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Beverlyjean:
Another fake cup that was fixed for him , just like some UCL titles he won

kals4luv990:
I swear boss..noticed that immediately messi and neymar left,PSG reach semifinals?that dwarf was a curse

mushroomFarm:
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Blame penaldo for not being good enough to be a regular starter. Also blame him for missing a one on one chance. Go cry to your god penaldo, move on and stop killing yourself with regrets....there are still so many years for you to cry

William Woods was homeless and living in Los Angeles when he learned that someone was racking up debt using his name.

But when he reported his concerns to the branch manager of a bank, he wound up spending nearly two years locked up, accused of identity theft himself. As he continued to insist he was Woods in a desperate effort to clear his name, he was even sent to a state mental hospital and drugged, court records show.

Finally this week, a former high-level Iowa hospital IT worker who had assumed Woods' identity for decades pleaded guilty to two federal charges.

That man, 58-year-old Matthew David Keirans, who lived in Hartland, Wisconsin, faces up to 32 years in prison for making false statements to a National Credit Union Administration insured institution and aggravated identify theft.

A sentencing date has not been set in the federal case, but Keirans spent 20 days in jail last year on related state charges in Iowa.

Meanwhile, a hearing is set for next week in California to vacate Woods' conviction, said Venusse Dunn, a spokesperson in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office

father listed on Woods’ birth certificate and tested the father’s DNA against Woods’ DNA. The test proved Woods was the man’s son.

When police confronted Keirens about the DNA evidence, he said: “My life is over” and “Everything is gone.”

Woods has not responded to the AP's efforts to seek comment via a court liaison who works with victims, and the public defender’s office in Los Angeles didn’t respond to emails.

AP also called people believed to be relatives of Woods, but no one called back. One person texted back a single word: "Stop."

The news stunned Keirans' family and friends. Letters written to the court on his behalf described him as a good father, kind and trustworthy.

“I believe Matt’s motivation was simple: to create the family and home he did not have in his youth,” wrote his wife of 30 years, Nancy Zimmer, who described him working to help her as she earned a doctorate in theology.

Their adult son identified himself as "the son of Matthew Keirans, formerly known as William Woods — in either case, known to me as Dad.”

JoeEeL:
Ronaldo has struck gold o. Finally finally.

I realised Obembet has given up on the fight ever since his boss Almiron took over NL.

Almiron be dishing them wotowoto ever since, cr7 fans been calling for help!

Arafat1:
1st time you were detained by the police, you spent a day in custody

2nd time, you spent a full week

Next one, na one year you go do for cell Insha Allah so that your mind go dey permanently


Just one week wey dem lock you, you come like wetin yoruba people dey call 'Eru weyrey' (madman property) ..

Even from your post-cell pictures, we could perceive the odor of stale sweat and the pee you peed on yourself while in detention


Dirty uncouth gay mofo... Continue dey rap..No go find beta soap and disinfectant make you use wash all the smell and bedbugs wey you carry as souvenir comot cell...

Martinez39s:
Almiron, what is your take on this match so far?

God1000:
really, Russia is the second largest producer of arms after America, they now rely on Iran and north Korea for the supply of weapons to fight in Ukraine.

Some of these weapons are so expensive and it takes a long period of time to build them.


Whatever you think you have will be exhausted before you know it

sirblend:
Let us see the bleeding fingers or you are lying...

Lionel Messi has emerged as the most marketable athlete in the world, surpassing basketball icon LeBron James, according to the latest rankings from SportsPro's 50 Most Marketable (50MM) list, reported by GOAL. Michael Long, editorial director at SportsPro, shared insights on Messi's rise to the top during an episode of the Footballco Business Podcast. “It's a really interesting dynamic to see Messi in America. A match made in marketing heaven.”

With Messi leading the pack and an impressive 22 footballers making the cut, Long discussed the factors that contributed to Messi's dominance in the rankings. He highlighted the unique blend of sports and entertainment culture present in football, particularly in leagues like Major League Soccer (MLS), where Messi now plies his trade with Inter Miami.

