Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.This theme is Bloggerized by NewBloggerThemes.com.
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.This theme is Bloggerized by NewBloggerThemes.com.
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.This theme is Bloggerized by NewBloggerThemes.com.
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.This theme is Bloggerized by NewBloggerThemes.com.
Valencia forward Luis Nani has confessed his love for former club, Manchester United, recalling Old Trafford memories.
The Euro-winning forward revealed: ‘It could have been the best moment of my life but it turned into the worst, After you sign a contract like that, you think all the people will be behind you and help you. And you see the opposite.
‘Then the stress comes. I was down and, when it’s like that, of course, the injuries come too. It was a bad moment. It was something that made me very down, very disappointed.’
Nani who was an important first team player under Alex Ferguson but saw his chances reduce under David Moyes, who also left old Trafford after a run of poor results and was later replaced by Louis Van Gaal.
“He [LVG] told me that, if I wanted to stay to fight for a position, then good but I would not be his first option or maybe even the second, I said: ‘No. I have been here for many years, I have been very important to this club and I think it’s time to decide.’ I wanted to play every game in the starting XI.” the Portugese winger revealed.
Luis Nani left Manchester United at the beginning of the 2015/16 season to join Fenerabahce for a reduced fee of the £22million Sir Alex Ferguson paid for him eight seasons earlier.
Swift told the Associated Press on Tuesday that Louisiana residents graciously welcomed her when she kicked off the US dates of her 1989 World Tour in the state last year.“We began the 1989 tour in Louisiana, and the wonderful fans there made us feel completely at home. The fact that so many people in Louisiana have been forced out of their own homes this week is heartbreaking,” the 26-year-old said in a
The flooding is some of the worst in Louisiana’s history, having damaged at least 40,000 homes. More than 60,000 people have registered for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after widespread flooding hit the state, according to Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards’s office.
“I encourage those who can to help out and send your love and prayers their way during this devastating time,” Swift said.
More than 30,000 people have been rescued since Friday, with more being brought to safety by the hour. The National Weather Service has described the flooding, during which rivers burst their banks after several days of rain, as “a thousand-year disaster”.Thanks for reading.
The US rapper Freddie Gibbs has been charged in Austria with sexually assaulting a woman while on tour in Vienna in 2015, an Austrian court spokesman said on Wednesday.
Gibbs, 34, whose real name is Fredrick Tipton, has been remanded in custody in the Austrian capital following his extradition from France, where he was arrested in June.
The rapper, who is from Gary, Indiana, and whose album Piñata was selected by several publications as among the best of 2014, denies any wrongdoing.
“He is alleged to have administered knock-out drops to a woman and then have abused her sexually while she was in a defenceless state,” a spokesman for Vienna’s criminal court said, referring to drugs used to spike a person’s drink.
The alleged incident occurred backstage in July 2015.
Gibbs was charged on Tuesday with “sexual abuse of a defenceless or psychologically impaired person”, and if convicted faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, the spokesman said.
A Vienna-based lawyer for Gibbs, Thomas Kralik, said his client had neither abused nor had sexual contact with the woman, and that he had yet to be formally notified of the charge.
“He strenuously denies [the accusations],” Kralik said, adding that Gibbs also had nothing to do with the woman’s drink being spiked.
A US lawyer for Gibbs, Theodore Simon, said: “While Freddie Gibbs was charged with an offence today, it remains only an allegation, and it does not in any way change the actual facts that Freddie Gibbs is 100% innocent.”
In November 2014, Gibbs was shot at outside the record shop Rough Trade NYC, after an in-store appearance. The rapper and his associates were in a car leaving the venue when a man ran alongside and fired into the vehicle. Gibbs was unhurt, but two people were taken to hospital with injuries.Thanks for reading.
Documentary film-maker Michael Moore has said he knows “for a fact” that Donald Trump does not want to be president of the United States and claims the Republican nominee is now sabotaging his own campaign in order to avoid the Oval Office.
Moore, writing on The Huffington Post, says that Trump ran for president as a negotiating tactic, hoping to leverage a higher pay packet from NBC. The broadcaster had formerly employed Trump as the star of the reality TV show The Apprentice, but fired him after he called Mexican immigrants “drug dealers” and “rapists” at his campaign launch.
According to Moore, who does not name his source, Trump continued his campaign only to increase his stock with other television networks.
“And then something happened,” Moore writes. “And to be honest, if it happened to you, you might have reacted the same way. Trump, to his own surprise, ignited the country, especially among people who were the opposite of billionaires.”
Moore says Trump found the attention his campaign attracted intoxicating.
“Trump fell in love with himself all over again, and he soon forgot his mission to get a good deal for a TV show,” Moore writes. “He was no longer king of the deal-makers — he was King of the World!”
Moore then catalogues a series of incidents from the past few weeks that have seen Trump’s approval ratings plummet. Citing the nominee’s attacks on the family of Humayun Khan, a Muslim American who was killed while serving in Iraq, and his implication that “second amendment people” could use gun violence against Hillary Clinton, Moore suggests that Trump’s outlandish behaviour was an attempt to “self-sacrifice” his campaign.
