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Football as it’s meant to be ⚽️.

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🗓 #OnThisDay in 2005, Robin van Persie made his senior Netherlands debut in their 2-0 win over Romania.

He would become the Netherlands' all-time top goalscorer with 50 goals.

The Flying Dutchman.

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The Coppa Italia semi-final dates have been set:

🗓 June 12: Juventus vs. A.C. Milan.
🗓 June 13: Napoli vs. Inter Milan.
🗓 June 17: Final.

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🗓 #OnThisDay in 2012, Chelsea signed Eden Hazard from Lille for £32 million.

🏟: 352.
⚽️: 110.
🅰️: 81.
🏆: 6.

'Genius. There's no other way to describe him.' 🎩

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🗞 Timo Werner is now in advanced talks to join Chelsea for €60 million (Bild).

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Beşiktaş paid tribute to George Floyd.

Class 👏

#BlackLivesMatter

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Luke Shaw on Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes:

🗣️: "They're two of the best midfielders in the Premier League right now, so it’s going to be fascinating to see them play together."

🔥

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Borussia Dortmund took a knee 🖤💛

#BlackLivesMatter

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✍️ Southampton have confirmed Shane Long has signed a 2-year contract extension.

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The Premier League have announced that clubs will now be able to make five substitutes for the remainder of the 2019/20 season.

The maximum number of substitute players on the bench has been increased from seven to nine.

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🗓 #OnThisDay in 2017, Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 600th career goal. 🤯

🏟: 855.
🇵🇹 Portugal: 71.
Sporting CP: 5.
Manchester United: 118.
Real Madrid: 406.

🐐

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Yossi Benayoun on Liverpool:

🗣: "The most special thing is you feel they are a team – everyone knows what they’re doing on the pitch, you don’t have one or two big stars and everything is on them.

"The star of the team is the team itself, one unit. They play together."

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen assistant coach, Marcel Daum on Kai Havertz:

🗣: “For me, he has the elegance of Zidane. If you see his movement, he’s very elegant, he’s always calm, he has great passing ability."

🌟

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Dimitar Berbatov:

🗣: "Pogba's return is a massive boost and will give huge confidence to the whole team.

"One player doesn't define a team, but when you have good, quality, confident players putting all their effort in to help the team then you are going to succeed."

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DFB has confirmed it won't sanction any player for taking an anti-racism stand during Bundesliga matches.

#BlackLivesMatter

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Nedum Onuoha:

🗣: “I'm comfortable but when it comes to any kind of brutality [in the US], if it's from the police, if they read me the wrong way then my life could be taken.

"I feel that every single day.

"It is not just me but everybody else as well."

#BlackLivesMatter

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🗓 #OnThisDay in 2017, Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score in three UEFA Champions League finals.

The man for the big occasions. ⭐️

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🗓 #OnThisDay in 1997, Roberto Carlos scored the greatest free-kick of all-time against France.

He defied the laws of physics. 💫

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🗓 #OnThisDay in 2017, Real Madrid won their 12th UEFA Champions League trophy and became the first team to in the #UCL era to win back-to-back titles after beating Juventus 4-1 in Wales. 🏆

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Saúl Ñíguez's new club is Club Costa City.

Founded in his hometown of Elche, Saúl and his brother Aaron have started an academy for players aged 4-18 years old to develop them to professional footballers 👏.

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#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd and all black people who suffer from racism every day.

Racism in football, at work, school or anywhere has to STOP.

RACISM IS IGNORANCE.
LOVE IS INTELLIGENCE.

I’m standing up for basic human rights #BlackLivesMatter

#blackouttueday