A Record Transfer From West Ham | Fight Will Continue Even After Trump
Haller has played for West Ham United seven times in the last seven Premier League games. In the 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace, the Ivorian international excelled with an overhead kick goal, otherwise he remained without a sense of achievement.
Nevertheless, his departure is now a bit of a surprise. For 22.5 million euros, Ajax Amsterdam brings Haller back to the Eredivisie, where he played for Utrecht between 2015 and 2017. From there he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt for seven million euros and again two years later to London for a whopping 50 million euros.
In the course of the past season, by far the most expensive purchase in West Ham's club history had lost its regular place to veteran Michael Antonio, but recently regained it - due to an injury at Antonio. Overall, Haller comes in 53 competitive games for the Hammers on a not entirely satisfactory 14 goals and three assists.
Now it's from tenth in the Premier League to the double winner and again Primus Ajax. On Sunday there will be the absolute top game against pursuers PSV and Mario Götze.
At Ajax, ex-Schalke Klaas Jan Huntelaar will end his career in the summer. A "real nine" like Haller is otherwise missing in the squad of coach Erik ten Hag's team.
U.S. athletes became influential opponents of Donald Trump - and an important part of Black Lives Matter. Your fight will continue even after Trump.
Basketball was also played in the USA on Wednesday, eleven games in the NBA professional league. But the basketball players said little about basketball after the games, they sensed that there were more important things. They wanted to talk politics on the historic day of the Capitol storm . "I was thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King speaking of a divided America," said Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics. "In one America you will be killed sitting in your car, in the other you can storm the Capitol. It's 2021 now, but obviously nothing has changed."
Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors said, "This is not a protest, this is a terrorist attack."
Doc Rivers, the Black Coach for the Philadelphia 76ers, asked , "Can you imagine what would have happened today if it had all been blacks who stormed the Capitol?"
It was clear what Rivers meant. That the National Guard and the Army had guarded the Capitol in the summer when supporters of Black Lives Matter demonstrated in front of it. Mostly peaceful. This time there was hardly any police in sight, even though Donald Trump had sent the pack to the government building with his speech . "This is evidence of a privileged life in many ways," said Rivers.
But it wasn't just the basketball players who answered. Four-time Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles wrote that she was angry and disgusted, but was not surprised. Footballer Devontae Harris also commented on Twitter.
The US athletes gathered again to denounce the racism and injustices in their country. And it wasn't just black athletes. The world footballer of 2019 Megan Rapinoe also tweeted all evening and white coaches said something similar to her colleague Doc Rivers.
Outsiders are those who show no demeanor
The sports superstars are no longer indifferent to the politics of their country. Sport in the USA has long had an important political voice. It was never apolitical, one only has to think of John Carlos and Tommie Smith, the two sprinters who raised their fists in protest during their award ceremony at the 1968 Olympics. What is new is that it is no longer the protesting athletes who are the outsiders, but the indifferent ones. It is a development that not only has to do with President Donald Trump, but also.
It started even before Trump was sworn in as president. Colin Kaepernick, the six-foot-tall football quaterback, went to his knees in the summer of 2016 when the US anthem was playing before his San Francisco 49ers' games. Trump was still a presidential candidate. It was a protest against police violence and racism. Trump said Kaepernick should look for another country, his supporters burned Kaepernick's jerseys. But the first athletes showed solidarity with the quarterback. Later, when Trump was already president, he called kneeling players like Kaepernick "sons of whores". The reaction: More and more people were kneeling .
Kaepernick still paid a heavy price. He wasn't the best, but he was a solid quarterback. But since 2017 he hasn't got a new contract. There were also many colleagues in the very conservative NFL who didn't support his protest . Only their voices grew quieter, while those of protesters from all kinds of sports grew louder. It wasn't until this summer that NFL boss Roger Goodell admitted, "I wish we'd listened to Colin Kaepernick sooner."
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