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Norwegian freelance journalist, mainly covering intl. football politics for @josimarfotball . Opinions my own, tweets mainly in English, but sometimes in Spanish
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My latest story for
@JosimarFotball
includes Cristiano Ronaldo, counter-revolutionary camels, honey traps, Emmanuel Macron, a billion dollar contract, velvet pouches and geopolitics influence African football development. Oh, and Fifa, of course.
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Sweden's players have taken the decision to not play the 2nd half against Belgium in Brussels after a gunman has killed two persons wearing Sweden's NT shirts. Gunman still at large, and Brussels on highest terrorism alert.
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This is quite odd. Report says
@FCBarcelona
pays €1 million to a firm to create Twitter accounts that criticize their own players.
Escándalo en el Barça: el club paga a una empresa que critica a sus jugadores en Twitter
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Tenner et lys for innbruddstyver i disse dager. Verste arbeidsforhold i manns minne.
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Joshua King, durante del entrenamiento ayer en Mestalla: -¡Esto sí es un estadio de verdad. No como la mierda en que jugemos en Inglaterra!
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Malmö FF has dropped Dubai as their pre season destination after fans protested over human rights issues. A first in football?
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Phil Neville's tweet today means something else to most Spanish: Ejaculation on the beach to start the morning!
http://t.co/IUHGFQI5BO
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Unos fichajes de Celta
Bongonda: 1,3M
Wass: 2,6M
Guidetti: 0M
Tucu: 1,6M
Aspas: 4M
Chelo: 1,5M
Total: 11M
Santi Mina a VCF: 10M
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I think it's about time I give my take on the Qatar 2022 WC boycott movement we've seen this month. Not that nothing has been said on the topic - on the contratry - but I believe I can contribute anyway, since it touches on what I write about (thread)
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So
@CAF_Online
has now awarded the match to RS Berkane, with no references to the laws, nor any reasoning for this unprecedented decision
Remember how Fifa rejected those rainbow armband at the 2022 World Cup, that political symbols had no place in football? For the 2030 co-host Morocco, however, they seem to have done a volte-face. My latest for
@JosimarFotball
:
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A Danish football website is giving away a
@valenciacf
shirt. Ulla Beate Wass, Daniel Wass' grandmother, is keen to win it. Her message to them "I'd very much like to win a Valencia CF shirt, as my grandson plays for them."
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Gary Medel linked to Besiktas. Imagine a CB pairing of him and Pepe. During an Istanbul derby.
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Remember how Fifa rejected those rainbow armband at the 2022 World Cup, that political symbols had no place in football? For the 2030 co-host Morocco, however, they seem to have done a volte-face. My latest for
@JosimarFotball
:
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Reports in ARG that Bielsa called 5 clubs with players he was promised by Lazio, and learned that Lazio had never contacted them.
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So here it is. African WC qualifiers for free on
@FIFAcom
's Youtube channel. No income for Caf, after Fifa helped to destroy their one billion media contract with Lagardère. Caf now hi-jacked by Fifa. African football development in ruins for a fistful of votes.
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Al Ahly of Cairo Caf champions after beating arch rivals Zamalek in the final. Ahmad banned from Fifa. What a shame Amr Fahmy isn't alive to witness this, the former secretary general of Caf who blew the whistle, and who died of cancer earlier this year.
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Hoarding a national sport in Norway, as in many other countries. Not that people in Sarpsborg, arch rivals of neighbours Fredrikstad, want to survive on Fredrikstad Football Club-branded bread.
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A third victim, also Swedish, reported to be in hospital in a critical condition. Fans slowly allowed to leave the stadium, Swedish fans awaiting a police escort, told to not wear clothes exposing them as Swedish.
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I see why they picked Clattenburg now. Moth invasion should be dealt with in no time.
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Barça fined the astronomical amount of €300 for illegally negotiating with Griezmann while the latter was under contract with Atlético Madrid. Surely this will deter them from ever trying this trick again!
🚨🚨🚨 #ÚltimaHora La Federación multa al Barça con 300 euros por el caso Griezmann
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Also reported by
@La_SER
. Attacks on profiles like Messi and Puyol, while also instructed to make the current board look good. Tactic a blueprint from their Qatari friends, perhaps? Next general assembly will be worth a watch.
