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Under the 23rd of June this 26 year old Greek footballer died from traffic collision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stathis_Chatzilampros

Stathis Chatzilampros, 26, Greek footballer (Levadiakos, Thiva), traffic collision.

 

Stathis Chatzilampros (Greek: Στάθης Χατζηλάμπρος; 24 June 1997 – 23 June 2024) was a Greek professional footballer who played as a right-back.[1]

 

Chatzilampros died on 23 June 2024 at the age of 26 as the result of a traffic accident, a day before his 27th birthday.

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Many have died in this way.
Houseman.
Greek Cypriot Siailos.

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Bayern Munich is destroying some German club in preseason.

Rottach-Egern (1) vs (14) BAYERN MUNICH [full time score]

https://www.flashscore.com/match/61ePk9VI/#/match-summary/match-summary

Rottach-Egern is a municipality and town located at Lake Tegernsee in the district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria, Germany, about 55 km south of central Munich

 

 

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Rottach-Egern

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How a Midfielder with No Pace or Stamina Destroyed Everyone without Trying

https://youtu.be/aAmUwYqXbeo?si=iJwshLEgipKIA72c

Andrea Pirlo is one of, if not the most respected midfielder from the 2000s and 2010s. He was able to dominate a sport that requires midfielders to run to contribute without trying at all, proving he was a monster at Ac Milan and then again at Juventus. He was able to win everything from the world cup, champions league, Serie a and was able to conquer the sport.

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Fastest goal in history

 

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Why left-wing German club St Pauli are selling their stadium to fans: ‘It’s the home of the people’

The first cooperative in football history: At a packed meeting in Hamburg on Tuesday night, the club presented its plans to over 3,000 of its members.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5793285/2024/09/26/st-pauli-stadium-cooperative/

St Pauli have unveiled a unique route to become more competitive: they are going to sell their home to fans.

Beginning next month, the German club will start selling a majority stake in the Millerntor-Stadion to their own supporters after forming the first cooperative in football history.

At a packed meeting in Hamburg on Tuesday night, the club presented its plans to over 3,000 of its members. The response was positive, albeit curious. This is a radical solution, but then clubs like St Pauli are facing complicated problems.

They are European football’s pre-eminent left-wing club and were promoted back to the Bundesliga last season for the first time since 2011. Unlike in England, where promotion to the Premier League ensures a quick, substantial windfall, German football’s broadcasting revenues are not so generous.

It means that St Pauli are relative paupers in their new division. Annually, their wage bill this season is estimated to be around four per cent of Bayern Munich’s. On Sunday, following three straight defeats to begin the season, they earned a creditable 0-0 draw with RB Leipzig, who spend eight times as much on their playing squad.

The route to parity is blocked by legislative restriction and also by ideological design.

The legislation impacting St Pauli is German football’s 50+1 rule, which means that a controlling share (50 per cent plus one share) of any club must remain with members, preventing external investors from ever gaining full control. It protects clubs from falling into the wrong hands, but also deters the wealth that can transform a club’s future.

The ideological design element is to do with the club’s values and its commitment to social responsibility. St Pauli do not accept commercial income from gambling or cryptocurrency firms, among other industries, and that has helped preserve its identity, but at the cost of revenue, which impacts their ability to win matches.

But how much does footballing performance matter? It depends who you ask, which is why finding a compromise matters.

Oke Gottlich has been chairman of the club since 2014. Before the game against Leipzig, sat high in the Millerntor, he told The Athletic that the idea for a cooperative has been on the agenda for most of the last decade.

“Maybe six or seven years ago, we discussed the possibility of a cooperative for the first time, and how we might be able to set one up, learning from a team like the Green Bay Packers, and how it could impact football. We discussed the different ways in which it could happen. Should we maybe transform the whole club into a cooperative?

“Not everything was possible. St Pauli is a strictly membership-driven club and didn’t want to effectively outsource it (beyond the existing members). But we thought about which of our assets might be appealing for a cooperative, or to people who might want to join a cooperative, and we started discussing the stadium.”

The Millerntor is worth an estimated €60m (£50m/$67m). The plan is to sell shares in the new cooperative and then use the resulting revenue to purchase a controlling stake in the stadium — raising up to €30m in the process. The club will use those funds to pay off debt, including from the pandemic shutdown, and invest in its sporting infrastructure.

