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Daily Mail
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Footballing icon reveals he nearly joined Man United - as he details Sir Alex Ferguson talks and explains why he didn't make the move
A footballing legend has revealed that he was in talks with Manchester United and manager Sir Alex Ferguson over a possible move to Old Trafford in 1996. Edgar Davids played for the likes of AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Tottenham and Ajax. The midfielder, who is well remembered for both his play and his protective glasses, was a part of the Ajax team that won the Champions League in 1995 and went on to join AC Milan the following year. However, he has revealed that things could have been different with United having been seriously interested in securing his services. Davids revealed he was tempted by the move, having idolised Red Devils midfielder Paul Ince at the time. 'I mean it's really, how you say, that I look differently at United,' he said in an interview with MUTV. 'Because, you know, I already watched Manchester United as they had a player I really liked - Paul Ince. 'He was a midfielder who was unbelievable. I also played against him, when he played for Inter and I played for Milan. 'He was a big boy then and it was a really amazing derby. Him against Marcel Desailly, who was a big boy too, and that was like a big battle in the midfield. 'I got to talk to Sir Alex and it was one of the most incredible talks I ever had,' he disclosed. 'But I had already made my mind up to go somewhere else [Milan]. 'Yes, it was in 1996, when I was with Ajax, but it was just the way he [Ferguson] was. His personality and everything. It was a whole different level. 'I played against amazing players [at United], who started doing amazing things. When you play against certain teams, you then also follow the careers of these young players. 'But no regrets. I only considered Italy for me because Italy was the place I wanted to be. The best players were playing in Italy at the time, like it is now in the Premier League.'
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
⛔ Banned for doping, Pogba and 9 stars make a comeback 🔙
Paul Pogba is close to returning to the field and his team seems clear: Monaco. The intake of DHEA cost him 18 months of disqualification (initially 4 years) which expired in March 2025. But Pogba is not the only footballer to have suffered a long disqualification for doping before returning to the field. Let's see a list of the most important ones. Diego Maradona – 15 months (1991) and (1994) In 1991, during his experience at Napoli, Maradona was disqualified for 15 months for using cocaine. He returns to play with Siviglia and Newell's Old Boy and participates in the 1994 World Cup with Argentina, where he is found positive for ephedrine. After that, he returns to the field again with Boca Juniors, the last team of his career. Pep Guardiola – 4 months (2001, then acquitted) During his period at Brescia, Guardiola was disqualified for 4 months for positivity to nandrolone. The midfielder also manages to return to the field for the end of the season. In 2016, however, he was definitively acquitted. Edgar Davids – 4 months (2001) Edgar Davids tested positive for nandrolone in 2001 while playing for Juventus. The midfielder serves a 4-month disqualification: he misses the end of the season and the start of the next one before resuming with the bianconera shirt. Jaap Stam – 5 months (2001) The Dutch defender tested positive for nandrolone while registered with Lazio in 2001. Disqualified for 5 months, he misses from the 11th to the 26th day, closing the championship regularly. Fernando Couto – 4 months (2001) As soon as Stam's disqualification ended, Couto was stopped in Lazio and always due to nandrolone. Disqualified for 4 months, he is forced to miss the end of the season and the first day of the next one. Adrian Mutu – 7 months (2004) In 2004, Mutu suffered 7 months of disqualification for using cocaine while at Chelsea. After being fired and a long legal dispute, he returns to play in Italy with Livorno in January 2005 before going to Juve and then to Fiorentina. Kolo Touré – 6 months (2011) In 2011, Kolo Touré - at the time in Manchester City of Roberto Mancini - tested positive for a diuretic contained in a weight loss pill of his wife. Touré serves a 6-month disqualification that makes him miss the end of the 2010/11 season and the start of the 2011/12 season. Samir Nasri – 6 months (then extended, 2018) In early 2018, Samir Nasri was disqualified for the irregular use of restorative infusions while playing for Siviglia, i.e. in 2016. The player who had just closed his experience with Antalyaspor saw the penalty increased from 6 months to 18 months but with retroactive effect from 2017. Advertisement In substance, he remains still for a year: he returns to January 2019 with West Ham where he plays a few games before going to Anderlecht. André Onana – 9 months (2021) In 2021, Onana suffered a 9-month disqualification after mistakenly taking a medicine from his wife containing a diuretic: furosemide. After the stop, he returns to play with Ajax in the following season but only for a short time, because at the end of the season he has transferred to Inter on the expiration of his contract. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here. 📸 Michael Kunkel - Bongarts
