Indonesia welcomed former Manchester United player, Jesse Lingard. The 30-year-old man had a three days agenda in Jakarta for the launch of a collaborative product with Concave Indonesia, named #thepowerofcelebration.
Jesse Lingard and his team arrived in Indonesia on Thursday (8/6/2023) at 15:30 local time at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Upon his arrival in Indonesia, Lingard was immediately greeted with flower garlands by one of the Concave representatives. His arrival was enthusiastically welcomed by fans in Indonesia, who had been waiting at the exit gate and many followed him to the hotel where Jesse Lingard stayed.
Concave held a press conference to welcome Lingard's arrival, which was attended by numerous media and fans at Studio 4 InterContinental Hotel.
The following day (9/6/2023), Lingard visited Concave factory at PT Aggiomultimex International Group, Tangerang, accompanied by the media, resellers, and influencers. At the factory, they observed the production process of Concave shoes and also launched the collaboration products with a Black-Pink theme (color personally choiced by Jesse Lingard). The products included football shoes, sportswear, casual apparel, and accessories.
In the evening, Concave held a Gala Dinner with Lingard, stakeholders, invited guests, media, resellers, and influencers.
On Saturday (10/06/2023) Lingard also held a meet and greet with the winners of the JLingz celebration challenge at Concave Flagship Store in PIM 2. He was also pleasantly surprised by the arrival of fans from Thailand.
After that, Lingard continued his activities at Madya Stadium to participate in a coaching clinic attended by over 90 participants. There was also a Concave Pop-Up store where people could buy Concave products on the spot. The coaching clinic was also attended by Concave Brand Ambassador, Ambrizal Umanailo (Persita Tanggerang Soccer Player).
As a conclusion to Jesse's activities with his fans in Indonesia, Concave organized a Fun Football event in the evening. Lingard played with 10 Persija children who formed his team against the all-influencer team and Lingard's team emerged victorious.
Last message from Lingard to Indonesian youth "Enjoy, Concentrate, Work hard."
]]>Born in 1982, DaMarcus Beasley is an American soccer star who not only captured the eyes of his nation but also many more. Spending a decade abroad, building his name and showing off his footballing ability and pacey play, we now announce USMNT baller, DaMarcus, as a Concave athlete, who laces up in our VOLT+ boot...
It was really my father. I have an older brother and he wanted us to be active, rather than being around the house and breaking things. My family has no history in football, my Dad played American football/basketball but he liked the sport. He gave my brother a ball and he started kicking it around and me being younger I kind of wanted to be like him. It was a God given talent, because as I say we have no history and football wasn’t big back then. We’re talking about the early 80’s when there wasn’t even a league.
I’m from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Indiana is a basketball state, so anything to do with sport is mostly about basketball. It was difficult finding other kids that wanted to play. Finding leagues to play in as there was only a couple going on at that time. My Dad put my brother and I in those, but the good thing was that I always had a brother who wanted to play football as well. We were always playing 1v1 in the backyard, watching VHS tapes of our favourite players and trying to emulate those.
Back then it was called the voluntary sports academy, it was a new U17 national team. A new program that they wanted to try. It was 1999 when there was our U17 championship so in 1997 they brought the idea to us and our parents to move all the kids down to Florida, to the IMG academy. It was a school but you would train every day with your team to try and win the championships in ’99. It played a big part with me going pro at such a young age. When you’re playing against the supposed best U17’s around the world, you spend so much time with the team and you become brothers. It worked and we came 4th in the championships.
Landon Donovan, he was the first one out of our group to sign professionally, with Bayer Leverkusen. He didn’t stay with the group because obviously, he moved to Germany so he was one the boys looked up to, who became a professional. It pushed us on to get to that level of becoming a professional and most of us did.
I signed for LA Galaxy when I was 16. I was still at high school and I went out there and trained but I still had school back in Florida. SMy parents said I had to finish school before I turned professional, so I did and signed for LA Galaxy full time.
