EliteKiller wrote:elkanofan wrote:GoonerAlexis wrote:People keep saying this, but I'm pretty sure if you had the great Brazil team of the past play in today's time, they'd be destroyed by lower tier midtable teams.
Football has become much more fitter, much more quicker and much more technical than it ever was. People who think the great players of the past were so great only think so because the defending was worse, and the fitness of defenders was horrendous.
Ade Akinbayi Was the most inshape football player possibly you will have ever seen.
Yet Ronaldo about 5 stone overweight at Corinthians, ravaged with ligament injuries was still 3 times better than him.
Modern players are technically pretty good but they lack vision, maturity and tenacity. They are like soilders made from cardboard. Wenger said years ago about this problem, olayers have lost their eye of the tiger from the street.
Jamie Vardy, literally a pub player till age 26 is Englands 2nd/3rd best striker behind Harry Kane at age 31! Reiterating just how poor this generation of young players has been.
Football is an artform. There have always been teams full of athletes but they never made it anywhere. Self created geniuses always rise to the top. Football is dogshit now compared to years gone by and the evidence is right the all over infront of us.
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Not true ....
I know several players from the eighties, good players from Division 1 and II .... they would all agree they wouldn't last 10 minutes in today's game .... sure they have the skills, the vision, the desire ... but ... they were much slower, couldn't cover half the distance, had nowhere near the physical strength of today's players .... they had no dietitian, no personal trainer, no 25m training facility, no private medical facilities, etc. ....
We all look back with 'rose-tinted' glasses but the truth is 80% of all records are always set in the last decade ... there's a good reason for that ... we continuously improve, add in the millions football has seen in the last 40 years and that improvement is significant ....
As an example - average distance covered by a midfield player in 1980/81 (based on TV footage as not even measured back then) 4.5km ... top midfield players today regularly manage over 10km per game .... that's a staggering increase ...... sure running around ain't everything but it's a symptom of a massive change in fitness levels ....
You know. Everytime someone says this about 'oh players are so much fitter than they where 20-30 years ago!' Always seem to completley forget there where fitness fanatics, personal trainers and physical excercise proffesionals who all played soccer toghether right?
You know none of these people ever became the worlds best? None of them had the mentallity, awareness and technical abillity to shine at the highest level. These days the propoganda you hear about this stuff makes you think mainining match fitness is some impossible, elite only thing when simply maintaining a natural, earth based diet can get you in incredible shape very quickly and maintain that level of physique well into your 40's and 50's.
Modern players are juiced up by Big Pharmacutical industries who make massive, massive amounts of money on the drugs legal and illegal they supply athletes. Do you know anything about the pharmacutical industry? I've talked with sports scientists regarding the methods they use in training at university, i know young scientists who have worked in this industry, dont be navie, money is the priority here, its a buisness looking to promote its products for profit. This "Players are fitter and stronger than ever" Is their tagline they parade to justify itself which is fair but highly miselading. Excessive amounts of these drugs have horrible side affects and may cause severe and unecessary long term damage to athletes. The truth is the player dosent need to be over the edge juiced up to win football matches he just needs to be fit enough to produce his technical abillity over 90-120 minutes!
Back to the references i spoke about Ronaldo who in 2009-2011 an era no different than today in regards to sports science, 3 stone overweight, ravaged by injuries STILL! Was a far better player than guys like Welbeck even at his peak. There is a artistic element to football no matter how physically inshape a player is like Oxlaide-Chamberlain, hes never going to be able to stroll round a pitch like Andrea Pirlo and dictate a game from start to finish!
A glossy academy dosent give you that artistry! It comes from who you are as a person, your morals and your self discipline which is something you always show on the street! This is what football used to be about, now its just big money legal human trafficking of self branded young people. The entire system in football is broken, its actually losing out massivley on talent due to greed than letting it flourish, football is not in a good situation right now.
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