you knew one mistake was enough for him to change the entire game.”
THREAD:
The response to a march on parliament, surely, cannot be violent breakup, detentions, arrests and intimidation. It is, counter-productive, unhelpful and dangerous both in the short and long run....
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“Everyone was so scared of Owoh. For he was known to be a warrior. One day, word went around the village, that some girl called Ogidbo had challenged Owoh to a face off. The following day, early in the morning, Owoh paraded axes, arrows, hoes, and pangas in his courtyard. That’s how the villagers knew, that Owoh was not as strong as he had made everyone believe. For why did a powerful man need, to parade all those tools, in response to such a small provocation! Only an intensely scared man would do so.”
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QUOTE: "Uganda's causes of disunity mainly spring from fears that public officials are cutting up the national cake among themselves. During the last 12 years, most people especially the top brass had been grabbers"- Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at a news conference in Kampala (Uganda Times, September 10, 1979).
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has warned protesters that they will be "playing with fire" if they press ahead with plans to stage an anti-corruption march to parliament on Tuesday. https://t.co/EECehAyrSw