FIIOB - Football Is In Our Blood

Damn!!!

Son Heung-min was awarded the Cheongnyong Medal, his country’s highest sporting honour, by South Korea’s president 🎖

AC Milan announce American investors ​​RedBird Capital Partners have reached a deal worth $1.3B to acquire the club.

RedBird also hold stakes in Fenway Sports Group, who own Liverpool, the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

In a span of less than 2 weeks, Gokulam Kerala FC retains both and .

The ground knows no gender and are setting examples in the country.

What a story. ❤️

👉 AC Milan, PSG and Real Madrid all had the exact same record in league this season 🏆

The party at Rome 🏆

How many different UEFA competitions you have won, Jose?

Jose Mourinho becomes the first manager to win UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League!

THE. SPECIAL. ONE.

Congratulations AS Roma 🥳

In 2019, Amazon Prime Video released a docuseries named THIS IS FOOTBALL.

The 3rd episode of the docuseries, named as "CHANCE", talks about the pain of defeat, the never give up mentality, the longing, the self belief and then rising again and again. Every underdog has its day if they take their chances.

It was about Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Eintracht Frankfurt!
In 2016-17, Frankfurt reached the final of DFB-Pokal and had a hope of winning their first major trophy after 19 years. But they failed. BVB won that day.

A defeat in the final after 19 years of wait was too much to take. It was killer. It was heart-wrenching. It was a breaker. So what did they do?

They won the trophy next year, in 2017-18, beating Bayern Munich in the final.

Fast forward 4 years, they are Europa League winner now! 🏆

Every underdog has its day if they don't give up. 💪

🚨 Manchester City are set to make £30million bid for Brighton’s Player of the Year Marc Cucurella.

Rangers FC ✔️

This is Moamen Zakaria, Egyptian teammate of Mo Salah, who was invited into the Liverpool dressing room to celebrate yesterday. As a matter of fact, he is currently suffering from an incurable nervous disorder ALS and his life expectancy is limited.

He was brought inside dressing room, where Salah and his teammates were singing in celebration along with a smiling Zakaria holding the trophy while sitting in his wheelchair.

How you not love this beautiful game?

Permanent🫰

On the ocacassion of 10th Anniversary of Manchester City's dramatic league winner at 93:20 by Sergio Aguero, he has been immortalised!

"Agueroooooooooooooooooooooo........"

Virgil van Dijk has played 4410 official minutes (excluding added times of all 49 fixtures he played) and only outfield player to play 4000+ minutes for us this season (only Alisson has played more, i.e. 4500 official mins).

2nd best, Trent, has played 3903 official mins, which is 500+ less mins (equivalent to 6 less games almost).

On the other hand, including 2 international friendlies, VVD's total official minutes are 4590.

Add 5 minutes' extra time on average for all those 51 fixtures (49 club, 2 NT games), that's a total of 4850 minutes already.

It's almost certain that he is going to play 5000+ minutes this season.

This is unbelievable when we talk about returning from a season long injury.

BIG MAN!! 🔴👊

Man City are the first Premier League team to win five straight games by three or more goals 💥💥💥💥💥

3-0 vs Brighton
5-1 vs Watford
4-0 vs Leeds
5-0 vs Newcastle
5-1 vs Wolves

🔵 What Is The “ANTI-GLAZER” Clause Roman Abramovich Inserted Into The Chelsea Deal With Todd Boehly?

Now, let's go back to when “The Glazers” bought Manchester United. The Glazers took over Man United in 2005 when Glazer senior, Malcolm bought 90% of Man United in a £790M deal.

The Glazers “floated” Manchester United on the New York Stock Exchange.
When a company is “floated”, it means giving a percentage of the company for sale to the public in the form of shares

The Glazers have made hundreds of millions of pounds from the sale of shares ever since.

It didn't end there, they also saddled the club with expensive debts. As of 31st December 2021, Manchester United's net debt stood at £494.8M. There are no limits to their accumulation of debt. Man United tops the net debt club league table comfortably thanks to the Glazers.

