NAOMI OSAKA’S PARENTS TAMAKI OSAKA & LEONARD FRANÇOIS

TAMAKI OSAKA & LEONARD FRANCOIS

Meet Tamaki Osaka & Leonard Francois; they are the amazing and proud parents of Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka, world No. 17 on the ATP world rankings since  July 23, 2018.

Naomi is the younger of two daughters born to Tamaki Osaka & Leonard François, Tamaki hails from Japan, Francois was born in Haiti; he met Tamaki in New York where he was studying at the New York University. they dated for a few years and eventually tied the knot.

They were living in Osaka, Japan when they welcomed Mari, their eldest born on April 3, 1996; subsequently, on October 16, 1997, came Naomi. Francois and Tamaki decided to give their daughters, their mom’s maiden name since they were living in Japan.

“It was mostly a practical question when they lived in Japan, useful for enrolling in schools and renting apartments.”

Leonard started training Mari and Naomi since they were four and three respectively, they moved to the U.S. along with Leonard’s parents in 2006.

“I grew up surrounded by Haitian and Japanese culture Naomi Osaka says. His father’s parents, who did not speak English, spoke Haitian Creole. My grandparents cooked West Indian recipes like “spicy Haitian stew”.

Leonard found that the U.S. tennis Association showed little interest in Mari and Naomi, therefore he chose the Japanese Tennis Association. Naomi finally made into the on the WTA Tou in 2014.

Naomi’s parents  Tamaki Osaka & Leonard François live in Florida.

When is the second leg between Barcelona and Liverpool, for the Champions League?

Barcelona are looking to return to the UEFA Champions League final but will have to beat Liverpool in the semi-finals. The crossing begins at the Camp Nou on Wednesday, May 1 but the return and decisive encounter will be on Anfield Road.

The decisive match will be at Anfield Road on May 7 at 9:00 p.m.
The return will be next Tuesday, May 7 at the stadium of the British team from 21 hours, at which time the first finalist of the final of the tournament will be held on Saturday, June 1, in the Metropolitan Wanda.

The most tender video of Leo Messi celebrating the title of LaLiga with their children

FC Barcelona was proclaimed LaLiga Champion after defeating with a score of 1-0 with Lionel Messi's score. Although the party did not have many emotions, the celebrations had their dose of euphoria because it is the eighth league obtained by the club culé in the last eleven editions.

Lionel Messi was one of the most excited soccer players with the championship, because he has made a huge season and is also his first league as captain, after the departure of Xavi and Iniesta.

The Argentine star gave us a video that thrills all his fans, as his children ran with a lot of emotion towards him, after the historic consecration.

What football team are the politicians?

This Sunday the general elections were held in Spain. If it is a factor to know who to vote for were the soccer colors of each candidate, we present the teams that have the affection gained from Spanish politics.



Pedro Sánchez, candidate of the PSOE, is an admirer of Atlético de Madrid and on more than one occasion has made references to Diego Simeone in his speeches.

Politicians Spain Pablo Casado

The president of the Popular Party is sympathetic to Real Madrid , as it was with his predecessors in his party, José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy.

Zidane can not stand it anymore: he's ready for the revolution

Zinedine Zidane (Photo: Goal.com).

Zidane said at the press conference after the game against Rayo what fans have been thinking for months. That feeling of satiety, of being up to the very ones, of wanting to throw them all not at the end of the season, but right now. "Echales a todos" , put the one signed here just two weeks ago. And it seems that the French coach is already on the job. There is no better news for Real Madrid.

If something good could bring Zizou to take the team this summer was to see who was worth and who was not, because it is not the same to see it from the outside as to experience it from within. It is not the same to think that a player can recover his level under his command than to see that it is unrecoverable, that it was not the coach's job, it was the players'.

Where and when the final of the Champions League 2018-19 is played: All about the Metropolitan Wanda

The Champions League has a Spanish flavor this year despite the fact that only Barcelona still aspires to win the tournament, since Madrid will host the final that will be played on Saturday, June 1, 2019.

It will be the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium , the home of Atlético de Madrid , the venue chosen to host the final of the maximum continental competition at the club level. This was announced by UEFA in September 2017, highlighting that it was built on the grounds of the former Olympic Stadium in Madrid.

In this way, the Spanish capital will become the second city to celebrate five or more finals of the European Cup after London. And it is that the Santiago Bernabéu had been headquarters in the finals of the European Cup / Champions League of 1957, 1969, 1980 and 2010. At the same time, Madrid will be the fourth city to celebrate this event in different stadiums after Amsterdam, Paris and Munich.

Atlético opened the new Metropolitan Wanda in LaLiga's game against Málaga on September 16, at 8:45 p.m., with the opening of doors at 7:00 p.m. There was a previous ceremony that counted with the invaluable help of the Air Force, always linked to the history of Atlético since 1939 and 1946 was momentarily rechristened to the club as Atlético Aviación.

A part of the stadium bleachers, which is on the side, was released in 1994 as a stadium for athletics of the Community of Madrid and future Olympic stadium in the capital in its failed attempts to host the Olympic Games. From 2002 it became the property of the City Council. This area of ​​the stadium has been conserved, the new infrastructure work being carried out on the other elements.

On September 20, 2017 it was announced that it would host the Champions League final of the 2018-19 season. The Wanda Metropolitan Stadium competed with the Olympic Stadium of Baku.

In addition, he hosted the final of the Copa del Rey 2017-2018 that was played on April 21, 2018 between Barcelona and Sevilla, with a 5-0 victory for Barça.