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Jun 21
🗣 Luiz Felipe Scolari: "One day, I walked into the locker room to talk about tactics, but seeing Ronaldo, Kaká, Adriano, Roberto Carlos and Ronaldinho in front of me, I just told them: 'Get on the pitch and be yourself, I'll let you know if I make any changes." 💫🇧🇷
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Oct 14, 2025
🚨Jadon Sancho forgot to switch to his other account while replying to himself 😅
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Nov 7, 2025
🇳🇬🗣️ JOHN OBI MIKEL: "I will never forget what happened after the U-20 World Cup final against Argentina. Messi won the Golden Ball, and I won the Silver Ball, but I felt I deserved the Golden Ball. I approached him and said in Spanish, 'You stole the Golden Ball from me. I was
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Aug 15, 2025
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Sep 28, 2025
🎙️ Erling Haaland when asked about his first girlfriend: "She was annoying me because I didn't have a lot of time for her due to training and matches. One day she asked me to choose between her and football. Sometimes I miss her."
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Nov 7, 2025
MARCELO: "My signing with Real Madrid was really strange. My agent came to me and said: 'Do you want to play for Real Madrid?' I said OF COURSE, and he asked me, 'Do you have a girlfriend?' – No. 'Are you married?' – No. 'Do you have kids?' – No. I asked him, 'Why are you asking
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Nov 12, 2025
WESLEY SNEIJDER: "Busquets was an extremely annoying player; he always hit others but never wanted to be hit himself. As soon as he took a hit, he would start crying. An absolute crybaby. I literally had fights with him in every match. There was a moment when I said to him,
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Nov 10, 2025
🗣️ Didier Drogba : "When Messi, I and some of the players did an ad for a beverage company before the 2010 World Cup, Messi met some people in a remote village in the African forest , played football with them, but in the end he said to me in a serious tone, "Didier, do you see
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Nov 11, 2025
"When I arrived at City, one of the first days Cancelo, Ederson, Rodri and the others were talking about who was the strongest for the World Cup. I had just arrived and wasn't saying anything. And Pep (Guardiola) said: 'You know who isn't saying anything and is going to win
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Oct 3, 2025
Phil Jones: “Someone said to me, 'Oh, it's a shame about your career, Phil, but it's lovely to meet you'... I said, you what?” “What do you mean, mate. I've been at United for 10 years, won the Premier League, played over 200 games for United, played in two World Cups, won the
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Oct 26, 2024
Hansi Flick is the first manager in history to take revenge on himself. Fair play 👏
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Oct 29, 2025
The story of JERMAIN DEFOE is worth reading: "I remember during my second season at Sunderland, Louise Wanless, the press officer, told me one day: 'There’s a boy who wants to meet you.' She explained that Bradley Lowery had neuroblastoma and that I was his favorite player. I
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Nov 5, 2025
🗣️ PAUL POGBA: "When I received my first big salary at Manchester United, I was so happy that I went to see my father, and he told me: 'Son, don’t waste your money, when the party is over, the guests will leave, and everything will be left behind.' I didn’t understand these words
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Nov 10, 2025
John Terry: “When we were going to play against Barcelona, my son asked me for a signed Messi shirt, and I promised I’d get it for him. From the start of the match, I wasn’t thinking about winning or losing or anything else, just about Messi’s shirt. I told my teammates not to
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