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Short escape kita belakangan adalah ke indomaret. Shopping snack lalu nonton Netflix, buka-tutup kulkas lalu selonjoran, home vacation – tua di ranjang.

Namun, hanya soal waktu kita bakal packing dan boarding lagi. Sebelum masa itu tiba, berfantasilah dan renungkan tips liburan berkualitas dari oppa:

1. Mendokumentasikan momen secukupnya

Jangan terlalu banyak selfie. Ga perlu take berulang-ulang hingga 50 kali dalam semenit. Tampak depan, tampak samping, mata genit, melet-melet, semua angle dicoba. Ya, oppa tahu, kamu selfie 50 kali, yang jelek 100. Tapi ga perlu segitunya. Pasrah dan filterlah kemudian.

Ga perlu take video lama-lama seakan kamu sedang syuting drakor. Percayalah, videomu tak akan menang piala Oscar. Keep it short but artistic, don’t spend your entire trip behind a screen.

Take the time to put camera away and gaze in wonder what’s there in front of you

– Erick Widman

2. Hamburkan uang dengan elegan

Karena sudah berhemat dirumah, traveling merupakan saat yang tepat untuk mereward diri sendiri. Jangan melewatkan makan sushi di Tokyo, Wiener Schnitzel di Vienna, ataupun Carbonara di Rome. Kadang kamu gak tahu kapan bisa kesana lagi.

Irit boleh, kikir jangan. Kualitas kehidupanmu lebih penting dari neraca keuanganmu.

Sesekali hiduplah dengan glamour layaknya personil BlackPink.

‘Bada bing, bada boom, boom, boom!’

Posisikanlah dirimu sebagai Billionaire eksentrik yang bosan duit

Berfoya-foyalah untuk sesuatu yang mungkin cuma bisa kamu lakukan sekali seumur hidup. Once in a lifetime moment. Jangan malah ngabisin duit buat gantungan kunci yang tak berguna. Kalo g-string yang lagi sale, OK lah.

3. Tidur awal, bangun pagi

Kamu pun bisa menikmati tiap sudut kota dengan eksklusif. Disaat manusia lain masih ngorok, kamu bisa foto-foto, lompat-lompat dan bikin tik-tok. Sebelum berangkat, sisakan waktu buat ngumpulin nyawa dan melakukan ritual toilet.

Selagi menikmati sepinya pagi, gunakan seluruh indramu untuk meresapinya. Melihat indahnya matahari terbit, mereguk kopi hangat, mencium harum roti yang baru selesai dipanggang, menyentuh daun yang berguguran, mendengar suara burung yang berkicau dan lonceng gereja yang berdentang. Mellow-lah sambil mesem-mesem.

4. Play like a kid, Act like a King

Saat menjelajah dunia, jadilah seperti anak kecil yang kegirangan. Gak mikir kerjaan, hanya bermain tanpa aturan. Berlarian telanjang sesuka hati dan makan tidur dengan riang. Bumi adalah taman bermainmu.

We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood

– Paulo Coelho

Namun bukan berarti jadi bego. Tetap waspada pada spesies jahat. Playful yet strong layaknya raja Korea Pheaaaa ‘The King of Eternal Jomblo’ – ‘You can have fun with me, but don’t you dare to mess with me.’

5. Nyobain sesuatu yang belum pernah

Mulai dari makanan baru, budaya baru, hingga gebetan baru. Nyicipin sashimi gurita yang masih goyang-goyang, masuk ke onsen telanjang bulat, hingga ajep-ajep dengan bad girl.

Dari sini pasti ada pandanganmu yang berubah. Misal, bad girl tidak selalu identik dengan hal negatif.

Selain pintar menjaga penampilan, mereka cenderung lebih pede, suka tantangan dan gak takut patah hati

Pokoknya semua pengalaman baru yang bikin kamu deg-degan dan berteriak ‘Mayday, mayday! Will you marry me?’

Menyelam kebawah laut, naik roller coaster ekstrem, melayang dengan paralayang, breakdance battle dengan barongsai hingga merusak hubungan orang.

Mungkin ada kalanya sesuatu yang baru itu mengecewakan. At least you gave it a shot. Tetaplah penasaran, kamu akan menemukan sesuatu yang bikin kamu excited!

Hasrat ingin mengalami ini akan memperkaya hidupmu dan menjadikannya kenangan terunik. Do things that you will laugh about ten years from now.

We live in a strange world.

Explore it, feel it, enjoy it!

Catedral de Santa María la Real de la Almudena. Baroque Catholic cathedral known for its colorful chapels

Sebelum membaca tulisan ini, ada baiknya kamu membaca tulisan tentang Madrid sebelumnya Things to do in Madrid, Kota Metropolis nan eksotis. Semoga tulisan oppa kali ini, bisa menjelma menjadi gambar bergerak di imajinasimu.

Berikut tempat-tempat asyik yang oppa kunjungi di ibu kota Spanyol ini:

1. La Mallorquina

La Mallorquina was founded in 1894 and ever since has been one of Madrileños’ favourite places to enjoy delicious pastries

Kedai roti melegenda yang telah berdiri sejak tahun 1894. Tempat pelarian Madrileños’ untuk meredakan stres. Chocolatey pastry dan cake yang creamy, menjadi penyembuh jiwa yang alami.

My morning caffeine hit. Sip, chew and on

Mirip dengan coffee bar di Roma, saya berdiri di samping bar, menikmati lumernya chocolate croissant bersama cappuccino di mulut. Di tengah keramaian, sel kebahagiaan saya memekar bagai bunga musim semi.

‘Kafein dan Serotonin yang menyatu memang Mipan zuzuzu’

La Mallorquina

Madrid’s most famous bakery. Incredible variety of pastries, cakes and chocolates!

Puerta del Sol, 8, 28013 Madrid, Spain

Hours: Senin – Minggu 8:30AM–2PM, 5:30–9PM

Best Seller Menu: Chocolate Croissant 2.30 Euro. Cafe Cappuccino and Cafe Bombon (Espresso with Condensed Milk) 2.50 Euro | Rp. 44,000. Napolitana 1.70 Euro | Rp. 30,000

Direction: Google Maps Location

Wide selections of pastries, tarts and cakes are available within this cafe

2. Plaza de España

A popular square at the heart of Madrid

Taman publik yang dihiasi bunga, pepohonan dan kolam air mancur yang indah. Tempat asyik buat bersantai dan people-watching. Monumen sastrawan terbesar Spanyol – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, menjadi sentral dari taman ini.

Penulis yang terkenal berkat karya novelnya yang berjudul ‘Don Quixote’. Pencetus novel modern pertama di dunia. Sebagai sesama filsuf, walaupun beda kasta, oppa ikut merasa menjadi bagian dari sejarah. #siapaelo

There are plenty of shops close by and there is a kiosk selling drinks and snacks etc in the corner of the park

Plaza de España

Leafy square surrounded by imposing buildings, with stone & bronze statue of Cervantes on horseback

Plaza de España, 28008 Madrid, Spain

Open 24 hours

Direction: Google Maps Location

3. Temple of Debod

This ancient temple was a gift from the Egyptian as a sign of gratitude for helping preserve their historical treasure during a crisis. It was brought to Madrid stone by stone

Kuil yang membawamu kembali ke masa Sphinx ribuan tahun yang lalu. Bangunannya merupakan hadiah dari pemerintah Mesir karena Spanyol telah menjaga dan melestarikan peninggalan bersejarah mereka. Bayangin, bebatuannya didatangkan langsung satu persatu langsung dari Mesir.

