Tom

[Joueurs Belges 🇧🇪 @JoueursBE]

RT pour effrayer Folarin Balogun

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@_onlyscott Belgium 🖤💛❤️

[Footy Belgium @Footy_belgium]

Where have the times gone 🥺

[Le Grand Zack @Zack_Nani]

J'ai vu que certains ici semblaient avoir oublié qui était Eden Hazard et ce qu'il a accompli dans le football... alors je me suis dit qu'on allait résoudre ça avec le principal intéressé 👀

Très content de conclure cette belle saison de Zack en Roue Libre avec ce grand nom du football, on se retrouve demain à 18h ! 🙆🏻‍♂️

[Alfonso @alfongj]

When I was at WhatsApp, I changed the ingredients in the paella 🥘 emoji to match my grandma's recipe.

She’s no longer with us, but her paella will live (digitally) forever.

[Tibo InShape @TiboInShape]

Pensée du jour : on peut célébrer une victoire sans détruire ce qu’on a autour de soi

[Blue Moon @FRBlueMoon]

📆 10 Saisons
✔️ 422 Matchs
⚽️ 108 Buts
🅰️ 177 Passes decisives
🏆 6x Premier League
🏆 5x League Cup
🏆 3x Community Shield
🏆 2x FA Cup
🏆 1x Supercoupe UEFA
🏆 1x Mondial des Clubs
🏆 1x Ligue des Champions
🎖️ 6x IFFHS Men's World Team
🎖️ 5x FIFA FIFPro World 11
🎖️ 5x ESM Team of the Year
🎖️ 5x PFA Premier League Team of the Year
🎖️4x #ManCity Player of the Season, x4
🎖️ 4x UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season, x4
🎖️ 3x UEFA Team of the Year, x3
🎖️ 3x Best Belgian Player Abroad, x3
🎖️ 3x IFFHS World's Best Playmaker
🎖️ 3x Premier League Playmaker of the Season
🎖️ 2x PFA Players joueur de l’année
🎖️ 2x Le but du mois en Premier League
🎖️ 2x Premier League Player of the Season
🎖️ 2x UEFA Champions League Team of the Season
🎖️ 1x FSA Player of the Year
🎖️ 1x #ManCity Goal of the Season
🎖️ 1x UEFA Champions League Midfielder of the Season
🎖️ IFFHS UEFA Team of the Decade
🎖️ Sports Illustrated Premier League Team of the Decade

Merci pour tout @KevinDeBruyne 🩵

[jim & dwight @bestofjwight]

"Sorry, I can't go out. I have plans."

The plans:

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@JoueursBE Vif le CM

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@JoueursBE @sltpolak Visuel de fou

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@lil_yas_x La routine. Faire attention à ne jamais s'installer en prenant tout pour acquis

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@TheThrunks Bonjour, moi c'est mieux, et toi ?

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@JoueursBE Le seul et l'unique 💜

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@rscanderlecht La honte

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@rscanderlecht Le niveau de Dendoncker est ahurissant

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@JoueursBE (dont Vazquez ☠️)

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@JoueursBE Terrifiant, 3 joueurs offensifs 😭😭

[Tom @tomdaloze]

@rscanderlecht Quelle équipe, quelle mentalité.

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger