DO YOU KNOW that bringing a Yacht to MONACO is one thing but securing a trackside parking is ANOTHER.
Here's the FACT behind this:
To get a Zone 1 Trackside "Pole Position" berth (the absolute front row right up against the tarmac at the Tabac corner or the Chicane), the parking ticket alone is staggering.
The Marina Fee: For a 60-meter (196-foot) superyacht, the port authority charges upwards of €210,000 ($228,000) just for the week's mooring rights. This does not include water, electricity, or fuel.
The Charter Cost: If you don't own the boat and want to charter a 50 to 70-meter vessel for race week, the baseline rate ranges from €300,000 to €600,000. High-end mega-yachts routinely clear €1,000,000 for those seven days.
The real kicker? The harbor layout creates a literal class system among multi-millionaires.
If you "only" spend €30,000 on a peripheral berth, you are placed in the back rows. You can hear the V6 hybrid engines screaming, but your view is completely blocked by a towering wall of larger, more expensive boats.
To actually watch the rubber hit the asphalt from your own deck, you have to drop a cool million. It is a level of hyper-exclusive capitalism where people spend the price of a suburban American home just to park a boat for 168 hours.
🗣️ Achraf Hakimi: "Hiba Abouk ile evliliğimin henüz ikinci ayındaydık. Bir sabah küçük bir tartışma yaşadık ve bana her an boşanma davası açabileceğini, açarsa da servetimin yarısını alacağını söyledi.
O an bir servet avcısıyla yaşadığımı anladım. Anneme gidip durumu anlattım. Annem, 'Oğlum, seni 9 ay karnımda taşıdım, buralara gelmek için çok çalıştık. Hiçbir kadının seni yıkmasına izin vermem' dedi. Futbol oynarken giydiğim formaya kadar her şeyimi annemin üzerine yaptık.
Boşanma davası açıp servetimin yarısını istediğinde hiç oralı olmadım. Beni mahvedeceğini söylediğinde içimden güldüm. Mahkemede hiçbir şeyim olmadığını, bize annemin baktığını öğrendiğinde şok oldu.
Mahkemede boşanıyoruz diye değil, geldiği gibi eli boş dönüyor diye ağladı. Erkekler; arkadaşlarınız, eşleriniz size ihanet edebilir ama bir annenin sevgisi her şeyden üstündür."
These four pieces leave the studio this morning. To far away places across continents that the artist has never been to.
“The art will survive, the artist won’t”
To Kenyan clubs, there’s money in football if you keep nurturing young talents.
Take this example: The transfer is £21.5 million.
FIFA solidarity contribution = 5% of the fee = £1.075 million to be shared among all training clubs.
If a Kenyan club trained the player from ages 12–18:
• Ages 12–15: 4 years × 0.25% = 1.0%
• Ages 16–18: 3 years × 0.50% = 1.5% Total = 2.5%
That’s £537,500 approximately Ksh. 95 million straight to your club’s account!
Invest in grassroots. The bag is there
🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Cristiano Ronaldo commented laughing emojis at a video of Kevin Prince Boateng during an interview.
🚨🗣️ Boateng: "Before when I played for Las Palmas, I said that Cristiano Ronaldo was the best player in the world and that my favorite team was Real Madrid."
"When I signed for Barcelona, they told me that I had to say that Lionel Messi was the best in the world and Barcelona was the best team, otherwise it was impossible. They would not sign me, and I know they did it to other players as well."
"Then, in my first press conference, I had to sit there and lie. I said Messi and Barcelona were the best."
Cristiano then commented: '😂😂😂😂"