Soccer (FIFA)
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2 days agoCan you ever stop supporting your football team?
Supporting a football team is a lifelong commitment filled with joy and heartache, often chosen before one can fully understand the implications.
This didn't come as a surprise, because as a teenager, I remember it exactly this way. Living parallel lives together as sisters. It was only ever the two of us, and with our ages so close together - I'm not even two years older - you might think we were inseparable. It just wasn't how it was. We were so different We were night and day different then.
Obviously, you make money in this game, but that's not why I play. I play because I want to win. It's the competitive fire that I want to go out and win as much as I can. That to me is worth more than money. I know I'm leaving money on the table, but I'm more than OK with that because I wouldn't be OK with myself trying to chase money somewhere else, watching this team win and I'm on the sidelines.
If I had said I wanted to leave, they would have let me go. From the club's side, I felt a bit like, if you leave, it's not so bad for us.' It hurts me a bit. More than hurting, it makes me sad because I'm a player who has nothing to criticize. I'm always available, I always play, good or bad.
Veeps let the president be presidential, the calm and resolute leader of the nation, while taking on the "attack dog" role themselves, tending to the dirtier, more emotional work of pure partisan politics. Vice-presidents spend a lot of time at foreign funerals, of course, but also a lot of time at party fundraisers and second-tier campaign events around the country.