Radja Nainggolan

[Il Drago]

Radja Nainggolan made a high-profile return to football with Lokeren in Belgium, complete with all the bells and whistles.
But this just came in: Nainggolan has been arrested as part of an investigation into international cocaine trafficking.

I am always baffled how players of that calible get involved into criminal activities of that scale. Even if we put the moral aspect aside, you have made so much money from football. Why are you doing this shit?

 

[NimAraya]

I am always baffled how players of that calible get involved into criminal activities of that scale. Even if we put the moral aspect aside, you have made so much money from football. Why are you doing this shit?

Because being rich does not mean being decent or a good samartian. Many people with money actually abuse this privilege to do the crime acts.

 

[.h.]

shouldnt forget that a significant fraction (even majority?) of sports players end up bankrupt after their career ends. They squander all their money on fast cars, expensive clubs, and shit like that.

 

[Darth_Ausilio]

#freeradja

 

[syrus]

shouldnt forget that a significant fraction (even majority?) of sports players end up bankrupt after their career ends. They squander all their money on fast cars, expensive clubs, and shit like that.

You forgot women

 

[HernanesLeftFoot88]

Nothing would surprise me with this fool.

 

[armendsh]

Disguting personality

 

[disait]

If true, its sad to see ex-players, especially the ones of this stature, indulge in these kind of practices.
I'm not shocked in any kind of way that he is the one that would.

 

[HernanesLeftFoot88]

You forgot women

That isnt squandering it.

 

[Alex de Large]

Come on... He doesn't have the looks for that kind of thing

 

[DARi0]

I am always baffled how players of that calible get involved into criminal activities of that scale. Even if we put the moral aspect aside, you have made so much money from football. Why are you doing this shit?

We knew about his morals from his player days. I mean he was caught smoking on the bench lol. Radja played for money and fame, that's why he accepted the Inter contract.

He always was a bad-ass, at least that's how he was coming through anyway. Disobeying, lacking discipline and not caring about rules or regulations.

He could do it for fun or for identifying with these kind of people. He's a hustler. An outlaw.

 

[NimAraya]

We knew about his morals from his player days. I mean he was caught smoking on the bench lol. Radja played for money and fame, that's why he accepted the Inter contract.

He always was a bad-ass, at least that's how he was coming through anyway. Disobeying, lacking discipline and not caring about rules or regulations.

He could do it for fun or for identifying with these kind of people. He's a hustler. An outlaw.

And yet we went on and signed him for a lot of money and he was only useful for a handful of matches.

 

[wera]

You would be surprised how many players play for money and fame (and not for sport aka being the best he can be), especially now in the instagram era.

 

[brehme1989]

You would be surprised how many players play for money and fame (and not for sport aka being the best he can be), especially now in the instagram era.

Majority of them.

Complete inverse of previous generations, as you'd recall how parents used to tell kids to stop playing football and get back home to study. Now they send them to play football instead of playing video games at home, hoping they'll turn out good and get multimillion deals. The kids grow up kind of hating the whole thing, but some just get to love the attention. That's a character thing obviously, but the rule is that the majority of football players hardly like the sport anymore.

And honestly, there's not much to like these days. There's an evident lack of fascination around it, at least in Europe, when you compare with 20-30 years ago.

More corruption, more greed, less loyalty from both club and player and hardly anyone to get attached to at local club level unless you're one of the top sides that can manage to keep the same players for 4-5 seasons. In the 90s, half the teams were pretty much constant with only a handful of players moving. Now in the lower leagues, only a handful remain and those are mostly there for quotas as bench warmers. 15-20 years ago it was even worse because we didn't even have those quotas and 10+2 new countries joined the EU...

This is why Latin America still endures, but they're losing out on quality players and it feels. But the whole experience still remains similar to what it's always been.