A four-person board, drawn from long-term supporters who live and work locally, has already been appointed and the share sale is due to begin in October. One share will cost €850 (£709/$948). While there are no restrictions on how many can be bought, multiple shares will not equal multiple votes, meaning that no shareholder can exert more democratic power than any other. A staggered payment plan will also be made available.

In addition to their voting rights, shareholders will receive a potential annual dividend, expected to be between 1-3 per cent. Owners will be able to sell their share in the future, but not for profit, only for the amount they originally paid.

But the influence is the compelling aspect. Members of the new cooperative will have the right to propose and vote on new business initiatives relating to the stadium, the level of annual dividend that they will receive, and the social, cultural and sporting activities that take place at the Millerntor. Essentially, they will determine what happens at the stadium whenever it’s not being used for football.

The club will continue to receive all matchday revenues, but the shareholders will determine the rate of the club’s rent and how much the cooperative earns from St Pauli.

“We assume that the members will be in favour of St. Pauli, not against us,” Gottlich says, “and so they could decide to either reduce the rent if we were in third or fourth division, or to increase it if we’re doing really well.

“This is a very good thing, because it gives the cooperative flexibility. People could say, ‘Oh, we need more money to try to qualify for Europe, so we’re going to stage a job fair or boxing fight, then reduce the rent and help the club to invest in other areas, in its youth academy, perhaps.’”

The cooperative, which is being promoted by the club using social media and videos such as the one below, will also vote on what to do with any surplus it earns, which potentially enables it to have an impact on the wider community. It will also hold elections for its own supervisory board.

This is an unprecedented step in football and so, naturally, there are questions — many of which are unanswerable at the moment. The new organisation does promise a lot of bureaucracy, so it remains to be seen how agile it can be. The fact that anyone can buy shares, rather than just existing members of the club, also raises a question: what happens if shares fall into the hands of those who do not have the club’s best interest at heart?

Gottlich says all potential purchases will be scrutinised. As a safeguard, all shareholders will need to submit a written application for membership of the cooperative, which will then be subject to the board’s approval.

“There are also certain red lines,” Gottlich explains. “For example, according to the statutes, if the cooperative wanted to sell the stadium to, say, Red Bull, then the club would have the right to say no.”

The statutes of the new organisation will also prevent it from interfering in the operational business of the club itself, or from making decisions that would harm St Pauli.

It is a dramatic step but, while not quite a trend, German clubs are increasingly in the mood for creative solutions to football’s inequalities.

Last year, the 2.Bundesliga team Fortuna Dusseldorf began a pilot scheme which saw fans admitted to three home games at their Merkur Spiel-Arena for free. Fortuna are a traditionally big club, but have fallen on hard times and, as a reflection of that, have in recent years only averaged half of their stadium’s 55,000 capacity.

The hope is that the ongoing scheme, named ‘Fortuna fur Alle’ (‘Fortuna for everybody’), will create a virtuous cycle of media and commercial interest in the club. All three games sold out in the first year and the club have expanded the scheme to four games this season. While it remains too early to judge it a success, it has — initially at least — drawn a positive response for original thinking.

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The team making tickets free - and hoping to do it for every game in five years

St Pauli’s initiative is more elaborate. If successful, other departments within the club could seek admittance into the cooperative, too, potentially expanding its reach across — for example — the women’s football division, the youth facilities, the triathlon department or the Pipes & Drums section, and so on, throughout the club’s network.

Should new training pitches be built? Should the stadium’s corners be filled in? If the answer is yes, members will vote — electronically — for the board to procure financing and construction options, and then vote again on whether to accept them. Even for a club as habitually democratic as St Pauli, these are steps into football’s unknown.

But they are steps that Gottlich feels compelled to take.

“It makes sense,” he says, gesturing through the windows at the stadium below, “because this is very symbolic. It’s the home of the people, where we call come together for games, and it’s part of everybody’s community.”

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9 Greatest Defensive Teams of All Time (Ranked)

https://www.givemesport.com/football-greatest-defensive-teams-ever-ranked/

Fast-forward 24 years and AC Milan were in the same position – dominating football due to their defensive structure. It's why the stereotype about Italian sides being overly defensive even started in the first place, yet they did not care in the slightest as they lifted tangible glory at the end of each campaign.

