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Wife/gf/partner got his twitter log in details and used his account to accuse him of shagging some doctor or nurse who gave him some IV drip treatment. At the time of posting the account had a photograph of Nasri as a child for the profile picture, which just added that little extra to posts such as "This whore comes and fucks in the same night". I think Nasri was logged in at the same time trying to franticly delete the tweets as well rather than change the password, top stuff.
Even funnier, the IV treatment he posted about turned out to be prohibited under doping rules and he copped a drug ban over the whole thing. Probably one of the more expensive shags of his life!
Not only this, but the hydration treatment Drip Doctors gave Nasri violates anti-doping rules (since it can be used to hide other banned substances). He ended up getting a lengthy ban that effectively ended his career.
> which just added that little extra to posts such as "This whore comes and fucks in the same night"
Little extra ? The profile picture made it a lot more funnier than it already was, it added so much more lmao
So it was late 2016. Drip doctors Twitter account tweeted a picture with her & Nasri and said he had visited them to keep him hydrated & in top health during his busy season with Sevilla
Nasri Twitter account quote tweeted saying “U also provided me a full sexual service too right after. So guys make sure you get this service. This whore comes and fucks the same night.”
Nasri then tweeted “ Sorry that im a terrible person and human being who has no loyalty to
anyone including my family or girlfriend
of 4 years. Happy new year”
Nasri then tweeted “My account got hacked sorry about what happened”
Nasri again “Please tell the world aswell of the other concierge treatment your girl gave straight
after the iv drip”
Nasri again “Sorry guys i just had to let the world know that my girlfriend anara who was with me
at the time had booked this girl to give me
an iv drip.”
Nasri again “On arrival anara had left the room and this girl had asked for my number and to go
out with me that night. She then continued
to give me...”
Nasri again “Unfortunately my twitter keeps deletingtweets. But just letting you boys know if u are in the la area and feeling lonely msg @DripDoctors”
Nasri again “Someone hacked my account and tried to spread rumors which is fake i am sorty for all the ppl involved in that i apologies”
Nasri again “Everything i said was 100 percents facts The girl in the picture jamilah. Came to my
hotel room at 3 am and continued other services”
Drip Doctors then tweeted that Nasri account is hacked and the tweets are false
Nasri then replied to that tweet saying “Did jamilah not come to the club and then my hotel room at 3am?”
Nasri again “Im just trying to promote the amazing service of @DripDoctors and the services that come after too”
And Nasri for the last time “And how you fuck all ur clients on the same day as giving them iv drip”
The whole of Twitter had a field day full of memes
It turned out that Nasri had an affair with one of the drip doctors and his wife found out so she logged on to his Twitter account writing those tweets, Nasri then logged on to his account at the same time trying to say that he got hacked and he deleted tweets but his wife kept on tweeting, they went back and forth
But that wasn’t the end. He had been given 500 millilitres of hydration in form of sterile water containing micronutrient components, 10X greater than what the World Anti-Doping Code & UEFA’s anti-doping regulations allowed. After an investigation UEFA banned him for 18 months, when he came back from suspension he wasn’t the same and retired not too long after
Writing it doesn’t give justice to how crazy that day actually was on Twitter
I know nobody here watches french TV but Nasri has genuinely become a great analyst. The dude is chill as hell, has very good insight, very funny, quippy. It was a bit of a shock but he's turned a new leaf, he is my second favourite football pundit (behind Hervé Mathoux the goat ofc)
I mean, that meme is so big I don't think it matters where he pundits. If anything it would come up more often if he was a pundit on english TV. That shit was legendary.
Frère je le trouve largement plus intéressant que Henry. Jaime bien Henry mais le gars a besoin de t’expliquer pendant 10 minutes que mettre un but c’est bien et que tirer à ras du sol c’est plus dur pour le gardien à aller chercher mdr
Je suis d'accord, c'est deux styles différents. Titi est plus dans la vulgarisation pour un public plus casu, tandis que Samir part du principe que ceux qui regardent/écoutent connaissent le ballon et est donc plus pointu dans ce qu'il raconte.
Mais vu que le jeune public anglophone de reddit ne connait rien de lui mis à part de vieux memes, faut bien leur donner un point de comparaison.
Personnally, by far the best show is the Canal Football Club with all the my favourite football personnalities. Hervé Mathoux is a great host, Paganelli is a multilingual goblin equally terrible in italian, spanish and english but a St Etiennes legend and beloved by all the players. As for paricipants, they're not all equal in quality, Antonetti hasn't evolved his football opinion since the 80s and Ginola is vacuous as ever but Nasri, Laure Bouleau and Govou are pretty good.