Todd Boehly may be the face of the group that bought Chelsea but the “Clearlake Capital”, a group of investors is the ones providing 60% of the funds used in buying Chelsea. They hold half of the voting rights with Todd Boehly holding the other half. As investors, they expect “Dividends”.

Dividends are payments made to investors for investing in a business. But according to the “Anti-Glazer Clause”, they won't be getting any dividends till 2032, that is 10year's time. There won't be any payment of management fees too. Management fees are paid to an investment adviser.

The Anti-Glazer Clause also states that Todd Boehly and his consortium would not be able to “float” Chelsea as The Glazers did to Man United for the next ten years. They won't be making money from Chelsea by selling its shares. The Clause also placed a limit on the debt the new owners can place on the club.

It also made sure the group pledged £1.75B to be invested in Chelsea's male and female teams, the academy, stadium, and the Chelsea Foundation.

Roman Abramovic is securing the club for atleast 10 years. 💙

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It's been a long time! 👤⚽

Chelsea are 2021 UEFA Super cup winners 🏆

Leicester City are 2021 Community Shield Winners🏆

ITALY are Champions of Europe.

Roberto Mancini's side are unbeaten in 34 games now. Italy break the record of England's unbeaten run in their last 12 matches in all competitions (W11 D1) to win the final at Wembley Stadium.

They have became 4th nation to win European championship multiple time in their history.

Congratulations to all Azzurri fans around the world.

Argentina are champions of COPA America 2021

A memorable night for Lionel Scaloni and his team as 28 year trophy drought ends

EURO 2021 kicks off tonight with Italy vs Turkey!

Barcelona is exercising their option to bring back Emerson Royal from Real Betis. He will be the 3rd signing of the season for the Blaugrana.

Premier League has announced its Player of the Season Shortlist.

2x City and 1 each from Man Utd, Chelsea, West Ham, Spurs, Liverpool, and Aston Villa.

Sergio Aguero is unveiled as a Barcelona player 🔵🔴

CONMEBOL has officially confirmed that Copa America CANNOT be held in Argentina due to COVID. Look out for a new host nation is on. Chile and the US are favourable choices.

🚨 BREAKING: Liverpool Football Club have reached an agreement for the transfer of Ibrahima Konate from RB Leipzig‼️

🇩🇪 Bayern
🇩🇪 Dortmund
🇩🇪 Leipzig
🇩🇪 Leverkusen
🇩🇪 Wolfsburg
🇩🇪 Frankfurt
🇩🇪 Gladbach
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Spurs
🇪🇸 Madrid
🇫🇷 Lille
🇫🇷 Lyon
🇮🇹 Roma
🇮🇹 Inter
🇮🇹 Napoli
🇮🇹 Sassuolo
🇮🇹 Juve
🇮🇹 Lazio

🤯 The 2020/21 season only just finished and these clubs are already going to have new managers next season‼️

Congratulations to 2020/21 Champions of domestic leagues across Europe.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City
🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid
🇮🇹 Inter
🇩🇪 Bayern Munich
🇫🇷 Lille
🇵🇹 Sporting CP
🇳🇱 Ajax
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Rangers
🇷🇺 Zenit St. Petersburg
🇹🇷 Besiktas

Atletico Madrid win LaLiga for the 11th time in their history, their first title since the 2013/14 season.

Champions of Spain 🇪🇸

⚠️ FIFA Council announced new dates for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022. 🏆⚽

‼️Mark the dates: 11-30 October 2022 📅

Ederson is the first goalkeeper to win back-to-back Premier League Golden Glove awards since Joe Hart in 2010-13 when he won thrice in a row.

Antony in the Eredivisie for Ajax this season:

✅32 games
✅9 goals
✅8 assists
✅1.8 key passes per 90
✅10 big chances created
✅2.2 successful dribbles per 90

21 years of age. His first season in Europe.
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FC Barcelona Femeni will face Chelsea Women in the Finals of UEFA Women's Champions League. Tonight!!