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The Ballon d’Or and why football has become so obsessed with individual awards Original

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By Philip Buckingham Verified
| The Athletic Verified
It is a quarter of a century since Michael Owen won the Ballon d’Or, and the story of his coronation as Europe’s best footballer belongs to a different era. Word of the young forward’s ascent to that elite bracket was quietly delivered by his then Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier in a 2001 telephone call, but Owen, only 22 at the time, remembers it as carrying little significance. “It didn’t change the way I felt about myself,” he told The Athletic in 2024.
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Liverpool announce five-year shirt sponsorship deal with Turkish Airlines Original

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By James Pearce Verified, Philip Buckingham Verified
| The Athletic Verified
Liverpool have announced a five-year shirt sponsorship deal with Turkish Airlines. Club sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the deal is worth more than £300million ($405m) to Liverpool. From the start of the 2027-28 season, Turkish Airlines will replace Standard Chartered, whose contract expires at the end of the current campaign.
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Crvena Zvezda and Ratko Mladic: Why is a famous European club celebrating a war criminal? Original

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By Philip Buckingham Verified
| The Athletic Verified
The Eternal Derby, the biggest game in Serbian football played between Belgrade neighbours Crvena Zvezda and Partizan, was overshadowed on Sunday after tributes were paid to the war criminal Ratko Mladic. Supporters of Crvena Zvezda, also known as Red Star Belgrade — the most successful club in the Balkans, having won the European Cup in 1991 — displayed a giant tifo of Mladic as a minute of silence was being observed ahead of the game.
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