Football: An intelligent Game?
One thing that has always bothered me is the fact that football and intelligence don’t seem to go hand in hand.
Most footballers are of low intelligence due to football taking over in early life (school life), prime examples of this, Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Ronaldinho and many more. These lads can barely put sentences together without the use of eerrr…fink (“think” to me and you) every other word.
Though when you see them on the football pitch they are masters of the game, being able to read the game perfectly, picking out the right pass at the crucial moment and being able to dribble the ball past 4 players in one go.
This seems to me like skill / ability are not linked to intelligence, my self; I’m a qualified person who has been to University and have a professional job, I regard my intellect as quite high, no Steven Hawkins, but high. I also regard my football ability as high, but will I ever be able to do the things these stars of football achieve.
Could this be due to the fact that when I was studying they were out playing football in the local fields / street etc, and basically “practice makes perfect”.
Does this mean Pro footballers are “Intellectually undeveloped”? Or never practiced the educational aspect of life that I have? (A complete reversal of what I have been writing).
If footballers are “Intellectually undeveloped”, does this mean that due to me being educationally / intellectually more advanced that if I devoted equal amounts of time to football that I would surpass there ability and become a better footballer than the stars now? Or that they have no relevance at all.
“Natural Ability Vs Practice Vs Intelligence”
All of this gains relevance to the predicament that stands before me, do I put all my spare time into developing my football ability (as I’m at high amateur level at this moment) or say that ability is natural and that it makes no difference about how intelligent I am and time invested (practice) as I will never be that good, and invest my time into something else that will benefit me and my lifestyle to greater effect.
I train hard now, and it takes up a lot of spare time, the improvements don’t seem to come in leaps and bounds, but does it for anyone?
It isn’t like bodybuilding, the more weights you lift the bigger muscles develop and stronger the person becomes; It does not require skill, just time, determination and hard work.
Balancing a ball on top of you head, juggling a ball between feet, reading the game and player positioning etc all require skill/ ABILITY, something that if maybe doesn’t come natural, would you ever become good at it?
Time is a precious thing and you don’t get much of it, Think about what is best to spend time on!
Most footballers are of low intelligence due to football taking over in early life (school life), prime examples of this, Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Ronaldinho and many more. These lads can barely put sentences together without the use of eerrr…fink (“think” to me and you) every other word.
Though when you see them on the football pitch they are masters of the game, being able to read the game perfectly, picking out the right pass at the crucial moment and being able to dribble the ball past 4 players in one go.
This seems to me like skill / ability are not linked to intelligence, my self; I’m a qualified person who has been to University and have a professional job, I regard my intellect as quite high, no Steven Hawkins, but high. I also regard my football ability as high, but will I ever be able to do the things these stars of football achieve.
Could this be due to the fact that when I was studying they were out playing football in the local fields / street etc, and basically “practice makes perfect”.
Does this mean Pro footballers are “Intellectually undeveloped”? Or never practiced the educational aspect of life that I have? (A complete reversal of what I have been writing).
If footballers are “Intellectually undeveloped”, does this mean that due to me being educationally / intellectually more advanced that if I devoted equal amounts of time to football that I would surpass there ability and become a better footballer than the stars now? Or that they have no relevance at all.
“Natural Ability Vs Practice Vs Intelligence”
All of this gains relevance to the predicament that stands before me, do I put all my spare time into developing my football ability (as I’m at high amateur level at this moment) or say that ability is natural and that it makes no difference about how intelligent I am and time invested (practice) as I will never be that good, and invest my time into something else that will benefit me and my lifestyle to greater effect.
I train hard now, and it takes up a lot of spare time, the improvements don’t seem to come in leaps and bounds, but does it for anyone?
It isn’t like bodybuilding, the more weights you lift the bigger muscles develop and stronger the person becomes; It does not require skill, just time, determination and hard work.
Balancing a ball on top of you head, juggling a ball between feet, reading the game and player positioning etc all require skill/ ABILITY, something that if maybe doesn’t come natural, would you ever become good at it?
Time is a precious thing and you don’t get much of it, Think about what is best to spend time on!
posted by cooperman @ 5:07 PM
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