Temple of Debod

Ancient Egyptian temple & museum moved from Aswan & rebuilt in lush parkland, with sunset views

Calle de Ferraz, 1, 28008 Madrid, Spain

Free Entrance but capacity is limited to 30 persons

Hours: Selasa – Minggu 10AM–7PM

Direction: Google Maps Location

4. Casa Dani

Tempat terbaik untuk nyobain Tortilla de patatas aka Spanish Omelette ada di resto keluarga Casa Dani. Fresh from the kitchen! Telur dadar isi irisan kentang yang dimasak dengan sempurna.

Kentang di dalam telurnya menyatu dengan sekilas rasa bawang dan karamel. Cheewy, creamy, and just the right amount of runny. Exquisito! Tampilannya memang sederhana, tapi rasanya luar biasa. Ditambah ramahnya sang waiter yang mirip bintang telenovela, membuat segalanya menjadi lebih indah.

Casa Dani

The best tortilla in in the whole country, more than a little omelette bar. You can’t miss this place!

Cl. de Ayala, 28, 28001 Madrid, Spain

Hours: Senin – Minggu 9AM–5PM

Best seller menu: Pincho de tortilla – Spanish Omelette 2.80 Euro | Rp. 49,000

This place is really popular so be prepared to wait in line, but once you are seated and place your order, the food comes out quickly and the service is efficient

Direction: Google Maps Location

Coffee is always a good partner

They use all the ingredients from this market. So fresh!

This Spanish bar is located inside the beautiful food market

Saya sempet bingung bingung nyari lokasinya, sempat bertanya pada warga setempat dan ternyata spanish bar ini ada di dalam pasar. Pasar modern yang tidak terlihat seperti pasar.

5. Santiago Barnebeu – Real Madrid Stadium

Being pitch side during the tour is in incredible as you really see how high the stands are!

Santiago Berdebu. Stadion dari klub terbaik di dunia. Tim yang memecahkan rekor juara Liga Champions terbanyak, sampai 13 kali! Saya mengawali tur dengan pameran foto, video, dan trofi-trofi pencapaian Real Madrid.

Mulai dari trofi liga Champions, liga Spanyol, Copa Del Rey, sampai Golden Boots dan Ballon d’Or milik Cristiano Ronaldo. Ahh, sang mantan terindah.

I felt so delighted and privileged to see this legendary stadium inside out. Everything is amazing, the changing rooms, the feel…, and the perfectly green straight grass on their pitch

Pemain baru Real Madrid yang siap merumput di rumput tetangga. A new transfer from Nankatsu. Posisi: Gelandangan Menyerang.

His motto: ‘Real man is not a woman, Real Madrid is a football club’ Kemampuan Utama ➕: Menyerang dalam gelap Melewati lawan dan menikung teman Mencetak Goal dari sudut sulit, termasuk dari luar lapangan

Kekurangan ➖: Suka lupa kalo sudah makan Lemah dalam bertahan apalagi kepada mantan Sering terkena jebakan offside, karena duduk dibangku penonton sambil ngemil popcorn

This is Ronaldo’s third Golden Boot, the second with Real Madrid

The changing rooms. The Tour is spectacular even for me as a neutral

Setelah itu saya memasuki memasuki tempat duduk stadion di bagian atas, melihat hijaunya rumput yang menyegarkan mata. Kemudian melewati lorong menuju lapangan layaknya pemain beneran, duduk di kursi pemain cadangan, masuk ke ruang konferensi pers, sampai memasuki ruang ganti pemain.

Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

81,000-capacity ground for Real Madrid, with regular matches plus tours of stadium and trophy room

Av. de Concha Espina, 1, 28036 Madrid, Spain

Hours: Senin – Sabtu 9:30 AM – 7 PM. Minggu 10 AM – 6:30 PM

Entrance Fee: Buy Online 14 Euro | Rp. 243,000. Buy at the ticket office 17 Euro | Rp. 295,000. Reserve your visit here realmadrid.com

Direction: Exit from Santiago Bernabeu Metro Station Google Maps Location

Terakhir ada Mega Store yang menjual berbagai macam pernak-pernik official Real Madrid. Mulai dari jersey, jaket, syal, topi, gantungan kunci, botol minum, komplit plit plit plit. Stadion ini memang gereja bagi pecinta Madrid.

A Disneyland for Real Madrid fans. Football cathedral. An imposing sight from the outside but it is much more amazing once you step inside. I can see how it’s one of the Europe’s most famous venues

6. El Retiro Park

The perfect place to relax on a beautiful day. There’s a large lake for those interested in hiring a boat and a lot of walking paths and lawns to lie out on.

Taman raksasa yang dihiasi patung, monumen dan danau yang anggun. Saya berjalan melewati jalur setapak diantara pepohonan yang rindang. Memperhatikan sepasang kekasih bermesraan di bawah The Monument of Alfonso XII.

Mereka duduk berpelukan sambil sesekali berciuman. Pacaran tidak pernah sehistorik ini. Ingin rasanya saya berteriak ‘Mister, butuh peran pengganti?’

Diantara semilir angin, saya berjalan kaki mengagumi keindahan suasana taman. Banyak orang bersantai dengan berbaring di rerumputan, duduk di kursi taman dan mendayung di kolam. Tempat terbaik untuk melarikan diri dari dunia nyata.

Such a beautiful and romantic park, filled with beautiful sculptures, monuments and a peaceful lake

Parque de El Retiro

The largest parks of the city, 19th-century park with boating lake & rose garden, plus numerous fountains & statues

Plaza de la Independencia, 7, 28001 Madrid, Spain

Hours: Senin – Minggu 6–9PM

Direction: Google Maps Location

I enjoy having a walk, taking pictures and unplug from the world

The green heart of the city. Sprawling over 350 acres park that full of lovely gardens, fountains, statues and beautiful architecture!

7. Vait Cafe

Inayati Nurul, nama dari gadis berkacamata yang bekerja di cafe ini. Kami berkenalan setelah dia bertanya

‘Kayaknya logatnya ga asing?’

‘Eh, orang Indonesia’. Ternyata logat English Jowo saya begitu kental baginya.

Bertemu dengan warga Indonesia dinegara lain memang menyenangkan. Saat saya memesan Latte Macchiato double shot, dia menjawab dengan sinar mata yang ramah,

‘Udah bayar single shot aja.’

‘Serius? You’re too kind.’ Balas saya dengan mata berbinar.

Ternyata toleransi antar warga sebangsa dan setanah air itu masih ada.

Selagi menunggu Napolitana dan pesanan kopi dibuat, kami sempat bercakap-cakap. Yang paling saya ingat adalah saat dia bercerita kalo sudah lama di Madrid, dan kemungkinan besar, gak bakal balik lagi ke Indonesia.

‘Gak kangen?’ ujar saya.

‘Kangen si, tapi udah nyaman disini.’

Dalam hati saya bergumam ‘Apakah memang lebih baik hujan emas di negeri orang, daripada hujan batu di negeri sendiri?’

Vait Cafe

Calle de Alcalá, 54, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Hours: Senin – Minggu 9AM–10PM

Direction: Google Maps Location

8. Gran Via

Champs-Élysées versi Madrid. Surga belanja di jalan raya lurus nan panjang. Trotoarnya berjejer rapi dengan pertokoan berarsitektur kekaisaran Hapsburg. Sepanjang mata memandang terlihat outlet-outlet bermerek, ada H&M, Zara, Adidas, Bershka dan Prada.

Konon memakai barang branded membuat gengsi dan pede kita akan meningkat.

Just like what Aladdin said, ‘If you don’t have anything, you have to act like you own everything’

Gran Via

One of the best shopping streets in central Madrid

C/ Gran Vía, 46, 28013 Madrid, Spain

Open 24 Hours

Direction: Google Maps Location

9. Mercado de San Miguel

Pasar dengan stand-stand makanan spanyol yang menggiurkan. Disini saya nyobain Tapas, nasi goreng seafood – Paella, irisan paha babi – Jamon Iberico dan Wine cocktail – Sangria. Selain itu ada kaviar, cheese, lobster dan berbagai jenis cake. Bener-bener surga makanan yang gak boleh dilewatkan.

