That France squad na big boys’ club.
Big big boys.
Their coach is a World Cup winner as a player and as a coach. He made the UCL final with Monaco in his first coaching job.
Their captain is a World Cup winner, played in the final of the last one. Multiple league titles.
Dembele has won the UCL back-to-back. Ballon d’Or winner.
Olise, Upamecano are Bundesliga champions.
Saliba is a Premier League champion.
Doue has won too many titles for his age. If he wins the World Cup, he may well retire at 21.
Kounde La Liga champion time and again.
The ones who haven't won a lot are the Manu Kones.
Even guys on the bench have tasted glory.
Kante will be smiling knowing he's won everything he can.
You don't need to tell those players the weight of moments. They live it.
Big boys.
🚨 Roy Keane: “You could have 25 players around Kylian Mbappé, but GREAT players decide what they’ll do with the ball.
What these great players do is they DICTATE.”
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.” — Carl Jung
Good people have high levels of empathy, but once that empathy is exhausted, they switch to a state of objective observation. They see you for exactly who you are, without the filter of their love.
This is why their anger feels so cold, it is the absence of the warmth you took for granted.
🚨🎙️Toni Kroos on Portugal's national team:
"First of all, congratulations to Portugal. If the objective was to move on from Cristiano Ronaldo, then you've achieved it."
"For years, people kept saying Cristiano was the reason Portugal struggled. Others claimed the team would be better without him and that there was no difference between Portugal with or without Cristiano. Fine—now the pressure is on them to prove it."
"From this moment, people will judge this team by what they achieve after Cristiano. If they truly believed he was holding them back, then they must go on to win the next European Championship and compete seriously for the next World Cups. That's how football works—you have to back up your words with results."
"We all know Portugal's history before Cristiano Ronaldo, and we all know what he helped the national team achieve during his era. He played a huge role in changing the mentality of Portuguese football and helped deliver the biggest trophies in the country's history."
"What disappointed me wasn't the result—it was the attitude. Throughout the tournament, it often looked like the unity and fight that made this team successful in the past just wasn't there. Everyone watching could see that."
"Now there's no more debate about Cristiano. The spotlight is fully on this generation of players. They'll be judged by what they win from here on, not by what they say. Football always remembers trophies, not excuses."
🚨 Mikel Merino on his goal against Portugal:
🗣️ “The coach wanted to sub me on in the 50th minute, but I told him to wait because I was studying the game and how the defenders were positioning themselves. It took me 35 minutes to analyze their defense, and I told Raya I would score in the 90th minute, and I delivered. See you next game.”
Lmaoooo! I don’t think football has had anyone ruder than this guy. Not even Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
At France ‘98, he almost used to beat up his players. Modafuka ran from his post to play every single free kick they had🤣🤣🤣
The videos from Lagos Flooding are beyond alarming. Lagasians have lost billions of Naira worth of property. There is nothing the Mega City can do? No one can solve the perennial disaster? You can’t go to Amsterdam & fetch their engineers? Where is Tokunbo Wahab?