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Reports coming now that the stadium has been locked down, and that Swedish media is being evacuated.
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A bit proud to debut in Spanish daily sports press. Especially as I wrote this up in the restroom at a children's ball park during a birthday party for 4/5 year-olds.
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Bolivian journalist detained repeatedly in Qatar as the logo of the TV station he works for has rainbow colours.
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Ex
@valenciacf
midfielder Enzo Pérez is River Plate's chosen goalkeeper tonight against Santa Fe in the Copa Libertadores as all of their four regular goalkeepers are out with coronavirus.
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Messi still the only goalscorer for Argentina since November last year (apart from an own goal).
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Confirmed now that both victims were Swedish nationals. Also confirmed neither the Swedish players nor their coach knew about the attack before kick-off. Still no confirmed report that the gunman has been neutralised, and fans still holed up in the stadium.
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Once disliked and criticised by many Valencia fans(myself included), we can now only thank him for staying through all the bad times. Most underrated genius in modern football?
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Haha! Police running after medical cart with Enner Valencia, who's overdue with child support payments. Not a joke.
De Ripley. Enner Valencia salió en camilla, casi lo arrestan y lo llevaron con prisa a la ambulancia y así salió del estadio. Que cosas.
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When Peter Shilton asks for money for an interview, ask if he accepts this currency:
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On Pablo Aimar's retirement, worth looking back at when he sent David Beckham to the pub
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Lawyers recommended Martin Ødegaard's father to stash his son's money in an offshore account. He refused on moral grounds.
El padre de Odegaard se negó a evadir impuestos por "una cuestión moral"
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Horrible news for Spain before crucial matches in November. Ferran Torres injured with a bone fissure, out at least a month.
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It's official. Russia and Qatar paid FIFA exco members bribes to vote for them becoming hosts, according to
@TheJusticeDept
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Fidel Castro (2nd from the left) played as an inside forward for the jesuit college team Belén.
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Finally it's out! My latest for
@JosimarFotball
, on how Caf willingly gave up their main source of income. But for which - or who's - purpose?
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Inequality, visualized. The human brain is blind to huge figures, but this really puts waelth distribution into perspective
Be warned! You will be scrolling for a while, so recommend to do this on a desktop/laptop instead of a mobile/tablet.
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Fifa president Gianni Infantino just annexed an entire confederation (54 votes), and he seemingly doesn't care whether we care anymore, nor Fifa's own rules. From
@PhilippeAuclair
and yours truly, here's how it happened, for
@JosimarFotball
:
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That a kiss will make my day, while anal sex will make my hole weak.
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If you want to know how this happened, I wrote about it here:
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Best explanation why there are so many moths at Stade de France: Arsene Wenger opened his wallet xD
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Most have already been said in various excellent obituaries about Diego Maradona, so I won't bother you with another one. But I feel I have to say something, so I'll leave it in a thread here instead.
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He's a mormon now?
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Muy orgulloso de debutar en
@RevistaPanenka
sobre el club de mi pueblo: Rosenborg BK en su zenit, y su entrenador mítico, Nils Arne Eggen. Ahora en venta.
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When US senators act on a
@JosimarFotball
article, you know you have an influential footie mag on your hands
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Diego rakk dessverre ikke å motta
@JosimarFotball
-trøya før han omkom. Nå er Maradona-bibelen og trøya stilt ut i museet til Gimnasia de la Plata, hans siste klubb som trener. Her må man på pilgrimstur når det blir mulig igjen.
#GELP
Agradecemos la gestión de
@MaxoRandrup
a través de quien nos llegó esta donación para el Museo de nuestro Club de la revista noruega
@JosimarFotball
, indumentaria y la copia de la nota publicada en octubre del año pasado en el número especial sobre Diego Armando Maradona 👇
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Group I definitely the group of death. Italy, Chile, Netherlands and USA.
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Croatia manager Kovac not happy with his team's performance. Norway's Høgmo felt his game plan worked. It's like a Monthy Python scene.
