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[George Weah @GeorgeWeahOff]

1/1 I am saddened by the news of the passing of my former AC Milan teammate and big brother, Franco Baresi, who lost his battle with a protracted illness on July 31. Our paths crossed in the late 90s when I first joined the Italian Serie A club.

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Ryan Giggs' magical goal vs Arsenal!

[جنون الكالتشيو @Azuri99]

شاهد كيف يدافع كانافارو، ثم تذكر أنه فاز بالكرة الذهبية.

فجأة، يصبح كل شيء منطقيًا 🇮🇹

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Ronaldinho 🇧🇷

[carter🌚 @carter8f]

“I grew up in a very poor family. Our fridge was always empty.

So I told my wife, Helena, the only thing I ever wanted from her was to make sure our fridge was always full.

It helps heal the childhood trauma I grew up with.”

— Zlatan Ibrahimović

[The Overlap @WeAreTheOverlap]

"He is so underrated!" 🔥 🟢

Henrik Larsson has played with some of football's greatest, but one Celtic teammate stands above them all! 👀

[HK @HKFinalThird]

Giorgio Chiellini: "We were taught how to foul without the referee seeing."

"When you're 13, 14, 15 now, they're teaching players how to build from the back, play between the lines and all this stuff."

"They taught me how to mark."

"They taught me the little tricks so the referee wouldn't see..."

"...and how not to allow the forward to score."

"Pull them a little..."

"Step in before them..."

"Before VAR, it was a different world."

"They taught us how to mark inside the box."

"How to be aggressive... but without making fouls."

"Not pulling shirts... just having contact."

"Little things that, as you get older, you learn."

[Soar Africa! @SSE_NGA]

🌟🇳🇬 Michelle Alozie is named Woman of the Match after an outstanding display against Zambia.

#WAFCON2026

[Eminent @stayEminent]

Wondering why Carrick is such a good manager? This was literally him as a player 😭

[LamLam @_olamidebakare]

Mitchell Alozie
Our +234 babe
Our national girlfriend
A very strong RB

[Dex @DexxterUtd]

🚨 Manchester United moments of 100 IQ in football. Even officials didn't get it 😂

[Cult Ballers @thecultballers]

He was 6 foot 6 with a silk touch. Won a bizarre set of trophies across club and country. Underwent heart surgery at the peak of his career. And scored a Premier League hat-trick in fifteen minutes off the bench.

Happy 50th birthday, Nwankwo Kanu.

He grew up in Owerri, Nigeria, his name meaning "child born on Nkwo market day" in Igbo tradition. He broke through domestically with Iwuanyanwu Nationale and moved to Ajax in 1993 as a teenager.

He won three successive Eredivisie titles there and in 1995 he lifted every club trophy in the world, the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo. An unpredictable and intelligent player, known for using feints, scoop finishes, backheels and the outside of his boot.

In the summer of 1996 Kanu captained Nigeria's Olympic squad in Atlanta. In the semi-final against Brazil, with Nigeria down 2-3, he scored twice late to make it 4-3 and send Nigeria to the final. They won the final 3-2 against Argentina and took Olympic gold.

Weeks later, Inter Milan's medical staff, examining him ahead of a $4.7 million transfer from Ajax, discovered a serious defect in his aortic valve. Doctors believed his career was over. He had open heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio that November and missed most of the following season. He returned to professional football in 1997, won the UEFA Cup, and went on to play another fifteen seasons.

Arsenal signed him in February 1999, and his debut in the FA Cup lasted just ten minutes before he became the centre of controversy. A a 1-1 score, a Sheffield United player had gone down injured, the ball was kicked out so he could get treatment, and when play resumed with a throw-in meant to go straight back to the opposition goalkeeper. Kanu, new to the country and unaware of the unwritten convention, intercepted it and set up the winning goal.

Sheffield United were furious. Arsène Wenger offered to replay the match. Arsenal won the replay too, 2-1 again, and the original result was wiped from the books.

His career quickly revived at Arsenal and later that year Kanu went on to score one of the most famous hat-tricks in Premier League history, coming off the bench against Chelsea and scoring three goals in fifteen minutes.

He won two Premier League titles at Arsenal, including the unbeaten Invincibles season in 2004, and two FA Cups. He moved to West Brom, then Portsmouth, where in 2008 he scored the only goal in the FA Cup final against Cardiff City, a third FA Cup winner's medal.

He retired in 2012. Between club and country, he ended up with a bizarre set of honours: a Champions League, a UEFA Cup, two Premier League titles, three FA Cups, an AFCON win, an Olympic gold medal, and two African Footballer of the Year awards.

In 2000, he founded the Kanu Heart Foundation, funding paediatric heart surgery for children across Africa who would never have had access to the kind of care that had saved his career.

He also went on to found his own club in Nigeria, Papilo FC, aimed at giving young Nigerian players a structured pathway into the game.

The streets remember Nwankwo Kanu. 🇳🇬

[🇳🇬 Super Eagles @NGSuperEagles]

When Kanu was on song, defenders didn't stand a chance.

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

King Kanu 🇳🇬

@papilokanu | #UCL

[Soje2384 @Soje2384]

Le temps nous ramène en Août 2002, le Réal vient de gagner la Champions League, Makelele, va voir Perez et lui demande une augmentation salariale, Perez dit Non.

Makelele restera une saison de plus et ira de nouveau voir Perez pour lui demander une nouvelle augmentation, en Juillet 2003, Perez arrogamment dira « Non tu ne le mérites pas »

En Août 2003, Claude Makelele va signer à Chelsea pour 16M€.

S’en suivront des résultats sportifs insuffisants et la chute du projet Galaticos qui portera à la démission de Perez le 27. février 2006.

Arthur Schopenhauer disait :

« On ne connaît la valeur de quelque chose que lorsqu’on l’a perdue. » 🤔

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

Nigerian Striker and Nottingham Forest Star Taiwo Awoniyi reveals what a typical day in his life looks like

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

I love the fact that she maintained her Steeze. She was really falling for him. Stood up like a queen and continued her walk🥹✨

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

She pressed all the buttons and made all the calls, she was behind everything. I received a million calls from her throughout the whole process and I loved it — Burna Boy praises Shakira’s hands-on role in their collaboration

[stevenfurtick @stevenfurtick]

Some of the greatest fruit from your life will come out of the greatest failures.

Full Sermon: https://t.co/S3hpGKxBo0

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

“We’ve been correcting Papa since we were like 5 years old.” — Singer Patoranking’s Children Teach Him How to Pronounce Words