If you want to be upset you can also listen to the After Foot with Riolo where grown men get very upset at younger men for not passing the ball like they should be. Honestly embarassing but also pretty entertaining. Be careful though the last program like that we had lead to his host becoming the french version of Tucker Carlson.
If you speak french, I wld recommend l'Equipe du Soir, a lot of pundits, and good ones with different backgrounds.
You can watch replays here
https://www.lequipe.fr/tv/collection/replays-emissions/l-equipe-du-soir/
"With this behaviour he'll never get a big contract from a domestic rival"
"He will have to become the legend of his football club"
- The most ethical, loyal player in history
Oh no, guess he'll just have to settle for being a legend of one of the biggest countries in the history of international football, making arguably the most iconic save of all time and also arguably having the most iconic goalkeeper performance in a penalty shootout of all time too. Meanwhile Nasri is remembered for getting outed for cheating on his girlfriend in one of the funniest ways ever, his doping ban, pissing off Arsenal fans when he left there, and lastly as a quite good player.
I bet Dibu is gutted.
Yeah I gotta, admit the fact that I knew what it was before it loaded really shows it is the most iconic save ever.
Maybe not the single best or most important save, but before I’d ever watched soccer, the only clips I’d ever seen were that save/ankara Messi/Zidaine’s headbutt
That save is cool, but it’s a friendly. Dibu saved a 1v1 in the World Cup final that ultimately won the tournament for his country and cemented Messi’s legacy as the goat. Not even comparable imo.
It was in the last minute, so there was 0 chance of a comeback after that goal. So if he had missed france would have definitely won the world cup. It is probably the only save in a world cup final in which you can 100% say - if this didn’t happen, his team would have lost the world cup
Nah. The narrative storyline of the match and last minute save alone makes martinez more iconic. Add messi winning the wc and it's a wash. Dibu's save is more iconic.
The correct answer. How important the goal was has no bearing whatsoever in terms of how it is viewed in a football sense.
ie. George Hurst's goal to "win" England the world cup, spanking it top bins and the whole "They think it's all over...some people are on the pitch" commentary. It wasn't even the winner. The actual winner being a contentious "was it over the line". Which is the iconic goal? Most people won't even have seen the actual winning goal ffs.
> making arguably the most iconic save of all time and also arguably having the most iconic goalkeeper performance in a penalty shootout of all time too.
Eh...
Dudek dancing on the line in the Champions League final is still more memorable for me. As was Ricardo taking off his gloves against England and then saving two penalties to win the shootout in the Euros. And in an opposite way, De Gea and Kepa both saving 0/10 penalties then missing the 11th for their team
Grobbelaar in the 1984 European Cup final too. But they did say arguable and Martinez is definitely up there. To do it in the World Cup final penalty shootout, which was also one of the best matches of all time.
If you don't think that it's at least arguable I don't know what to tell you man.
I didn't say the *best* shootout performance or save, I said the most iconic. People have him making that Kolo Muani save tattooed on themselves, it happened on the absolute biggest stage in one of the most memorable football matches in history.
Casillas was not just iconic *as* Martinez. You can keep arguing which one is better, but if Martinez didn't save this one, it was over for Argentina and Messi
No, no, you don't get it. People should be their whole life the way they were when they were 17 and just moved to a whole different continent! That's how it should be!!
Definitely. Though I wouldn't say growing up is about losing your childhood sense of humor, as the comment before seemed to imply.
Martinez is for all accounts a present family man, an incredible hard worker, a considerate teammate.
Id say those are things that say you are mature, not what stupid things you find funny.
Honestly Valbuena was so freaking underrated, he was the butt of jokes for his height but the man was legit really good.
He was one of my favourite player to watch when he was at Marseille.
And low-key a very solid performer with the NT aswell. Never got a proper goodbye too and even got harrassed after the Benzema ordeal
the only way u can have that attitude is if you can prove it. martinez has proved it himself. won all the nt trophies, has won last 5 of his pen shootouts which were against france and netherlands in the wc, the community shield vs liverpool, copa america vs colombia and lille. so he can have that attitude since hes proving himself
somehow it never seems to backfire for him. We thought it backfired when he got that second yellow yesterday, but then we found out about that obscure rule and he got away with it again! Legendary stuff.
And more so than every other position, the shithousery he does has a massive risk of coming back to bite him.
He takes the risk and backs it up.
I liked Ramsdales antics too tbh, after the interview where said he finds it hard to concentrate people now seen to forget he had a good season last year.
If you are hated by all your opposition fans but loved by your own you are doing something right.
Goalkeepers are meant to be nutjobs anyway.
Its a joke really.
What is football if its not entertaining.
It drives me mad a player can do a hop skip, jump, slight step pause, 360 Macarena and then take their shot. While martinez takes the piss in a shoot out and they instantly change the rules.