In 1994, they won Serie A, finishing three points ahead of Juventus after conceding just 15 goals. That success translated over to the Champions League, where they leaked just two goals in eight matches to lift the trophy. It was all thanks to them having two of the greatest defenders of all time in the form of Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi.

Defensive League Record
Matches	34
Goals Conceded	15
Goals Conceded Per Game	0.441

Finally, Chelsea's 2004/05 team has been ranked as the greatest defensive side of all time. As they won the Premier League, they conceded just 15 goals – and now most teams believe the record will never be broken. They were in a league of their own. Remarkably, it was Jose Mourinho's first season at the club, and the legendary Portuguese coach toppled both Ferguson and Wenger immediately.

The football was not always entertaining, but – after bringing Porto Champions League winners Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira to his backline – which added to the already strong core of John Terry, William Gallas and Wayne Bridge, the Blues were in a strong position. One goal conceded in the first eight league games set the tone for the rest of the season, with the Blues keeping a Premier League record 25 clean sheets, including ten straight from late December to March.

GIVEMESPORT Key Statistic: The Blues also set the record for the fewest goals conceded away in a season (nine).

Defensive League Record
Matches	38
Goals Conceded	15
Goals Conceded Per Game	0.395

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Behind the mask: How a soccer star became a cocaine trafficker

A former star player for Ajax Amsterdam and the Netherlands became a major cocaine trafficker and has found refuge in the United Arab Emirates, where he continues to play.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/15/behind-mask-how-soccer-star-became-cocaine-trafficker/

Quincy Promes celebrates after scoring in a UEFA Europa League match for Spartak Moscow, a Russian team, in 2021. Promes was in Russia, from which he could not be extradited, when he was found guilty in absentia of drug trafficking in the Netherlands. (Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Images)

AMSTERDAM — Quincy Promes was on his phone, again.

The soccer star was constantly fielding messages: about his role on the most famous team in the Netherlands, his place on the Dutch national squad, the endorsement deals that netted him a small fortune.

But this time, Promes was texting from a burner phone about his secret life off the field. It was early 2020. One of the country’s most famous athletes was finalizing the import of a shipment of cocaine arriving at a Belgian port.

“My boys are on their way to Antwerp,” wrote Promes, a forward at the time for Ajax Amsterdam. His phone records were obtained by Dutch law enforcement and were used to convict him of drug trafficking in an Amsterdam court this year.

Promes paid intermediaries — his “soldiers,” he called them — to secure 2,850 pounds of cocaine that had just arrived from Latin America in a shipping container packed with bags of salt.

The other traffickers seemed perplexed by Promes’s role.

“Is he definitely that footballer?” one asked in a separate text.

Quincy Promes, shown in 2019, rose to fame as a striker for Ajax Amsterdam, a Dutch soccer power. (Koen Van Weel/AFP/Getty Images)

The growing intersection of sports and organized crime has alarmed some of the world’s biggest law enforcement agencies. The FBI and Interpol now have their own specialized sports units. Often their targets are corrupt sports officials, criminal investors who have infiltrated professional sports teams to launder their money or reputations, or gamblers seeking to fix matches.

But when investigators started surveilling Promes, they discovered he was an unusual target: an elite athlete who seemed obsessed with becoming a gangster. His success on the field had only intensified his appetite for a different kind of power on the streets of Amsterdam, they said.

On a wiretapped line in July 2020, a friend asked Promes, “Do you make more money playing football or doing business,” apparently alluding to drug trafficking.

“Doing business,” Promes responded.

This account of Promes’s descent into criminality is based on hundreds of pages of court documents that include Promes’s text messages, as well as interviews with police and soccer officials. Promes did not respond to requests for comment and his lawyer and several family members declined to be interviewed. Promes had pleaded not guilty.

In February, however, Promes was sentenced to six years in prison. By then, he was gone. He’d left the country to play for Spartak Moscow, a team in Russia’s premier league, where he became a top scorer, and was beyond the reach of the Dutch authorities. But a few weeks later he surfaced in Dubai, where he was briefly detained after Dutch authorities filed an extradition request.

