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🚨BREAKING A thread 🧵 🪡 YAN DIOMANDE PENS AN EMOTIONAL LETTER TO HIS LATE SISTER WHO DIED AT 15 FROM POISONING ✍🏽😪💔 "Dear Roxane, Remember when somebody bought me a fake United jersey, and I wrote Ronaldo 7 on the back with the black marker?" "We didn’t know rich or poor. We just knew happiness." "Remember 25 people sleeping in one house back in Abidjan? Mum wanted to watch her soap operas. Everyone else wanted to watch movies. Remember how I always used to fake like I was asleep and then go into the TV room after midnight? I’d put the TV on real low. Just like 2 volume bars. I’d watch football in the dark and dream." "Remember when the adults saw me playing football in the dirt and nicknamed me “Roberto Carlos” because of how hard I would shoot? And remember how I was secretly so mad about it, because CR7 was my idol?" "Remember when I went to play so far from home? I was 9 years old. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, all the way near the Ghana border. Just a little boy on his own. I don’t know if I ever told you this story, but me and the other kids used to go into the village and steal potatoes because we were so hungry. We did a “bank heist.” Two kids distracting the shop owner, and 18 other kids running out with two potatoes. They weren’t even good. But they tasted amazing. Hahahah. It’s still my favorite thing to eat. Boiled potatoes with some oil. It reminds me of those times." "Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them? Growing up, I always played in those white plastic sandals. Even when I go back home now, I still play in them. It’s our tradition." "Remember when I would come back home, and you would tell my friends from the neighborhood, “Why did you stop training? Yan is not going to buy you cars. You have to keep working." "You were 10 years old, and already my agent." "Remember how we used to sit and dream about moving to France? How we were going to go shopping and get our own apartment and I was going to be a rich footballer with cars and a big house, and you wouldn’t have to worry about nothing. You were the one who always believed that I could be the next Cristiano, when everybody else laughed." "Remember when I moved to America for high school at 15, and I was so homesick? I didn’t know what anybody was saying for months. They sat me next to a French kid, and he tried to translate everything the teacher was saying. Remember when I called you, saying, “You won’t believe it, the kids here argue with teachers." "Back home, you know we wouldn’t even dare to blink at our elders." "Remember when I couldn’t believe the kids were smoking after school? You used to say it sounded like I was in an American TV show." "Remember when they took me on trial at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise even came up to me after one training and said, “Yo kid, you’re really good.”" "But they still didn’t sign me." "Even the B teams in the MLS didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all around Europe, and everybody kept saying no." "My visa was up. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together." "You were the one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed for Leganés and we cried different tears." "That was back when I used to have emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just blank." "I don’t even think I shed a tear the day they told me that you were gone. I was just in shock." "It was a few weeks after I made my debut for Leganés. Who makes their debut at 18 against Real Madrid? It was too crazy. It was a dream." "And then it was a nightmare. Someone kept calling me from back home. I was annoyed. I didn’t understand why they kept calling me."

The political leaders in South East are incredibly naive and ignorant.

Result based football at 16 uno

🚨BREAKING The national U-17 football team camp officially opened today in Abuja.

This is Nigeria problem, so you expect the coach to call-up grown up men right. In recent years our developmental football have being in ruins, if the boys are good enough nothing can stop them, it's called under under-20 for a reason not under-30 man

I just saw the news that the NDC has requested that party members vying for political offices must sign an MOU agreeing to relinquish their elected positions if they win through the party and later decide to defect. I am fully in support of this. Political prostitution must stop. It weakens our democracy and prevents us from having lasting parties and legacies. PDP and LP are typical examples of this. You don't run on a platform, win, and then abandon the platform through which you were elected while retaining your political office. If you ask me, I think other parties should take a cue from NDC. End.

Get in joor!!! Stanley Iheanacho has signed a four year deal with Danish side FC Midtjylland. Stanley scored 14 goals for CD Mafra last season in Portugal. The only transfer that I am super excited about.

"I am ready to sacrifice myself for the release of the abducted children; I am almost 60 years old" ~ Oyo state Governor, Seyi Makinde says

Peter Obi said primaries are like street football. They can tackle badly and the referee will say play on.

Players reporting to camp 🇳🇬✅