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LEWAN-GO-SKI OR LEWAN-GOAL-SKI
These days you hear his name and what comes to your mind is goals. It was his witty teammate Thomas Müller who "christened" him with the name Lewangoalski. The former Borussia Dortmund gem of a striker, has lived up to his billing in Bayern Munich. Well just incase there may still be anyone in doubt, I refer to Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich, a striker by trade. The 33-year-old crowd favorite has served Bayern well for years,he has been the league’s highest goal scorer six times. This season he is the leading scorer in the league with 34 goals, meaning it's his to loose and this will make it four consecutive years he has won the top scorers title. Amazing! His contract with his club is due to expire,June 31,2023, but you can imagine such a superstar has been attracting offers here and there for years now across the very top football leagues and their best clubs at that. Once again, as this season comes to an end a huge load of speculations had been mounting concerning him. Indeed negotiations had begun this calendar year but Lewa(as he is fondly called) was reportedly not impressed with Bayern's offer or style of negotiation. Bayern Munich are the Bundesliga Champions yet again this season and on Saturday they played their last game of the season,away against VFL Wolsburg,with their talisman,Lewa leading the line in attack. It was on this same day,just before the match that every speculation was put to bed. It was Bayern's Sporting Director,Hasan Salihamidzic, who cleared the air, informing the press that he had held discussions with Robert Lewandowski and the player has made it crystal clear that he won't continue with the club next season, that he prefers a move elsewhere. The said match against Wolsburg ended in a 2–2 stalemate and Lewa confirmed the comments by the director. He affirmed his meeting with the director and how he has clearly stated his intention not to renew his contract and his utter willingness to discuss with another club if an offer comes in. Bayern Munich too seems constrained to go with his desire at this moment as they would be wary of losing him on a free next year. For the neutrals,it's a well deserved exit for a player who has spent a good eight years breaking records upon records. He now stands at second on the German top flight all-time scorers chat. Second only to German great Gerd Müller. Lewandowski with Bayern has won 17 trophies, which includes eight Bundesliga titles and the prestigious Champions League trophy. In a recent twist of events the President of Bayern Munich Football Club, Herbert Hainer, is talking tough and is insisting that it's normal for gems like Lewa to be "permanently" linked with other clubs, like the episode he had with Madrid in 2019, and so he has no doubt about Lewa honouring his contract. It has been reported by Polish press company Interia Sport that amongst the number of elite clubs vying for his signature, Lewandowski's eye is solely on Barcelona. Rumours had it that he had signed for them in April. As for current boss of Barca,Xavi,when confronted with the Lewandowski question and the fact that the striker is quite old. Xavi retorted that he as a person doesn't have any fears about age and that is why he signed a 38-year-old Dani Alves. For Xavi it all depends on how the player takes care of himself, no fixed rule on forbidding a particular age bracket. Meanwhile Barca remains in a precarious financial condition and would need to lighten their financial burdens(by shifting at least a player) before a player like Lewa can be bought. So I think it's more like Lewan–go–ski, right now, with all due respect to the name Lewan–goal–ski. Cheers
ogeewittyupdated
LEWAN-GO-SKI OR LEWAN-GOAL-SKI
These days you hear his name and what comes to your mind is goals. It was his witty teammate Thomas Müller who "christened" him with the name Lewangoalski. The former Borussia Dortmund gem of a striker, has lived up to his billing in Bayern Munich. Well just incase there may still be anyone in doubt, I refer to Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich, a striker by trade. The 33-year-old crowd favorite has served Bayern well for years,he has been the league’s highest goal scorer six times. This season he is the leading scorer in the league with 34 goals, meaning it's his to loose and this will make it four consecutive years he has won the top scorers title. Amazing! His contract with his club is due to expire,June 31,2023, but you can imagine such a superstar has been attracting offers here and there for years now across the very top football leagues and their best clubs at that. Once again, as this season comes to an end a huge load of speculations had been mounting concerning him. Indeed negotiations had begun this calendar year but Lewa(as he is fondly called) was reportedly not impressed with Bayern's offer or style of negotiation. Bayern Munich are the Bundesliga Champions yet again this season and on Saturday they played their last game of the season,away against VFL Wolsburg,with their talisman,Lewa leading the line in attack. It was on this same day,just before the match that every speculation was put to bed. It was Bayern's Sporting Director,Hasan Salihamidzic, who cleared the air, informing the press that he had held discussions with Robert Lewandowski and the player has made it crystal clear that he won't continue with the club next season, that he prefers a move elsewhere. The said match against Wolsburg ended in a 2–2 stalemate and Lewa confirmed the comments by the director. He affirmed his