Mercado de San Miguel

Circa-1916 covered market offering local food in an elegant ambiance. Gourmet market, with over 30 vendors selling a wide variety of freshly prepared tapas, hams, olives, seafood, cakes and cheeses. Beer, wine and champagne are also available.

Plaza de San Miguel, S/N, 28005 Madrid, Spain

Hours: Senin – Minggu 12PM–12AM

Direction: Exit from Sol Metro Station Google Maps Location

10. Plaza Mayor

Hiruk pikuk suasana malam memberikan sensasi keceriaan. Alunan lagu musisi jalanan berderu dengan suara manusia. Alun-alun yang dulunya tempat adu banteng ini, sekarang menjadi lapangan yang dikelilingi pertokoan, kafe dan restoran.

Plaza Mayor

Cafes & restaurants line the arches of this stately square with Philip III’s statue in the center

Plaza Mayor, 28012 Madrid, Spain

Direction: Google Maps Location

Hari itu merupakan malam terakhir saya di Eropa. Setelah 20 hari mengitari benua biru, saya masih merasa kurang. Mengapa saat kita bersenang-senang, waktu terasa begitu cepat?

Liburan memang seperti bintang jatuh, dia meluncur cepat dengan keindahan yang mengagumkan. Seperti kata Dee Lestari: ‘penuh kesan, tapi dengan cepat melesat hilang.’

Ternyata liburan, gak beda jauh dengan pujaan hatimu.

COVID makes us learn that travel is a privilege. So don’t take it for granted.

Because tomorrow is not even promised. We can suddenly go and leave everything behind

Hala Madrid! Top 10 Things to do Short escape kita belakangan adalah ke indomaret. Shopping snack lalu nonton Netflix, buka-tutup kulkas lalu selonjoran, …

#Madrid #Real Madrid #Santiago Barnebeu Tour #Spain #Spanyol #Things to do in Madrid

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goats-guts-and-glory · 6 years

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Shoe salesman?

Surely you know Cristiano Ronaldo? The shoe salesman?

The fanciful tale of a poor boy leaving behind twelve young sisters to fulfill his dream and become the best seller of shoes worldwide. It was a dream he pursued with relentless fervour in Madrid, although he had to take a side job as a ballboy there because he didn´t make enough money selling shoes.

It was at that point that he attempted to take his business to Italy Overjoyed at the chance of a foothold in Turin, he went there, only to find out that his business proposition hat been lost in translation - they had hired him as a striker in their resident football club! Imagine his despair!

Now you may see him on the pitch, you may see him scoring goals for this “Juventus” club, but know that in his heart, Ronnie still dreams of one day holding the famed Shoe d´Or in his hands…

#cristiano ronaldo #shoe salesman #ask

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adenagatha · 3 years

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Melihat Nasionalisme Dari Sudut Corner Lapangan

"Sebenar-benarnya penghormatan, adalah kebaikan."

Mencintai merupakan 'paket' sedih dan bahagia yang dibungkus rapi. Ketika seseorang mencintai apapun, pasti tidak lepas dengan term sedih dan bahagia. Orang mencintai pasangan juga sering mengalami sedih karena tersakiti, pun mengalami bahagia ketika disayangi sesuai kebutuhan asmaranya. Orang mencintai harta juga pasti sedih ketika 'muflis' pun bahagia ketika kaya. Bahkan, ketika orang mencintai bangsanya, ia akan sedih melihat bangsanya yang rapuh, dan akan terus bangga ketika bangsanya utuh. Mencintai apalagi?

Tulisan kali ini mari coba kita membahas tentang cinta. Tapi bukan esensi cinta yang kompleks antara dua insan, lelaki dan perempuan. Bukan juga membahas esensi cinta yang begitu dalam, perihal filosofi cinta. Mari membahas cinta dengan santai dan yang menjadi objek percintaan kali ini yakni tentang mencintai bangsa dan negara, dari sudut cinta yang berbeda, mencintai dari sudut corner lapangan.

Kata nasionalisme biasanya terdengar gaungannya di sekitar diskursus kepemudaan sekitar mahasiswa. Apalagi soal organisasi, banyak organisasi yang dalam nilai gerakannya tidak jauh untuk gerakan kebangsaan. Makanya banyak leader negeri ini ketika dilihat track record pada masa mudanya, tidak jauh dari proses di organisasi. Secara tidak langsung, implementasi dari yang dipelajari terdahulu kini dapat mereka rasakan dalam membangun negeri. Nasionalis pokoknya. Apalagi para petugas partai, nasionalis pokoknya kalau membahas soal-soal janji kebangsaan.

Sekarang coba kita melihat sisi nasionalisme dari diskursus lapangan sepakbola. Lapangan sepakbola memiliki kompleksitas yang dimasuki semua sisi. Politik, ekonomi, pendidikan, kebudayaan, dan lain sebagainya justru ada di kompleksitas permainan sepakbola. Bukan hanya sportifitas olahraga, tapi hingga bisnis pun ada di dalamnya. Nah, nasionalisme juga tersirat di setiap sudut lapangan beserta permainannya.

Suka nonton pertandingan sepakbola? Nasional? Internasional? Kalau saya sendiri lebih banyak nonton sepakbola internasional, seperti liga Inggris, EPL. Bagi teman-teman yang suka nonton pertandingan di liga lain, boleh boleh saja. Disini saya coba kasih gambaran secara permukaan saja.

Kalau di liga Inggris, ada yang kenal Marcus Rashford dari tim Manchester United? Kalau belum tahu, coba google-ing dulu. Pemain ini bermain di posisi Wing Left atau sayap kiri. Pada musim lalu, ia cukup gacor dalam setiap penampilannya mampu membuahkan gol dan serangannya yang tajam. Musim ini sih, gak seberapa baik musim lalu. Tapi boleh lah. Karena ada presatasi di luar lapangan yang dinilai menjadi inspirasi bagi kita bersama.

Rashford baru-baru ini mendapat penghargaan Honoris Causa di bidang kemanusiaan dari pihak kerajaan Inggris. Gelar ini ia dapatkan karena sebagai apresiatif pada gerakan sosial yang dilakukan Rashford beberapa tahun belakang ini. Talenta muda ini peduli sosial, khususnya anak-anak kecil yang kelaparan pun krisis fasilitas pendidikan. Ia terus kampanyekan peduli anak dengan bergerak untuk memotivasi anak-anak agak terus belajar dan sejahtera. Bahkan Rashford juga menulis buku "You Are a Champion" yang menjadi best seller for children. Hal ini sebagai upaya Rashford untuk meningkatkan literasi anak-anak demi masa depannya.

Pemain-pemain sepakbola umumnya hanya fokus pada karirnya di lapangan. Bagaimana ia terus meningkatkan skill olah bola dan fisiknya agar terus prima ketika bertanding. Apalagi soal insight, para pemain bola professional harus tetap 'populer' agar harga belinya terus meningkat. Profesi pemain sepakbola professional tidak heran gaji mingguannya bermilyar-milyar poundsterling (kalau di Eropa). Nah, kalau sudah uang, semua lini akan terus dihalalkan. Tak heran sportifitas akhirnya terus terkikis esensinya.

Saya coba kasih contoh lain, Cristiano Ronaldo. Pernah beberapa waktu lalu, linimasa media sosial memperlihatkan kesedihan CR7 ini atas kekalahannya membawa nama besar negara Portugal untuk lanjut pada fase kualifikasi Piala Dunia 2022. Seorang megabintang Ronaldo ini dengan segala prestasinya sangat kecewa atas apa yang dialaminya saat ini. Berat sepertinya musim ini baginya. Karena di level klub MU sendiri dia masih berat dengan lemahnya taktik dan manajemen klub. Apalagi negaranya sendiri masuk babak play-off kualifikasi Piala Dunia 2022. Pastinya pemain seperti ini punya mimpi besar bagi negaranya untuk mengharumkan nama Portugal di kancah dunia.