Last month, with that request still pending, Promes announced another twist to the story: While fighting extradition, he would play professional soccer for United F.C., a second-division team in Dubai.

His legion of fans in the Netherlands have been left stunned by the star’s fall from grace. Why would Promes, whose annual salary at Ajax — an institution in European soccer — was more than $3 million, risk everything by getting involved with drug trafficking?

But the shock was different on the second floor of the West Amsterdam police station, where two veteran officers had quietly been meeting with Promes as his star had risen in professional soccer.

Those officers, Arno Van Leeuwen and Bob Schagen, have spent years investigating the connections between sports and crime in the Netherlands. Those ties appear to be increasing, the officers said, as young athletes experiencing extraordinary wealth for the first time have become targets for criminal exploitation. Players whose careers are floundering can be easy targets, too; last month, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, a once-promising British forward who had fallen to a second-division Scottish team, was arrested near Glasgow and charged with what police said was the importation of $800,000 of marijuana from Thailand. He was released by his club.

Dutch police officers Bob Schagen, left, and Arno van Leeuwen have spent years investigating the connections between sports and crime in the Netherlands. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien for The Washington Post)

People around Promes saw him as a wealthy investor, investigators said, someone infatuated with “gangsters” whose cash could help underwrite drug deals. Because of a surge in cocaine arriving in Dutch ports, groups that were once involved in low-level crime in the Netherlands now have a hand in trafficking vast quantities of drugs or are trying to force their way into the booming business.

Between 2018 and 2022, the amount of cocaine arriving at the Dutch port of Rotterdam — the biggest in Europe — skyrocketed from 20.8 tons to 55.1 tons, a 164 percent increase, according to the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA). At the Belgian port of Antwerp, the increase was only slightly smaller, the surge driven in part by increasing cooperation between Latin American drug traffickers and European organized crime, police said.

The Dutch police now liaise with both players and security officials at their clubs to warn of dangerous associations before they tip over into criminal behavior. But in Promes, whom they once tried to pry away from organized crime, Van Leeuwen and Schagen had their most tragic failure.

The wrong kind of friends

Promes rapped often about his proximity to crime and violence in his concurrent music career. (Olaf Kraak/AFP/Getty Images)

For years, Promes had been cultivating an alter ego in the rap songs he recorded. He seemed to want his fans to believe that he lived a double life. He rapped about his proximity to crime and violence. He performed with men who would later be convicted of murder and kidnapping.

“We do not fear bullets,” Promes wrote in one song. “We see men running for their deaths.”

Over the years, the allusions to drug trafficking became more explicit. “All those containers, like a present, must be unwrapped,” he said on the recording “Wicked Man.”

It was easy to dismiss Promes’s lyrics as mere posturing.

On the field, he was graceful and tireless, a naturally gifted forward known for his speed and ball control — a talent who, like many of his peers in Dutch soccer, had emerged from an immigrant home.

Promes was born in the Osdorp neighborhood in east Amsterdam — a grid of neat, modest homes where new arrivals to the Netherlands often settled. Promes’s parents came from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. He grew up playing soccer on neighborhood streets. By Promes’s telling, even getting a place in a street game required ferocity.

“You had to fight for your place,” he said in an Ajax promotional interview in 2020. “If you wanted to play football on the square, you had to have a certain attitude.”

By the time Promes was 13, soccer already promised a better life, and he was offered places in some of the country’s top youth academies. But he struggled with disciplinary problems. At 16, he was kicked off Ajax’s youth team. One factor, he would later say in another Ajax interview was that he “made lots of the wrong kind of friends and was generally in a tornado.”

His contacts allegedly included Piet Wortel, a Dutch-Surinamese man who police allege has been involved in cocaine transport for decades. Police say that Wortel and Promes teamed up to traffic cocaine. Wortel could not be reached for comment.

A friendly warning

Schagen, left, and Van Leeuwen repeatedly warned Promes about getting too close to crime figures. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien for The Washington Post)

Van Leeuwen and Schagen were lifelong Ajax fans. In the late 2010s, the two officers approached a contact at Ajax, who worked as a kind of fixer for the team. The Dutch police had for years met with the country’s clubs about soccer hooligans and preventing violence at games.