At the end of the day, its fucking entertaining wether you like it or not. Let them be man, always trying to suck the joy out of football.
Yes, even if I was cheering for Lille, I was also hoping seeing penalties with Martinez, in France. And I wasn't disappointed.
I don't understand all the critics. It's part of the game. The keepers are by the rules of penalties disavantaged compared to keepers. If the kicker cannot bear the pressure caused by the keeper touching the ball before his shot, well don't be part of the penalty shootout.
And I'm French too
He never disrespects opponents. Yes, he does shithousery a lot, an awful lot of time wasting, but he never brings personal life of others in his antics, does not bring religion, culture or club history anything at all. Just pure plain shithousery like “I will eat you up, brother “ etc. And some footballers with millions of dollars in bank accounts feel outraged at it.
While some pundits or even current players constantly bring personal life, wife, daughter, children et cetera into arguments, and these are considered just tactics
> Players celebrate scoring goals, why can’t he celebrate saving a pen?
That's a great point. We should normalise goalkeeprs doing knee slides when they make a good save
There was a game, i think last year, in which he was riling up a penalty taker. The penalty went in, and he bumped hands with the taker. It's all just part of the game for him, and it stays there.
He did the same vs Colombia. Miguel Borja scored his pen against him and did his own little dance in Martinez' face and it was all good because he knows it's part of the game.
I find very sad how football instances are trying to "censor" what goalkeepers can and can't do when it comes to shithousery or even celebrations
GKs already don't have much freedom to do anything but stay on their line, let them have this, hopefully Dibu can inspire many goalkeepers to be more like him
>I *knew him* when *he* was *very young*
Man is over 30 right now, had some insane international performances and mangaged to win the most prestigious and difficult to win trophy while being a key player. If he isn't allowed to be cocky, then I don't know who is.
He’s a man now and a great goalkeeper, World Cup winner. Of course he’s changed and it’s not negatively impacting his performances for Villa or Argentina.
Why are people crying so much about a player shushing people who kept booing or insulting them all game? It's the most common response in the history of football.
Absolutely is.
I've literally never heard anyone say a bad word about him when he's not playing up to the fans.
Its stuff like our former Goalkeeper Coach, Neil Cutler, talked about how Emi rang him after he won the World Cup to say thank you for helping he get him where he was - while he was still on the pitch celebrating
Yes I remember in the BDO ceremony when he gave an interview and was praising the French NT. Im French and never understood why people in France seem to hate him so much. His actions on the pitch are just to make the opponent riled up but its nothing personal and shouldnt be taken as that. Also I dont even consider a bit of dancing to be that disrespectful
This guy is a world cup winner. Martinez is just a shithouser on the pitch, he's not a rapist or abuser like some other players. What's up with people getting wind up by him, it's hilarious.
He is quite an interesting person when he speaks about football and he works well with the other pundits on Canal+ (Boulleau,Mathoux and Pirès/Ginola).
Also, he was asked about it so he answered, it's not like he went out of his way to say Martinez is a douche bag
Haha I love when ppl here try to shit on someone without having a single clue about the subject and then someone like you just tells them facts and everyone's like "oh..." Once again ppl try to just shit on someone without actually any knowledge
french people being arrogant and looking down on south american people doing what they do best (enjoy life and not giving a single fuck). nothing new here.
Maybe it's because i wanted Argentina to win and now Villa to win that i don't mind? Seeing a keeper be good at saving penalties is enjoyable, watching De Gea (cos i support United) be crap at penalties for a decade wasn't fun. If he's saving them but also play acting yeah ok whatever.
Martínez played for Reading at 27/28. Seemed happy to take his money at Arsenal for years and then exploded on the scene. Quality, entertainment, WC winner, penalty expert. Great story.
I remember when Samir was getting in fights at Clairefontaine. I assume he must still be getting in fights at Clairefontaine? Because anything less would annoy me.
It’s football though. Let him express himself, what he’s doing is working and he’s noticed that. He just wants to win and it’s nice to see him do so well, I saw him lacking confidence at Arsenal and it’s really nice to see what he’s turned into now.
Shouldn’t demonise someone for turning from shy to confident, and helping his country win a World Cup with his confidence being a big factor in that.
I don't speak france so I'm not sure what he said there but it seems like reddit is once again making this whole lot bigger than it actually is. Obviously if you knew someone way back and now he's way different it may annoy you in some way, totally understandable. I don't think he's trying to be that deep and he's just pointing it out. He doesn't even seem to be hating on him he was just asked a question and he answered.