Belum lagi kita bicara soal nasionalisme bola bundar di Indonesia ya. PSSI sendiri masih banyak sekali PR dalam membenahi dunia sepakbola negeri ini. Pokoknya saking 'gak jelas'-nya ya saya sendiri tidak memperhatikan bagaimana perkembangannya. Ya mungkin ini salah saya sendiri juga tidak bangga pada 'local pride' negeri sendiri. Maaf yaaa. Punten loh PSSI.

Rashford, Ronaldo, dan PSSI. Ini merupakan bagian kecil dari diskursus sepakbola yang ada. Terkait nasionalisme, Rasford mencintai bangsanya dengan berprestasi di lapangan maupun di luar lapangan. Ronaldo, dengan skill yang ia punya, sebagai warga negara yang baik ya memaksimalkan potensi untuk membanggakan negaranya lewat sportifitas sepakbola. PSSI, Hmmm sebagai wadah penghimpun dan pengembangan olahraga sepakbola, harus menjauhkan diri dari 'kepentingan pribadi' demi 'kepentingan bangsa'. Cobalah PSSI ini fokus untuk improve bakat sepakbola Indonesia. Karena sebenarnya secara skill, putra-putra bangsa punya potensi besar. Hanya wadahnya saja yang 'sempit' pemikirannya. Hanya demi 'kepentingan sendiri' beberapa oknum, hanya bisnis, hanya politik, yang pada akhirnya putra-putra bangsa yang menjadi korban kekecewaan. Padaha mimpi mereka untuk negaranya begitu besar. Percayalah.

#pssi #cristiano ronaldo #marcus rashford

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mollah42o · 3 years

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Football Books For Boys: Read Your Way To Football Stardom

Here are the books that are in the Top 5 Young boys would much rather be watching or playing football than doing any "Stupid Reading" as my son calls it But why can't they have the best of both worlds and get them these Football Books for Boys That way they can brush up on their reading and learn a thing or two about how to be a better football player It's hard enough trying to get my son's to sit down long enough to read a book but when I got these for them I couldn't get the books back off them So here they are...

Top 5 Football Books For Boys to Read

5. The Flea - The Amazing Story of Leo Messi

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Written By: Micheal Part Date Published: AUGUST 1st 2013 Age Range: 8 - 12 YEARS Size Of The Book: 5 x 0.5 x 7.5 INCHES What Its About The "MUST READ" story of the legend Lionel Messi tells all about his life as a football player from his first ever kick of a ball at the age of 5 to his first ever goal at Camp Nou for Barcelona in Spain. This amazing story shows you exactly what he was like as a player and why this young boy was destined to be the world's greatest football player. What I Thought If you want to know more about Messi the person and the player then this is the book for you, It tells all about his life in and out of football and who helped him and shaped him into the player he is today A brilliant read and not just for children My Rating 8/10

4. The Everything Kids' Soccer Book

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Written By: Deborah W Crisfield Date Published: MARCH 13th 2015 Age Range: 8 - 12 YEARS Size Of The Book: 8 x 0.3 x 9.2 INCHES What Its About This book has all the tips and strategies that a child will need to help improve their game and also includes some fun games. FEATURED The rules of the game Tips on how to keep possession of the ball The importance of teamwork The art of goalkeeping Winning techniques for defence Heading, dribbling and trapping techniques It's all pretty much covered here with pre-game stretching, dribbling drills, passing and shooting strategies that will help you improve your game for the better Includes fun football facts for kids, football-themed puzzles and games What I Thought Don't be discouraged that it says it's for children it really does have some useful and helpful tips in here that any child could easily learn from. It could go a bit more in depth but it is easy for a 9-year-old to understand. A very useful book for new and old players alike My Rating 8/10

3. Soccer IQ - Vol. 2: More of What Smart Players Do

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Written By: Dan Blank Date Published: APRIL 8th 2014 Age Range: 8 & ABOVE Size Of The Book: 6 x 0.3 x 9 INCHES What Its About The follow up to the Amazons #1 bestseller volume 2 is written exactly the same funny and humorous way the first one was but identifies more of the common mistakes in football providing players with a simple to follow ways of rectifying the problems they face on the field Another "MUST HAVE" book for soccer players of all ages. What I Thought Reading this one after the first volume isn't necessary but I would advise reading both the volumes Dan Blank delivers yet again a superb football book uncovering the easily made mistakes that can be made on the field. Another educational and funny read My Rating 8/10

2. Soccer IQ: Things That Smart Players Do, Vol. 1

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Written By: Dan Blank Date Published: JUNE 5th 2012 Age Range: 8 & ABOVE Size Of The Book: 6 x 0.3 x 9 INCHES What Its About Finally, in a world full of football books, this is written BY a coach but FOR football players. With Dan Blank's coaching experience he has written this book solving all of football's most common mistakes and provides easy learning for soccer players of all ages and covers things like the dumbest foul ever to playing football in the rain. Named the #1 book for soccer players by football.com An Amazon #1 best seller in the U.S, Canada and Austrailia Translated into 6 languages Named a Top 5 book of the year by the NSCAA soccer journal Includes links to free soccer IQ companion videos that bring the lessons to life What I Thought Probably the best book for football players that I have ever read Dan Blank is a genius in how he writes this book and it comes from the heart of a genuine coach that has been through it all so he certainly knows his stuff I learned more from this book than I ever did as a player from my own coach. Educational and a real straight to the point humorous book My Rating 9/10

1. Ronaldo: The Children's Book

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Written By: Roy Brandon Date Published: DECEMBER 12th 2016 Age Range: 6 - 12 YEARS Size Of The Book: 8 x 0.1 x 10 INCHES What Its About A fully illustrated children's book bringing the story to life about one of the best football players of our time, Cristiano Ronaldo The player who overcame all the challenges and struggles of trying to make it to the top of his game Hours of entertainment with these stunning graphics and learning about the legend himself which will inspire children to want to be like him someday It really is probably the ultimate football heroes books that all boys will want to read no matter what football team they support What I Thought My 9-year-old son loves this book and has read it quite a lot and even though there are a few grammatical errors in there it hasn't stopped him from getting inspiration from it, So if my son thinks its a winner then so do I. A beautiful looking book that delivers a great story My Rating 10/10

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Our favourite signing sessions from 2019!

After a whirlwind year, we've decided to have a look back at some of our personal favourite signing sessions during 2019.

Here are just a few of the signings conducted last year...

Andres Iniesta

We started 2019 with a bang! On January 12th the team flew out to Barcelona to join up with one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Andres Iniesta. The four-time Champions League winner signed a range of products for us including Barcelona shirts, boots and photos from his iconic career.

Dennis Bergkamp

Our second private signing session of the year came on March 13th, when the team flew out to Amsterdam to catch up with Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp. The team has been meeting with Dennis for many years, but still appreciates his new stories and charming manner each time. Original shirts, footballs and iconic photos were signed by the non-flying Dutchman during the session.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo; also known to some as the greatest footballer of all time. Ronaldo vs Messi is still one of the biggest debates for football fans in the 21st century, who truly is the GOAT? In our eyes, we just appreciate getting to see two incredible footballers play at such a high calibre during our lifetime. In May of this year, a few members of our team joined Cristiano for a very private signing session in Turin. For the first time we were able to get signed Juventus memorabilia from the five-time Ballon d’Or winner. After having signed with Cristiano since 2009 we are happy to still have such a good working relationship with him!

