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Throwback to when the floodlights stopped working in the Marine vs. Dunston FA Trophy game but luckily a Dunston midfielder was an electrician and he fixed them.
None League football is brilliant 😆
🇧🇷 Ronaldinho Gaúcho:
“My father told me that it was better to learn to control the ball barefoot in order to have sensitivity in my feet. I promised him that I would control that ball like no other, but what really happened was that he didn't have the money to buy me a pair of
𝙄𝙣 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰, André Schurrle was a world champion with Germany at the World Cup in Brazil, with 3 goals scored in 6 appearances.
𝟵 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧, he has already retired from football at 29 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀-𝗼𝗹𝗱 after a last stint with Spartak Moscow and found a new
🚨 Zinedine Zidane was in tears after being named as The Godfather of a children's cancer charity. 🥹
🗣️ Zidane: “Losing a child is the most terrible thing to exist. My parents went thru it & I know it's hard. You have chosen the right person & I will support you fully for this
Achraf Hakimi's wife filed for divorce and wanted more than half of the Moroccan footballer's property and fortune. 💰
He is one of the highest-paid players in Ligue 1, he receives more than a million euros per month. 📈
The ex-wife therefore would have had the jackpot… When
Issiaga Sylla lost his mother this morning, just hours before the Montpellier game against Nantes 🕊️
Despite this terrible news, the Guinean player still wanted to play the match. He couldn't contain his emotion and burst into tears during the match, before being surrounded by
Jack Grealish had to be held up by Kyle Walker as he left their hotel in Ibiza on Monday morning, before being offered a wheelchair by staff at the airport.😂
🎅🏻 Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson threw a Christmas party at Anfield on Sunday for underprivileged & disabled kids.
👏He paid for the whole event, including food and drink
🎁 He bought every child a Christmas present, including iPads for the older children. What a guy🙌
Things Jose Mourinho said 3 years ago:
• Pogba is a virus, not a team player
• Martial is lazy and needs to be sold
• Rashford cannot be Man United's main striker
• Luke Shaw doesn't use his head
All those things have been proved right now… and Man United sacked Mourinho.
6’5’’ Yerry Mina laughing at 5’7’’ Emi Buendia while marking him at a corner. About 5 seconds later, Digne took the corner and Buendia scored with a header😂
AC Milan's wage bill in 2018/2019 was €142,693,000 gross. They finished in 5th place
In June 2019, Maldini became technical director
Milan's wage bill is now €81,960,000 gross. He reduced the wage bill by 43%. And now they're 1st in the league.
Put some respect on his name!
🇰🇷 Heung-Min Son has become a year 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 overnight after South Korea introduced new laws regarding age.
The country now considers age from birth, rather than the previous law which declared individuals a year old at birth. [Sky Sports]
🤯🤯🤯
▶ Marseille hadn't been Ligue 1 Champions for 16yrs. Eric Cantona came and won it in his first season.
▶ Leeds didn't win Premier League for 18yrs. Eric Cantona came and won it.
▶ Man United hadn't won the EPL title for 26yrs. Bought Eric Cantona and won 4 PL titles in 5yrs.
Rafael van der Vaart 🗣
“One day after training, Cristiano Ronaldo took 20 balls & started taking free-kicks, but none went in. I took one & scored and told him ‘that’s how I do it.’ On game day, we won a free-kick and Ronaldo banged it top corner and said that’s how I do it.”
Gianluigi Buffon 🗣
"Put Sergio Ramos, Thiago Silva and Chiellini in defense, Manuel Neuer in GK and I assure you that no player can score a goal. Unless if Cristiano Ronaldo is in the other team." 🤣
🗣️ 𝙅𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙝𝙤: “I remember a game in Siena, with Maicon. They said he always got a fifth yellow to be suspended at Christmas, so he could go on vacation to Brazil.
I went to him and said that if he got a yellow he wouldn't be going on vacation, I'm not an idiot.
June 2015 - City let James Milner leave on a free transfer to join Liverpool
July 2015 - Sterling leaves Liverpool for £50m to join City because he wants to "Win the Champions League"
Fast forward... Milner has won it and is in the final of another UCL final.
City haven't. 🤣
Ajax were winning 9-0 vs. Excelsior...
In the 89th minute, Devin Plank, who is still recovering from cancer, came onto the field 🙏
Immediately, all Ajax and Excelsior players gave him a guard of honor giving us one of the most emotional moments of the year.
Amazing. 👏❤️
One of the craziest stats you'll ever see...
2004: Glen Johnson
2005: Johnson; Ibrahim Afellay
2007: Peter Crouch
2008: Bojan; Crouch
2009: Bojan
2010: Bojan; Marko Arnautovic
2011: Afellay
2013: Xherdan Shaqiri
2019: Shaqiri
2024: Joselu
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Kylian Mbappe since becoming the sporting director at Paris Saint-Germain:
❌ Rejected by Paul Pogba
❌ Rejected by Aurélien Tchouameni
❌ Rejected by Ousmane Dembele
❌ Rejected by Zinedine Zidane
❌ Rejected by Jose Mourinho
After announcing his retirement on Wednesday, Sergio Aguero looks set to be offered an ambassador role at Manchester City... 👀🙌
Aguero is coming home 😍
🚨 𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡: San Siro will 𝗻𝗼𝘁 be destroyed! ❌
The cultural heritage commission of Lombardy has 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 the demolition of San Siro because of its historical value for the city of Milan. 🌃
Very good news for this mythical stadium 🏟️🇮🇹
José Mourinho in his press conference to a journalist 🗨
“I expected a much more aggressive, negative and violent question after listening to you on the radio. You are much more aggressive and violent on the radio but when you come here, you sh*t yourself in front of me.” 😭
In 2013, Salzburg player Jonathan Soriano missed the first half of the match to attend his daughter's birth.
