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En fournissant son journal intime à Netflix pour son doc sur le fiasco de Knysna, Raymond Domenech a commis un acte suicidaire. Des mots violents comme : «Gourcuff, mais qu’il est con. Autiste léger d’abord et con ensuite.» «Anelka qui est passé sans me regarder. Ce gros con !»

Stanley Kubrick explains the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a rare phone call.

1990. Bernard Tapie délivre une leçon de foot et de management. Visionnaire.

يقول مارادونا بكتابه عن باريزي 🚨🚨 : عندما وصلت الى ايطاليا كان الجميع يخشى مواجهته! وفي احد مبارياتنا لعبنا ضد يوفنتوس وقال لي بلاتيني ايها المستجد انت تحب المراوغات اكثر من التمرير سنرى ماذا ستفعل عندما تواجه فرانكو باريزي 👀 قلت باريزي ؟ من يكون باريزي !! سألقنه درسا ويقول بعد شهرين لعبنا ضد ميلان في السانسيرو وراوغت انشيلوتي واسقطته ارضا وبدا لي ان الامر سهل واعتقدت انني سأسجل الهدف بسهولة وفجأة ينقض علي شخص من الخلف ويسرق الكرة من امامي بكل اناقة من غير لا اشعر به واخذ الكرة مني قلت من يكون هذا اللاعب رقم ( 6 ) مرر الكرة لتاسوتي وقال لانشيلوتي الواقع على الارض اتركه لي انا سأتكفل بالامر كان هذا فرانكو باريزي اللذي يرتعب منه المهاجمين ادركت انني اواجه مدافعا استثنائيا فـ كلاودو جينتللي كان يضربني ليوقفني امّا باريزي كان يخطفها من بين قدمي دون لمسي وبعد نهاية احد المباريات طلبت قميصه وقمت بارتدائه بمنتصف ملعب السان باولو كنوع من الاحترام والتقدير لأفضل مدافع واجهته في مسيرتي 🔴🔵🇮🇹🚨

Le 3 mai 1803, Napoléon vend la Louisiane aux Américains. 2 144 000 kilomètres carrés. Du golfe du Mexique jusqu'à la frontière canadienne, du Mississippi aux Rocheuses. Un territoire plus vaste que la France, l'Espagne, l'Allemagne et l'Italie réunies. 22% de la superficie actuelle des États-Unis. Prix : 15 millions de dollars. Soit 80 millions de francs. Soit 3 cents l'acre. Les Américains étaient venus à Paris pour acheter la Nouvelle-Orléans. Napoléon leur a proposé tout le territoire d'un coup. Ses négociateurs n'en revenaient pas. Pourquoi brader un empire colonial entier ? Parce que son armée venait d'être décimée à Saint-Domingue par la révolte des esclaves et la fièvre jaune. Parce qu'une nouvelle guerre contre l'Angleterre se profilait. Et parce qu'il savait que sans flotte, la Louisiane tomberait aux mains des Britanniques. Son calcul : mieux valait vendre le territoire aux Américains que le perdre face aux Anglais. Et créer un rival de l'Angleterre de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. Thomas Jefferson avait autorisé ses négociateurs à dépenser 10 millions de dollars maximum. Ils en ont dépensé 15. C'était une fois et demie le budget annuel de l'État fédéral. Pour financer l'achat, les États-Unis ont dû emprunter, à 6% d'intérêt, auprès d'une banque anglaise. La Barings. En une signature, les États-Unis ont doublé leur superficie. L'achat de la Louisiane est l'acte fondateur de la conquête de l'Ouest. Aujourd'hui encore, La Nouvelle-Orléans a un quartier français, des noms de rue en français, et des descendants de colons qui parlent encore la langue.

Andre Villas-Boas, çok büyük devrim yaparak, 42 yıllık Pinto da Costa iktidarını çökertmişti. İlk sezonunda bazı sıkıntılar yaşadı (içeride çürümüş olan yapıyı değiştirmekle işe koyuldu. İlk olarak kulüp tarihinin en başarılı teknik direktör Conçeicao'yu gönderdi. Kadroda bazı değişiklikler yapıp, Süper Kupa zaferiyle başlayan sezon) ama ikinci sezonunda hem de geçen sezonun Avrupa futbolunda en büyük kaybedenlerinden birisiyle yani Farioli'yle bu yola çıkarak (sil baştan yenilenme hatta yakın arkadaşı Jorge Costa'nın da futbol aklıyla başlayan bir hareket - ne yazık ki onun zamansız hayatını kaybetmesinin getirdiği sendrom hali) yeniden Porto'yu zirveye çıkarttı. Saha dışında çok kavgalar verdi (özellikle Sporting başkanı Varandas ile Spor Bakanına kadar taşınan bir anlaşmazlık süreci) ama günün sonunda hedefe ulaşan taraf oldu.

By Season 4 of The Sopranos, Gandolfini was earning $400,000 per episode. HBO wanted Season 5 on the fast track, and the offer was staggering: roughly $1 million per episode across 13 episodes. Agents celebrated. Lawyers drafted. But something stopped him cold. His co-stars were earning a fraction of what he made. Edie Falco, the woman who carried every scene as Carmela Soprano, wasn't close. The supporting cast earned even less. Gandolfini looked at his contract and saw something executives didn't want him to see — a gap that felt deeply unfair. So he did something that shocked Hollywood. He walked away. Production stalled in early 2003. HBO filed a lawsuit seeking around $100 million in damages. Headlines called him difficult. Columnists called him unstable. "They think I'm a wild animal," he reportedly told a friend that spring. The easy move would have been to sign, cash the check, and disappear into Tony Soprano's shadow — the character who made him a household name and quietly trapped him inside it. Instead, Gandolfini made a different choice. He eventually returned to the negotiating table and signed the deal. But what he did next became legend. Gandolfini reached into his own pocket and personally gave approximately $33,000 to each of 16 supporting cast members — roughly $500,000 of his own money — as a thank-you for standing by him during the shutdown. No press release. No cameras. No announcement. Just quiet envelopes handed out privately. Crew members remembered other moments too. Gandolfini would show up early at Silvercup Studios in Queens, sit in a folding chair, chain-smoke, and ask grips and lighting technicians about their kids by name. He remembered birthdays. He remembered losses. When a crew member's family member fell ill, he quietly helped with expenses. When writers pulled all-nighters rewriting scenes, he fought to protect their words on screen. The turning point wasn't the signing. It was the pause — the refusal that cost him his reputation, invited a massive lawsuit, and risked killing the biggest show on television. He bet everything on a principle most people would have quietly swallowed. Season 5 aired in 2004. Ratings climbed. Awards followed. Critics called it one of the greatest seasons of television ever made. But behind the numbers was a quieter truth: James Gandolfini used his leverage not just to lift himself — but to lift everyone standing beside him. He played a man who ruled through fear on screen. Off screen, he led through loyalty. When he died suddenly in 2013 at age 51, cast and crew members told the same stories over and over — not about his Emmy wins or his iconic performance, but about the envelopes, the folding chair, the questions about their kids. A legacy built not on what he earned, but on what he shared. Power doesn't always roar. Sometimes it whispers through a quiet envelope, handed over with no cameras watching.

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