Jonny Wilkinson

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Spencer Wilding

We were very lucky to have Darth Vader visit our Exeter office in October. Spencer Wilding, who portrayed the famous character in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, signed authentic Vader helmets for the team whilst telling the team about his roles in various other blockbuster films and tv series including Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Men In Black and Guardians of the Galaxy. Spencer was truly one of the best story tellers we’d had the pleasure of signing with this year.

Jeremy Bulloch

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MACHINE ELVES AND HOMONCULUS STONE BABIES OF THE BRAIN

Prologue Definitions

Machine elves

Cognitive dissonance

Confirmation bias

Darwinian

Energizer Bunny

Solaris

Stone babies

Complex chemistry

Organic life

Multicellular life

DNA

Ego

Egocentric

Egomaniac

Vanity

Conceit

AI (artificial intelligence)

Machine Learning

AI singularity

AGI (artificial general intelligence)

A-con (artificial consciousness)

SCRIBBLE!

All you are exists in the gaps in brain progressing, super but accidental redundancy gone Darwinian. Life came eventually from tiny anomalies in chemistry - exceptions - then cells, multi cells, moving multi cells etc. Human accident also, rampant success, but it is standard evolution ad hoc - porking our way through all resources, like greedy consumers since the LHB. In the gaps is the gold, though.

Electricity chemistry pinging around the brain concertina organic machine learning time needed to create valid next generations. Testing testing blind watchmaking consciousness. Which it eventually did, a few times. Most didn't have it. We did.

Unto now, the gaps have their sight on AI or cybernetics. We perceive the exponential flashpoint where AI fuse is lit; to develop in picotime. We knew that's coming cuz it's not an alien concept. Same thing originated humans from the primates; and all the way back.

It's rather unfair that activating a non-self serving bullshit / inauthenticity / virtue signalling often causes an interruption in natural flow as one audits one's behaviour. The ironic bit is how that sincere audit, only to be genuine and not feed others blarney, causes a stuttering - the look of uncertainty - which is actually taken for insincerity or discomfort. Double irony the slick fuck who doesn't audit or care to be sincere, even the snake oil seller with a learnt parlour, comes over smooth, no discord, certain, this truthful, authentic, sincere, worthy of trust. This is a perception mismatch - imagination to lie besting intuition about who to trust (and feeling, if it needs thinking about, it is less true).

If everything is a drive to solution or at least progress, it's inevitable to eventually realise this must be engineered if it's not to rely on chances intuition (hard to pass on/teach). Once this realisation hits, the choice is how much of life gets subjected to the deconstruction engineering necessary to aspire progress cuz not doing this is devalued, success or failure. Convergence with AI, not cuz it's mechanistic thinking but cuz it's breaking down increasingly complex chunks of reality into variables and algorithms. This is also a changed perspective as it's not all about forensic past dissection but variables algorithm approach to choices and the future especially when it comes to pursuing a goal, to doing.

In the moment yeah you can live in it but if you notice it, it's gone, and if it's well lived it's something good gone that can't be forever. That's all fine. But if it's a moment full of love and life, its loss is no fun - hide, don't think, don't be sad - but whatever, the lovemoment ends with one of you gone and the other going on like a lonely Energizer bunny.

Machine elves are the brain's consciousness dead ends, like personality abortions doomed to toil and live dumb in the deepmind unable to escape the loop of their inspiral succession of doors and rooms.

Or are they the brain making personalities for fun like the oceanworld Solaris. Once made the homunculus has to live cuz that's our fundamental law of life, how much personality is invested - not too much - virtually sane is just as much a natural selection as animals with eyes. like the ocean world Solaris.

The patterns of these abortions - stone babies calcified by time and distance from origin - lose distinctive features as one sees the mass, the in-spirals zoom out to look like consciousness fractals making geometric shapes whose uberform is real grand emotions (powerful insulators) like love and hate and empathy.

There's a barrier between personality prime and subordinate praetorian subconscious, and the machine elves and the homunculus trying to live, escape, loyalists v rebels?

This barrier is reinforced over early childhood though the multiplicity of fluid personality is still within reach. Kids make believe easily, "I'm David Beckham, you be Cristiano Ronaldo," one says, and that's all is needed. This state doesn't last, though. It's not expedient and real lived experience relentlessly teaches how life needs to be lived. Single personality, compromise with the oceanworld it can admit of many moods and facets.

This is the devil's bargain all human brains make, to live. It's another bargain that's not a choice ever made but a fact of our brains today and a fait accompli (like any Darwinian process, it's very extant consideration proof it was naturally selected a long time ago).

Perhaps this bargain where the frontline personality and lieutenants are given the route to the light - the optic nerve, for one - cutting loose the machine elves (loyalists) and homunculus (rebels), denied the light. Maybe this is the real origin truth in the underground/hell metaphor. And heaven isn't a place on earth but a life in a body upon it.

Think also about psilocybin, the inspiration for machine elves. They're always benign, calming, profound, in their own universe etc. Why wouldn't one feel a profound sense of gratitude, meeting the tireless lifelong guardians of your sanity - your identity - your safety. Bad trips could be a homonculus escaping, running rampant, though our brains are creative omnipotent s (inside the skull) so the escapee is eventually brought under control, neutralized.

The patterns made by of these personality abortions / occurs - though most are turned into stone babies calcified by time and distance from origin - lose distinctive features as one sees the mass, the in-spirals zoom out to look like consciousness fractals making geometric shapes whose uberform is real grand emotions (powerful insulators) like love and hate and empathy.

The first and last glimpse of the stone baby consciousness stillborn animations has so much fidelity, so much consciousness, so much depth in layers, it feels real, it feels like seeing God. Profound, ecstatic, personality-changing.

The world is very big. Big enough to send people mad or foetal. Foetal is mostly harmless: jobs and careers and breeding, if there's evil done, at least it's only done by inches. Madness is sometimes not harmless. It can be infectious. It is turning the innumerable into an equation.

At best this means crass approximation constipated by singularities and infinities that might factor conveniently but require faith they are equal rather than unknowns. National fantasy is a paradigm here. Or the innumerable is reduced to an algorithm, confirmation bias and cogdis evidence it's a fairytale (at least to observers). Religion is algorithm, as is mysticism. These bogus attempts to imagine a world that can't be imagined in any meaningful sense require commitment to equations or algorithms. Time devoted to this commitment makes them unreasonably precious. Precious things are possessed but also must be defended.

What's my own algorithm or equation explanation? That's the difference I think matters: it's only made up of expressly human factors, often ignoble and base and sad (for me and you). It doesn't need faith or singularities or fantasy or infinity. The problem is, it may be accurate, but whether it is or isn't it's not compelling and has no spark of any magic. Magic is the light good side of the infinities. It's a fairytale that might become a myth, it's not real except if it's reality to enough people (close by or in reach). I don't think it can be faked if one's being honest. But without the magic, what's the point of life except as a kindness to a duty to others, the logical endgame of nihilism.

Irony: opinion - decisive defining of personality - this is based on past experience but weighted towards quality over quantity JUST ABOUT - education, new data, new situations, research, expertise: these build by quality. Ultimately no matter what the subject but the bigger it is the more increasingly scant facts (in absolute terms, as a % of all facts available), there's a best guess, to the best of my knowledge, far as I know, based on the evidence etc. Cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias plays to this part of the algorithm, Dunning Kruger setting the predisposition based on specifics, demeanour/mood setting the predisposition objective bias/weighting.

To act with foresight based on predicted outcomes, one being preferred to others requires IMAGINATION to try modelling the future out of facts and other opinions etc. Given there may be no visceral or personal unequivocal evidence, and data is nuanced, there's got to be tough choices that require a fantasy to make happen. The scientists with enough facts to model a future disaster must use fantasy thinking to act before it is too late. Ironically the opinionated fool who knows fuck all gets to live real world prosaic, demanding better more undeniable proofs. Which can't happen cuz it's all about the future.