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eric Cantona and Ella Toone help meld football and art for Manchester festival
An installation created for the exhibition by Stefano Boeri and Eduardo Terrazas with the former Italian player Sandro Mazzola. An installation created for the exhibition by Stefano Boeri and Eduardo Terrazas with the former Italian player Sandro Mazzola. Photograph: Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti 'Everybody needs his own ritual or way of preparing,' says the former Dutch footballer Edgar Davids. 'Those minutes that you're in the tunnel is where we're going to start.' Davids is talking about a piece he has worked on alongside the artist Paul Pfeiffer in which the pair recreate the tension of the tunnel before a big game. Advertisement The work will serve as the passageway into the 'set piece' of this year's Manchester international festival – Football City, Art United – where the beautiful game is moving off the pitch and into the artist's studio. 'It's now more important than ever to bring things together,' says Hans Ulrich Obrist, who has co-curated the exhibition alongside Josh Willdigg and the former Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata. 'There's a lot of separation and it's important to connect worlds that wouldn't necessarily talk to each other. It's exciting to do it with sport.' For Football City, Art United, Pfeiffer was paired with the former Juventus midfielder Davids, who has a significant art collection of his own and suggested recreating the intensity of the tunnel as players prepare to walk out into a stadium. 'He referred to it as the moment of greatest tension,' says Pfeiffer. 'Even more so than being on the field itself.' Advertisement Visitors to the Aviva Studios in Manchester, where the exhibition is being held, will be immersed into a tunnel, with audio of crowd noise that Pfeiffer and his team recorded live at the San Siro stadium during the Milan derby earlier this year. Davids, who also played for both Milan sides during his career in Italy, was able to pull strings to get the artist's team pitchside. Pfeiffer calls it a mix of the 'preparation and interior space of the individual player' versus 'the sound of 100,000 fans permeating the wall'. There are 11 'pairings' in total, with footballers and artists put together according to interests. Arguably the most anticipated work for locals comes from the United fan favourite and Manchester United bete noire Eric Cantona, who alongside the British conceptual artist Ryan Gander explores the effects of fame on a player. The work features three parts: an automated spotlight that will pick out visitors at random so they can experience the 'isolating glare of celebrity'; a song performed by Cantona, Les Temps Passe or Time Passes, will play; and a number of match tickets from the French forward's final appearance at Old Trafford will be handed out to every 100th visitor replete with a message from him. Advertisement Perhaps the most intriguing work is a collaboration between the Berlin and London-based artist collective Keiken and the England star Ella Toone. Visitors can step on to a podium and interact with a mask inspired by Toone's 'spirit animal', the shetland pony. 'The idea is that football is for everyone and art is for everyone,' says Obrist. 'We're here to create a bridge of possibilities. There are moments of epiphany in football and art, and hopefully we can create some in Manchester.' This is not the first time Obrist has embraced football. He was a passionate backer of Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, which he describes as a masterpiece. He has also had a long-running collaborative relationship with Mata, after the pair messaged each other on Instagram when the footballer began liking Obrist's studio visit posts. This year's project is the latest instalment of The Trequartista: Art and Football United, a multi-part exploration of the sport and artistic practice. Advertisement After connecting with Mata, the Serpentine curator invited him to collaborate with the German-Indian artist Tino Sehgal at the 2023 Manchester international festival. The resulting work, This entry, features Mata alongside a trick cyclist, a freeform footballer, a violinist and a dancer. Obrist described the 