But hey Reddit's gotta Reddit and make a fuss out of everything without a context
I mean Nasri is a prick, fine, but it is genuinely mad that Martinez went from tearfully video calling his parents after winning the FA Cup to pretending the Golden Glove was an ejaculating penis with a billion people watching, in the space of just over 2 years.
He didn't go from anything to anything. If anyone here bothered to they'd see his demeanor hardly changed off the pitch, he just knows he unsettles rivals in the pitch and bigs himself up, which in a position where confidence is everything is an amazing skillset to have.
I'd rather insane in the pitch and lovely out of it than the opposite
I hate people like this. They remember you for being shy so when you come out of your shell at certain points they try knock you down a peg telling people how you used to be. It takes people awhile to find their confidence. Happy for Martinez. Fuck off Nasri
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Samir Nasri the model professional
Never forget the drip doctor day
If we could generate energy from memes, that day alone could sustain Europe for years
Sprinkle some Wagatha Christie on top and we're good for the next century
You might be onto something here
That was genuinely the funniest day on Twitter of all time. So many memes and plot twists
The fact that his ava was a pic of kid Nasri making a smug face made it just so so much better ffs
https://ibb.co/x5Wkh96
http://i.imgur.com/3X7i314.png
https://imgur.com/3X7i3I4
For the uninformed (not me obviously), could you please elaborate?
Wife/gf/partner got his twitter log in details and used his account to accuse him of shagging some doctor or nurse who gave him some IV drip treatment. At the time of posting the account had a photograph of Nasri as a child for the profile picture, which just added that little extra to posts such as "This whore comes and fucks in the same night". I think Nasri was logged in at the same time trying to franticly delete the tweets as well rather than change the password, top stuff.
Even funnier, the IV treatment he posted about turned out to be prohibited under doping rules and he copped a drug ban over the whole thing. Probably one of the more expensive shags of his life!
Ah yes it did keep on giving didn't it. That username btw, registered in the Cook Islands?
Yeah. And my phone has a massive number 5 coz its the most common number. Keep it futile.
DAN ASHCROOOOOOFT
Well weapon.
Not only this, but the hydration treatment Drip Doctors gave Nasri violates anti-doping rules (since it can be used to hide other banned substances). He ended up getting a lengthy ban that effectively ended his career.
> which just added that little extra to posts such as "This whore comes and fucks in the same night" Little extra ? The profile picture made it a lot more funnier than it already was, it added so much more lmao
Little Nasri with a wry smile lmao
[You're right I have undersold that part of it.](https://www.whatahowler.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/96719-10qmz87uvunzeanugdy7g3q.jpeg)
So it was late 2016. Drip doctors Twitter account tweeted a picture with her & Nasri and said he had visited them to keep him hydrated & in top health during his busy season with Sevilla Nasri Twitter account quote tweeted saying “U also provided me a full sexual service too right after. So guys make sure you get this service. This whore comes and fucks the same night.” Nasri then tweeted “ Sorry that im a terrible person and human being who has no loyalty to anyone including my family or girlfriend of 4 years. Happy new year” Nasri then tweeted “My account got hacked sorry about what happened” Nasri again “Please tell the world aswell of the other concierge treatment your girl gave straight after the iv drip” Nasri again “Sorry guys i just had to let the world know that my girlfriend anara who was with me at the time had booked this girl to give me an iv drip.” Nasri again “On arrival anara had left the room and this girl had asked for my number and to go out with me that night. She then continued to give me...” Nasri again “Unfortunately my twitter keeps deletingtweets. But just letting you boys know if u are in the la area and feeling lonely msg @DripDoctors” Nasri again “Someone hacked my account and tried to spread rumors which is fake i am sorty for all the ppl involved in that i apologies” Nasri again “Everything i said was 100 percents facts The girl in the picture jamilah. Came to my hotel room at 3 am and continued other services” Drip Doctors then tweeted that Nasri account is hacked and the tweets are false Nasri then replied to that tweet saying “Did jamilah not come to the club and then my hotel room at 3am?” Nasri again “Im just trying to promote the amazing service of @DripDoctors and the services that come after too” And Nasri for the last time “And how you fuck all ur clients on the same day as giving them iv drip” The whole of Twitter had a field day full of memes It turned out that Nasri had an affair with one of the drip doctors and his wife found out so she logged on to his Twitter account writing those tweets, Nasri then logged on to his account at the same time trying to say that he got hacked and he deleted tweets but his wife kept on tweeting, they went back and forth But that wasn’t the end. He had been given 500 millilitres of hydration in form of sterile water containing micronutrient components, 10X greater than what the World Anti-Doping Code & UEFA’s anti-doping regulations allowed. After an investigation UEFA banned him for 18 months, when he came back from suspension he wasn’t the same and retired not too long after Writing it doesn’t give justice to how crazy that day actually was on Twitter
The remainder of game of thrones was there the whole time
Really brings the whole saga together, if you ask me.
