Angelito wrote:Power n Glory wrote:Vieira on Ben White comments about not watching football.
https://tbrfootball.com/it-matters-vieira-fires-back-at-arsenal-defender-ben-white/“It matters. Watching games shows the passion and love you have. Thierry would watch any kind of game in any league in any country,” Vieira said.
“He knew everything about the game. I played with Cesc Fabregas and the Spanish players watched games every day.”
In a recent interview, Mbappe mentioned how he watches as many games as he possibly can from all leagues across Europe.
It's not an issue that White doesn't watch football, per se. Some people simply treat their job as that—a job. For Arsenal, however, it's concerning because zeal is what drives footballers. There's a reason why world class players like Bale and Tevez lost interest in football and treated it as a mere job once they were set for life.
White isn't in the wrong here. For him, it's about playing and earning. More power to him. But we could say that he's the type that'd lose interest in the game sooner than other players who are religiously devoted to the game beyond just playing.
Of all footballers, how many are 'religiously devoted to the game', which in this example is defined as those that watch it on TV? That's wrong, but leaving that aside, what's the split?
Of those, what is the split between the top footballers and the others in the two groups? Those that watch the game on TV and those that don't?
i.e is there any evidence that watching football on TV leads to a better career?
I'd like to see it.