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Celebrities / Re: Odumewu Debbie 'Pinki Debbie' To Break Guinness World Record For Longest Dance by RichiB(m): 4:09pm On Nov 22, 2017
Waist go hear ahm grin more grease to all her joints..dance on!

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Celebrities / Re: Juliet Ibrahim Denies Court Marriage With Iceberg Slim by RichiB(m): 3:43pm On Nov 22, 2017
Nigeria with fake news!
Celebrities / Re: Juliet Ibrahim Denies Court Marriage With Iceberg Slim by RichiB(m): 3:35pm On Nov 22, 2017
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Crime / Re: Corpse Of Bilyamin Muhammed Bello Stabbed To Death By Wife Maryam Sanda (Graphic by RichiB(m): 12:27pm On Nov 22, 2017
WTF!
Romance / Re: Grandma Mistakenly Send Nudes To Her Grandson (screen Shots) by RichiB(m): 12:25pm On Nov 22, 2017
This old machine be looking for a young rider to ride in&out her smelling punannie with great speed
Celebrities / Re: Kiss Daniel Shares New Cute Pictures by RichiB(m): 11:47am On Nov 22, 2017
The 1st pics he looks like someone high on codein trips!

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Crime / Re: Account For N1.63trn Cash, Assets I Recovered – Maina Dares EFCC by RichiB(m): 11:41am On Nov 22, 2017
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Foreign Affairs / Re: Robert Mugabe Jubilating After His Election In 1980 (Throwback Photos) by RichiB(m): 11:38am On Nov 22, 2017
afa na, where is our barbecue
Politics / Re: NNPC Completes 539km Of Gas Pipeline Projects - Pictures by RichiB(m): 11:25am On Nov 22, 2017
Any news on viviangist be making front page.
Celebrities / Re: Mr 2kay Robbery: Burna Boy Still On The Run – Lagos State Police by RichiB(m): 10:26am On Nov 22, 2017
na this kind tin suppose happen to nairalanders wey dey quote person reply wey no cocern them, mumu 2k u dey find who beat you, that nigger burner might not be in this country, next time no reply wettin no concern you!

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Romance / Re: Boyfriend Wooed Lady By Leaving His Phone With Her (Photo) by RichiB(m): 9:40am On Nov 22, 2017
Nigeria girl go use the sim of that phone take shew shewing gum!

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Crime / Re: Militant, Don Wanny, Not Dead - TheNewsNigeria by RichiB(m): 9:21am On Nov 22, 2017
Miss information everywhere in nigeria!
Phones / Re: Facebook Is Using Smartphones To Listen To What People Say, Professor Suggests. by RichiB(m): 6:56am On Nov 22, 2017
Na so dem dey use know who dey run local

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Nairaland / General / Re: Recent Photo Of Little Girl With The Popular Meme by RichiB(m): 11:09am On Nov 21, 2017
This girl don blow like this o grin

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Business / Re: Biometrics To Replace Atm's Soon - CBN by RichiB(m): 7:50am On Nov 21, 2017
This is not making sense expecially in nigeria where the biometric machines will not be maintained or in a case where one is hospitalised and need to make payment before medication is rendered.

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Phones / Re: Between The Zero 5 And The Phantom 8 by RichiB(m): 7:46am On Nov 21, 2017
I'll never choose tecno over infinix any day. #INFINIXMOBILITY
Romance / Re: Lady Flaunts Her Phone With Used Condom Under. See Reactions (Photos) by RichiB(m): 7:04pm On Nov 20, 2017
Lol, see her leg no fit close well!

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Romance / Re: Apart From Your Own Country, Which Five Countries Do You Love Most? by RichiB(m): 6:27pm On Nov 20, 2017
I don't even love this country!

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Culture / Re: Lady Makes Shorts With "Isi Agu": "This Is A Total Disrespect To Our Culture" by RichiB(m): 5:23pm On Nov 20, 2017
Keep on banny, you are better than those runs girls, if something no fine person nogo talk about ahm, leave that man with him bad belle na men go rock that short!

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Romance / Re: I Want A Beard, Have Tried To, But I Ain't Getting It.. by RichiB(m): 7:46pm On Nov 19, 2017
mix 1 part of charcoal + spirite,grind with weed and methane. rub the solution on the side of ur jaws b4 u sleep and after u sleep. continue the process for like a month, then come back and thank me later

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Celebrities / Re: Lola Omotayo-Okoye's 36th Birthday Message To P'square Peter & Paul Okoye by RichiB(m): 1:33pm On Nov 18, 2017
Where paul wife?

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Politics / Re: Anambra Election: Youths Playing Football At UNIZIK Junction (Pictured) by RichiB(m): 10:03am On Nov 18, 2017
Dis one beta pass to dugde bullet o!

