America-RN · Midfielder · #6 · Brazil · 22 yrs
Antonio Rudiger has delivered a candid assessment of Real Madrid’s recent struggles, insisting that the club cannot allow a prolonged trophy drought to become the norm.The German defender, who is cu...
Drawing on his own family’s experience, the Real Madrid and Germany defender is advocating for refugees and challenging stereotypesAs a child, Antonio Rüdiger would look out of his bedroom window to see whether anyone was playing on the field it overlooked. It was not a big pitch, but it had two goals, enough room for six-a-side and was where a young Rüdiger honed the skills that would take him to the top.He grew up in Neukölln, Berlin, in a community largely made up of refugees, where his parents settled after fleeing civil war in Sierra Leone. It was, by his own account, a tough area, and football kept him out of trouble. Continue reading...
West Ham’s record Premier League goalscorer on the club’s decline, the benefits of therapy and always being asked about his car crash‘I never thought I needed therapy,” says Michail Antonio during a long conversation about the darker side of football, trauma and where it went wrong for West Ham. “I was always a happy person. But I had so many demons.”This is not just about the moment that almost cost the 36-year-old his life. Antonio knows how lucky he was to emerge from the wreckage with only a broken leg after crashing his Ferrari while driving home from training in December 2024, but it is one part of the story and there are plenty more chapters to write. Continue reading...
Real Madrid have completed one of their most important pieces of business ahead of the new season, with Antonio Rudiger set to continue at the club beyond the expiry of his previous agreement.Accordin...