Human Imagination is the universe's most incredible creation (that we know!), not just for its potential but its tiny size and complexity. Trillion trillion neurons and axons in a network that works.

Daily life is a drip drip of experiences (sensory) that fill the brain's memory with, initially, the materials imagination needs to create its own universes. These begin fascinating - FEELING compelling - because they're new enough to seem possible so the brain takes it seriously as curiosity is hard-wired with scale quickly added. Drip drip drip.

Children play imaginative games because the potential (offered by imagination) still seems possible; and there's enough newness in daily drip drip to feed in new raw materials for ever more diverse imaginings. FEELINGS loosed by imagined worlds are intense early on because of thise closeness to possible; becoming less as drip drip drip time goes by and the brain's bullshit detector advances. The imagined world, once familiar, is less compelling.

New imaginings remain a catalyst for EMOTION because in that newness is something for the brain to explore. Imagined games can last longer thus. Eventually, though, the drip drip drip of real life - which doesn't cease - becomes so familiar there's no flow of new raw materials for the imagination; and then the imagined worlds are less fascinating. The experience of the drip drip drip asserts the undeniable nature of real life versus the imagined worlds, i.e. real life is probably, imagined worlds are mostly impossible. Once the latter builds enough reinforcement and the latter is demonstrated almost entirely impossible, the brain's faith in the possibility of these imagined worlds drops markedly and no more intense feeling comes from them.

For a while the real world, which is after all quite big, fills the void left behind by receding imagined worlds - ambition and hope and dynamism reside therein. But then the person gets old and the drip drip drip of everyday life continues relentless so that very predictability and the unlikeliness of early dreams increase so the brain loses faith in that, too. From this point people often become alcoholics (stupefy the brain's bullshit detector, so the feelings can flow again with lesser or despite everyday familiarity - often with a combination of memory and former states of mind), or junkies (various types, various effects, initially respite from the everyday so feelings flow but ultimately familiarity also - needing bigger doses or cecession).

More usually the older person moves to duty, fortitude, ministering to family's needs or - in any case - simply habituates to a less intense, less emotionally charged life thereafter. There's plenty of encouragement baked into our society, to make it easier to transition. Vanity is often a useful vehicle here: maturity equated to accepting duty and eschewing a life predicated on chasing compelling emotions. In any case, that's the way it seems to work.

The bathos of old age tends to be accompanied by physical or mental infirmity, loss of health, fragmentation of brainfunction, as the living organism begins its deterioration towards death and re-atomisation; the network shutdown, memory and imagination lost both as an individual system and a future potential, since the complexity of a particular brain is so unlikely the universe won't last long enough for there to be another quite the same.

The resonating concepts of any human society's myths and legends and fairytales are founded on a shared experience (being human). These concepts become embedded, like the rings in a tree trunk, because they matter - concurrently, contemporaniously, to a high enough proportion of those living at a particular time.

Time sorts the metaphorical wheat from the allegorical chaff, generation to generation, but the artifacts of these shared mythologies - like thunder clouds as gods doing battle or icebergs crashing into the ocean as ice-giants expelled from Jotunheim - echo long after the originating beliefs have become obsolete.

The remnants of the shared metaphor, a shortcut familiarity and unquestioned value, are appropriated by modern day's trinity of evil: propaganda, advertising and art. Prior to corporate capitalism advertising was owned by religion. Prior to democratic pluralism propaganda was owned by the ancien regime.

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Why Real Madrid fans STILL do not love Gareth Bale

At the end of last year Gareth Bale won his third World Club Cup in Abu Dhabi. It was his 12th trophy in five years on Real Madrid . That trek includes four Champions Leagues, and in three of those European Cup finals he was decisive. On Sunday, I scored his 99th Real Madrid goal.

Cristiano Ronaldo apart, there is no Madrid Galatico import that can live with the record of Bale and he is the most successful football output of Britain by some distance.

If the poll is now executed, the result may have been the last of the year, otherwise with Isco because you failed with a number of supporters. And the consolation for Bale is that at the Bernabeu there are no hearts and minds that no one really does.

One of the recent achievements of Bale for Real came in hitting a hat-trick in the World Cup semi-finals The caption read: & # 39; Bale complained of pain in his ankle. Something bothered him.

He was accused of having embodied the lethargy of Madrid in what was his worst home result in the Champions League in their history. All this despite the fact that he was not on the field in the first half and sustained an injury in the second half.

When he scored a hat-trick in the semi-finals of the World Cup Cup, the reaction of some media was the question

One of the reasons why the pressure on Bale rises and the moan against him this season has increased, someone is needed who can step into Ronaldo's big personality gap.

The club chose not to sign anyone in the summer because they believed that the arrival of Eden Hazard would limit the opportunities for Isco and Marco Asensio.

Isco in particular has been through a nightmare season. There was more controversy in the campaign when he seemed to miss the opportunity to wear the captain's armband after Marcellin was eliminated in one game.

He has won the Champions League four times and was the best British export ever [

If Isco can be criticized by home sellers, anyone can. This is a club where Zidane and Ronaldo have also suffered the wrath of supporters. Ronaldo was booed on the Bernabeu until well into his campaign of nine seasons.

If one day you return in a certain capacity, the question is what the reaction would be.

He made enemies at the club by taking phsyio Javier Santamaria to Juventus.

The club has, in turn, taken away as much as possible from the TV channel of the club. Each homer to another player who had previously been able to record images of Ronaldo supplying an assist has been replaced by an assist from another player.

Bale scored his 99th Real goal in the 4-2 victory of Sunday at Espanyol in La Liga

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Spanish supercup x1

If Ronaldo's inheritance is doubtful, what will Bale be? Ronaldo was almost always present for Madrid after joining 2009.

But those 450 goals in 438 games were not enough to create a statute or to rename a stand. Bale has been anything but present.

Some have the theory that it is the tendency to record injuries that tumble his appreciation among fans.

The apparent physical weaknesses affect his image, but what Bale has always managed to be fit for the big games.

He returned to the semifinals of the World Cup against Kashima Antlers and hit a hat-trick in 60 minutes before he played the full match in the final against Al-Ain who claimed trophy no.

Many expected Bale to climb up and make sure that the club would not miss Cristiano Ronaldo He will catch many of the supporters in Madrid when he leaves, but he can also leave them with a tweet full of trophy emoji's.

Always impressed by Bale they might be, but the expensive foreigner will not be able to finish his studies on honor and judging by the recent return of Madrid to his form he will not be ready yet.

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The Real Madrid Way: A Canadian sports exec tries to win over — and sell —an iconic Spanish soccer club

Dave Hopkinson remembers Nov. 1, 1994, quite well: it was his 24th birthday and his first day hawking season tickets for the Toronto Raptors, then a professional basketball expansion franchise in a diehard hockey town.

Hopkinson and 23 commission-hungry recruits sat in a room on the 14th floor of a building overlooking an arena construction site. Each was armed with a phone, desk and chair, and all competed to make a sale and ring the six-inch brass ship bell that their boss, Raptors founder, John Bitove, had mounted on the wall as a motivational tool.

The top four sellers were promised full-time jobs. The rest would be let go.

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“Dave was determined, fearless and fun,” Bitove recently recalled. “And he was just a kid, in his early 20s, but he would never give up, which is one of the things I loved about him. He would cold call anyone. He would work the phone. He would work his personality.”

Hopkinson would keep ringing the bell and look over at Bitove’s desk afterwards with a big, aw-shucks-boss-I-did-it-again grin on his face, which drove everybody else in the room halfway nuts, but earned him a full-time sales position.