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Career / Re: 10 Glaring Signs That You Are Being Underpaid (Photos) by RichiB(m): 7:56pm On Nov 17, 2017
Joephat:
If anambra ppl did not boycott anambra election, I will denounce my igboship and I will never visit my village again till I die...
Imbe.!
Literature / Re: Red Alert Destiny by RichiB(m): 7:10am On Nov 17, 2017
.Wonderfull story, this will teach our young girls to abstain from certain things, but if u cathup with the right boyfriend ur life will not remain disame!
Sports / 'we Called Him Dwarf!' - The Story Of Messi's First Days At Barcelona by RichiB(m): 3:45pm On Nov 16, 2017
It is 14 years since the Argentine made his debut against Porto and here, some of his ex-team-mates look back at his early days at the Catalan club.Never had Barcelona's Cadete B team beaten Espanyol's Cadete A in the first few years of the new millennium. The Blaugrana, obsessed as ever with technique, had not been able to overcome their rivals, who were physically stronger and more experienced.But one day, that changed. "We went to their place and we scored three," Marc Valiente, a defender with KAS Eupen in Belgium and one of the captains of that team, recalls to Goal . It was 2002 and Barcelona's raw diamond was a tiny Argentine aged 14. He was the difference in an almost unbeatable team.
Hailing from Rosario, he had arrived in Barcelona just two years earlier and turned up in the Infantil B (Infantil is the Under-12 youth category in Spanish youth football) dressing room "without us even hearing him say hello", another defender, Robert Franch, remembers.In the youth teams at Barcelona, the new arrivals are always asked the same question. "Where do you play?," Rodolf Borrell asked Messi in front of the whole team in February 2002. Without lifting his look from the floor, Leo replied in a quiet voice. "As a forward," he muttered, before taking him off to a corner where he sat in silence.

"I was amazed by him," says Roger Gribet, who joined Barcelona the same day as Messi. "I was conscious that my physical development had opened doors at the club. I was 1.70m at the age of 12, but he wasn't even 1.50m," he exclaims to Goal, still surprised, 15 years later.Borrell explained to the boys that Messi was a number 10 "who had come from far away" and who was "very special", says Valiente, who adds: "Back then, there were no players who came from far away to join La Masia". Messi was an exception, even then, and that was when the players still hadn't seen him with a ball at his feet.

The Infantil B side soon saw him in action and Valiente remembers that, "on the first day, they played him as a partner to Cesc Fabregas in attack". There was nothing random about that. "Cesc had a gift," he adds. "He was a master at reading the game, because he was never well positioned in the rondo (a training drill where a larger group of players tries to keep possession of the ball from a smaller group of defending players), but he always managed to steal the ball somehow."

That day, however, the players saw something completely new. "We were always shown to play with one or two touches," Valiente explains. "From a young age, we had been taught about control and passing, so the ball moves quickly. But suddenly, here's a guy who can move the ball in four or five touches at the same speed it took us to pass it."

Nevertheless, they still needed to see it in a proper match. And Albert Benaiges, legendary head of football development at Barcelona for more than two decades, recalled in his book, Líbero : "We had to hurry, because if he didn't play in those two matches, he wouldn't have been able to play in a national category until he reached the age of 18".

Messi stats Goal 50

His first match came on March 7, 2001 against Amposta and he scored a goal. However, his career looked under threat a week later when he suffered a broken fibula away to Tortosa. To this day, it remains the only fracture he has ever had. But at such a young age, it set off alarm bells at Barcelona and one thing was clear: Messi would not play for the Infantil B team again.

When he recovered from injury, he began to play for the Infantil A side and there was no trace of his injury. And again, he only featured in a handful of games because Borrell and Benaiges quickly promoted him to the Cadete B side (Under-16 youth category) in 2002. It was in that group where he left a real mark.

"Up until then, he had gone largely unnoticed in the dressing room where we had been together for so long," explains Roger Franch, brother of Robert and goalkeeper in the Cadete B team. "We were a very lively group, but he was always in a corner, alone and quiet."

In training, however, things were different. "He often made us angry because it was frustrating to play against him," Roger adds. "You asked yourself if you were good enough to do this." And his brother Robert, a defender, reveals to Goal: "After seeing that the guy was three gears ahead of us all physically and mentally, we decided, with the other defenders, that we would give him a couple of hits to see what happened. But it didn't matter... he was so quick that we weren't even able to kick him."

Lionel Messi Cesc Fabregas Barcelona 2005

Patrick Vieira Lionel Messi Barcelona Juventus Joan Gamper Cup 24082005

Desperate, Robert explains that "you would go for him and when you wanted to bring him down, he had already left you behind and was taking on the next defender". And he adds: "He was a machine and he always was - in the training, his technique, in recovery and in the matches." He and the other centre-backs always sought to avoid him in the one-on-one exercises. "Because we knew we wouldn't even get a sniff of the ball, whatever we did."

Pau Torras, Cadete B goalkeeper, now with Cartagena, could not believe it. "He would come to training without opening his mouth, leave us all speechless and then go home, all in the most natural way," he told Goal.