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@sidlowe
@Craig_Foster
It's long, but this by
@JamesPiotr
is brilliantly told by someone who not only knows the region and the predicament of Hakeem, but also intimatedly many of the players. You can't go better.
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Lazio should have known that El Loco doesn't compromise on such matters.
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I wonder who at Levante UD owns this car. After all, their slogan is "how great it is to be small"
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Not often Fifa send emails in this way, if ever. Well, this is how much Gianni Infantino wants you to know he had nothing to do with the Qatari sheik not fist-pumping the female referees. For rigour and balance, I hope this is now reflected in this tweet.
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La Liga boss Javier Tebas, who was a member of a borderline fascist group in his youth, says here he'll vote for VOX, Spain's emerging far-right populist party, in the next election. The reaction of the girl in the background says it all.
🤔 ¿A quién va a votar el presidente de
@LaLiga
?
🎙️🇪🇸
@Tebasjavier
: "Hacía falta una alternativa como
@vox_es
. Yo voy a votarles"
#PartidazoTebas
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Gate 12 at Mestalla, an homage to recently deceased Bernardo España, better known as Españeta, kit man at Valencia CF for more than four decades. True legend.
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Symbolic tweet.
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@ViaplayVeland
Dette er litt spesielt, men Levante ringte meg opp i dag for å signere min 7-årige målvaktdatter! Hadde speidet på henne og alt! 🤗🐸🔴🔵
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The president of Cameroon's football federation, Samuel Eto'o, is perhaps the country's greatest hero. But now he's the subject of investigations both at home and abroad, accused of match fixing, cronyism and corruption. My latest for
@JosimarFotball
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A true hero. I will never forget that meeting in Cairo the day he was sacked. The subsequent night, I spotted Ahmad and Samoura together having a night cap (non-alcoholic, I presume) after the Afcon draw.
In 2019, Amr Fahmy availed a dossier detailing corruption & sexual harassment of
@CAF_Online
female staff by
@AAhmad_CAF
to
@FIFAcom
.
Instead,
@fatma_samoura
betrayed her oath of duty and had him sacked.
He passed away one year ago today.
We will never forget.
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That Sevilla-Eibar ending with Lucas Ocampos becoming a match winner then denying the opposition goalkeeper the equalizer as a stand-in goalie is the perfect pub quiz question in about three decades from now.
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Someone who has massive popularity on youth and use it to try to raise awareness and change the world for the better?
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Harrowing article about lack of press freedom in Russia. Editor critical about World Cup corruption got his arm broken by police
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He had sportsmanship in many regards. You lot have no decency in any department, apparently.
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I've dreamed for a podcast raising issues on football outside the pitch for a long time, and here is a golden chance if you agree as well, as
@JosimarFotball
have teamed up with the brilliant FootballWeekly
@guardian_sport
podcast for just this purpose. (1/2)
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Conclusion: you can do as you like regardless of rules, as long as you can pay for it.
BREAKING: Manchester City overturns 2-year ban from Champions League
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2:10am in Valencia. Waiting for bus to take me to Barcelona and the Russian consulate there to get my visa for the FIFA congress in Moscow in June. I don't have an appointment as they haven't picked up the phone for the last two weeks (I've tried about 1200 times!). Wish me luck!
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Vicente Zuccala, the blind River fan who went to Japan, also plays football. For the U23 national team even!
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Have you ever seen the motion picture 'Idiocracy'? We're there already, it seems.
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Colo Colo 2006/07 was such an exciting team. Matigol, Chupete, Bravo, Valdivia. I was priviliged to see them back then.
Alexis Sánchez and Arturo Vidal played together at Colo-Colo in 2006/07, winning the Apertura and Clausura.
They played in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, finishing third with Chile.
They won two Copa Américas with Chile.
Now 31 and 33, they're going to link up again at Inter.
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Sergio Ramos to hold a press conference tomorrow, announcing he's leaving Real Madrid.
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As a journalist and human being, I can assure you I will never board one of your flights.
Our FR4978 flight has landed safely in Vilnius at 19:25hrs UK time (21:25hrs local time). Here is Ryanair’s statement on today’s diversion to Minsk Airport 👇
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