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Can shirt sales actually pay for a football player?
COPA90, August 18, 2018
No matter how much your club paid for an elite player, they’ll recoup the cost on shirt sales, right? This idea always seems to come up whenever a blockbuster move shakes up the football world, but the absolute craze over Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to Juventus and the empty shelves everywhere forced us to look at this in depth: is it really possible to pay for a transfer via the merchandise?
Eleven pigs and the secret police: the story of BFC Dynamo –
These Football Times, February 5, 2018
“This is where having a powerful mass murderer as your primary cheerleader really showed its benefits. Not only were the best senior and youth players aggressively steered towards Berlin’s hip “new” side, but Mielke exerted considerable pressure on the referees as well. Formerly, Dynamo Dresden was the top dog of East German football, a team that wasn’t quite good enough to crack international competition, losing to Bayern Munich in 1974 and never making it past the quarter-finals of the European Cup. The head of the Stasi wanted something better. Following Dresden’s title win in 1978, the players were told by Mielke that “it was BFC Dynamo’s turn”.”
“Enter Bobby Fischer, the lonely American genius, one of the most controversial figures in the game, and a mercurial talent with a meteoric rise. Nudged forward by Henry Kissinger, then a national security advisor and soon to become the 56th Secretary of State, and cheered on by a new generation of chess fans, he went on to win the most momentous of world chess championship matches in modern history against Boris Spassky in 1972.”
Hikaru Nakamura: ‘Online chess as an esport is here to stay’
Dot Esports, August 29, 2022
“A lot of the chess purists keep saying how different online chess is from the over-the-board experience. There’s one problem with this: the winner of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour was Magnus. Recently, at the Rapid Chess Championship, I lost the final match to Ian Nepomniachtchi. He won the Candidates Tournament. You’re still seeing the same players at the top.”
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