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Will Rotan’s team be able to jump over their heads?
Before the last round, the Ukrainians and Spaniards qualified for the playoffs ahead of schedule, scoring six points each and putting them out of reach of their peers from Croatia and Romania. However, the Iberians had a better goal difference. Therefore, the Ukrainians had to do a little bit more than win against the favorite to get out of first place. Ruslan Rotan was very surprised by the starting lineup. Compared to the previous match, the youth coach replace nine players, leaving only Vivcharenko and Kryskiv. Most likely, Rotan decided to save the main team players for the playoffs.
Oleksiy KikireshkoPublished 10 months ago in CleatsBenchside Epiphanies: A Soccer Story
The twang of a strained hamstring sounds louder in your head when it's your leg. One day I was juggling soccer balls with the finesse of an Italian maestro; the next, I was splayed on the couch, my right leg resembling an overstuffed kielbasa. I was destined to be the next big thing in soccer—or so I thought until I was felled by an injury that had more twists than a telenovela plot.
Evan BrownPublished 10 months ago in CleatsSerhii Rebrov’s Bremen advance and Macedonian comeback
First, a friendly match against powerful Germany. And then immediately the Euro 2024 qualifying match against Northern Macedonia. And all this within this week.
Oleksiy KikireshkoPublished 10 months ago in CleatsElon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg: Who would win a fight between tech titans?
Who would win a fight between Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg? It’s the sort of question that might be asked over a drink in the pub.
India Vs. Nepal football match
Host India got their spot in the semi-finals of the SAFF Title by overcoming Nepal 2-0 in an exhilarating experience in their subsequent gathering match.
Jude Bellingham :a sensation
Jude Bellingham, a young English football sensation, has captured the attention of fans and experts alike with his exceptional talent and maturity on the field. Born on June 29, 2003, in Stourbridge, England, Bellingham's rise in the footballing world has been nothing short of meteoric.
Yousuf EhsanPublished 11 months ago in CleatsFrom European Champions to out of Europe
Chelsea football club has been a sensational club producing lots of game changing players over the years. They made and established themselves as on the top 6 clubs of the premier league. But recently they have been facing some problems of their own. After having spent millions in the transfer market and buying players like thiago silve, kai havertz and timo werner.
Yousuf EhsanPublished 11 months ago in Cleats"From Dusty Streets to Wrexham FC: A Journey of Passion and Persistence"
In the bustling streets of Karachi, Pakistan, a young boy named Ahsan lived. From a tender age, Ahsan possessed an insatiable passion for football. Every spare moment he had, he would grab a makeshift ball and weave his way through the narrow alleys, showcasing his talent to anyone who cared to watch.
Yousuf EhsanPublished 11 months ago in CleatsFoggy streets
Foggy streets, it was raining, and I met someone worth learning from. On July 4, I came to the library with my classmates, and the lotus flower on the opposite moat was flourishing. We went ahead to prepare, when the door lined up, are here to study college students, suddenly, a figure attracted my eyes, in the crowd is very conspicuous. I couldn't help wondering, why did he come? Are we going in? My mind is full of question marks.
Rosberg KoziolPublished 11 months ago in CleatsThe streets and temples
The streets and temples were crowded with people, the study rooms were crowded with books, and to get rid of the crowds we went into the wilderness. Crowding is a kind of luxury of life, in luxury is difficult to know how to cherish. Sartre said, "Other people are hell," and perhaps he was rarely out in the open. It is not a country house or a ranch on the outskirts of the country, but a real wilderness without any people, a plain sand, the end of time." The real wilderness is the negative side of life, even a blade of grass is stingy with its own trace. It is unfamiliar to the crowd, but there is a huge truth to the fact that 1 is a comma. The land reclaimed by human beings is really only a small accident, and what is inevitable outside of the accident is the wilderness. This boundless wilderness is only a small piece of soil compared with the vast sea, and if the land and the sea are added together, they will immediately become a speck of dust in the universe. The infinite emptiness of the universe has entered people's imagination, and the more we imagine, the more we feel that even a little life is the greatest miracle. Little bits of life can actually develop and grow like a decent, I really do not know how to cheer, how to care for, how to cherish. The year before last, I went to Xinjiang with Mr. Jia Pingwa, and when we met in the desert, he said, "I was shocked." He's talking about poplar trees in the desert. "Without a drop of water, it can live for a thousand years, stand upright after dying for a thousand years, and fall without falling apart and decay for another thousand years!" "From this, I thought of the Buddhist travelers of all ages. They trudge through the wilderness for years, saying they are seeking scripture, and the greatest scripture is the testimony of life. I think that in the vast wilderness, their experience of caring for students, kindness and compassion is stronger than anywhere else. So they went to another gathering place of life without hesitation, connecting the scattered lives and throwing them together to the "great sorrow of the same body". Whether Fa Xian, Xuan Zang or Jianzhen, they all used their weak bodies to bridge the vast rivers and mountains between the communities of life, which is really a spiritual practice of the utmost love. Early in my life, when I read Tan Sitong's "Benevolence", I saw that he defined the first definition of "benevolence" as "connecting", connecting with China and abroad, the whole country, and the whole people, but I did not understand it very well. Love but not broad, even if there is no real love.However, when travelers in order to care for the life side of the journey in the wilderness, they must pay a heavy price in life. Still praying for life at the most critical moment of life, most of the stories that occur in the wilderness are scattered with the