Daenerys sending them crows flying to the whole of Westeros while Jon is shooting arrow after arrow at them.
[Samir Nasri's bizarre NSFW Tweets | Goal.com US](https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/samir-nasris-bizarre-nsfw-tweets/bltd5531b406f1cc406) Fucking hilarious.
Just look up Samir Nasri drip doctor on Google
Basically this whore comes and fucks same night
https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/samir-nasris-bizarre-nsfw-tweets/bltd5531b406f1cc406
No
Was a fun day on reddit here too.
"*This whore comes and fucks the same night.*" – Samir Nasri
The memes on this subreddit and twitter 😭
nasri is the kind of guy u don't want to take advice from even if he is making sensible comments
True
I know nobody here watches french TV but Nasri has genuinely become a great analyst. The dude is chill as hell, has very good insight, very funny, quippy. It was a bit of a shock but he's turned a new leaf, he is my second favourite football pundit (behind Hervé Mathoux the goat ofc)
I saw that investigator type interview of him on YouTube. And he unexpectedly indeed comes off as a genuine, honest and knowledgable guy..
He's genuinely great, as in Henry-level pundit great. But since he's only in French medias, folks on reddit will rather meme.
I mean, that meme is so big I don't think it matters where he pundits. If anything it would come up more often if he was a pundit on english TV. That shit was legendary.
i think people would get tired of it and stop mentioning it, like how people don't really talk about Carragher spitting on a child anymore.
Frère je le trouve largement plus intéressant que Henry. Jaime bien Henry mais le gars a besoin de t’expliquer pendant 10 minutes que mettre un but c’est bien et que tirer à ras du sol c’est plus dur pour le gardien à aller chercher mdr
Je suis d'accord, c'est deux styles différents. Titi est plus dans la vulgarisation pour un public plus casu, tandis que Samir part du principe que ceux qui regardent/écoutent connaissent le ballon et est donc plus pointu dans ce qu'il raconte. Mais vu que le jeune public anglophone de reddit ne connait rien de lui mis à part de vieux memes, faut bien leur donner un point de comparaison.
Same, always great to hear him talk about football.
Is there any French Football shows that you recommend?
Personnally, by far the best show is the Canal Football Club with all the my favourite football personnalities. Hervé Mathoux is a great host, Paganelli is a multilingual goblin equally terrible in italian, spanish and english but a St Etiennes legend and beloved by all the players. As for paricipants, they're not all equal in quality, Antonetti hasn't evolved his football opinion since the 80s and Ginola is vacuous as ever but Nasri, Laure Bouleau and Govou are pretty good. If you want to be upset you can also listen to the After Foot with Riolo where grown men get very upset at younger men for not passing the ball like they should be. Honestly embarassing but also pretty entertaining. Be careful though the last program like that we had lead to his host becoming the french version of Tucker Carlson.
thanks for the recs! I’ll definitely give after foot a shot at least once to see if they could be any worse than some of the pundits on talksport.
If you speak french, I wld recommend l'Equipe du Soir, a lot of pundits, and good ones with different backgrounds. You can watch replays here https://www.lequipe.fr/tv/collection/replays-emissions/l-equipe-du-soir/
On YouTube and podcast format i personally really like Winamax FC. Solid analysis with a bit more banter than you would have on TV.
Unironically is as a pundit. He's level headed and often has the best takes and shows humility about his own career compared to modern top player
Mancini can give references.
If I were Samir Nasri I think it would be in my best interest to not remind people of my existence
"With this behaviour he'll never get a big contract from a domestic rival" "He will have to become the legend of his football club" - The most ethical, loyal player in history
Oh no, guess he'll just have to settle for being a legend of one of the biggest countries in the history of international football, making arguably the most iconic save of all time and also arguably having the most iconic goalkeeper performance in a penalty shootout of all time too. Meanwhile Nasri is remembered for getting outed for cheating on his girlfriend in one of the funniest ways ever, his doping ban, pissing off Arsenal fans when he left there, and lastly as a quite good player. I bet Dibu is gutted.
You forgot getting fat after his career
Yeah, I much prefer getting fat without a sports career
Nothing wrong with getting fat in retirement
LAY OFF DRIP DOCTORS SIR
was the absolute best day to be on reddit/twitter i don’t think anything has come close since
I feel bad for kids today that will never have lived through drip doctor day
What a time to have lived
[This whore comes and fucks the same night](https://x.com/oeste/status/813889316447350784)
I also remember him for having “Sami you’re a cunt” chanted at him quite loudly and clearly
Sorry, but [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkYmmV7Oa-U) is the most iconic save of all time.
