CONTEST ENTRY BY @sadiqxylo: HOW DO YOU BECAME A GREAT FOOTBALLER
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It's an energizing week's contest here once more and todays contest is "How to become a great footballer" all much obliged to @njaywan for given us this extraordinary contest week by week as numerous of us will like to truly appear our wants on getting to be a great football lengends,becoming a great footballer one should persevere alot of duty and persistence to getting to be this great .
The term ‘Great Player’ entails a lot. All those in the pitch playing are regarded as players, but it takes a lot to be a great player. Siyabonga Nomvethe is a retired South African football player who dedicated his entire life playing football yet no one will remember him when we talk of football players. Late Armando Maradona, I don’t even need to say who he was. We can go down to give the number of children he had when he was alive, but Siyabonga Nomvethe, we don’t even remember his jersey number.
As a young player, you may have a dream of becoming a great player one day. The journey to become a great player can be a long one but with an effort, then it is worth achieving. Below is a guide on becoming a great player.
Motivation
To be a great player you need a reason that keep you in the game. Are you going for the celebrity status, a lot of money and fame? Or, you enjoy the game and love being part of a team. With celebrity status and money won’t send you anywhere, live and breathe the game and also have a genuine enthusiasm toward the game to motivate you and keep you straight. As the journey won’t be a smooth sailing, but your reason to be great can help you power through the negative and challenging moments.
Training
Put in a solid hours of training, play with ball at the pitch, at home, even on the street. Have the discipline to practice your ball skills daily and on working on your general fitness. As a great player you need a lot of stamina, so cardio and endurance training will be a key to having a good stamina so as to play for a full game. You might even go an extend to get a football specialist who will take you through all the due processes of becoming a great player.
Put more Effort on the Pitch
It may be an area or a local game but try to play to the best of your ability, utilize every chance you have and try not to be selfish so as to draw the attention of the spectators towards you. You might slow down at the very end of the game when you get exhausted but remember, it’s a chance to shine. Giving it your all in the pitch terns to benefit your team and get you notice by the coach and many scouts available.
Analyse your Skills
Once you identify your position in the field of play, being it goalkeeper, defender, attacker or a midfielder. No position is limited; we have great players merging from all the positions in football. Very great player is known for the unique position he plays best. Always analyse your skills to discover how you can something better. No great player is perfect, while you are great at certain position, you need to improve on the other positions so as to be a versatile player.
Join a Local Team or an Academy
You need to start somewhere, a beginning, a home that will shape you. Football academies always train young stars to be great. Join a football academy where you will learn team play, good behaviour, leadership skills and punctuality. Every academy has a coach and a technical team. This gives an opportunity to explore a lot and be guided while you practice. Local teams and academies are given the opportunities to play justifiers so as to select the best out of the rest.
Set Goals
Have a target, and after accomplishing every target set another target as it will give you a reason to persevere through all challenges. At the early stage of your career, you should have a goal of training every day, to improve upon your skills or too often play in matches. As you accomplished these goals, you need a great and challenging goals now, like being the leading goal scorer, assists leader, most tackle won, most clearance and even player of a tournament. These set goals give you something to strive for and also help increase your confident level which will bring difference in your game play.
Nutrition
Without balance diet you are unlikely to get the best out of your effort. To train for stamina required a lot of cardio exercise which also required a lot of energy. Proper nutrition gives you’re the require energy to trained to the best of your ability. Take in a healthy footballer’s diet with the appropriate amount of nutrient to energise you for your regular training and upcoming matches. To add onto this, get enough rest after training to recover the lost energy to prevent fatigue and injuries.
Confidence and mental Stamina
Football is much of mental than just physical. It requires a lot of mental stability and as you further into your career, that mental pressure increases. The pressure of how well you play on the pitch, playing in front of crowd can all drain your mental health. You can overcome all these by believing in yourself. Know that you ae best at what you do, improve on your weakness and reward yourself for accomplishing a set goal, these will help boast your confident level as well as mental stamina.
Chose a role model
Always have someone you look up to, as he has been through the same process of being great creates an easy path for you to follow. Follow their moves, how and when they train. You can even go ahead and watch their video clips just to practice and be perfect.
Determination
Above all these explained above, you need to be determine, having a strong belief of achieving, keep your eyes on your goal and always remember your worth more than just a great player. This will give you a reason to stay in the game and get you noticed over others.
A lot of players have attained the level of greatness and it didn’t happen over night, they all passed through the pain zone to achieve this greatness. I will share with you how Cristian Ronaldo made it greatness through.
How Cristiano Ronaldo became a Great Player
He is one of the greatest players of all time. He joined his first academy when he was only seven, played for Andorinha academy for three years, in his third year he was promoted to the nacional football club where he played in a three- day trial in sporting CP and passed successfully to play for the club. As I said in my guide to be a great player, you need a home that will give you an opportunity for trials to be selected for big clubs. Andorinha and nacional football club gave Ronaldo an opportunity to prove himself in a trial so as to be selected for sporting CP.