I was 21/22 and all I’ve known was America. I went to PSV not knowing anyone or even the language. It was difficult but I had a good support system from my agent and family so it made it easier. The thing that got me through it was playing and winning. I started off pretty well and scored a couple of goals. Any time you go to a new team you need to let the other players know they can trust you, and count on you in the big games, so I think I did that at a pretty early rate.
Probably my first UEFA Champions League goal. That’s probably my most memorable one, although I pretty much remember all of them. It was the Champions League, playing at home in the first group game and it was great. We won 1-0 from my goal! It was a great ball from Phillip Cocu, against Rosenborg, and it’s a game I’ll always remember.
It would probably be to just have confidence in yourself and never lose confidence in yourself, in your ability and all the hard work you put in to get to that level. Obviously in everyone’s career there’s ups and downs, from a young age, to when you’re older. For young kids coming up, always be confident. Even if you’re told off by coaches or players, always be confident and that’s something you can’t teach. A coach can help but the player has to believe that and believe in themselves to be confident.
Let me see… Probably when I was at Rangers, a teammate and I were on an aeroplane and the goalkeeper was sleeping so we filled his shoes with liquid soap and put them back. He put one shoe on and he didn’t find it very funny and had to be calmed down.
Last year I had this crazy picture of me before the World Cup in 2002. I had a photoshoot with the New York Times and they didn’t come out how they were meant to. It was me laying in a sexy pose, hand on the back of my head… Last year, one of the rookies made 25 shirts of this and gave them to the whole team and I came to training one day and saw everyone wearing it! I was just going to training and I was flabbergasted. It’s on my Instagram if you want to check it out!
I would say either Phillip Cocu or Marc Van Bommel. Either one of those two. I’ve played with some great players but I think either one of those two. I can’t pick between them, they were very good players!
Paolo Maldini from AC Milan. He was older when I played against him, but I played on the right against him in the Champions League and he was always two steps ahead of me. He was definitely my toughest opponent. So intelligent in his positioning and how he played. He wasn’t the fastest but his intelligence of where to be and what to do was phenomenal.
Paul Rogers, our goalkeeping coach at Houston Dynamo. He’s from England and was training in them and at the time I didn’t have a contract so I thought I’d try them out. They were comfortable! I’ve tried a couple of different boots, from different brands and never really liked them but ever since I tried the VOLT+ boots I haven’t looked back. I haven’t had any problems with them and I started wearing them back in October 2016 and have worn them ever since.
I like a black shoe, I think times are changing and I’m from the old school. I like the fact that the boots that first came out for Concave were predominantly black. I like the idea of the black shoe and that drew me to Concave at first glance. The technology part of it and how the shoe is made is great. I’ve not had anything bad to say about the shoes since I’ve started wearing them. This shoe is different and I think you’ll see a lot of people in Concave boots soon.
It was great! Everybody was asking where I got them from and they didn’t know much about them but now that I’ve been wearing them a while the interest is still there. They are asking about Concave and understand more about the boots now. In America, it’s dominated by Nike and adidas but now that Concave are involved, I think Concave will be competing with them but will still be different to the big names.
I’m really a quiet kind of guy and I’m a father so I spent most of my time with my daughter. She likes football too so we go to play and she goes to school and stuff. I’m more of a movie kind of guy. Every time there’s a new movie out I’m pretty much on it. I like to cook! Anything that kind of involves being indoors. It’s cool to be out and stuff but cooking and spending time with my daughter is probably my kind of day.
It’s something I’ve always wanted to do and I wanted to build one in Indiana. Me and my partner wanted to give people more opportunities to get into football. Football has grown massively in America and the opportunities have risen but we want to push it further and see America grow. I wanted to do my part for my hometown and I’m a football fan. I want my country to do well and I want to sit on the sofa when I’m retired and hopefully watch my country win the world cup. I’m serious about it and I’m not one to just put my name to something. I’m actively involved and there, with the kids, trying to make it grow.
I’ll have more time to be involved with my school and that’s a top priority. I have a passion for cooking and I want to go to cooking classes and become a better cook than I am now. Those are the things I’m going to do when I retire from football. I also have the DaMarcus jewellery collection, so I’ll be hoping to put more time into that when I finish football
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