Robert Blaszczak

🏐 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 A double-header of Volleyball England & VE Foundation AGMs held on a rainy afternoon in Loughborough serve as a timely reminder of the potential for indoor sports in this country.. ☔️

I feel so fortunate to have witnessed first-hand Chelsea winning a plethora of international trophies:
2012 🇩🇪 Munich
2013 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
2019 🇦🇿 Baku
2021 🇵🇹 Porto
2021 🇬🇧 Belfast
2022 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi
2025 🇵🇱 Wrocław
2025 🇺🇸 New York / New Jersey
#WonItAll - twice, basically

⚽️ 🏆 The FIFA Club World Cup Final: Chelsea vs PSG. Run it back, Chels! #FIFACWC

Monocle’s Quality of Life Survey 2025: The 10 most liveable cities in the world - Monocle We present our 18th annual ranking of the world’s municipalities according to what they do better than anyone else, be...

🌆 Monocle’s Quality of Life Survey 2025: The 10 most liveable cities in the world - with a different format this year

Paris, Madrid, Athens, Barcelona, Vienna, Zürich, CDMX, Lisbon, Tokyo, Tallinn - while they are ranked, every city on this list is a winner.

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🏦 @dlapiper.bsky.social x Evertything In Sport on investment and finance in sports wraps up four days of industry events (and countless catch-ups in between).

#sportsbiz in London is different. 🙌

📚 Last night’s book launch event was fantastic and well-attended, bringing together many familiar and friendly faces from what Chelsea used to be. Congratulations to Nick Purewal on publishing “Sanctioned” - I can’t wait to dive into it!

🏆 The 2025 Women’s FA Cup final - and the sixth victory for Chelsea in the past 11 years! 💙👏

⚽️ The 2025 FA Cup final

⚽️ One last dance at home this season… #CHEMUN

🎶 “And now the times are changin', look at everything that's come and gone…” and yet some 45 years of touring later, Bryan Adams sells out the o2 arena - part of his global tour that runs through till November…

🎾 Time to put a name to these hand-handed backhands terrorising local tennis courts! 😂

🏀 When one of your local basketball teams secures the #SegundaFEB title and moves to #PrimeraFEB! #DeTothom 🩵

🏀 A sold-out crowd of almost 4k at Palma’s Son Moix for a third tier basketball game as local Palmer faces a promotion game against Cáceres. The passion is here! 🩵 🔥

Whenever I have a spare moment lately, I rarely get out of my academic rabbit hole, but when I do…

🏌️‍♂️ The largest indoor golf space in Europe is in Łódź - City Golf Łódź. No, me neither. 🤷‍♂️

⚽️ Chelsea v Legia - one for the 🇵🇱 football history books… #UECL

🏌️‍♂️ Spotting some timely, little accents of the Augusta Masters…

📍 Arabian Ranches Golf Club

How did Kerala go from poor to prosperous among India’s states? | Aeon Essays Fifty years ago it was one of India’s poorest states, now it is now one of the richest. How did Kerala do it?

🇮🇳 While in the Gulf, one of India's states stands out in business conversations: Kerala. An @aeon.co #longread on its economic transformation and success. It's one of the few places in the subcontinent where football is more popular than cricket, by the way. aeon.co/essays/how-d...

📍 Etihad Arena on Yas Island, no filter needed.

🇪🇺 Social Football Summit is hosting a series of fast-paced panels on football rules and regulations at the @europarl.europa.eu today. There are no holds barred, as each invited party is clearly defining their stance on the #sportsgov issues at hand.

As it’s a 40min deep-dive session, I’m also sharing a teaser tl;dr(w?) closing summary.

(P.S. Please excuse my flat tone; I was struggling a bir with my inflection at that time. 🤒)

YouTube video by SportsFirstTech GSAC 2025 l Robert Błaszczak | Expanding the use of sports performance in API’s additional revenue

As part of the Global Sports API Conference 2025 #GSAC, Ami Shah and her SportFirst colleagues kindly invited me to deliver a masterclass on API-based auxiliary commercial opportunites around performance #sportsdata.

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⚽️ A win is a win but gosh that was painful to watch:
🇵🇱 Poland 2
🇲🇹 Malta 0
#FIFAWCQ

Tall Stories 379: Zürich Airport Jessica Bridger touches down at Zürich Airport and extols the virtues of a good Swiss welcome.

🛫 An ode to an airport? Yeah, #ZRH 🇨🇭 probably deserves this one.
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From 2-nil down to a 3-2 comeback win - Monza put on a good fight but Inter’s birthday celebrations won’t be spoilt. #InterMonza

🇮🇹 ⚽️ On the eve of their 117th anniversary, the league leaders Inter host the bottom-of-the-table Monza. Probably not as straightforward as it may seem given its sandwiched between the European ties and the visitors’ strong Milan ties. #InterMonza

Yeah, probably could get used to…

🏀 When in town… Hardly a tradition but it’s amazing to attend at least one #HeatNation game for the fifth consecutive year. 🔥 But also heard this Tyrese Haliburton guy is decent in basketball.

🧑‍⚖️ An impressive line-up of speakers offered a deep dive into the current, most pressing #sportsgov and #sportslaw topics at the FIFA Football Law Annual Review #FLAR at the #UMiami100 this week. Budapest next year!

🌴 A vintage yet still in use (and for free!) Coral Gables trolley right next to a Cybertruck somehow feels quintessentially Miami.

⚽️ There is still one Chelsea team with a winning DNA. #CFCW onto the next round of the #WomensFACup after defeating @evertonfc.com Women 4-1 having gone a goal down.