Herman Brown ⚜️

🗣 Patrice Evra revelou a preleção de Sir Alex Ferguson antes da final da Liga dos Campeões em 2008: “Ferguson disse: 'Já ganhamos. Nem precisamos jogar este jogo.' Nós ficamos tipo: Do ​​que ele está falando? O jogo nem começou. Então Ferguson se virou para mim: 'Olhe para Patrice', disse ele. 'Ele tem 24 irmãos e irmãs. Imagine o que a mãe dele teve que fazer para colocar comida na mesa!' Então ele se virou para Wayne Rooney: 'Olhe para Wayne. Ele cresceu em uma das partes mais difíceis de Liverpool. Então ele se virou para Park Ji-sung; 'Olhe para Ji, ele veio da Coreia do Sul.' À medida que ele contava nossas histórias, começamos a perceber que ele se referia a uma família. Não éramos apenas uma equipe de futebol – éramos pessoas de todos os cantos do mundo, de todos os tipos de culturas, raças e religiões. E agora estávamos lá, juntos num vestiário em Moscovo, a lutar por uma causa comum. Através do futebol, nos tornamos irmãos. 'ESTA é a minha vitória', disse Ferguson. Todos nós ficamos arrepiados. Depois saímos e ganhamos a Liga dos Campeões. Esse é o Manchester United. É por isso que adoro este jogo" Via: @PlayersTribune. Nostálgico!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚀 This angle of Marcus Rashford's free-kick in El Clasico just gets better. 😍

🎙️ Pep Guardiola on Michael Carrick potentially becoming Manchester United manager: “There comes a point in a man’s life where you must stop competing because your body and mind cannot take it anymore. Look at Jurgen [Klopp] He escaped. Smart man.(laughs) People think the Premier League is normal football. No. This league eats your soul. I suffered against Klopp for years. Now Mikel Arteta, my own student, gives me headaches every season with Arsenal… and now they want to add Carrick too? For what? Sometimes I sit alone and genuinely ask myself: how did Alex Ferguson survive this league for 26 years? Because after 8 or 9 years here, your hair starts disappearing, your energy disappears… everything disappears. And somehow Ferguson did it for over two decades. Impossible.”

Edinson Cavani: "Napoli'de oynarken sokakta yürüyemezdim çünkü taraftarlar formamı parçalamak isterdi; bir gün kılık değiştirip bir pizzacıya gittim. Pizzacı çocuk gözlerimin içine bakıp 'Sen Cavani'sin ama bu sırrı saklayacağım çünkü pizzanı sıcak yemeni istiyorum' dedi; sadakat bazen sadece bir dilim pizzadır."

Casemiro is glad he chose to join Man United 🔴

Alex Ferguson 🗣️: “I was 33 years old, and a young boy came to my office on a Tuesday and said, ‘Boss, can I have Friday off?’ And I said, ‘Why do you want Friday off?’ He said, ‘My mother has died.’ You’re beaten. What can you do? And I went, ‘Oh, of course, son.’ From that moment on, if a player came to me and said, ‘I want tomorrow off,’ I said yes. In the case of Cristiano Ronaldo, I knew his father was ill. I knew he was in the hospital, and it was important for him to be there. It didn’t matter about the football club. Some things are bigger than the football club, and family is definitely one of them, without question. You should never, ever put a club before your family.”

🚨 Sir Alex Ferguson on handling pressure at the top: 🗣️ Ferguson: “The biggest mistake teams make is thinking getting to the top is the achievement. It isn’t. Staying there is. When you become the team everyone is chasing, the pressure changes completely. Every opponent raises their level against you, every stadium becomes more difficult, and every mistake is magnified. At Manchester United, we understood that pressure was part of success. You couldn’t fear it, and you certainly couldn’t get distracted by praise or headlines. I always told my players: the league table in the middle of the season means nothing if your mentality changes. The moment you start listening to outside noise, you lose your edge. The strongest teams are the ones who remain calm when everyone else is getting emotional. No panic after setbacks, no over-celebration after wins,just focus and consistency. Because titles are not won by the team that enjoys the moment the most. They are won by the team that handles pressure the longest.”

Let it all work out.

