He was by far better player than Pele and I'm not saying this because he just passed away. He played at much tougher era and at Serie A time at its highest apex especially in defending art. He and Messi might be the most talented player last half century. R.I.P Diego Maradona
My friend 😔 RIP🌹.(Source: picture alliance / dpa) pic.twitter.com/6zoKN3unlj— Lothar Matthäus (@LMatthaeus10) November 25, 2020 "‘Diego Maradona sends his regards'. "They asked if I wanted to join Napoli. They had cash in a bag under the table. It was one million Deutsche Marks, and it wasn’t my salary."🇩🇪 @LMatthaeus10 on his rivalry – and friendship – with Maradona 🇦🇷https://t.co/PgSTcCbJb5— FourFourTwo (@FourFourTwo) November 25, 2020 Diego Maradona said of Matthäus, "he is the best rival I've ever had. I guess that's enough to define him", in his book Yo soy el Diego (I am the Diego).
Huhh? What happened?? He shouldn't be that old... He was the one who scored the solo goal against France in WC 2002 right??
looks to have battled and illness and yeah he scored winner vs France in 2002 and double vs Uruguay as Senegal reached QF, 1st African team to do so. I recall rooting for that team they were fun to watch. seems like a real nice guy from this. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55124939 https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/55130570
Speaking of 2002 WC is remembered for having so much cheating and ref helping teams. Rivaldo class player but what a ********ing a-hole.
out of curiosity is Brazil still rubbish? Topic from other thread about cyclical NTs. from what I've seen Brazil have been hot garbage from 2002-2018, almost 20 years. I know they have a lot of interseting up and coming players and have been doing better from 2019-present.Although a lot of their current pool is late 20s/30+. so are they back? semi-back? or fully back??? Thoughts.
Brazil produces a high volume of players but many of them get stuck at being mediocre to good, and don't achieve greatness once the initial hype is over. Guys like Gabriel Jesus, Richarlison, Lucas Paqueta are just seem like mehh or generically good/run of the mill players. A lot of attention nowadays on Rodrygo and Vincius at Real Madrid, but only time will tell if they can take their game to another level once they pass their prospect status.
also tons of hype on Reinier. Paulinho at Bayer got loads of hype but pre-long term out, was benched in favor of Wirtz too. Cunha is doing well at Hertha but doesn't seem like world beater either.
lol OFFICIAL: Mario Balotelli signs for Serie B side Monza on a free transfer ✍️ pic.twitter.com/rYgmVJKtU6— GOAL (@goal) December 7, 2020 a player who people hyped as world class potential but shit attitude from day 1.
groups for WCQ for europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(UEFA)#Groups
Legend, RIP. A fierce opponent and one of the greats. Rest in Peace, Paolo Rossi 🙏 pic.twitter.com/pXPtJSGTFa— germanfootball_dfb (@DFB_Team_EN) December 10, 2020
Huntelaar will retire at the end of this season Ajax forward Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 🇳🇱 (37) announced that he will hang up his boots at the end of the season. 📅 649 Games⚽️ 360 Goals🅰️ 86 Assists🏆 10 Titles#Ajax #RealMadrid #S04 pic.twitter.com/NVFtQmeHxp— RouteOneFootball (@Route1futbol) December 13, 2020
Nothing to do with shithousery, just arrogance and lack of sportsmanship https://t.co/LYv3Xqd3O0— Ed 🔴⚪️❄️ (@Baldretzka) January 31, 2021 more reason I hate Spain. no one let @BVBFNM see this,
got deleted was a tweet trashing Spanish players back in Euro 2008 who hijacked Basti doing interview and doing a parade around him celebrating their win. it was this vid from tweet.
one less Frenchie in Germany??? Dan-Axel #Zagadou will from now on represent the Ivory Coast instead of France internationally.The Frenchman used to represent France at all youth levels.#BVB (🌕) | 🗞 @SurMerco pic.twitter.com/bazwxthdSS— BVB Newsblog (@bvbnewsblog) February 22, 2021 opportunistic... 🇫🇷➡️🇨🇮 Dan-Axel Zagadou will make himself available for the Ivory Coast NT.The Dortmund defender currently plays with the French U21s, and feels that he has a better chance of an international career with Les Elephants.[@MickyJnr__] pic.twitter.com/6qySIH7tPw— African Insider (@African_Insider) February 22, 2021 sad how no Euro-African wants to play for Africa unless not good for Western country.