The officers wanted to increase their cooperation with Ajax. They suggested that they should meet with young players — particularly those who had made it onto the police’s radar — to counsel them.

Those presentations became regular sessions and a formal assignment for Van Leeuwen and Schagen after the initiative was endorsed by the Dutch police.

“We saw that these young players were vulnerable,” Van Leeuwen said. “These are guys who grew up in the same neighborhoods as criminals. It’s hard to distance yourself from your childhood friends.”

At the same time, European soccer had become a massive business, with $35 billion in annual revenue, and the players were increasingly valuable assets to be protected.

Ajax did not respond to requests for comment. But police officials said the liaison relationship is not unusual at European clubs. The detectives flagged early signs of trouble to officials at Ajax, naming players who were loaning team vehicles to childhood friends with criminal records (one such vehicle was found with a bullet hole in the driver’s seat). In other cases, Van Leeuwen and Schagen reported players who sold expensive watches for cash without realizing they were helping criminals launder money.

In 2019, the two officers said they had heard from a colleague that a young Ajax player was in the passenger seat of a car during a routine traffic stop. Police suspected the driver of having ties to organized crime. The player was Promes.

By then, he was a star, a prolific striker for his club and country. In June 2019, his goal against England had helped the Netherlands advance to Europe’s Nations League final.

The Dutch press chronicled his rise.

“Quincy Promes: from ballboy to top scorer,” read a headline in De Volkskrant.

Promes at first seemed receptive to warnings not to place too much trust in his childhood friends. By then, he'd become a prolific scorer for both his club team and the Dutch national team. (Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

The traffic stop didn’t result in any charges, but Van Leeuwen and Schagen felt they should offer a friendly warning to Promes about placing too much trust in some of his friends. It was the kind of advice that could be misperceived, the officers knew. Some members of the Surinamese community accused them of racial profiling when they made routine traffic stops, like the one where officers spotted Promes.

He would later articulate his own anger at law enforcement in his songs.

“Cars no lease,” he rapped in a mix of Dutch and English. “F--- the police.”

But the first meeting with Promes in the Ajax front office appeared to go well, the officers said.

“We just told him, ‘We like you. We want to give you some awareness for your career,’ ” Van Leeuwen said.

Promes struck them as innocent and perhaps naive. At one point, he volunteered somberly that he had very few friends. But a few months after they met with him, Promes was stopped with the same suspect. The officers once again requested a meeting with him in Ajax’s front office. This time, they arranged for one of the team’s coaches to join them.

“We told him, ‘We warned you the first time. Is there something you don’t understand?’” Van Leeuwen said.

Promes said it was difficult to cut off people he had known for a long time.

“I can’t leave them. I can’t say goodbye to my friends,” the officers recalled him saying.

Remaining in Moscow

Promes was transferred to Spartak Moscow in 2021 for a fee of 8.5 million euros. (Epsilon/Getty Images)

By the time Van Leeuwen and Schagen met with Promes in 2019, he was already trafficking cocaine, according to court documents, though the two officers were unaware of that at the time.

In retrospect, the officers concluded, Promes was already alluding to his alter ego. When he scored a goal, he lifted his hand over his face to form a mask. In a rap video, he wore a diamond studded mask. He started a clothing line called Mask QP.

It remains unclear how Promes became involved in the drug trade. In 2020, the Dutch police’s criminal intelligence team received information that Promes had invested at least $200,000 in a drug deal as early as April 2018, according to court filings.

The police began using wiretaps and undercover surveillance to track the player. They dubbed the investigation “Porto.” Like many criminals, Promes was using Sky ECC, an encrypted messaging service. Belgian police hacked the app in 2020, opening a vulnerability for law enforcement to exploit and ultimately providing a bonanza of intelligence that police across Europe benefited from.

That’s how Dutch police learned that Promes was involved in the shipment of cocaine that arrived at the port of Antwerp. The ship, the Cap Sant Nicolas, had passed through Brazil before crossing the Atlantic. But it had made several stops in Latin America, including Uruguay.

After the men had finished unloading the drugs in Antwerp, Promes, in a text message, said that he wanted to remain involved in the next step of the process.

“I suggest we measure tomorrow afternoon,” he said.