He arrived in time for the second half and scored a hat-trick. ⚽️
😢 Edin Terzić is in tears in front of the Dortmund fans and they’re applauding him.
He’s been a Dortmund fan since he was 9 years old. ❤️
Sad day for him and his team.
Dortmund won’t finalise Aubameyang transfer until they get Batshuayi off Chelsea who won’t finalise selling until they get Giroud off Arsenal who won’t finalise selling until they get Aubameyang😂
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia invest billions into Clearlake Capital, the majority owner of Chelsea.
💰 Chelsea spend £650m on transfers, putting them in the red with FFP.
📈 Chelsea sell all of their deadwood to Saudi Arabia at extortionate prices to avoid FFP.
Sounds fishy… 🤨🐟
🎙️ Eric Cantona in 2017 on Neymar leaving Barcelona:
“When you are 25 years old, playing for the Brazilian national team, wearing the number 10 shirt, and also playing for Barcelona, I wonder, what are you going to do in the French league? Play against Amiens and Guingamp?” 😳
🇲🇽 Ochoa writes history and becomes the first goalkeeper in history to officially concede 1,000 goals.
- Club America 525 goals
- Ajaccio 186 goals
- Standard de Liège 113 goals
- Granada 82 goals
- Salernitana 75 goals
- Malaga 19 goals
If Luton are promoted this season, Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu will become the 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 player to have gone from Non-League to the Premier League with the same club… 🤯
What a story for both him and Luton. 👏
🎙️ Former player Craig Burley asks Erling Haaland to 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 to a Ballon d'Or ceremony if he doesn't win it this year! ❌
"If Erling Haaland doesn't win the Ballon d'Or, 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙥!
Lionel Messi has won the World Cup and it's a great achievement,
Never forget when Agüero left Man City, he purchased a Hublot/Tag Heuer watch for every member of staff, at the club’s first-team building.
Each one was engraved with the words “Gracias! Kun Agüero.”
He also gave his Range Rover to a raffle prize winner from the City staff. 💙
🇩🇪 Thomas Tuchel once bought a house for his cleaner and paid for her surgery:
The woman began working extra hours so she could cover the costs of surgery for her son, who was suffering with a serious heart problem.
When his wife Sissi informed him of the situation, Tuchel
🇵🇹 Pepe reportedly agreed to cancel his own contract at Besiktas due to the club’s financial problems.
💰Before he left, he reportedly paid some of the staff’s wages to help out.
👏 Wonderful gesture.
FC Copenhagen fans set off fireworks to try and disturb PSV players sleep ahead of their UEL match, but got the hotel wrong.
PSV went on to win 4-0 the following day
Gotze had this to say about it:
“We placed the bus at the wrong hotel on purpose, I slept very well.”
🤣👏🏻
🔙 𝟭𝟴 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗼, Kieran Trippier took a risk by leaving Atletico Madrid to join Newcastle who were under threat of relegation but he believed in the project
♲ 𝟭𝟴 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, he’s been voted Newcastle’s Player of the Season and has led them to a
Carlo Ancelotti is just one point away from becoming the first coach in history to win the 5 major European league championships:
🏴 Premier League
🇮🇹 Serie A
🇫🇷 Ligue 1
🇩🇪 Bundesliga
⏳ La Liga
🚨 OFFICIAL:
ITV will show highlights of the Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One, Sky Bet League Two, Carabao Cup and the Papa John’s Trophy from the 2022/23 season.
It’s back 😍😍😍
🗣Zlatan:
"Cristiano talks about new challenges. He calls it a challenge to go to a team already armed that has been winning the Serie A. Several years ago, why not go to the 2nd division to become champion and take the team to the 1st? Bullshit, going to Juve is no challenge."
🇸🇳💰 Sadio Mané has paid to build a high school, a hospital and stadium in his hometown Bambali, Senegal and has given 50000 CFA francs to each family in his village
Amazing gesture👏
David Beckham's move to MLS is one of the best sports business deals ever:
• Earned $255M over 5 years
• Purchased Inter Miami for $25M
• Inter Miami is valued at $600M
And now they have Lionel Messi, which will push the club's valuation toward ~$1 billion.
Incredible 🤯
Marco Materazzi finally confesses what he said to Zinedine Zidane in 2006:
🗣️ “Zidane offered me his shirt, I said no, I prefer his sister.” 😳 [
@IFTVofficial
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Jonathan David's mother, 𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙚, passed away 2 years ago.
Yesterday he scored for Lille and decided to celebrate by kissing a rose in her honour 🌹
Just beautiful 😢♥️
🇪🇸 Fernando Torres: “When I was a kid, there were 24 students in my class." 23 supported Real Madrid, but me, I supported Atlético.”
Happy birthday, El Niño 🥳