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Nick Woltemade: The 2-Metre German Striker Proving the World Still Runs on Tall Tales
ByDaveslocker 13 September 2025

Nick Woltemade: The Tall German Who Reminds Us That Even Hope Has a Vertical Limit By Dave’s Locker International Desk BERLIN—Somewhere between the second and third tier of German football, a 2.03-metre striker named Nick Woltemade is busy reminding the planet that the global supply chain of athletic miracles is still running two weeks late…

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Ethan Nwaneri, Global Football’s 17-Year-Old Commodity: From Lagos to London, Everyone Wants a Slice
ByDaveslocker 13 September 2025

Ethan Nwaneri, the 17-year-old Arsenal prodigy who already looks like he’s collecting passports for sport, has become the Rorschach test of late-capitalist football: each continent sees in him whatever it needs to feel better about itself. To the Premier League’s marketing wizards—those caffeinated alchemists who could monetize a sneeze if it trended on TikTok—he is…

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