Soccer-Something To Think About

Lets start today with a scenario.

If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, what would you do? You’re not going to fool around by going to a lot of doctors. You’re going to search and find the best doctor.

Aren’t you?

Why would you risk it when you only get one chance?

When your time is limited and opportunities are scarce, why wouldn’t you search and find the best soccer coach?

Isn’t the principle the same?

You should always seek out quality and never succumb to the convenient. You only get one chance at the big time.

Let me twist things a bit more.

Just about everything you learnt in school about life is wrong. Don’t laugh; give me a chance to explain.

Schools teaches students to be well rounded. If your report card read 1A, 3B’s and a C, you would be pleased and so would your parents. But what happens if you came home with A+, A and 3D’s. Would you be satisfied? Would you be in trouble? I think you would.

How often do well-rounded players get scouted by the big clubs? Being well rounded is just a polite way of being average.

What happens to the players that play to their strengths and stand out? Whether it’s physical strength, speed or skills it doesn’t matter. They stand out and form an imaginary line between them and the rest of the masses that play the game. They stand out the same way an A+ does in a report card.

Players that specialise are definitely not part of the masses that play the game to become well balanced. In today’s transfer market, we reward the exceptional, the A+.

Super quick players become over lapping full backs and terrorise the flanks. Big, tall, strong physiques become stoppers and set fear in all the strikers. Skilful players sit in the middle of the park and orchestrate the game with precision passing. Strikers sharpen their killer instinct by spending days shooting at goals and celebrating to the imaginary crowd.

So before you become well balanced and average, strive for the A+.

Stand out, be different, play to your strengths and become an A+, not a handful of B’s and C’s.

Good luck in your next report card.