2023 work as a teaserfor what's to come later this summer. The Honolulu-born, New York-based Pfeiffer's work often intersects with sport. He has used digital editing to make it seem as if a boxer is being hit by an invisible opponent and removed audio from NBA games, creating eerie portraits of players. As one critic put it, Pfeiffer 'strips away the pageantry' of sport and in so doing shows 'the pain and contradiction that draw people in'. The Swiss Uruguayan artist Jill Mulleady once met Diego Maradona, and she is using that chance encounter as the basis for a 'holographic illusion' of the footballer, which will recall his controversial 'hand of God' goal against England at the 1986 World Cup. Advertisement Alvaro Barrington teams up with the 90s Brazil star Raí to create a 'large green felt banner' that will hang about the space, while the architects Stefano Boeri and Eduardo Terrazas have created a work on the floor of the Aviva Studios with the former Italian player Sandro Mazzola where visitors can recreate some of his goals. Other work includes the manga artist Chikyuu no Osakana Pon-chan recreating scenes from the life of the former Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa; the Zidane co-creator Parreno and Marco Perego present a Sims-style video game where visitors can explore the 'physical geography' of the former Everton and Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti. The US artist Suzanne Lacy, the Manchester City and Netherlands star Vivianne Miedema and the Angel City FC and New Zealand captain Ali Riley have created a film; Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and the former Mexican goalkeeper Jorge Campos have created a flamboyant mascot named Brody; and the British artist Rose Wylie worked with the Arsenal and England defender Lotte Wubben-Moy to turn moments from her daily life as a footballer into paintings.
The Guardian
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Eric Cantona and Ella Toone help meld football and art for Manchester festival
'Everybody needs his own ritual or way of preparing,' says the former Dutch footballer Edgar Davids. 'Those minutes that you're in the tunnel is where we're going to start.' Davids is talking about a piece he has worked on alongside the artist Paul Pfeiffer in which the pair recreate the tension of the tunnel before a big game. The work will serve as the passageway into the 'set piece' of this year's Manchester international festival – Football City, Art United – where the beautiful game is moving off the pitch and into the artist's studio. 'It's now more important than ever to bring things together,' says Hans Ulrich Obrist, who has co-curated the exhibition alongside Josh Willdigg and the former Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata. 'There's a lot of separation and it's important to connect worlds that wouldn't necessarily talk to each other. It's exciting to do it with sport.' For Football City, Art United, Pfeiffer was paired with the former Juventus midfielder Davids, who has a significant art collection of his own and suggested recreating the intensity of the tunnel as players prepare to walk out into a stadium. 'He referred to it as the moment of greatest tension,' says Pfeiffer. 'Even more so than being on the field itself.' Visitors to the Aviva Studios in Manchester, where the exhibition is being held, will be immersed into a tunnel, with audio of crowd noise that Pfeiffer and his team recorded live at the San Siro stadium during the Milan derby earlier this year. Davids, who also played for both Milan sides during his career in Italy, was able to pull strings to get the artist's team pitchside. Pfeiffer calls it a mix of the 'preparation and interior space of the individual player' versus 'the sound of 100,000 fans permeating the wall'. There are 11 'pairings' in total, with footballers and artists put together according to interests. Arguably the most anticipated work for locals comes from the United fan favourite and Manchester United bete noire Eric Cantona, who alongside the British conceptual artist Ryan Gander explores the effects of fame on a player. The work features three parts: an automated spotlight that will pick out visitors at random so they can experience the 'isolating glare of celebrity'; a song performed by Cantona, Les Temps Passe or Time Passes, will play; and a number of match tickets from the French forward's final appearance at Old Trafford will be handed out to every 100th visitor replete with a message from him. Perhaps the most intriguing work is a collaboration between the Berlin and London-based artist collective Keiken and the England star Ella Toone. Visitors can step on to a podium and interact with a mask inspired by Toone's 'spirit animal', the shetland pony. 'The idea is that football is for everyone and art is for everyone,' says Obrist. 