“Maybe the meltdown of the past three weeks was no accident,” writes Moore. “Maybe it’s all part of his new strategy to get the hell out of a race he never intended to see through to its end anyway.”
Moore finally suggests that Trump would give up the Republican nomination rather than lose on election night.
“Trust me, I’ve met the guy. Spent an afternoon with him,” he writes. “He would rather invite the Clintons AND the Obamas to his next wedding than have that scarlet letter (“L”) branded on his forehead seconds after the last polls have closed on that night.” Thanks for reading.
Nani could not understand it. His mind was scrambled and the situation
would affect him physically. The Portugal winger had been given a new
five-year contract at Manchester United
in September 2013 by the manager, David Moyes, and, having joined from
Sporting Lisbon in 2007, he felt wanted and ready to fire himself to
higher levels. Then Moyes did not play him. Or at least he hardly did
so. In 2013-14 Nani would start only seven Premier League games.
“It could have been the best moment of my life but it turned into the
worst,” Nani says. “After you sign a contract like that, you think all
the people will be behind you and help you. And you see the opposite.
Then the stress comes. I was down and, when it’s like that, of course,
the injuries come too. It was a bad moment. It was something that made
me very down, very disappointed.”
There were fewer shades of grey at the beginning of the following
season under Moyes’s successor, Louis van Gaal. “He told me that, if I
wanted to stay to fight for a position, then good but I would not be his
first option or maybe even the second,” Nani says. “I said: ‘No. I have
been here for many years, I have been very important to this club and I
think it’s time to decide.’ I wanted to play every game in the starting
XI.”
And so Nani ended a fitful United career, marked by flashes of genius
but defined by the feeling that he never delivered on his potential. He
went on a season-long loan back to Sporting and then signed for
Fenerbahce in July 2015 for £4.25m. He took with him a reputation for
flakiness and, if he had become trapped in a spiral of decline at
United, there were few people in England to predict that he would rise
again.
Nani has risen again. In a rare interview, with the Guardian, the
29-year-old can reflect on a £7.2m transfer from Fenerbahce to Valencia and there is excitement before the start of La Liga. His new team kick off at home to Las Palmas on Monday night.
But there is something else, something fundamental. The four-time
Premier League champion and one-time Champions League winner describes
it as the highlight of his career. He is now a European champion with Portugal.
Nani enjoyed an outstanding tournament in France, scoring three and
setting up one more. But there was particular resonance to a moment from
the final against France. It came when Cristiano Ronaldo, the talisman
and Nani’s one-time house-mate in Manchester, sat down on the turf with
tears in his eyes. His game was over because of a knee injury and he
looked for Nani to pass on the armband.
It was the biggest game in Portuguese football history – never before
had they won a major final – and from the 25th minute Nani would carry
the captaincy and the responsibility for driving on the younger players
like Raphaël Guerreiro, Renato Sanches and João Mario. Nani’s critics
have said that he does not have the broadest of shoulders. Here, he led
his country to glory.
Nani celebrates with his former Manchester United team-mate Cristiano
Ronaldo after Portugal’s triumph over France in the Euro 2016 final in
July. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images
“It was a very strange feeling when Cristiano went off because I was
very upset about losing our captain and our best player,” Nani says.
“But very quickly I had to put my head up and try to help the team, try
to give them the confidence and motivation to continue. I had to do my
job. I had to do what captains have to do.
“The
thing that changed was that I was shouting to my players, to the
younger players, giving them motivation. And it was fantastic. We
deserved to win and it’s in history now. It’s something we’ll remember
for ever. It’s once-in-a-lifetime.” After the substitute Eder’s extra-time goal had secured the 1-0 win,
Nani was overtaken by the emotion. The words tumble out now and there
is hyperbole but the over-riding impression is that the magnitude of the
achievement has yet to sink in. The moments after the full-time whistle
were a blur and Nani says he slept for “maybe one hour” that night, as
he was so excited about getting back to Lisbon for the open-top bus
parade.
“It was the best thing of my career because it was for my country,”
Nani adds. “Every player wants to win something for his country. It’s
amazing how the Portuguese people lived this and the feeling that they
gave to us when we got home was incredible. We proved a lot of doubters
wrong. We drew our three group games but when it mattered the most, we
were decisive.”
Nani has long been driven by the desire to prove people wrong; from
his childhood in Lisbon’s impoverished and crime-ridden Amadora slum
district, when he told his friends he would play for United and they
were not convinced. “I remember watching United’s Champions League final
win over Bayern Munich in 1999 and, of course, when you watch teams
like that, your dream is to play for them,” he says. “I said to my
friends: ‘One day, I will play there.’ And the dream came true. If you
believe and work hard, you can achieve your dreams.”
Nani after scoring for Manchester United in 2011. He struggled to get in
the side after Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure in 2013. Photograph:
Matthew Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images
Nani won the Champions League in his first season at Old Trafford,
coming on as an extra-time substitute in the 2008 final against Chelsea
and scoring with the fifth kick of the penalty shootout, which United
edged in sudden death. He was voted their best player in the 2010-11
title-winning season and he can look back on a clutch of spectacular
goals. The ones that stand out for him are the smart finish against
Liverpool in 2008 and the firecracker against Chelsea in 2011.