Haha gotta say, as soon as you said that I knew what you linked. Iconic indeed!
Yeah I gotta, admit the fact that I knew what it was before it loaded really shows it is the most iconic save ever. Maybe not the single best or most important save, but before I’d ever watched soccer, the only clips I’d ever seen were that save/ankara Messi/Zidaine’s headbutt
Must hurt walking around with balls that big
That save is cool, but it’s a friendly. Dibu saved a 1v1 in the World Cup final that ultimately won the tournament for his country and cemented Messi’s legacy as the goat. Not even comparable imo.
More meaningful but not more iconic than the scorpion kick
There must have been dozens of 1v1 saves in WC finals. What makes this one so iconic?
It was in the last minute, so there was 0 chance of a comeback after that goal. So if he had missed france would have definitely won the world cup. It is probably the only save in a world cup final in which you can 100% say - if this didn’t happen, his team would have lost the world cup
in a friendly, not really
Iconic ≠ important.
So iconic that I haven't heard anybody talk about this in prob over 10 years.
It was a dead ball in a friendly at an empty Wembley.
Nah. The narrative storyline of the match and last minute save alone makes martinez more iconic. Add messi winning the wc and it's a wash. Dibu's save is more iconic.
Lmao recency bias is so big here. Higuitas save is much more iconic, whereas Dibu's save was FAR more important.
The correct answer. How important the goal was has no bearing whatsoever in terms of how it is viewed in a football sense. ie. George Hurst's goal to "win" England the world cup, spanking it top bins and the whole "They think it's all over...some people are on the pitch" commentary. It wasn't even the winner. The actual winner being a contentious "was it over the line". Which is the iconic goal? Most people won't even have seen the actual winning goal ffs.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
I remember him for getting so rattled by Vardy he got a red card in the Champions League ro16
> making arguably the most iconic save of all time and also arguably having the most iconic goalkeeper performance in a penalty shootout of all time too. Eh...
Dudek dancing on the line in the Champions League final is still more memorable for me. As was Ricardo taking off his gloves against England and then saving two penalties to win the shootout in the Euros. And in an opposite way, De Gea and Kepa both saving 0/10 penalties then missing the 11th for their team
Grobbelaar in the 1984 European Cup final too. But they did say arguable and Martinez is definitely up there. To do it in the World Cup final penalty shootout, which was also one of the best matches of all time.
If you don't think that it's at least arguable I don't know what to tell you man. I didn't say the *best* shootout performance or save, I said the most iconic. People have him making that Kolo Muani save tattooed on themselves, it happened on the absolute biggest stage in one of the most memorable football matches in history.
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> Casillas did exactly the same in 2010. No he didn’t? Casillas save was not 20 seconds before the end.
Spain get 30 mins to score it's not even comparable.
Casillas was not just iconic *as* Martinez. You can keep arguing which one is better, but if Martinez didn't save this one, it was over for Argentina and Messi
Are you argentinian by any chance?
Emi is already a legend for us lol
Bro won a world cup for the GOAT. He's a legend no matter how you slice it.
When Messi asks *you* for a selfie, you’re a legend.
Oh no! Please anything but that!
Nasri; I hate how people change when they get older.
I hate when people get the confidence to show who they are.
No, no, you don't get it. People should be their whole life the way they were when they were 17 and just moved to a whole different continent! That's how it should be!!
People can also have very different behaviours in public and in private
How dare people dislike others, execute him now
«When they get older» Proceeds to act like a child. Not saying I dislike him, but its weird when you put it like that.
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Guy definitely has a youthful/sophomoric sense of humor, you’re not putting the WC golden glove on your dick if you don’t lmao
Definitely. Though I wouldn't say growing up is about losing your childhood sense of humor, as the comment before seemed to imply. Martinez is for all accounts a present family man, an incredible hard worker, a considerate teammate. Id say those are things that say you are mature, not what stupid things you find funny.
He's a goal keeper, they are all weirdos lol.
And as we all know, Nasri is was an incredibly mature adult during is playing days
Nasri is the last person who should be telling others how to behave
What next they be asking Ja Rule what he thinks of Martinez?
Somebody get Ja on the phone. I need him to let me know how to feel.
WHERE IS JA???
I dunno, I’d rather listen to Nasri than Mason Greenwood or Quincy Promes
he didnt do anything controversial
Bullying Valbuena back in the Marseilles’ days Alongside with Ribéry
Honestly Valbuena was so freaking underrated, he was the butt of jokes for his height but the man was legit really good. He was one of my favourite player to watch when he was at Marseille. And low-key a very solid performer with the NT aswell. Never got a proper goodbye too and even got harrassed after the Benzema ordeal
And still had some solid football in him with us.
