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NICKLAS BENDTNER has revealed that he had a ‘legendary’ clause inserted into his contract at Copenhagen.
The former Arsenal striker joined the Danish giants in 2019 after leaving Rosenburg.
Nicklas Bendtner pictured training during his time at the club[/caption]
Bendtner, 36, was thrilled with the move as Copenhagen was a club close to his heart.
However, he was told by his agent that there had been a clause put in his contract which he has since described as “legendary”.
Speaking in a biographic documentary, Bentdner revealed that he was told that he would not be able to drink alcohol or ski.
His agent told him: “You must accept that it must be stated in the contract that from now until the New Year you must not drink alcohol and you must not ski and things like that.”
Bentdner was not deterred by the cluse as he insisted that he was “ready” for the club.
He texted the club: “I’m ready to play for you and give everything.”
He signed a four and a half month contract with the Superliga outfit as he had to prove his worth.
Bendtner has since spoken about the contract as he said: “I don’t think everyone has it in the contract.
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“Damn legendary.”
Bendtner’s time at Copenhagen was not fruitful as he only made nine appearances for the club, scoring once.
The documentary, Nicklas Bendtner – The Portait, will be released as a series in three episodes on Viaplay with a premiere on February 12.
It has been produced as part of a collaboration with the author Rune Skyum-Nielsen, who is behind Bendtner’s biography, ‘Begge sider’.
Bendtner insisted that he wants to tell the “true story” of his life.
He said: “Many sports documentaries are just a big glossy picture.
“Then you hear about adultery on the side or an extra child, or I don’t know what the hell, and it never comes up.
“But then you never get the opportunity to really understand that person. Then it might as well be fiction.
“I want to tell the true story. It must be as it was.”
The Danish striker retired from football in 2021.
Nicklas Bendtner played for eight clubs during his senior club career scoring 117 goals
He endured an up-and-down career in which he burst into life during a loan spell at Birmingham City in 2006.
He helped the club earn promotion to the Premier League.
The striker returned to Arsenal and became a member in the first-team.
In 2010 he scored a Champions League hat-tick against Porto.
Two years later, he hit a low as he was banned and fined for his Paddy Power boxer stunt at Euro 2012.
In 2013, he became a Serie A champion, having won the league with Juventus during a loan spell.
While at Rosenburg, he discovered his best scoring form as he finished as the top scorer in the Eliteserien.
But in 2018 he was at his lowest as he was jailed for 50 days for assaulting a taxi driver in Copenhagen.
Here is a look at Bendtner’s career by numbers…
National team: 81 matches and 30 goals for Denmark – number eight on the list of most international goals in history
Career honours: Serie A x 1, FA Cup x 1 and German Cup x 1
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On Tuesday, the emerging X and Threads competitor said it was ending its invite-only system, which has managed to gain it over three million users since it debuted a year ago. The public benefit company, which has just under 40 full-time staff, has been busy building out its moderation features and achieving better stability during is closed beta period.
Users who install the Bluesky Social app or visit bsky.app will be able to sign up and join the conversation platform, which should look familiar to users of the old Twitter – a feed to which people can post messages up to 300 characters long as well as photos and video.
The difference with Bluesky is that its servers use a decentralized Authenticated Transport (AT) Protocol that will allow users to opt-in to a microblogging experience that isn’t run by the company, allowing them to create an account under a given domain name and then use their profile in rival apps that use the same network.
Another advantage of the AT protocol is that it can operate based more on a user’s preferences than algorithmically driven content, with user-curated feeds that people can use to find other users or topics, with customizable moderation tools also available to them.
AT will rival ActivityPub, the decentralized protocol powering Mastodon, and soon, Meta’s Threads enabling interoperability between the two platforms. Later this month, Bluesky will also begin allowing outside developers to host their own servers on the AT Protocol and create their own rules.
In an interview with The Verge, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said Bluesky’s profit stream will eventually include charging users for additional features in its app, as well as taking a commission on purchases like custom feeds that developers will be able to sell as digital products.
The Bluesky Social app is a free download for iPhone and iPad available on the App Store [Direct Link].
This article, “Bluesky Social Network Ditches Invite Codes, Opens Registrations to All” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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On Tuesday, the emerging X and Threads competitor said it was ending its invite-only system, which has managed to gain it over three million users since it debuted a year ago. The public benefit company, which has just under 40 full-time staff, has been busy building out its moderation features and achieving better stability during is closed beta period.
Users who install the Bluesky Social app or visit bsky.app will be able to sign up and join the conversation platform, which should look familiar to users of the old Twitter – a feed to which people can post messages up to 300 characters long as well as photos and video.
The difference with Bluesky is that its servers use a decentralized Authenticated Transport (AT) Protocol that will allow users to opt-in to a microblogging experience that isn’t run by the company, allowing them to create an account under a given domain name and then use their profile in rival apps that use the same network.
Another advantage of the AT protocol is that it can operate based more on a user’s preferences than algorithmically driven content, with user-curated feeds that people can use to find other users or topics, with customizable moderation tools also available to them.
AT will rival ActivityPub, the decentralized protocol powering Mastodon, and soon, Meta’s Threads enabling interoperability between the two platforms. Later this month, Bluesky will also begin allowing outside developers to host their own servers on the AT Protocol and create their own rules.
In an interview with The Verge, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said Bluesky’s profit stream will eventually include charging users for additional features in its app, as well as taking a commission on purchases like custom feeds that developers will be able to sell as digital products.
The Bluesky Social app is a free download for iPhone and iPad available on the App Store [Direct Link].
This article, “Bluesky Social Network Ditches Invite Codes, Opens Registrations to All” first appeared on MacRumors.com
Discuss this article in our forums
Bluesky looks and functions like Twitter at the outset, but the platform stands out because of what lies under the hood. The company began as a project inside of Twitter that sought to build a decentralized infrastructure called the AT Protocol for social networking. As a decentralized platform, Bluesky’s code is completely open source, which gives people outside of the company transparency into what is being built and how. Developers can even write their own code on top of the AT Protocol, so they can create anything from a custom algorithm to an entirely new social platform.
“What decentralization gets you is the ability to try multiple things in parallel, and so you’re not bottlenecking change on one organization,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber told TechCrunch. “The way we built Bluesky actually lets anyone insert a change into the product.” This setup gives users more agency to control and curate their social media experience. On a centralized platform like Instagram, for example, users have revolted against algorithm changes that they dislike, but there’s not much they can do to revert or improve upon an undesired app update.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Bluesky looks and functions like Twitter at the outset, but the platform stands out because of what lies under the hood. The company began as a project inside of Twitter that sought to build a decentralized infrastructure called the AT Protocol for social networking. As a decentralized platform, Bluesky’s code is completely open source, which gives people outside of the company transparency into what is being built and how. Developers can even write their own code on top of the AT Protocol, so they can create anything from a custom algorithm to an entirely new social platform.
“What decentralization gets you is the ability to try multiple things in parallel, and so you’re not bottlenecking change on one organization,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber told TechCrunch. “The way we built Bluesky actually lets anyone insert a change into the product.” This setup gives users more agency to control and curate their social media experience. On a centralized platform like Instagram, for example, users have revolted against algorithm changes that they dislike, but there’s not much they can do to revert or improve upon an undesired app update.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.