Long emphasized the significance of Messi's transition to MLS, noting that it places him in a new realm where he intersects with cultural icons from various spheres, including sports and entertainment. This shift, Long suggests, could potentially elevate Messi to the status of a commercial powerhouse akin to legendary footballer David Beckham.

However, Messi's position at the top of the 50MM list is not solely attributed to his on-field performances or celebrity status. Long pointed out that Messi's active involvement in charitable causes and support for social and environmental initiatives played a crucial role in enhancing his marketability.


The top ten Most Marketable Athletes:

1. Lionel Messi
2. LeBron James
3. Alex Morgan
4. Giannis Antetokounmpo
5. Megan Rapinoe
6. Mikaela Shiffrin
7. Lewis Hamilton
8. Simone Biles
9. Kylian Mbappe
10. Max Verstappen

The new expanded Champions League format is so complex that the draw will be made by computer, after Uefa found it would take up to four hours without digital assistance.

A 36-team competition comes into effect next season, with results from eight rounds of fixtures in the league phase – each team will face eight opponents, four at home, four away – forming a table. From there, the top eight teams go through to the round of 16, while 16 more play off to complete the knockout lineup. It is a system the governing body believes will deliver more big games and greater jeopardy than the current Champions League format, but explaining its intricacies may prove a challenge.

One example is in the initial league phase draw. Each team will be entered into one of four pots based on their Uefa ranking, as is the case in the existing format.

In a change from the current system, however, a team will face opponents from their own pot, one team at home and another away. They will also face two opponents from each of the other pots. With further details to consider, such as clubs from the same country being prevented from facing each other, the group stage draw becomes more and more complicated.

After trials showed the manual draw would take anywhere between three and four hours, roughly the same length as the Oscars, Uefa has decided that only the selection of an initial team from pot one will conducted manually. A computer programmed by a company in Hertfordshire will then choose that team’s opponents and whether they will be faced home or away. Uefa insists the process will be secure, and that it will be audited by the accountancy firm Ernst and Young to ensure the draws – which will be broadcast – are fair.

There will also be new developments later in the draw, with tennis-style seeding added to the knockout stages. The first eight through to the knockout stages will be seeded according to their league phase position, meaning the top two sides, as in a tennis Open, would not be able to face each other until the final. Clubs will be able to plot their route to the final once the last-16 draw, which is held before the playoffs, has been made.

There will be changes to the football calendar too, with each of Uefa’s three club competitions – the Europa League and Europa Conference League are also adopting a single league phase system – having one match week where only their fixtures take place. Giorgio Marchetti, Uefa’s deputy secretary, said the format would be “the most revolutionary, or evolutionary, change in 30 years”.

With this season’s competitions yet to reach the quarter-final stages, Uefa has got on the front foot in attempting to explain its new format. It has a lot riding on its success, with turbulence ongoing within European club football.

The new format has been under discussion since 2018 and was agreed upon by the Uefa executive weeks before the European Super League attempted its abortive launch.

The format will remain under intense scrutiny as owners and fans appraise its worth, with the Super League project still hoping to get off the ground and other potential challengers in prospect after a legal ruling that prevented Uefa from shutting down new competitions without good reason.

Uefa says it will share €1.2bn (£1bn) in solidarity payments each year from its club competitions to teams that are not participating and to other competitions across Europe. It also points to an expansion in the number of clubs able to compete in Europe, up from 96 to 108.

Under one, highly unlikely, scenario as many as 11 English clubs could qualify for Europe. The prospect of the Premier League gaining a fifth Champions League spot next season would be enhanced this week if West Ham knock out Freiburg, raising England’s Uefa ranking in the process.

Bentonite1:
Ordinary Ukraine, lol this should have been a week war or a month, it's already 2 years, poor Ukraine against the so called 3rd best army in the world hahaha shameful. just hibernate in shame.

Bentonite1:
ordinary Ukraine is using drones to hit Moscow, you will now ask where's their overrated air defence haha ordinary drop man

orazx:
You all come here to roast USA and support Russia but when asked which of the two countries would you like to get a Permanent Visa you all pick USA.
Stop kidding yourself ok, USA is Friendly while Russia is full of racists.
You all claim Russia is rich and all, show me one black man that become a Billionaire in Russia and I will show you a Dog with ten legs