Franco Baresi’nin otobiyografisi “Ancora in gioco”dan:
“…Kasım 2013’te yeniden Meksika’ya gittim. Salon de la Fama’ya kabul edilmek üzere aday gösterilmiştim.
Karşımda George Weah’ı gördüm. Bana doğru geldi, sarıldık. İlk söylediği şey şuydu:
‘Nasılsın, Kaptan?’
Yanında siyasi danışmanı vardı. Beni tanımıyordu; gülümsedi ve kendini tanıttı.
Tören başladığında çok heyecanlıydım. George da öyleydi ve bana sürekli ‘Kaptan’ diye hitap etmeye devam ediyordu.
Dönüş yolunda George ile danışmanının konuştuğunu duydum. Bir ara ‘Kaptan’ kelimesini işittim. Sanırım benden bahsediyorlardı ama İngilizce konuştukları için ne söylediklerini anlayamadım.
Meksika’ya vardığımızda servis önce George ile danışmanını otellerine bıraktı, ardından bizim otele geçti.
Otele girer girmez Federico bana, ‘Yolda George ile danışmanının ne konuştuğunu duydun mu?’ diye sordu.
‘Hayır,’ dedim. ‘Sadece benimle ilgili bir şey konuştuklarını hissettim.’
Gülümsedi ve bana anlattı.
Danışmanı, George Weah’a, ‘Bu kişi kim? Neden ona sürekli “Kaptan” diyorsunuz?’ diye sormuş. Ona biraz tuhaf gelmiş.
George ise şu cevabı vermiş:
— Futbol ve siyaset hayatım boyunca birçok kaptan ve birçok lider tanıdım. Ama Franco, benim için tek gerçek kaptandır. Çünkü onunla birlikteyken ister sahada ister saha dışında olsun, yaptığı her şeyi kendisi için değil; bizim ve takımın iyiliği için yaptığını bilirdim… İşte kaptan olmak tam olarak budur.”
🔵🇺🇦 Mykhaylo Mudryk statement.
“After a long battle, the four-year ban that was imposed on me has been rescinded and I am free to resume my career with immediate effect.
I am grateful that this process has reached a conclusion, that I have been cleared to return to football and that I can now look ahead to my future.
This has been the most difficult period of my career.
As I have always maintained from the outset of this case, I have never knowingly or intentionally taken any banned substance. My commitment to competing fairly and representing my club and country with professionalism and integrity has always been important to me.
I would like to thank my family and friends for their support and belief throughout this period.
I also want to express my deep gratitude to everyone at Chelsea FC, my teammates and the Chelsea supporters who have been with me throughout.
I would also like to thank my legal team and others who assisted for their tireless work on my case.
My focus now is on returning to football, working hard every day, and making a positive contribution on the pitch.
Thank you to everyone who continued to believe in me. I look forward to the next chapter of my career”.
🚨🎙️ Jürgen Klopp on Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup;
🗣️"Look, I try to stay out of the politics, I really do. But at some point, you just have to ask: who is actually thinking about the game here?
"Gianni Infantino comes out with this idea to sell twenty percent of the World Cup to private equity investors, and I just shake my head. It’s always about more money, more games, more commercialization. They want to hand out twenty million dollars to every federation to buy votes, but what about the actual sport? The World Cup isn't a tech startup you can sell stakes in to the highest bidder on Wall Street. It belongs to the players and the fans. But as usual, the people making these decisions are sitting in air-conditioned offices, miles away from a football pitch, treating a hundred years of history like an investment portfolio.
"And then UEFA comes out and says, 'Oh, football has a soul, we will boycott!' Come on. Give me a break.
"I’ve been criticizing UEFA for years about the Nations League, the bloated Champions League formats, and squeezing the players until they break. Now suddenly they want to act like the guardians of traditional football? It’s laughable. UEFA isn't angry because football is being commercialized—they’ve been doing that themselves for a decade. They’re just angry that FIFA found a bigger bag of money and didn't leave a cut for them.
"It’s two giants fighting over who gets to keep the wallet, while the players and supporters are left in the middle, completely ignored. We keep adding tournaments, adding money, adding investors—and nobody stops to ask if the product on the pitch will even survive it."
Il 19 novembre 1995 ho esordito in Serie A contro il Milan. Avevo 17 anni e dall'altra parte c'era il capitano di quella squadra: Franco Baresi.
Per un ragazzo della mia età, trovarsi in campo contro campioni come lui era qualcosa di incredibile. Da quel giorno ho avuto ancora più chiaro cosa significasse rappresentare il calcio con classe, leadership e rispetto.
Ciao Franco. Riposa in pace.
50 Cent just shut down all the noise in a recent podcast interview.
When they asked if him and Eminem ever had beef, he didn’t even flinch.
“Me and Em go way back. Real far. When he was deep in that addiction and the world was ready to write him off, I was right there. Not for the cameras. Not for the clout. Just for him. Stood by him through the darkest days. After he came out of it, we hit the stage together and gave the people some of the greatest shows of our lives.”
Then he looked straight at the camera and said it plain:
“That’s what real friendship looks like. Not the ones who clap when you’re winning. The ones who stay when you’re losing yourself.”
Respect still undefeated.
ORIADE out now! Congrats BADDEST! @davido 👑❤️
Track 10 - YAYA ft @AyaNakamuraa (co-written by me)
super grateful to God for the opportunity to be apart of this amazing project!!🙏 #Oriadé
Oriadé. My sixth album. 15 years in.
Get it from me directly, before anywhere else.
Naira. Cedis. Shillings. Rand. Pounds. Pay what it’s worth to you.
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Tonight. 👑
30BG
Music will always reflect the artists reality. From time to time they can segue but will always eventually come back to the influence of their environment.
I want to see a new Nigerian artiste who isn't trying to sing their way out of poverty but is just trying to make excellent music, for the pure love of it.
Idk if I'm explaining my point well.
Music that has no hustle or money anxiety inflected into it.
Might be wishful but I need it.
- Fuel is 1250
- $ to naira is 1350
- Foods are expensive
- Loans have quadrupled
- Budgets of two years are running concurrently
- budget is heavily padded & meant to be funded with 46% loans yet he signed it into an act
- there’s nationwide insecurity
You didn’t save Nigeria. May your type never lead this country ever again. EVER!!