This is Valdas Dambrauskas in 2000, participating in Lithuanian edition of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’.
He was just a student that never played professional football.
The money he won allowed him to go to England and attend multiple coaching courses. He managed to gain early experience at clubs like Manchester United, Fulham and Brentford.
In 2007, he got a job at ninth-tier English side Kingsbury London Tigers and eventually led them to the best result in their history.
He got 12 different managerial jobs afterwards, mainly in Baltic countries. There was some impressive local success, but there were also heartbreaks on his path.
This year, he won domestic double with Azerbaijani side Sabah, despite Qarabag being firm favourites.
Today, he led Sabah to the league phase of the Champions League for the first time in their history. 🏆
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Before the Premier League season starts, I want to categorically state that I hate Arsenal with all my heart, and I wish them nothing but misery this season
You women never write books about how to make money, build yourself, grow your career, or improve your life. It’s always how to h8te men, how to deal with men, how to survive men, how husbands are useless.
For people who claim to h8te men, you talk about men A LOT.
That aside, there is no way I’m spending my money on a book called “Husband Is Useless.”
I haven’t even experienced marriage yet. You want me to spend my money reading a book that is basically telling me to enter marriage already expecting my husband to be useless? Ain’t no way I’m doing that shiiii.
But you know your target audience sha.
You want to reform Nigerian football? Good. Govt. should sack @thenff and repeal the NFA Act. Chest the FIFA ban fully. Engage @DrJoeAbah and Mike Emenalo to carry out governance, institutional and technical reforms for two years. Carry out fresh elections with new guidelines.
An MIT professor offered his class a coin flip: win $125 or lose $100. Most students said no. Then he proved refusing was the smart move, and it explains why you're bad with money.
The bet is a steal on paper. Flip a coin, win $125 or lose $100. Do the math and you come out $12.50 ahead on average. It's what economists call a more than fair bet. Most of the room still turned it down.
They weren't being dumb. They were being human.
Here's the idea underneath it. You don't actually care about dollars, you care about how much each dollar changes your life. And the dollars you already have are worth more to you than the ones you might win. So losing $100 stings harder than winning $125 feels good.
Then he pushed it further. He told the class he'd force them into that winning bet unless they paid to walk away. How much would they pay? The answer, with their standard math, was $43. People will hand over almost half their money to dodge a bet that's tilted in their favor.
That's not weakness. That's a law of how the mind values risk, and it has a name: risk aversion.
And it's the whole reason insurance exists. Being uninsured is just this coin flip in disguise. You quietly pay to never be the person who gets wiped out, even when the math says the odds are on your side.
Once you see it, you notice it everywhere. Every warranty, every premium, every bet you've refused. You weren't being irrational. You were pricing the fear.
I built the Nigerian Literature Archive for the books many of us grew up reading and the ones we may have forgotten.
From Ige Adubi to Ralia the Sugar Girl, Eze Goes to School and more, it’s a small way to preserve and rediscover Nigerian literature.
https://t.co/c1PJNqpXeL
We spent months tracking 5,467 bets from Nigeria's biggest sports betting influencers.
The bets were worth ~$4.8 million.
We wanted to answer a simple question:
If you followed their bets exactly, would you make money?
The answer is no.🧵👇
With: @thimmie_onas@temiladeoluwaaa
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