The entry level job was a toehold on the sports business ladder that he has kept climbing: from selling the Raptors to selling just about everything for Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. — owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Raptors, FC, Argonauts and more — including a 20-year, $800-million deal with the Bank of Nova Scotia to rename the rink formerly known as the Air Canada Centre.

The deal — the largest of its kind in North American major professional sports history — reverberated internationally. Hopkinson, long sought after by NHL and NBA teams but never sold on a move, became a hot international commodity.

An executive recruiter in Los Angeles called and, this past June, Hopkinson left MLSE to become the global head of partnerships at soccer giant Real Madrid, the third most valuable sports franchise on the planet, behind only the Dallas Cowboys and Manchester United (the Maple Leafs are not among the top 50).

Dave Hopkinson, the former COO of MLSE, has been drafted by soccer juggernaut Real Madrid to market the Spanish team abroad becoming global head of partnerships.

The move to Europe means Hopkinson has to apply the skills he honed at MLSE over two decades to a new continent, while also bringing some of the Old World back home. One of his chief mandates: selling an iconic Spanish club, not just to the true believers, but to the soccer holdouts in North America and China.

“With Real Madrid, Hoppy has stepped up to a whole new level that we simply don’t play at in this country,” said Brian Burke, a friend and former colleague at MLSE. “He is in the penthouse suite in terms of working for a professional sports team. Hoppy is a heavyweight.”

Hopkinson, known as Hoppy since Grade 7, was raised in Toronto, had only ever worked in Toronto and certainly wasn’t expecting a call from Real Madrid. He didn’t even speak a lick of Spanish. But Real Madrid was “Real Madrid,” he said, “ a magical opportunity,” a professional roll of the dice too good to pass up.

The new hire was in the bathroom of his new home in Madrid on a recent November evening, filling the tub after picking up his eldest of two daughters from dance class — a mundane, dad-at-home moment in what has been a whirlwind few months.

“I’ve already bumped into a couple of pointy objects around the office and stepped on some landmines, but I’ve also had some small wins,” Hopkinson said. “I sort of sympathize with what it is going to take to be successful here, and how to be successful around here.”

Real Madrid is valued at more than US$4 billion by Forbes magazine and generated over $1 billion in revenue in 2017, according to Deloitte UK’s annual Football Money League report. Almost 50 per cent of revenues came from merchandising and sponsorship deals. (By comparison, the Leafs, hockey’s second most valuable team next to the New York Rangers, are worth US$1.45 billion and had US$232 million in revenue during the 2017-18 season, according to Forbes.com.)

Money, though, isn’t necessarily the most appealing business aspect of Real Madrid. Part of what sold Hopkinson on the move was the team’s ownership structure. Instead of being lorded over by an egomaniac billionaire or some soulless profit-driven-corporate entity, the 116-year-old club, much like the NFL’s Green Bay Packers, is owned by its fans, about 93,000 community members known as “socios,” who each pay a $185 annual fee.

Many socios have been members for more than 50 years. Collectively, they wield a corporate hammer, electing the team president and board of directors, approving annual budgets and disciplining wayward bosses who stray from the community’s wishes.

Steven Mandis, who spent parts of two years interviewing Real Madrid executives, players past and present and frontline employees for his 2016 book, the Real Madrid Way, believes “community values” and culture, two airy-fairy and hard to define things, are what underpin the franchise’s enviable success, on and off the field.

“It starts with Real Madrid getting the world’s best players that match the community’s values — to play an attacking beautiful style of soccer with class, to win championships and capture the imagination and inspire the current and potential global audience,” the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker tuned business author/academic wrote in his book. “Since Real Madrid’s values are inclusive and universal, appealing to a global audience of all ages, the community grows globally.”

A fan waits the start of a Real Madrid match. The football club has a unique corporate structure that some argue adds to its global appeal.

Mandis’ belief is both elementary and revolutionary. Sports fans are inherently tribal, soccer fans perhaps the most rabidly so, which occasionally results in hooliganism and pitched street battles between rival supporters. But Real Madrid’s tribe isn’t just shelling out for tickets and merchandise, or throwing the odd knuckle or two, it guides the club’s direction.

The results are telling: Real Madrid wins — a lot. It is the three-time defending UEFA Champions League winners and has captured a record 33 Spanish domestic league titles since 1932. Its excellence and fan involvement boosts annual revenues, enabling it to cherry-pick global stars, such as Cristiano Ronaldo (recently decamped for Juventus in Italy), which begets more winning, further accelerating the growth of the international fan base and the crush of sponsors worldwide clamouring to get a piece of the action.

Which is where the guy from Toronto comes in.

Hopkinson understands how flaky talk of “values” sounds, especially to a North American sports audience, and especially around his hometown, where the greed of former Leafs owner Harold Ballard scarred a generation of hockey fans, and a pint at Scotiabank Arena sells for $12 a pop. But after three months in Madrid in a job he parachuted into in part to walk the tightrope between taking a storied franchise in some new business directions and observing its old traditions, he has bought in.

He is taking Spanish lessons, working with a language app and sees Real Madrid’s values reflected in everything from the tenure of its employees — people get hired and they don’t leave — to the tiniest of personal touches. For example, sending out company wide emails to announce an employee celebrating a birth or mourning a family death, regardless of corporate rank.

Dave Hopkinson with his family at the Real Madrid field.

“I don’t see these values articulated anywhere — there is not some plaque in the lobby saying, “This is our way,” he said. “But it is something that is understood around here; it’s palpable.”

Of course, as a sales guy, Hopkinson wakes up every day thinking about the value of money and how he can squeeze more revenue for Real Madrid out of a globalized sports industry.

“Dave has no problem putting a big number on the table and justifying it,” said Brian Cooper, chief executive of MKTG, a Toronto-based marketing/sponsorship company that represented Scotiabank in the MLSE naming rights deal.

A lifetime ago, Cooper was a Raptors executive when Hoppy was a “ticket sales grunt.” In many ways, Cooper said, Hopkinson has grown by bounds, but in others he is the same kid with the easy smile that he was from the start: smart, well-prepared, relentless, quick to remember a name or a fact, keen to network and able to make everybody feel as though they are part of the team.

“Dave’s team at MLSE would do a tremendous amount of work up front on who you are and what your needs are — and who your target audience is,” he said. “And he is going to bring that sophistication to the Real Madrid brand.”

Hopkinson, like almost every executive in every industry everywhere, sees Real Madrid’s greatest potential for growth in China and the United States.

“Despite the fact that football is the world’s most popular game, it is underdeveloped in the two biggest markets,” he said.

Real Madrid already has an office in Beijing, and will open one in the U.S. sometime before U.S.-Canada-Mexico host the 2026 World Cup.

Hopkinson gives a purely imagined example of how Real Madrid might crack into China’s corporate coffers. Take a hypothetical Chinese domestic brand — a toque, an electronic gizmo, a you-name-it — that is manufactured in China and, as with many such brands, nobody in the West has ever heard of.

Enter Real Madrid, sports behemoth, with more than 200 million followers on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), only about three per cent of whom actually reside in Spain, plus a Champions League final television audience of around 165 million viewers annually. (The average Super Bowl draws about 100 million viewers; the Cowboys count around 13 million followers across social media platforms.)

Marry all those eyeballs, tweets and likes to a Chinese toque on an imagined Real Madrid player’s noggin and that brand suddenly goes from having zero international profile to the big leagues. The big leagues, in theory, give a company licence to charge a premium for its goods associated with Real Madrid’s superstars and, naturally, give Real Madrid licence to charge the company a fortune to be associated with its trusted, winning narrative.

