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WHAT A COACH! 🇪🇸🔥

Luis Enrique has now reached his third UEFA Champions League Final as a manager.

If he wins the title against Arsenal F.C., he will equal Bob Paisley, Zinedine Zidane, and Pep Guardiola with three Champions League titles behind only Carlo Ancelotti, who has five. 👀

🇳🇬🗣️ 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 better.'
Messi, with his characteristic humility, smiled and replied, 'It wasn’t my decision; it was the committee’s. But what you’ve done for your country is incredible.' Later, when we crossed paths near the locker rooms, he offered to swap awards: 'If you want, take my Golden Ball and give me the Silver.' I laughed and said, 'I can’t; you deserve it. I was just frustrated. Thank you for being so kind.'

Years later, we met again at the 2018 World Cup. Messi greeted me, 'Hello, golden boy. I still have the photo from the awards ceremony.' That’s when I told him, 'Today I know you truly deserved that award. You are the best, Leo."
🇳🇬🗣️ 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 better.'

🚨🚨 Real Madrid's last few weeks behind the scenes:

• RÜDIGER SLAPPED ÁLVARO CARRERAS, the team had to intervene
• WEEKS LATER, Rüdiger screamed at Carreras to the point the team forced him to apologise
• CARRERAS CONFIRMED the incident on Instagram
• TCHOUAMÉNI AND VALVERDE fought TWO DAYS IN A ROW
• VALVERDE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL after the fight
• MBAPPÉ had a verbal fight with a member of the coaching staff
• REAL MADRID have reduced tactical work in training
• There is a LEAK coming from INSIDE the dressing room
• MULTIPLE PLAYERS are not happy with each other's efforts

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐎𝐒. 😱

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Arsenal are on course to become the 𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁 in England, Sky Sports report. 💰

They are likely to OVERTAKE Liverpool and Manchester City as the English club with the largest revenue when clubs publish their next set of accounts. 📈

🚨🏥 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃: Valverde went to 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 after the fight with Tchouaméni, feeling 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒 🤕

“Aurélien Tchouaméni knocked out Valverde unconscious as with 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇. He left in 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑”, reports AS.

“Fede Valverde 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒, he fell and 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 — so went to the hospital”, reveals also RMC Sport ⚠️

Mikel Arteta has reached the UCL final in his third UCL campaign at Arsenal! 💪

Pep Guardiola didn't reach the UCL final in any of his first three UCL campaigns with Man City! 👀

🔔𝐊𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐍’𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐓 👑

With Kane eliminated, Mbappé is now on course to finish as the UCL top scorer ⭐️

Unless Kvara scores at least ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ in the final 🫣

ℹ️ 433

🚨💣 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: There are six Real Madrid players who 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊 to Alvaro Arbeloa AT ALL, MARCA report. 💥

➕1️⃣ 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐒𝐆

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Hansi Flick will take the FINAL DECISIONS on the futures of Cancelo, Rashford and Lewandowski at Barcelona, Mundo Deportivo report. 👀

If the manager wants them to STAY, the sporting staff will try to keep them. ⚖️💣

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Pedri will be the CAPTAIN for Barcelona vs Real Madrid in El Clásico, Diario Sport report. 🔵🔴⚔️