Robert sums it up. "Sometimes you thought that the only way to stop him was by getting out a gun and firing a shot, but even then you had the feeling that the guy would swerve the bullet with the ball under his control," he says. That was Messi at the age of 13.

Messi quote Goal 50

Nevertheless, he was still extremely reserved. Until the team went to Venice to play in a tournament and there, Messi broke the ice. "He started to make his first jokes," Valiente remembers. "He was so shy that he hadn't spoken to anybody before that." He then began to hang around with Victor Vazquez, one of the jewels of La Masia and a great partner for the Argentine in the youth teams. They were also class mates.

It was in Venice where his team-mates started to call him "enano" (dwarf). "Even though we called him that for a long time, we didn't start to do so until we had the mutual confidence which came in that trip to Venice," Roger Giribet, a striker, explains. "Even when he had made his debut for the first team, he came to see us at La Masia and we said to him: 'enano, how did you get on with the older guys?' and we cracked up laughing.
Maybe in private he complained about us, but he was always a delight with his team-mates and I think he is still the same," Giribet adds. "I have the feeling that if we saw each other tomorrow, we would give each other a hug and it would be as if these 15 years had not gone by."

Lionel Messi Ronaldinho Barcelona Real Madrid 2005

Messi Albacete

The generation of 1987 graduated to the Cadete A category almost all together in 2002-03 and came to be known as one of the best teams ever seen at La Masia, working with the late Tito Vilanova and also Alex Garcia. However, nothing lasts forever and at the end of the season, Cesc left to join Arsenal, and a year later, Gerard Pique set off for Manchester United.

For his part, Messi kept on moving up, jumping from the Juvenil A (Under-19s) side to Barcelona C (which no longer exists) and then to Barca B, all in the space of a year. At 16, he made his debut with the first team and at 17 he was already a fully-fledged member of the senior squad, under the wing of Ronaldinho, the world's best player at that time.

Giribet, now technical secretary at Balaguer, says: "All of us that knew him and played with him were not surprised by the wonderful technical ability he has but by his ability to adapt so quickly to any given situation."

And he adds: "Messi 10 years ago was able to accelerate and get up to speed in a very small space without losing the ball and as the years have gone by, he has readapted his game to carry on being decisive but with other qualities, such as his finishing or that ability to give the final pass, which he has shown more recently.

Lionel Messi 1st CL v Panathinaikos 2005

"In every stage of his career, he has been able to determine what his best virtue is and adapted that for the collective, to keep on being the best for more than a decade. Because from the youth teams until now, he has always been the best."

Giribet also believes that Messi, unlike other players, is unaffected by pressure. "He doesn't know what pressure is," he explains to Goal. "There are many talented players who don't make it because they can't handle the pressure. My legs were trembling when I played against 1,500 people and he plays the same whether he's in a Champions League final or in his back garden."

Valiente agrees. "Those of us who knew him weren't surprised to see him in the first team at such a young age, but by the way he adapted to each new stage of his progression," he says. And Torras adds: "He was always an unstoppable player and there was never a formula to stop him."

Some 15 years on, sides in Spain and most members of Europe's elite will know all about that. He was unstoppable then, he is unstoppable now, and he has changed the history of Barcelona. The legend continues.

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Religion / Re: Ogiame Ikenwoli, Olu Of Warri & His Chiefs Storm Oritsejafor's Church (Photos) by RichiB(m): 9:15pm On Nov 15, 2017
Oluwa of warri, wettin ona expect ahm to wear suit?

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Culture / Re: Nigerian Woman Kneels Down For Ooni Of Ife In America During Interaction (Photo) by RichiB(m): 9:11pm On Nov 15, 2017
This cannot be a news
Sports / Re: Alex Iwobi: "Why I Snubbed England To Play For Nigeria" by RichiB(m): 8:42pm On Nov 15, 2017
Better pikin!
Education / Re: 8 Skills Every Nigerian Student Needs To Survive In Campus by RichiB(m): 9:44am On Nov 15, 2017
This a typical nigerian student life..why i no go beg money wey work no dey but yet flexing full everywhere,even the small jobs u go do to get bar 1 or 2 lecturers go find way collect ahm, person gats cram o,dats our major work, if u read go write exam after 2days u no remember anything for dat course u come tell me say u read and understand fallacy upon fallacy let me tell you, you crammed, no tell me say u understand o if dem give u practical work for dat course u nogo fit do ahm o. all dos wey no dey gree toast girls say dem dey form holy holy wen u finish school we go know weda na God go come down to find woman for you, let me stop here!

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Politics / Re: Governor Obiano's Security Details Withdrawn 4 Days To Anambra Election by RichiB(m): 8:13pm On Nov 14, 2017
Fight o, fight well, remember say buhari na soldier!
Sports / Re: Argentina Vs Nigeria: Man Of The Match by RichiB(m): 8:04pm On Nov 14, 2017
Nigeria be dis? i neva still believe my eyes shocked

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