Prosecutors would later say in court filings that Promes had a “directing and coordinating role” in the trafficking.

In July 2020, Dutch police said they learned from conversations on a wiretapped phone that Promes had stabbed his cousin in the knee at a party in Amsterdam. The man was rushed to the hospital.

“Next time he will get bullets,” Promes said on a wiretapped line.

Promes was still on the Ajax squad that December when he was arrested for the assault. Reporters began asking team officials how they could rationalize keeping him on the team.

“He told me he didn’t do anything,” Ajax manager Erik ten Hag, now at Manchester United, said at a news conference. “In this country you are innocent until proven otherwise. We stand behind him, including the entire locker room.”

He was convicted of the assault in June 2023.

Asked why he kept Promes on the roster despite his legal difficulties, then-Ajax Amsterdam coach Erik ten Hag said, “In this country you are innocent until proven otherwise. We stand behind him, including the entire locker room.” (Getty Images)

After the stabbing, Promes represented Ajax in the 2020-2021 UEFA Champions League. It’s unclear when Ajax or the Dutch national team became aware of Promes’s drug trafficking charges. Officials for the national team also declined requests for comment.

Yehudi Moszkowicz, the lawyer who represented Promes’s cousin in the stabbing case, told The Post that he asked the Dutch prosecutor when a decision would be made to prosecute Promes and was told “after the European championships.”

A spokesman for the Dutch prosecutor’s office said that Promes’s arrest was delayed because of a league match.

“With regard to the timing of the arrest, the Champions League group stage match was taken into account,” said the spokesman, Franklin Wattimena. “It is not uncommon to take into account the schedule of the person to be arrested. For example, if someone can be arrested at home, it is preferred over arresting them in the workplace in the presence of all their colleagues.”

In February 2021, Promes was traded to Spartak Moscow for a transfer fee of 8.5 million euros. Promes was still playing for Spartak when he was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for assaulting his cousin. But Russia has no extradition treaty with the Netherlands, so Promes remained in Moscow. To avoid prison time at home, he stayed even after Russia invaded Ukraine, when most Western players fled. He also continued releasing rap videos. In one of them, he waved a Russian flag.

He posted Instagram photos at elite Moscow parties. He started posting soccer-related images with Russian captions. He showed off a new necklace, the word “Mask” filled with diamonds.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxq1ELZMt6U/?utm_source=ig_embed

He was still in Russia this February when he was convicted on drug trafficking charges based largely on the 2020 cocaine importation. In its verdict, the court said it was struck by how Promes was already making millions of dollars playing soccer while he trafficked drugs.

“This makes it even more objectionable that the suspect tries to increase his wealth (and possibly also prestige in certain circles) through involvement in large international drug transports,” the court wrote in its judgment.

Some of Promes’s former teammates said they didn’t recognize the man described by prosecutors.

“The Quincy Promes that you people read about is not the Quincy Promes that I know,” Memphis Depay, a forward on the Dutch national team, told reporters earlier this year.

In March, Dutch authorities announced that Promes had been arrested in Dubai at their request, and that they would request his extradition. He was jailed briefly and then released. Emirati authorities did not explain why he was allowed to leave prison and was not placed on house arrest. Dutch authorities declined to give an update on their extradition request.

Promes once again began posting photos of his life on Instagram, even though there was now an Interpol red notice in his name. There was a photo of him in front of the Dubai skyline. He posted videos of him playing soccer and tennis. Emirati authorities did not respond to requests for comment.

His life in professional soccer appeared to be over.

In July, Spartak released a statement saying the club was ending Promes’s contract “due to personal reasons that prevented him from returning to Russia.”

And then, in early September, Dubai’s United F.C. posted a cryptic video on its Instagram. It showed a silhouetted man lacing his cleats. “Big news coming soon,” read the caption.

The next day, the team followed up with a news release. The silhouetted man was Promes. The team gushed over their new addition:

“His arrival adds significant firepower to United FC’s squad as we prepare for an exciting season ahead.”

https://www.instagram.com/cebanu_ilie/?utm_source=ig_embed

 

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Heung-Min Son's father and brother have been fined 3 million won (around €2000) for abusing kids at a football academy. 😳🇰🇷

 

They allegedly hit and insulted young players in South Korea.