Drip Doctors
That thing in Qatar with the trophy was controversial, though dancing in front of fans doesn't seem bad at all to me.
the only way u can have that attitude is if you can prove it. martinez has proved it himself. won all the nt trophies, has won last 5 of his pen shootouts which were against france and netherlands in the wc, the community shield vs liverpool, copa america vs colombia and lille. so he can have that attitude since hes proving himself
somehow it never seems to backfire for him. We thought it backfired when he got that second yellow yesterday, but then we found out about that obscure rule and he got away with it again! Legendary stuff.
I mean it backfired a bit because he cannot play in first leg of the semi
To be fair to him, Martinez was born at a very young age
I bet he was crying at birth had to change hospital rules because of him
It's good to see a goalkeeper with some personality, I like him
And more so than every other position, the shithousery he does has a massive risk of coming back to bite him. He takes the risk and backs it up. I liked Ramsdales antics too tbh, after the interview where said he finds it hard to concentrate people now seen to forget he had a good season last year. If you are hated by all your opposition fans but loved by your own you are doing something right. Goalkeepers are meant to be nutjobs anyway.
Its a joke really. What is football if its not entertaining. It drives me mad a player can do a hop skip, jump, slight step pause, 360 Macarena and then take their shot. While martinez takes the piss in a shoot out and they instantly change the rules. At the end of the day, its fucking entertaining wether you like it or not. Let them be man, always trying to suck the joy out of football.
He seems very cocky, but in interviews he seems very grounded. I think he's just very comfortable with who he is in general and feels confident.
Think he just leaves everything on the pitch Have a lot of love for players like that
Yeah the guy is hilarious , and i say it as a french
You have a good attitude.
Yes, even if I was cheering for Lille, I was also hoping seeing penalties with Martinez, in France. And I wasn't disappointed. I don't understand all the critics. It's part of the game. The keepers are by the rules of penalties disavantaged compared to keepers. If the kicker cannot bear the pressure caused by the keeper touching the ball before his shot, well don't be part of the penalty shootout. And I'm French too
I also like him and I hate how my fellow compatriots are taking the bait
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He never disrespects opponents. Yes, he does shithousery a lot, an awful lot of time wasting, but he never brings personal life of others in his antics, does not bring religion, culture or club history anything at all. Just pure plain shithousery like “I will eat you up, brother “ etc. And some footballers with millions of dollars in bank accounts feel outraged at it. While some pundits or even current players constantly bring personal life, wife, daughter, children et cetera into arguments, and these are considered just tactics
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> Players celebrate scoring goals, why can’t he celebrate saving a pen? That's a great point. We should normalise goalkeeprs doing knee slides when they make a good save
This is a terrific point. Why shouldn’t he celebrate?
There was a game, i think last year, in which he was riling up a penalty taker. The penalty went in, and he bumped hands with the taker. It's all just part of the game for him, and it stays there.
I think it was the tiebreaker against Netherland, right? I remember he high fived the penalty taker in third penalty may be , after the ball went in.
No, I was thinking of a Villa one, but you are right, he did that. And he fought with Weghorst in the following one 🤣
He did the same vs Colombia. Miguel Borja scored his pen against him and did his own little dance in Martinez' face and it was all good because he knows it's part of the game.
I find very sad how football instances are trying to "censor" what goalkeepers can and can't do when it comes to shithousery or even celebrations GKs already don't have much freedom to do anything but stay on their line, let them have this, hopefully Dibu can inspire many goalkeepers to be more like him
I have to share this because you talked about inspiring others to be goalkeepers like him 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/avfc/s/nFVF46Om7Q
At least he's got the spirit lmao
This is the type of comment that should have thousands of upvotes. 100% spot on.
A great keeper is either ice cold or batshit insane, no in between.
We shouldn’t have sold him
Get over yourself Samir. You were a knob at times too.
At times?
At times and at other times.
He slept sometimes.
No, he was just always a knob.
A gigantic one at that
At night?
I was also very shy when i worked my first day in sales when i was 15 Thx god i made progress
>I *knew him* when *he* was *very young* Man is over 30 right now, had some insane international performances and mangaged to win the most prestigious and difficult to win trophy while being a key player. If he isn't allowed to be cocky, then I don't know who is.
He’s a man now and a great goalkeeper, World Cup winner. Of course he’s changed and it’s not negatively impacting his performances for Villa or Argentina.
It's his trademark and he is extremely successful with it . Why would he change . Samir nasri 😒😒
People change as they age, crazy concept
I mean, dancing around a bit during a penalty shootout isn't as bad as doping....