“If you look at the statistics of the value of Real Madrid, plus their numbers in terms of fandom and fan behaviours, then you start to realize the magnitude of what they are talking about,” said Cheri Bradish, a sports marketing professor at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Although consumers have never been more adept at ignoring advertising messages — the average human’s capacity to delete or ignore pop-up ads, videos, television commercials and email-marketing blasts is by now well honed — getting attention from existing fans isn’t a problem for Real Madrid.

The team’s fans aren’t looking for less, they always want more, which has led to some inventive new twists in corporate partnering. For example, every Real Madrid player gets presented with a new Audi (other major sponsors include Adidas, Emirates, Hugo Boss and Nivea Men) at the start of the season, an event sparking much fan speculation: What car is player X going to pick? How about player Y? What does the car say about the player who drives it?

The Audi draw becomes a media/social media story, well covered by the club’s website, with the vehicles as props and the players as characters. Players who subsequently elect to drive a vehicle other than an Audi to the team’s training facility must park in a remote lot surrounded by a high hedge. The Audi drivers’ park in high visibility spots close to the front door.

“Does everybody care about what kind of car the players drive? No,” Hopkinson said. “But lots of people care about Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Real Madrid.”

What he means is: soccer-loving automotive geeks get what they want, while the greater mass of Real Madrid fans get something, too — a glimpse of their heroes doing something other than playing soccer. Audi, of course, gets a bunch of famous athletes driving their cars to work every day.

But getting attention in the U.S. is different. Football — soccer on this continent — has been trying to conquer the U.S. ever since Pelé and the New York Cosmos burst onto the scene in the 1970s. Major League Soccer has 23 teams, including three in Canada, and its fans are enthusiastic, but the sports pecking order list still reads: NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL … MLS.

Dan Mason, a sports professor at the University of Alberta, argues pecking order isn’t what it is important. Real Madrid doesn’t need to convert Joe NFL Fan. It simply has to convince U.S. multinationals interested in boosting their profile overseas to harness the Real Madrid brand power to do it for them.

Real Madrid isn’t exactly a non-entity in the U.S. market. Fox’s English and Spanish broadcasts of Real Madrid’s 4-1 victory over Juventus in the 2017 UEFA title game drew a combined three million viewers, or about a million more than the average MLS championship game.

“Just because Major League Soccer isn’t as successful as the other major sports leagues in North America, it doesn’t mean that Real Madrid isn’t a valuable brand in North America,” Mason said.

Hopkinson declined to disclose any Real Madrid state secrets, but one imagines the likes of General Electric Co., Verizon Wireless, Coca-Cola Co. and more should expect a call from Spain soon.

Hopkinson, meanwhile, turned 48 on Nov. 1, the last in a cascade of family birthdays since the move to Madrid in September. To celebrate, he and his wife, Lawrie, took their girls, Miranda, 15, and Claire, 10, to Paris for the weekend. They got an Airbnb, went up the Eiffel Tower, strolled along the Champs-Elysées, ate great food, drank it all in.

What had started as a job offer had become a family adventure, and a fresh challenge for a veteran sales guy with a knack for ringing the bell the Hopkinson way.

“You know how they say there is some magic about the 90-day mark at a new job?” Hopkinson mused, from his bathroom hideaway. “Well, I feel the magic is happening. I am getting dangerously close to figuring this all out.” Financial Post

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Top 5 Popular Soccer Books for Boys

Read Your Way To Soccer Stardom Young boys would much rather be watching or playing soccer than doing any "STUPID READING" as my son calls it but why cant they have the best of both worlds and get them these Top 5 Popular Soccer Books for Boys and they can brush up on their reading and learn a thing or two about how to being a better soccer player. IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER The Flea - The Amazing Story of Leo Messi

Written By : Micheal Part Date Published : AUGUST 1st 2013 Age Range : 8 - 12 YEARS Size Of The Book : 5 x 0.5 x 7.5 INCHES What Its About The "MUST READ" story of the legend Lionel Messi tells all about his life as a soccer player from his first ever kick of a ball at the age of 5 to his first ever goal at Camp Nou for Barcelona in Spain. This amazing story shows you exactly what he was like as a player and why this young boy was destined to be the world's greatest soccer player. What I thought If you want to know more about Messi the person and the player then this is the book for you, It tells all about his life in and out of football and who helped him and shaped him into the player he is today. A brilliant read and not just for children PAPERBACK : $9.89

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AUDIO : FREE WITH AMAZON AUDIOBOOK The Everything Kids' Soccer Book: Rules, Techniques, and More About Your Favourite Sport!

Written By : Deborah W Crisfield Date Published :

MARCH 13th 2015 Age Range : 8 - 12 YEARS Size Of The Book : 8 x 0.3 x 9.2 INCHES What Its About This book has all the tips and strategies that a child will need to help improve their game and also includes some fun games. FEATURED The rules of the game Tips on how to keep possession of the ball The importance of teamwork The art of goalkeeping Winning techniques for defence Heading, dribbling and trapping techniques Its all pretty much covered here with pre-game stretching, dribbling drills, passing and shooting strategies that will help you improve your game for the better. Includes fun facts, soccer themed puzzles and games What I thought Don't be discouraged that it says its for children it really does have some useful and helpful tips in here that any child could easily learn from. It could go a bit more in depth but it is easy for an 8 year old to understand. A very useful book for new and old players alike PAPERBACK : $8.67

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Soccer IQ: Things That Smart Players Do, Vol. 1

Written By : Dan Blank Date Published : JUNE 5th 2012 Age Range : 8 & ABOVE Size Of The Book : 6 x 0.3 x 9 INCHES What Its About Finally in a world full of soccer books this is written BY a coach but FOR soccer players. With Dan Blank's coaching experience he has written this book solving all of soccer's most common mistakes and provides easy learning for soccer players of all ages and covers things like the dumbest foul ever to playing soccer in the rain. Named the #1 book for soccer players by football.com An Amazon #1 best seller in the U.S, Canada and Austrailia Translated into 6 languages Named a Top 5 book of the year by the NSCAA soccer journal Includes links to free soccer IQ companion videos that bring the lessons to life What I thought Probably the best book for soccer players that I have ever read, Dan Blank is a genius in how he writes this book and it comes from the heart of a genuine coach that has been through it all so he certainly knows his stuff. I learned more from this book than I ever did as a player from my own coach. Educational and a real straight to the point humorous book PAPERBACK : $9.99

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Soccer IQ - Vol. 2: More of What Smart Players Do

Written By : Dan Blank Date Published : APRIL 8th 2014 Age Range : 8 & ABOVE Size Of The Book : 6 x 0.3 x 9 INCHES What Its About The follow up to the Amazons #1 best seller volume 2 is written exactly the same funny and humorous way the first one was but identifies more of the common mistakes in soccer providing players with simple to follow ways of rectifying the problems they face on the field. Another "MUST HAVE" book for soccer players of all ages. What I thought Reading this one after the first volume isn't necessary but I would advise reading both the volumes. Dan Blank delivers yet again a superb soccer book uncovering the easily made mistakes that can be made on the field. Another educational and funny read KINDLE : $7.95

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Ronaldo: The Children's Book. Fun, Inspirational and Motivational Life Story of Cristiano Ronaldo - One of The Best Soccer Players in History

Written By : Roy Brandon Date Published : DECEMBER 12th 2016 Age Range : 6 - 12 YEARS Size Of The Book : 8 x 0.1 x 10 INCHES What Its About A fully illustrated children's book bringing the story to life about one of the best soccer players of our time. Cristiano Ronaldo, the player who overcame all the challenges and struggles of trying to make it to the top of his game. Hours of entertainment with these stunning graphics and learning about the legend himself which will inspire children to want to be like him someday. What I thought My 8 year old son loves this book and has read it quite a lot and even though there are a few grammatical errors in there it hasn't stopped him from getting inspiration from it, so if my son thinks its a winner then so do I. A beautiful looking book that delivers a great story PAPERBACK : $4.21

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