'We're here to create a bridge of possibilities. There are moments of epiphany in football and art, and hopefully we can create some in Manchester.' This is not the first time Obrist has embraced football. He was a passionate backer of Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, which he describes as a masterpiece. He has also had a long-running collaborative relationship with Mata, after the pair messaged each other on Instagram when the footballer began liking Obrist's studio visit posts. This year's project is the latest instalment of The Trequartista: Art and Football United, a multi-part exploration of the sport and artistic practice. Sign up to First Edition Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion After connecting with Mata, the Serpentine curator invited him to collaborate with the German-Indian artist Tino Sehgal at the 2023 Manchester international festival. The resulting work, This entry, features Mata alongside a trick cyclist, a freeform footballer, a violinist and a dancer. Obrist described the 2023 work as a teaserfor what's to come later this summer. The Honolulu-born, New York-based Pfeiffer's work often intersects with sport. He has used digital editing to make it seem as if a boxer is being hit by an invisible opponent and removed audio from NBA games, creating eerie portraits of players. As one critic put it, Pfeiffer 'strips away the pageantry' of sport and in so doing shows 'the pain and contradiction that draw people in'. The Swiss Uruguayan artist Jill Mulleady once met Diego Maradona, and she is using that chance encounter as the basis for a 'holographic illusion' of the footballer, which will recall his controversial 'hand of God' goal against England at the 1986 World Cup. Alvaro Barrington teams up with the 90s Brazil star Raí to create a 'large green felt banner' that will hang about the space, while the architects Stefano Boeri and Eduardo Terrazas have created a work on the floor of the Aviva Studios with the former Italian player Sandro Mazzola where visitors can recreate some of his goals. Other work includes the manga artist Chikyuu no Osakana Pon-chan recreating scenes from the life of the former Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa; the Zidane co-creator Parreno and Marco Perego present a Sims-style video game where visitors can explore the 'physical geography' of the former Everton and Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti. The US artist Suzanne Lacy, the Manchester City and Netherlands star Vivianne Miedema and the Angel City FC and New Zealand captain Ali Riley have created a film; Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and the former Mexican goalkeeper Jorge Campos have created a flamboyant mascot named Brody; and the British artist Rose Wylie worked with the Arsenal and England defender Lotte Wubben-Moy to turn moments from her daily life as a footballer into paintings. Football City, Art United is at Aviva Studios, Manchester from 4 July to 24 August
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Retro vibes for the Champions League: Just Eat launch streetwear collection
Just in time for the UEFA Champions League final, Just Eat are releasing a limited-edition 90s-inspired capsule collection – in collaboration with the co-founder of streetwear label Daily Paper, Abderrahmane Trabsini, and the jewellery label TROPHY BY GASSAN. Football legend Edgar Davids presents the exclusive collection of Just Eat Discover now! Advertisement At the centre are three retro jerseys in vibrant Just Eat Takeaway orange. The designs reference legendary jerseys from the 90s and incorporate modern food delivery elements such as the Just Eat knife and fork symbol. The collection is complemented by five diamond-studded necklace pendants designed by TROPHY BY GASSAN. The motifs? Popular orders like sushi or pizza – reimagined in the style of opulent 90s football jewellery. Marijn Luchtman, Global Head of Sponsorships at Just Eat explains: "This collaboration combines fashion, football and food in a creative way. We're excited to offer fans a piece of this unique blend for the final." Advertisement Dustin Huisman, founder of TROPHY BY GASSAN, added: "Football and jewellery were inseparable in the 90s – we wanted to capture that feeling. Our pendants bring luxury and everyday joy together." Sales start on May 21 at 10:00 on – the shirts cost €71.95 (£59.99). Fans in Munich could also be in with a chance of winning one of the exclusive diamond charms from TROPHY BY GASSAN, all they need to do is place an order for a Lieferandomeister burger by Mario Gomez between the May 26th and 1st June via the Lieferando app. "We wanted to combine the energy and style of the '90s with today's food culture," said designer Abderr Trabsini. "This collection is a mix of football, fashion and fast food—with a touch of nostalgia."