meeting with the director and how he has clearly stated his intention not to renew his contract and his utter willingness to discuss with another club if an offer comes in. Bayern Munich too seems constrained to go with his desire at this moment as they would be wary of losing him on a free next year. For the neutrals,it's a well deserved exit for a player who has spent a good eight years breaking records upon records. He now stands at second on the German top flight all-time scorers chat. Second only to German great Gerd Müller. Lewandowski with Bayern has won 17 trophies, which includes eight Bundesliga titles and the prestigious Champions League trophy. In a recent twist of events the President of Bayern Munich Football Club, Herbert Hainer, is talking tough and is insisting that it's normal for gems like Lewa to be "permanently" linked with other clubs, like the episode he had with Madrid in 2019, and so he has no doubt about Lewa honouring his contract. It has been reported by Polish press company Interia Sport that amongst the number of elite clubs vying for his signature, Lewandowski's eye is solely on Barcelona. Rumours had it that he had signed for them in April. As for current boss of Barca,Xavi,when confronted with the Lewandowski question and the fact that the striker is quite old. Xavi retorted that he as a person doesn't have any fears about age and that is why he signed a 38-year-old Dani Alves. For Xavi it all depends on how the player takes care of himself, no fixed rule on forbidding a particular age bracket. Meanwhile Barca remains in a precarious financial condition and would need to lighten their financial burdens(by shifting at least a player) before a player like Lewa can be bought. So I think it's more like Lewan–go–ski, right now, with all due respect to the name Lewan–goal–ski. Cheers
ogeewittyupdated
LEWAN-GO-SKI OR LEWAN-GOAL-SKI
These days you hear his name and what comes to your mind is goals. It was his witty teammate Thomas Müller who "christened" him with the name Lewangoalski. The former Borussia Dortmund gem of a striker, has lived up to his billing in Bayern Munich. Well just incase there may still be anyone in doubt, I refer to Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich, a striker by trade. The 33-year-old crowd favorite has served Bayern well for years,he has been the league’s highest goal scorer six times. This season he is the leading scorer in the league with 34 goals, meaning it's his to loose and this will make it four consecutive years he has won the top scorers title. Amazing! His contract with his club is due to expire,June 31,2023, but you can imagine such a superstar has been attracting offers here and there for years now across the very top football leagues and their best clubs at that. Once again, as this season comes to an end a huge load of speculations had been mounting concerning him. Indeed negotiations had begun this calendar year but Lewa(as he is fondly called) was reportedly not impressed with Bayern's offer or style of negotiation. Bayern Munich are the Bundesliga Champions yet again this season and on Saturday they played their last game of the season,away against VFL Wolsburg,with their talisman,Lewa leading the line in attack. It was on this same day,just before the match that every speculation was put to bed. It was Bayern's Sporting Director,Hasan Salihamidzic, who cleared the air, informing the press that he had held discussions with Robert Lewandowski and the player has made it crystal clear that he won't continue with the club next season, that he prefers a move elsewhere. The said match against Wolsburg ended in a 2–2 stalemate and Lewa confirmed the comments by the director. He affirmed his meeting with the director and how he has clearly stated his intention not to renew his contract and his utter willingness to discuss with another club if an offer comes in. Bayern Munich too seems constrained to go with his desire at this moment as they would be wary of losing him on a free next year. For the neutrals,it's a well deserved exit for a player who has spent a good eight years breaking records upon records. He now stands at second on the German top flight all-time scorers chat. Second only to German great Gerd Müller. Lewandowski with Bayern has won 17 trophies, which includes eight Bundesliga titles and the prestigious Champions League trophy. In a recent twist of events the President of Bayern Munich Football Club, Herbert Hainer, is talking tough and is insisting that it's normal for gems like Lewa to be "permanently" linked with other clubs, like the episode he had with Madrid in 2019, and so he has no doubt about Lewa honouring his contract. It has been reported by Polish press company Interia Sport that amongst the number of elite clubs vying for his signature, Lewandowski's eye is solely on Barcelona. Rumours had it that he had signed for them in April. As for current boss of Barca,Xavi,when confronted with the Lewandowski question and the fact that the striker is quite old. Xavi retorted that he as a person doesn't have any fears about age and that is why he signed a 38-year-old Dani Alves. For Xavi it all depends on how the player takes care of himself, no fixed rule on forbidding a particular age bracket. Meanwhile Barca remains in a precarious financial condition and would need to lighten their financial burdens(by shifting at least a player) before a player like Lewa can be bought. So I think it's more like Lewan–go–ski, right now, with all due respect to the name Lewan–goal–ski. Cheers
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I'M 'TIRED' OF MESSI, WHO IS HE EVEN?
