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I've always been the 'on my own' type, don't get me wrong here, I'm not lonely but I always prefer my alone time than chilling or hanging out with people, be it friends or neighbours. Families are inevitable.
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If you speak and listen to footballers a lot, you would realize that the glamour of football you see on television and social media is the reality of less than 2% of footballers on earth. For everyone else, the game looks completely different.
Take a typical player in the Championship, League One or League Two. A wage of around £2,500 a week sounds like a dream until you understand what happens to it. I will explain a bit of it to you.
That is roughly £120,000 a year before UK tax takes almost half. The peak earning window is very short, often between five and seven years or less. By the time you take out agent fees, rent, cars and the cost of simply looking the part, the realistic career savings sit around £200,000 at best.
For an entire career. And these guys are the second /third level of pro footballers.
In all of this, the deeper problem actually comes after. Most footballers leave the game with few transferable skills, having sacrificed education for training since childhood.
When the career ends, often suddenly due to injuries or lack of contracts, they are unprepared. Many drift back to school or into coaching roles paying a fraction of what they once earned.
Only the disciplined, the financially literate or the genuinely lucky build something lasting.
It’s a tough world in football. It sells a dream to millions but it delivers it to very few of them.
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A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.
She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.
Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.
Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.
Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.
She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.
By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.
Breaking: Your smart TV takes a screenshot of your screen twice every second and sells what it sees.
It is called ACR, and it has been running since you set the TV up.
Texas already sued over it. Here is how to turn it off in under 2 minutes:
In case you don’t know what’s happening, quick summary.
Embolo has not been allowed to travel to the US, not because of a “visa”, he holds a Swiss passport and does not need a traditional visa for short stays (up to 90 days) in the US. Switzerland is under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
Instead, a Swiss citizen must obtain ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) approval online before travel. Think of ESTA as basic checks, that can also involve security checks, and this is where the problem is.
Embolo was in a fight with some guys in Basel in 2018, he was convicted of making multiple threats and fined over €100k.
It gets funny, Embolo has actually traveled to the US last year for a friendly against US National Team in June, however, when he came, he already had an appeal ongoing, and that was in court, so I guess that’s why his ESTA was approved, because there was a chance that the Appeal court could overturn the judgement.
The difference now is that the Appeal Court has thrown out his appeal and maintained the judgement he was given initially. They did this in September, last year.
His judgement was in April this year. This means that he has a criminal record. So think of it as USA doing extra checks for a criminal. That’s simply what’s happening.
Good morning everyone, his killer Kelvin Ezeigbe Oniarah was sentenced in 2013.
President Tinubu granted him clemency last year 2025, and he is set to be released this year.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
“I cook for my husband”= You’re a slave
“We split the bills”= Your husband is useless
“I spoil my wife”= You’re a simp
“I dress modestly”= You’re in an abusive marriage
“My wife and I make decisions together”= You’re not a real man
“I can’t do random nights out because I’m married” = You’re husband/wife is controlling
“My wife earns more than me”= You’re a useless leech
“My husband is the breadwinner”= You have no say since you bring nothing to the table
“I don’t need a male/female bestie because I’m married”= Your partner is insecure
This is how some of you see the world 😂
Y’all are far too pathetic and miserable to really understand what goes into making a marriage successful. Happy couples should keep it to themselves because you guys will find a fault in everything they do.
Tuchel, Ancelotti y Luis Enrique ganaron 5 de las últimas 6 ediciones de champions
En ese mismo periodo todos entrenaron a Kylian Mbappe y el nunca la ganó
This is not correct @FabrizioRomano.
The most decorated African player in history is Hossam Ashour of Egypt.
He won 39 trophies:
CAF Champions League x6
Egyptian Premier League x13
Egypt Cup x4
Egyptian Super Cup x10
CAF Super Cup x5
CAF Confederation Cup x1
Muhammad Abou Trika also won 29 trophies.
Achraf Hakimi is the most decorated African footballer in European football history.
There is a difference. Please make the correction @FabrizioRomano
Three weeks ago, my 23-year-old neighbor was kidnapped on her way to Kontagora in Niger State.
While in captivity, the bandits repeatedly raped her taking turns sleeping with her night after night. Still, they kept bargaining with her father over the phone, demanding ransom even as they violated her.
Her father fought with everything he had. He hustled day and night, borrowed from everyone, took loans, sold whatever he could determined to bring his daughter home.
When he finally gathered the full amount, he called the bandits and begged them, ‘Please, give the phone to my daughter. Let me speak to her. I want her to know I’m coming for her.’
They gave her the phone.
In a broken, traumatized voice, she told her father: ‘Dad, do not suffer yourself looking for the money. They have been sleeping with me. I’m traumatized. I can’t forgive myself. Even if I’m released, I’ll kill myself. Don’t bother paying the ransom.’
Those were the last words she ever spoke to him.
While her father was still holding the phone, he heard the gunshot. He heard his daughter being killed. Moments later, the bandits sent pictures of her remains to him, a final act of cruelty.
A 23-year-old girl. My neighbor. Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s friend gone in the most horrific way possible.
This is not just one story. This is the nightmare too many families are living in Niger State and across Nigeria. Young women snatched on the roads, violated, used as bargaining chips, and discarded like nothing.
Living in Nigeria has become truly scary. You wake up, you step out, and you don’t know if you or your loved ones will return home. The fear is constant. The pain is constant. And too often, justice never comes.
Rest in peace to my neighbor.