Nani
says “United gave me all that I have in this life”, and his affection
for Sir Alex Ferguson endures. “I see him like a father, angry and
shouting at you one minute but in the next, patting his hand on your
head and saying: ‘Come on, son.’
“It was hard to deal with at first, because you don’t know him and
his strong ways but when you know him, you learn it is for your benefit.
If today I have a strong mentality, it’s a lot to do with him.”
Perhaps Nani was frustrating at Old Trafford because his potential
was so rich and, consequently, the bar was set so high. It is also true
that he was not helped by the comparisons with Ronaldo, who had arrived
at United from Sporting in 2003.
“They were expecting me to be the next Ronaldo but that’s unfair,” he
says. “We are different players, different personalities. Maybe it was a
mistake to compare us.”
Nani moved in with Ronaldo for a month or so when he first arrived in
Manchester and, disappointingly, he is not willing to reveal any of his
friend’s bad habits. “We just had great moments,” he adds. “I needed
somebody to help me to deal with things in Manchester and he was very
important to me.”
Nani spent last season with Fenerbahce in Turkey but has now joined the
Spanish side Valencia. Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images
The appraisal of Nani’s time at United is coloured negatively by the
statistic that shows he started, on average, only 16 league games a
season over his seven years. In 2012-13, Ferguson’s final campaign and
the one before Moyes, he had only seven starts in the league.
“Maybe I could have played more games but the routine at that club,
especially under Ferguson, was to alternate the players,” Nani says.
“Everyone was part of the team. I played in big games and I played in
not so big games. I played in finals. I had fantastic performances and I
had not so great performances. This is football.
“What I have in my mind is just the great moments I had in
Manchester; the fantastic goals that I scored against top teams. It’s
what my friends remember and it’s what the fans remember, when they
write to me. They don’t remember the bad things.”
Valencia have been keen to hype their new signing and have shot an in-house documentary entitled El Fenémeno de Nani.
It might seem a little over-the-top but in reality he is a decorated
former United player who has just helped his country to the European
Championship.
After his moment of triumph at Stade de France Nani said he thought
about his journey to the top – from Amadora and the days at junior level
when Portugal’s leading clubs would overlook him for being too small
and skinny. He eventually changed Sporting’s opinion of him at a trial
when he was 16. “Where I grew up it was very difficult for kids,” Nani
says. “Some of them would go the wrong way – stealing, smoking, drugs
and everything, but I never wanted to go that way. My way was that I was
their friend, I saw them do the wrong things but I was with them. And,
after, I go to play football. We had nothing when I was young. We were
very poor but all my life I have been a fighter. I think that’s why I am
here, because I will fight until the end.”
Two schoolgirls Jumia Badmos and Ayomide Badmos have been abducted in Lagos.
Six-year-old Jumia and four-year-old Ayomide were abducted on Tuesday on Olorunfemi Street, Igando when they were returning home from summer school.
The mother of the girls, who lost her husband about three years ago, lives with a friend on the same street and sells boiled corn.
A popular daily gathered that the victims were returning from summer school when they stopped by at a junction near their mother’s shop to play.
A neighbour narrated to the daily: “The incident happened around 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday when the girls closed from the summer school at 12:00 p.m. The girls and other school children usually walk in groups. Ayo, the younger sister, on their way back home stopped at a junction close to their mother’s shop.
”Other children passed by and when those ones got to their mother, she asked them where her girls were and they told her they left them at a junction. But when she got to the junction, she could not find them.”
Another resident, “Jumia and Ayo are popular kids on the street. After the incident, someone hinted the police that he saw a barber carrying one of the girls and holding the other at the same time.”
While confirming the reports, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos said, “It is a case of abduction. The barber cunningly took the kids away under the guise of buying them biscuits. We are working on,” she said.
It was later discovered that the girls have been rescued, “We have rescued the girls,” she added.Thanks for reading.
Former Arsenal star Andrey Arshavin has made shocking claims on doping at the Olympics.
Arshavin claimed that some Olympics games are not possible without doping with regards to the Russian state-sponsored doping case. He said it is ‘simply impossible without doping’, adding that the ban is politically motivated.
The former Zenit midfielder said: ‘In my opinion, all cyclic sports involve doping. It’s simply impossible without doping. That means swimming, skiing, cycling. I think everyone dopes, Russia is paying for its political decisions, including in sport. Is it fair or unfair? Life isn’t fair. Of course, this is a great tragedy for the athletes, especially the Olympians. For them, this is the World Cup and European Championship for footballers. We have every two years, with good players, earning good money at clubs, and they have the reverse.
“[They have] almost one or two chances in life to get an apartment, a normal premium. Of course I understand them, they are not in the best condition now.”
Russian athletes were banned from competing at the Rio Games after the World Anti-Doping Agency issued a blanket ban, which was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for sport.
Need our help to upload or customize this blogger template? Contact me with details about the theme customization you need; Email:ashyizzy2@gmail.com Whatsapp:+2349032498027.