https://media.tenor.com/images/15849c8f487fb64563ddac1d59b6a4c3/tenor.gif Well, I got to know him in 2005, at the U-20 World Cup,called the FIFA World Youth Championship. He starred brightly for his country Argentina. He wasn't the stand out star in the whole competition though, that belonged to the elegant midfield maestro of Nigeria, Mikel Obi. It so happened that Argentina and Nigeria got to the final and he won a penalty- a dubious one- and that gave Argentina the victory and unfairly Mikel was chosen as the 2nd best player in the tournament and he took top honours. His name is Lionel Andrés Messi, popularly called Leo Messi, born June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. Messi started playing football as a young boy as is normal in his homeland and by the age of 8 he joined the youth team of a big top division club in his place of birth– Newell's Old Boys. Here he began to showcase his unique God-given talent that began to attract big clubs in Europe. It was Barcelona who succeeded in wooing him and the age of 13, Messi and his family moved to Barcelona, and he began his meteoric rise to stardom playing for FC Barcelona’s under-14 team. He didn't fail and duly scored 21 goals in 14 games for this team. Quickly he kept being promoted through the ranks at Barca that at a tender age of 16 he was given an unofficial appearance for Barcelona in a friendly. Things got more official now with his quality irresistible at his young age. Thus, in the 2004/05 season, became the youngest official player and goal scorer in the Spanish highest league(the La Liga). He was 17years then. He was(and still is) naturally left-footed,known for his balance,quick and intelligent movement with our without the ball,cute ball control and his versatility across the attack. He has never looked back since then becoming increasingly important for Barca and his country,winning several League titles,Champions leagues,Club world cups,age-grade laurels and so on. He has won the Copa America(South American continental competition) as captain of Argentina too. Only this year he was awarded the Balon D'or trophy for 2021,his eight,a record no other player has. https://media.tenor.com/images/2ab3c06c282dcd1d30e2eda797cfcb8e/tenor.gif These days he is 34 years old and adjusting to a whole new environment in France with PSG,he joined from Barca only this summer. Standing at just 5 feet 7 inches it is amazing what he does with ball and that happens to be the focus of this post. How does he do his thing? What's so special about him? Or is he over-hyped? Let me clear the last question, he is not over-hyped please. The question isn't meant to be there even, with all due respect to Messi. Now looking at him on the pitch surficially, he seems ordinary to lots of people. That's the beauty and that's why a lot of folks find it hard to place a finger on his difference– it is not so obvious and the average person wants to stay with what is obvious, what is fancy or catchy. Messi is not the flashy type with fancy footwork on the field– give that to the Okochas, the Robinhos,the Ronaldinho or the Neymars– yet he's more effective than them all in beating players,waltzing through intending tackles. He absolutely does it better than them all. His most lethal weapon is his brain, (not even his sweet left foot) —I call it "brain power". He is able to process situations and execute his intentions, with precision, "spontaneously". You see, the human eye can blink before the brain thinks it, that's an instinctive reaction. Messi is so fast in his thought process, that one wrongly thinks he's being spontaneous or instinctive. Oh no,he thought everything through with speeds that are not normal. It is the speed of thought that sets Messi apart from the rest. A friend, boss of mine submits concerning this trait of Messi: "Unfortunately, more [than] 80% footballers we watch have little of this trait" Furthermore, let me explain using videoing terminologies. What most players view as fast motion or even normal motion, is slow or very slow motion in Messi's brain. So he can easily edit,crop,adjust,re-size,etc because, it's all slow in his mind. The result becomes a wonder to fellow players and onlookers because they think it's impossible to come up with something new at such a high speed on in a tight space. That is why Lewandowski of Bayern Munich rightly said about Messi after he won this year's Balon D'or, that Messi makes everything look easy. The secret remains the speed of thought,the speed of processing information, he thinks ahead of the opposition. No footballing school can teach you this exceptionally quality of his. It's a unique gifting of God on him. Brain power to outrageous awe-inspiring levels. https://media.tenor.com/images/493ebcc007e8b0f1b7b335653c1d8baa/tenor.gif Cheers
ogeewittyupdated
I'M 'TIRED' OF MESSI, WHO IS HE EVEN?