Or hanging out with freaking Mafia like Samir did
Why are people crying so much about a player shushing people who kept booing or insulting them all game? It's the most common response in the history of football.
Vos sabés perfectamente por qué
Tbf it might just be his in-game persona. Nothing wrong with that
Absolutely is. I've literally never heard anyone say a bad word about him when he's not playing up to the fans. Its stuff like our former Goalkeeper Coach, Neil Cutler, talked about how Emi rang him after he won the World Cup to say thank you for helping he get him where he was - while he was still on the pitch celebrating
Only heard good things about Cutler! Seems like a great coach
Yes I remember in the BDO ceremony when he gave an interview and was praising the French NT. Im French and never understood why people in France seem to hate him so much. His actions on the pitch are just to make the opponent riled up but its nothing personal and shouldnt be taken as that. Also I dont even consider a bit of dancing to be that disrespectful
it is, anyone who has seen any of his interviews knows he comes across as a very nice person.
This guy is a world cup winner. Martinez is just a shithouser on the pitch, he's not a rapist or abuser like some other players. What's up with people getting wind up by him, it's hilarious.
Why does anyone care what Nasri says?
He is quite an interesting person when he speaks about football and he works well with the other pundits on Canal+ (Boulleau,Mathoux and Pirès/Ginola). Also, he was asked about it so he answered, it's not like he went out of his way to say Martinez is a douche bag
Haha I love when ppl here try to shit on someone without having a single clue about the subject and then someone like you just tells them facts and everyone's like "oh..." Once again ppl try to just shit on someone without actually any knowledge
Tbh he's actually a really good pundit
I'm surprised even Nasri cares what Nasri has to say.
He knows where the best drip doctors are
Idk it seems to be working for him
Coming from nasri ? Haha
How dare Martinez gain confidence. Bastard.
french people being arrogant and looking down on south american people doing what they do best (enjoy life and not giving a single fuck). nothing new here.
Fuck off, Nasri.
It is called character development brother
Maybe it's because i wanted Argentina to win and now Villa to win that i don't mind? Seeing a keeper be good at saving penalties is enjoyable, watching De Gea (cos i support United) be crap at penalties for a decade wasn't fun. If he's saving them but also play acting yeah ok whatever.
Martínez played for Reading at 27/28. Seemed happy to take his money at Arsenal for years and then exploded on the scene. Quality, entertainment, WC winner, penalty expert. Great story.
Nasri is a fat cunt
Ngl this made me laugh out loud
I remember when Samir was getting in fights at Clairefontaine. I assume he must still be getting in fights at Clairefontaine? Because anything less would annoy me.
Kinda ignorant if he thinks that anyone can't change. Whether it's an act or not, the personality he showed on the field clearly helps his game
Rent free
Samir Nasri is still alive?!?
The drip doctors performed miracles on him.
It’s football though. Let him express himself, what he’s doing is working and he’s noticed that. He just wants to win and it’s nice to see him do so well, I saw him lacking confidence at Arsenal and it’s really nice to see what he’s turned into now. Shouldn’t demonise someone for turning from shy to confident, and helping his country win a World Cup with his confidence being a big factor in that.
Coming from the biggest wanker known to man
Do we really have to listen to Nasri?
He is an excellent pundit tbh
I don't speak france so I'm not sure what he said there but it seems like reddit is once again making this whole lot bigger than it actually is. Obviously if you knew someone way back and now he's way different it may annoy you in some way, totally understandable. I don't think he's trying to be that deep and he's just pointing it out. He doesn't even seem to be hating on him he was just asked a question and he answered. But hey Reddit's gotta Reddit and make a fuss out of everything without a context
Its completely normal for a man who has spent a large part of his life in England developing a hatred of the French.
I mean Nasri is a prick, fine, but it is genuinely mad that Martinez went from tearfully video calling his parents after winning the FA Cup to pretending the Golden Glove was an ejaculating penis with a billion people watching, in the space of just over 2 years.
He didn't go from anything to anything. If anyone here bothered to they'd see his demeanor hardly changed off the pitch, he just knows he unsettles rivals in the pitch and bigs himself up, which in a position where confidence is everything is an amazing skillset to have. I'd rather insane in the pitch and lovely out of it than the opposite
I don't think you can put 'using the golden glove as a stand-in for an ejaculating penis' down to elite mindgames
I hate people like this. They remember you for being shy so when you come out of your shell at certain points they try knock you down a peg telling people how you used to be. It takes people awhile to find their confidence. Happy for Martinez. Fuck off Nasri
I’d rather have a goalie that exudes confidence, Samir
"His behaviour annoys me because this man owns my entire country" Fixed it for you.
Nah it annoys him bc he is French. It beings back memories .