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https://www.sport-e-cultura.com/2021/02/11/calcio-carne-e-finanza-lara-la-supergigantissima-la-calcistizzazione-del-tennis-marziani-a-ostenda/?fbclid=IwAR2TTGDGxtGCRjf-PxSq0z6Ui3ZWRLCGoIOj-2-m0NPf8hLV2LHto9mlc_Q di SIMONE BASSO Sport e cultura, 11 febbraio 2021 El Mundo pubblica le cifre del quadriennale di Lionel Messi , le spiattella senza escludere i dettagli (che fanno il quadro complessivo dell’ affaire ): 555.237.619 euro, lordi, il contratto – firmato nel novembre 2017 – «...che ha rovinato il Barcellona». Tra fisso e variabile, 139 milioni a stagione: 115 per l’inchiostro (...), 80 per la fedeltà. Il  Barça , anno di grazia 2021, ha 1137 milioni di debiti, 730 dei quali da estinguere entro la fine della stagione. I creditori non sono solo l’Ajax, il Gremio, il Liverpool eccetera, ma Prudential, Goldman Sachs, Allianz. La battuta, tragicomica, è che i blaugrana siano stati prima confiscati dalla Pulce che dalle rate (esose) del calciomercato. Le reazioni alla not...

https://www.podiumcafe.com/2010/9/27/1714556/a-worlds-tale-stephen-roche-villach-austria-1987 The record books only tell you so much. They tell you that Stephen Roche won the World Championship road race in 1987. They may even tell you it was the crowning glory in a year which had already seen him win the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. What the record books don't tell you is how he won the race. How he and Sean Kelly and Martin Earley and Paul Kimmage - l'Equipe had punningly dubbed them the nouvelle Éire - formed what was probably the strongest Irish team ever to take the line at a World Championships. By Feargal McKay  -  @fmk_RoI  -  Podium Café - Sep 27, 2010 Put yourself back there. Sunday, September 6th, 1987. Villach, Austria . Ten-thirty in the morning. It's pouring rain. A hundred and seventy-nine cyclists are about to embark on the first of twenty-three laps of a twelve kilometre circuit . Seven hours racing lie ahead of them. They're wearing sho...

Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche Image credit: Getty Images https://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/the-most-beautiful-surprise-of-my-life-when-king-kellys-cool-head-set-up-roches-triple-crown_sto7914967/story.shtml Nerves of steel from the Irish underdogs saw Stephen Roche ride to the Rainbow Jersey, becoming only the second man in history after Eddy Merckx to wear it after winning the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France. Felix Lowe remembers the 1987 World Championships in the latest installment of Re-Cycle. BY EUROSPORT PUBLISHED 01/10/2020 AT 18:02 | UPDATED 01/10/2020 AT 19:02 The Irish team that went to Austria in 1987 might have been small, but it was one of the strongest ever fielded by the Emerald Isle at a World Championships. With Martin Earley and Paul Kimmage in support, Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly were carrying the torch for the Irish. Now riding at the peak of their powers, both men had already won bronze medals at the Worlds – Kelly at Goodwood, in 1982, behind Giuseppe Saron...

Eddy Schepers hands Stephen Roche a bidon at the 1987 Giro d'Italia (Image credit: Bettini Photo) https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/gotta-serve-somebody-eddy-schepers-and-the-domestiques-calling/ Caught between Roche and Visentini at the 1987 Giro d'Italia By Barry Ryan   cyclingnews.com - April 01, 2020 Most domestiques were once future champions. Eddy Schepers certainly was. In his final year as an amateur in 1977 , he started the summer with victory at the prestigious Giro delle Regioni and finished it by beating Johan van der Velde and Roberto Visentini to become the first Belgian winner of the Tour de l'Avenir . In doing so, Schepers became the first man to achieve a Franco-Italian double , only ever replicated by Sergei Sukhoruchenkov – the Soviet rider heralded as the Eddy Merckx of the Eastern Bloc. The following season, Schepers had a brief chance to measure himself against 'The Cannibal' in person, turning professional at C&A, where Merckx spent ...

https://www.amazon.it/Football-Portraits-Ritratti-calcio-Agbonlahor-ebook/dp/B01KI1XRO6 di CHRISTIAN GIORDANO, Guerin Sportivo (2003) Come il suo celebre omonimo rinascimentale, a 17 anni van der Vaart – altro predestinato con il genio dentro – era già un “artista” di fama internazionale. Da qui a farne un campione ne correva, ma il vivaio dell’Ajax, in materia, vale un master alla Sorbona.  Rafaël Ferdinand van der Vaart (Heemskerk, 11/2/1983) è uno che non perde tempo. I primi calci li tira a 4 anni, a 6 entra nel De Kennemers di Beverwijk e a 10, i genitori lo portano all’Ajax perché prenda parte ai cosiddetti «Talentendagen», i giorni del talento, le selezioni che il club periodicamente organizza per rastrellare la crema delle giovani promesse locali. Dopo due settimane di prova è nel settore giovanile.  Si narra che da ragazzo amasse “allenarsi” in un parcheggio di caravan puntando, e centrando, sequele di bottiglie e lattine di birra. Nel 1999 arriva la no...