https://media.tenor.com/images/15849c8f487fb64563ddac1d59b6a4c3/tenor.gif Well, I got to know him in 2005, at the U-20 World Cup,called the FIFA World Youth Championship. He starred brightly for his country Argentina. He wasn't the stand out star in the whole competition though, that belonged to the elegant midfield maestro of Nigeria, Mikel Obi. It so happened that Argentina and Nigeria got to the final and he won a penalty- a dubious one- and that gave Argentina the victory and unfairly Mikel was chosen as the 2nd best player in the tournament and he took top honours. His name is Lionel Andrés Messi, popularly called Leo Messi, born June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. Messi started playing football as a young boy as is normal in his homeland and by the age of 8 he joined the youth team of a big top division club in his place of birth– Newell's Old Boys. Here he began to showcase his unique God-given talent that began to attract big clubs in Europe. It was Barcelona who succeeded in wooing him and the age of 13, Messi and his family moved to Barcelona, and he began his meteoric rise to stardom playing for FC Barcelona’s under-14 team. He didn't fail and duly scored 21 goals in 14 games for this team. Quickly he kept being promoted through the ranks at Barca that at a tender age of 16 he was given an unofficial appearance for Barcelona in a friendly. Things got more official now with his quality irresistible at his young age. Thus, in the 2004/05 season, became the youngest official player and goal scorer in the Spanish highest league(the La Liga). He was 17years then. He was(and still is) naturally left-footed,known for his balance,quick and intelligent movement with our without the ball,cute ball control and his versatility across the attack. He has never looked back since then becoming increasingly important for Barca and his country,winning several League titles,Champions leagues,Club world cups,age-grade laurels and so on. He has won the Copa America(South American continental competition) as captain of Argentina too. Only this year he was awarded the Balon D'or trophy for 2021,his eight,a record no other player has. https://media.tenor.com/images/2ab3c06c282dcd1d30e2eda797cfcb8e/tenor.gif These days he is 34 years old and adjusting to a whole new environment in France with PSG,he joined from Barca only this summer. Standing at just 5 feet 7 inches it is amazing what he does with ball and that happens to be the focus of this post. How does he do his thing? What's so special about him? Or is he over-hyped? Let me clear the last question, he is not over-hyped please. The question isn't meant to be there even, with all due respect to Messi. Now looking at him on the pitch surficially, he seems ordinary to lots of people. That's the beauty and that's why a lot of folks find it hard to place a finger on his difference– it is not so obvious and the average person wants to stay with what is obvious, what is fancy or catchy. Messi is not the flashy type with fancy footwork on the field– give that to the Okochas, the Robinhos,the Ronaldinho or the Neymars– yet he's more effective than them all in beating players,waltzing through intending tackles. He absolutely does it better than them all. His most lethal weapon is his brain, (not even his sweet left foot) —I call it "brain power". He is able to process situations and execute his intentions, with precision, "spontaneously". You see, the human eye can blink before the brain thinks it, that's an instinctive reaction. Messi is so fast in his thought process, that one wrongly thinks he's being spontaneous or instinctive. Oh no,he thought everything through with speeds that are not normal. It is the speed of thought that sets Messi apart from the rest. A friend, boss of mine submits concerning this trait of Messi: "Unfortunately, more [than] 80% footballers we watch have little of this trait" Furthermore, let me explain using videoing terminologies. What most players view as fast motion or even normal motion, is slow or very slow motion in Messi's brain. So he can easily edit,crop,adjust,re-size,etc because, it's all slow in his mind. The result becomes a wonder to fellow players and onlookers because they think it's impossible to come up with something new at such a high speed on in a tight space. That is why Lewandowski of Bayern Munich rightly said about Messi after he won this year's Balon D'or, that Messi makes everything look easy. The secret remains the speed of thought,the speed of processing information, he thinks ahead of the opposition. No footballing school can teach you this exceptionally quality of his. It's a unique gifting of God on him. Brain power to outrageous awe-inspiring levels. https://media.tenor.com/images/493ebcc007e8b0f1b7b335653c1d8baa/tenor.gif Cheers
ogeewittyupdated
I'M 'TIRED' OF MESSI, WHO IS HE EVEN?