wind and unknown to eternity, and occasionally hearsay will always wake up sentient beings who are busy with the world. A few years ago, Shanghai traveler Yu Chunshun was buried in Lop Nur after walking alone for a full eight years, and the news came that an invisible lever covering thousands of kilometers was immediately set up, one end of the lever was a lonely life, and the other end was one of the densest life aggregation places on the planet - Shanghai. Apathetic Shanghai people were gently - pry by this lever unexpectedly deep feeling, a small relic exhibition all day long crowds. At that time, I stood aside and was puzzled: according to the thinking logic of the city, which has always paid great attention to practical profit estimation, Yu Chunshun had not made any practical contribution, and the scattered objects in the exhibition had no aesthetic value. What's wrong with them? All of a sudden it's crazy, you know? I think this can only be attributed to the deep secrets of life signals. To fear life is to be merciful. Imagine that the object we envy and despise every day is also the miraculous creation between heaven and earth, and actually live in the same place and walk on the same road with us, this is really too great fate. "A hundred years of repairs have made the same ship weep", this statement is not only no exaggeration, in my opinion, it is not enough. Look at the vast wilderness can not even find a trace of life, wait for a bird to wait for how many years, and to find life in the universe f, an opening is how many light years, with the speed of light to search for thousands of years have not searched for a faint trace, we only build a mere hundred years can encounter with our exact counterpart of the creatures together. All kinds of cherish is too late, how willing to spoil each other! In order to stop the destruction, we sometimes have to shout out and even punish, but this is entirely out of compassion for the community of life. Human beings are just a group of homeless wanderers in the universe, the universe is our wilderness, we are the universe's Fa Xian and Xuan Zang, or a Yu Chunshun, but our figure is even more subtle than the mosquito's ambition. I have heard the sorrowful singing of Exodus, the simple walking, the coarse clothes and shoes, and the bleak eyes. It's not clear where it came from or where it's going. In such a long-distance hearing, what can we do except support each other, rescue each other, and love each other? Human beings, great and helpless. As long as you always look up into space and face the wilderness, you will not care about anything, and finally only two words remain:
DALLAS MABIREPublished 11 months ago in CleatsMany classmates came
Can not forget, is the pair of affectionate eyes, can not erase, is the night light, waiting for me to go home the exclusive memory.
Brianna TealerPublished 11 months ago in CleatsThe sun shone through
The sun shone through the window on my body, and I suddenly jumped out of bed and looked at the time. It was 9:30. And the students better ten o 'clock in the Riverside park to play, only half an hour, all blame the damn alarm clock, did not ring. I dressed quickly, washed my face, and then stuffed two pieces of bread in my mouth and ran downstairs as fast as I could. By the time I got to the square in Riverside Park, I was out of breath. I pulled out my phone and looked at it. It was two minutes to ten, and I was relieved. I turned around and found my classmate waving to me. We walked along the Yangtze River to the stone forest, walking halfway, there is a flower bed in the middle, which is planted with grass, flowers, to reach the stone forest or take a detour, or directly through the flower bed. We looked at each other and prepared to go straight through the flowerbed, which we did in spite of the conspicuous signs erected in the flowerbed. There are some people behind us, they seem to be out to play, I think: they should also be from the flower bed through it, sure enough, some of them stepped in the past, and then some people behind followed through the past. When I was happy to guess, I was surprised to find that one of them was standing in the same place, and finally he chose to take a detour, which was very unexpected. I did not continue to walk with my classmates, but stayed, to see this person around for a long time, walk for a long time, when he went to his partner, his partner seemed to be a little angry to ask him: "Why do you want to go around so long, make us wait for you for a long time, what is the meaning of this!" He said, "You don't care, but I do, and the grass does." At this point, I bowed my head in shame.Today, I went to Ningbo Ramon Universal City to play, Ramon Universal City is so big! Inside play things are divided into indoor and outdoor, outdoor is a large amusement facilities, suitable for adults to play, indoor is some small, suitable for children to play. When I came to the city of Ramon, the first thing I saw was a castle like house. There was a long queue in the ticket hall, a sea of people, and it took me a while to get in. Woah! So many rides! Pirate ships dangled in the air, carousels lined up, Small train attracted the eyes of many children, portrait kite 3 took me to put wings, round my dream of flying in the sky, let me feel the joy of flying, but my favorite is Poseidon adventure, this game is very exciting, playing people are also very much, we waited for almost three hours to turn. When we arrived, I quickly put on my raincoat, sat on the boat, buckled the seat belt, and held the iron tightly with both hands, for fear that if I were not careful, I would fall down, and my heart was pounding. The ship opened, and at first it was OK, but in the middle of the ship went up, I thought: sad, to the exciting place. Only heard a "whoosh" the ship opened quickly, but also up and down, let people's heart also followed seven up and down. After a while, the ship finally slowed down to a place full of skeletons, skeletons from time to time emit screams and ghost cries, making people creepy. After a while, the ship suddenly opened up to the highest point, but also issued a "click click click" sound, as a result of the ship rushed down, we were scared to scream loudly. Because when I rushed down, I felt like I was going to fall, which was very scary. The day passed quickly, and I left the city of Ramon reluctantly. Ramon City is such a fun and exciting place, I will come again next time.
NORIS SWEETINGPublished 11 months ago in Cleats