Joao Felix
Good on him
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In December, after nearly eight years at Shanghai Port, Oscar bid farewell to the Chinese Super League, he was moved to tears as fans chanted ‘Oscar Stay’ during his final match.
The former Chelsea star stunned the football world in 2016 with a €60M transfer at just 25, becoming the CSL’s most expensive signing. Despite criticism, he prioritised financial security for his family over international football dreams.
Oscar (2017): “I don’t care if I go to the World Cup or not, I’m only criticised for coming to China, I personally think of my family, and my future. I don’t want to get poor when I am old and live on memories that I played in the World Cup.”
His stats for Shanghai Port:
248 Games
77 Goals
141 Assists
3x Major Trophies
After 8 years in China, the Brazilian has reportedly earned around $208M from his reported $26M-a-year salary!
He has since moved back to Brazil. Oscar rejoined his boyhood club São Paulo where he has scored 1 goals & produced 1 assist in 2 matches.
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26 world cup around the corner.
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Elon Musk
Adriano could have been anything. The line between all time great and what might have been, can be a very thin one.
“Adriano had a father who looked after him a lot and kept him in line. But at the start of the [2004-05] season, something unimaginable happened. He got a call from Brazil and was told his father had died,” former Inter team-mate Javier Zanetti revealed in 2017.
"I saw him cry. He threw the phone down and started shouting it was impossible. From that day on, [Massimo] Moratti and I decided to take him in like a brother and protect him.
"He kept playing, scoring and dedicating the goals to his father. But, after that call, he was never the same again.
“We would tell him he was a mix of Ronaldo and [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic and that he could be better than both. But, in spite of everything, we couldn’t do it. We did not cure his depression and that still haunts me.”
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 in 2006 I think, Adriano was ridiculous. Early enough online version of the game, almost everyone played as Inter or Brazil to have him.
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I’ve never owned a games console but back around then, I’d invariably end up at a flat that some friends lived in on Sunday nights, and the PlayStation would be pulled out. One of the lads always wanted to be Inter. Adriano and Obafemi Martins were sensational for him in it 
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When I saw the article the first thing I thought of was Pro Evo. He’ll always be remembered by that.
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His shot was an absolute bullet in it
Inter Milan of that era were a sort of equivalent of PSG over the last 10-15 years before this year. The hipsters were all over these supposed genius players they apparently had. Then you’d eventually see them and they were fucking shit.
They were equivalents of these supposed genius Cork footballers who Kev said were going to do the devil and all, and we never heard anything from them.
I guess it’s a cautionary warning not to get your opinions on football from computer games.
Pro Evo Cork Club Football on the Sega DreamBox in 2010 was class, mind.
He was unplayable in his pomp. Some of his goals defied belief. But as so often the case, if genius isn’t managed properly during its early years it can go off the rails and never come back. Shur we know all about it in Laois.
He will be back in the LOI soon. Sad case.
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Huh
Ah he’s not that bad.
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