https://media.tenor.com/images/15849c8f487fb64563ddac1d59b6a4c3/tenor.gif Well, I got to know him in 2005, at the U-20 World Cup,called the FIFA World Youth Championship. He starred brightly for his country Argentina. He wasn't the stand out star in the whole competition though, that belonged to the elegant midfield maestro of Nigeria, Mikel Obi. It so happened that Argentina and Nigeria got to the final and he won a penalty- a dubious one- and that gave Argentina the victory and unfairly Mikel was chosen as the 2nd best player in the tournament and he took top honours. His name is Lionel Andrés Messi, popularly called Leo Messi, born June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. Messi started playing football as a young boy as is normal in his homeland and by the age of 8 he joined the youth team of a big top division club in his place of birth– Newell's Old Boys. Here he began to showcase his unique God-given talent that began to attract big clubs in Europe. It was Barcelona who succeeded in wooing him and the age of 13, Messi and his family moved to Barcelona, and he began his meteoric rise to stardom playing for FC Barcelona’s under-14 team. He didn't fail and duly scored 21 goals in 14 games for this team. Quickly he kept being promoted through the ranks at Barca that at a tender age of 16 he was given an unofficial appearance for Barcelona in a friendly. Things got more official now with his quality irresistible at his young age. Thus, in the 2004/05 season, became the youngest official player and goal scorer in the Spanish highest league(the La Liga). He was 17years then. He was(and still is) naturally left-footed,known for his balance,quick and intelligent movement with our without the ball,cute ball control and his versatility across the attack. He has never looked back since then becoming increasingly important for Barca and his country,winning several League titles,Champions leagues,Club world cups,age-grade laurels and so on. He has won the Copa America(South American continental competition) as captain of Argentina too. Only this year he was awarded the Balon D'or trophy for 2021,his eight,a record no other player has. https://media.tenor.com/images/2ab3c06c282dcd1d30e2eda797cfcb8e/tenor.gif These days he is 34 years old and adjusting to a whole new environment in France with PSG,he joined from Barca only this summer. Standing at just 5 feet 7 inches it is amazing what he does with ball and that happens to be the focus of this post. How does he do his thing? What's so special about him? Or is he over-hyped? Let me clear the last question, he is not over-hyped please. The question isn't meant to be there even, with all due respect to Messi. Now looking at him on the pitch surficially, he seems ordinary to lots of people. That's the beauty and that's why a lot of folks find it hard to place a finger on his difference– it is not so obvious and the average person wants to stay with what is obvious, what is fancy or catchy. Messi is not the flashy type with fancy footwork on the field– give that to the Okochas, the Robinhos,the Ronaldinho or the Neymars– yet he's more effective than them all in beating players,waltzing through intending tackles. He absolutely does it better than them all. His most lethal weapon is his brain, (not even his sweet left foot) —I call it "brain power". He is able to process situations and execute his intentions, with precision, "spontaneously". You see, the human eye can blink before the brain thinks it, that's an instinctive reaction. Messi is so fast in his thought process, that one wrongly thinks he's being spontaneous or instinctive. Oh no,he thought everything through with speeds that are not normal. It is the speed of thought that sets Messi apart from the rest. A friend, boss of mine submits concerning this trait of Messi: "Unfortunately, more [than] 80% footballers we watch have little of this trait" Furthermore, let me explain using videoing terminologies. What most players view as fast motion or even normal motion, is slow or very slow motion in Messi's brain. So he can easily edit,crop,adjust,re-size,etc because, it's all slow in his mind. The result becomes a wonder to fellow players and onlookers because they think it's impossible to come up with something new at such a high speed on in a tight space. That is why Lewandowski of Bayern Munich rightly said about Messi after he won this year's Balon D'or, that Messi makes everything look easy. The secret remains the speed of thought,the speed of processing information, he thinks ahead of the opposition. No footballing school can teach you this exceptionally quality of his. It's a unique gifting of God on him. Brain power to outrageous awe-inspiring levels. https://media.tenor.com/images/493ebcc007e8b0f1b7b335653c1d8baa/tenor.gif Cheers