How He Trains
Ronaldo even at his thirties still trains 3-4 hours a day in at least five times a week. This tells you how serious he took his training when he was striving to be great. He always focuses what makes him great in the pitch. Just his recent move to Juventus, his team mate’s conferees how they adore him training, that he always enters first and be the last to leave.
How He Analyses His Skills
He always adopts a new style of play when he moves to a different club. His main position was left-flank in his united and Madrid days. He took advantage of his pacey movements and dribbling capabilities to help him past his opponents. When he moves to Juventus, he was already 33 due to this aging he evolve his style from pacey and dribbling at the flanks to a centre forward where he make good use of his height. He always adopts to suit him and that is what a great player does.
His Set Goals and Accomplishment
From his moved to Manchester united promised his coach, Sir Alex Ferguson that he will bring him the champions league, which he did in 2008. He won the PFA young player of the year, to PFA player of the year, to Barclays player of the year, to UEFA best player of the year, to FIFA Best player of the year and to the ultimate, Ballon d’Or. Every level he unlocks he set another target to work towards. He broke a lot of records and set his own records. He is currently the only player to have five champions league titles and the top scorer of all times in champions league. He is well known for his champions league records and some even call him Mr. champions league.
How he checks His diet
Ronaldo has a personal dietician who has worked with since his united days. He eats six times a day consisting of high protein diet with a lot of wholegrain carbs, fruits and vegetables and also avoids sugary foods. This gives him a lot of energy to do his normal workouts. Ronaldo has officially renewed his personal endorsement deal with Herbalife Nutrition as a brand ambassador. This tells you how he values his diet. He also takes a lot of rest, sometimes 4-5 times naps daily to regain his energy.
Ronaldo’s confidence and Mental Stamina
This great player we talk of today has been through a lot since childhood. His team mates at Nacional club often bullied and insulted him for his father’s profession and his drunkard nature. His father passed out when he was 20 which hurt him so much that he promised never to drink again. He has been charged with rape allegations several times. All these incidents harmed his mental stamina in a point. Even at his first season in Manchester united, he one scored three goals in the season which brought his confident level down. When they criticise him of all these, he always says three particular quotes, “your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable”, “If you think you are perfect already, then you never will be.” And the last one “I am living a dream I never want to wake up from.” These three quotes always give him a reason to fight his mental challenges and build upon his confidence to achieve what he inspired for. When he fails to deliver in a certain match he makes the next match look great for his funs.
Ronaldo’s Role Model and Mentor
Cristiano Ronaldo reveals on several occasions that he is his own inspiration, he looks to himself as the primary source of inspiration. On several occasions, he made mention of Luis Figo and Rui Costa as those he learned a lot of skill from. His only aim was to play in the Portugal national league which he has accomplished. After the death of his father, he took Sir Alex Ferguson as his god father, he always listens to what he says and does what he asked. Sir Alex Ferguson made a lot of Great impact in the life our great Ronaldo.
Ronaldo’s Rivalry with Messi
Messi has been all time rival of Ronaldo on the pitch. Messi responded Ronaldo’s Ballon d’Or with four Ballon d’Ors continuously. We all thought Ronaldo was gone and that he will never catch up with Messi. He came back with two times back-to-back Ballon d’Or making it five in this career.
Cristiano Ronald Club Achievements
5x Champions League
4x FIFA Club World Cup
3x English Premier League
3x English Super Cup
3x UEFA Super Cup
2x Serie A
2x Spanish Champion
2x Spanish Cup
1x Italian Super Cup
1x English FA Cup
1x Portuguese Super Cup
2x English League Cup
Individual Honours
5x FIFA The Best Player
5x Ballon d’Or
4x Golden Boot
3x UEFA Best Player
1x Juventus MVP of the Year
1x Serie A Player of the Year
2x La Liga Best Player
1x La Liga Best Forward
1x La Liga Most Valuable Player
2x Barclays Player of the Year
1x PFA Young Player of the Year
2x PFA Player of the Year
Real Madrid’s Highest Goal Scorer – 451
Highest UCL goals – 130
Highest UCL assists – 40
Highest UCL Hat-tricks – 8
International Career
1x European Championship
1x UEFA Nations League
10x Portugal’s footballer of the year
Portugal’s all-time highest scorer – 99
Highest international hat-tricks for Portugal – 9
This great player had a struggling childhood, he over powered every obstacle of his life through determination and enthusiasm. A lot of lad growing up look up to him as he turns a poor home to heaven for his family.
CONCLUSION
I hope you all like how I link a great player to my guide on becoming a great player. Being a great player is something a lot aspire to, but it can sometimes be difficult to achieve, however, if you have what it takes to join a club, the skills passion and dedication, keeping on the motivation and enjoy playing, belief me your worth achieving it.
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Nice entry.
It was definitely packed with lot of info and tips on football success.
I liked how you picked one particular legend (Ronaldo) and tried to follow up with how he achieved greatness.
Thank you for your participation.
My pleasure