🗣️ Cesc Fàbregas: “The Premier League is the best league in the world. I've always been very clear about that. I felt it as a player, I feel it as a coach, as a fan. “José Mourinho said to me one day when I was at Chelsea: ‘I still have 30 years of work left.’ So I could be here [at Como] for 10 years, and even then you might make it to the Premier League in 12 or 15 years. “Football is so unpredictable, it changes in a second. One day you're the best. The next day you're the worst. So let's enjoy the moment. I like enjoying the moment. What we're living here is beautiful. We'll see what the future has in store for us.”

🗣️ Marcus Rashford's mother: “I used to say to the kids sometimes that I’d already eaten because they used to say to me: ‘Have you had yours?’ and I’d say: ‘Yeah’ but I didn’t have anything to eat. I was just doing my best to survive. Now Marcus has provided me a home and I sit in my room sometimes and just cry. You’re thinking about where you’ve come from to where you are now.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” — Aristotle

FCB 💙❤️

🚨 Luís Figo on the difference between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid: “People always ask me what the biggest difference was between Barcelona and Real Madrid. Having lived both experiences, I can say they are two completely different worlds. At Barcelona, football feels very emotional. The connection with the city, the supporters, the identity of the club you feel it every day. It’s not just about winning matches, it’s about representing something bigger than football. At Real Madrid, the mentality is different. From the first day, you understand one thing winning is not a target, it’s an obligation. I remember my first weeks in Madrid. We won a match, everyone was calm, professional... but in the dressing room, nobody was celebrating. I asked why. One of the senior players looked at me and said, ‘This is Madrid. Winning is what’s expected. Celebrate trophies, not matches.’ That moment told me everything about the culture of the club. Both clubs demand greatness... but they demand it in very different ways.”

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 DID YOU KNOW?! Marcus Rashford has scored free kicks in the World Cup, Premier League, La Liga, Champions League, Europa League, Carabao cup and FA cup. La Carrington ❤️✨

🚨 Marcus Rashford: “I’m not a magician… but if I was, I’d STAY at Barcelona”. “So we will see…”, told BBC.

Luis Nani: "Çatısız bir evde büyüdüm, yağmur yağdığında çöpten topladığımız plastiklerle evimizi korumaya çalışırdık. Bir gün babam yeni bir ev için yeterli parayı biriktirdiğini söyledi ve inşaata başladı. İnşaatın sonlarına doğru yaklaşırken Yeşil Burun Adaları'na bir seyahata gitti. Herhalde kalan son malzemeleri temin edecekti. Aradan aylar geçti ve babam geri dönmedi. Belki de orada yaşayan çocuklarını ziyaret etmişti. Kim bilebilirdi? Ne olduğunu hala bilmiyorum ama onsuz hayat bizim için çok zor oldu. 9 kardeştik, annem bize bakmak için şarkı söylüyor, bir restoranda çalışıyor ve itfaiye servisinde çalışıyordu. Bunların hepsi onun için çok fazlaydı, o sebeple evlendi. Yeni eşi, babamın inşa ettiği evde yaşamak istemedi ve bizi zorla kendi evine götürdü. Bir odada 10 kişi kalıyorduk, kertenkele ve fareler hayatımızın vazgeçilmez bir parçasıydı. Açtık. Bir gün ağabeyimin aklına bir fikir geldi. Lizbon'a gidecek, insanlara aç olduğumuzu söyleyecek ve bize yardım edip edemeyeceklerini soracaktık. Bu plandan şüpheliydim ancak denediğimizde hemen hemen herkesin yardımcı olduğunu gördüm. Bu şekilde yaşamaya devam ederken bir pizzacıya gittik. Bize pizza verdiler, o pizzanın tadını anlatamam. Gerçekten açlık çekmeyen kimse o tadı alamaz. Pizzalarımızı yerken orada çalışan bir kadın boş zamanlarımızda ne yaptığımızı sordu. Ağabeyim de futbol oynadığımızı söyledi. Kadın, öbür gün yine buraya gelmemizi, bizi futbol oynarken görmek istediğini söyledi. Biz de öbür gün gittik ve kadının gözünün önünde futbol oynadık. Kadın benim futbolumu çok beğendi ve bana şunları söyledi: 'Profesyonel futbolcu olan bir tanıdığım var, belki sana yardımcı olabilir.' Arkadaşı beni Sporting Lizbon seçmelerine götürdü. O gün hayatım değişti."

💙❤️🏆 Marcus Rashford: “I came here to win, I won as many titles as we could, so I’m happy!”.

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” James Baldwin

45 years ago today, we lost the legendary reggae singer, Nesta Robert Marley a.k.a Bob Marley.

"If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you."