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Rassvet
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He cooked soccer but it’s a pretty bad take
Maradona37
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Heard Dana White say this a few times. It's just ignorance and an example of American exceptionalism or arrogance.
Football takes so much talent to play, and has so much competition as the most popular sport on Earth that the elite players are true unicorns.
He's also displaying ageism by mocking toddlers. The fact is even someone as young as a toddler can show prodigious ability in any field. In fact, true genius often shows itself as early as that. Combat sports are a different thing - fighting ability manifests itself later, and is directly linked to being older and stronger. Obviously no toddler is going to be an amazing fighter per se, but a toddler can be an amazing footballer or tennis player (relative to their peers). Therefore, White is displaying his own lack of brains by implying that if a child can play a sport well that sport must be very flawed.
He is trying too hard to project a 'tough guy, sports are about being a hard man not about skill' perspective.
Football takes so much talent to play, and has so much competition as the most popular sport on Earth that the elite players are true unicorns.
He's also displaying ageism by mocking toddlers. The fact is even someone as young as a toddler can show prodigious ability in any field. In fact, true genius often shows itself as early as that. Combat sports are a different thing - fighting ability manifests itself later, and is directly linked to being older and stronger. Obviously no toddler is going to be an amazing fighter per se, but a toddler can be an amazing footballer or tennis player (relative to their peers). Therefore, White is displaying his own lack of brains by implying that if a child can play a sport well that sport must be very flawed.
He is trying too hard to project a 'tough guy, sports are about being a hard man not about skill' perspective.
Maradona37
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Just watched the full inteview - he's every bit the imbecilic, knuckle-dragging gorilla that he looks (though his voice is quite high for a masculine looking man).
Talking about how it must be easy to score because 'the net is big' and players must suck to score an average of three 'points' per game. He has zero fucking clue that defences, tactics, sophisticated systems are designed around that - it's all about preventing the opposition from getting close to your goal or one on one with your keeper precisely BECAUSE the net is that big. if the goals were 5 a side sized then teams would obviously be less defensive.
Just highlights what a big dumb low IQ ape he is. He thinks he's being funny and impressing everyone, but he's just highlighting what a dummy he is and actually clued up people like me would see him as a joke character - a circus clown performing for others due to his own latent insecurities.
Anyway football - like some others sports - is like Mario. It's easy to pick up and play - anyone can get into a game and enjoy it. But to actually master it to kaizo level is something only the privileged few can achieve. There's some who are poor, and a few who are masters. Everyone else is somewhere in the middle.
Edit: Kaizo, for the uninitiated
Kaizo (Japanese: 改造, Hepburn: kaizō; meaning "modification", "rebuild", "remodel" or "reconfiguration") is a philosophy of game design, specifically platforming games, distinguished by a high degree of strictness placed upon the player's intended actions and movements through a level.[1] This emphasis on precision, which manifests in the form of extremely-precise character movement (often enforced through subterfuge and purposefully hidden traps), requires the player to use high levels of skill and knowledge of the game's physics and engine in order to accomplish tasks. The philosophy is most closely associated with ROM hacks of Super Mario World and with custom levels created in Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Maker 2, but has been cited as an influence in other fan-made and original game designs.[2][3]
Talking about how it must be easy to score because 'the net is big' and players must suck to score an average of three 'points' per game. He has zero fucking clue that defences, tactics, sophisticated systems are designed around that - it's all about preventing the opposition from getting close to your goal or one on one with your keeper precisely BECAUSE the net is that big. if the goals were 5 a side sized then teams would obviously be less defensive.
Just highlights what a big dumb low IQ ape he is. He thinks he's being funny and impressing everyone, but he's just highlighting what a dummy he is and actually clued up people like me would see him as a joke character - a circus clown performing for others due to his own latent insecurities.
Anyway football - like some others sports - is like Mario. It's easy to pick up and play - anyone can get into a game and enjoy it. But to actually master it to kaizo level is something only the privileged few can achieve. There's some who are poor, and a few who are masters. Everyone else is somewhere in the middle.
Edit: Kaizo, for the uninitiated
Kaizo (Japanese: 改造, Hepburn: kaizō; meaning "modification", "rebuild", "remodel" or "reconfiguration") is a philosophy of game design, specifically platforming games, distinguished by a high degree of strictness placed upon the player's intended actions and movements through a level.[1] This emphasis on precision, which manifests in the form of extremely-precise character movement (often enforced through subterfuge and purposefully hidden traps), requires the player to use high levels of skill and knowledge of the game's physics and engine in order to accomplish tasks. The philosophy is most closely associated with ROM hacks of Super Mario World and with custom levels created in Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Maker 2, but has been cited as an influence in other fan-made and original game designs.[2][3]
The Biological Bell Curve
You’ve identified the Hierarchy of Talent:- The Poor/Mediocre Middle: Most people are Standard Units just playing the game in the middle of the bell curve.
- The Masters: These are the Biological Outliers. Elite footballers are 0.1% outliers in their Androgenic Hardware and neural processing.
- White mocks the toddlers playing Mario World 1-1 because he can't even perceive the Kaizo game happening at the top.
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Temptation
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Facts but I do agree that Tennis requires more skill, talent and stamina to make it to the top than Football. Men and women's Tennis.
In Football you'll often find players like Moussa Sissoko playing at the highest level and wonder how the fuck they even made it. Players like this only make it because of their physical attributes despite having no real talent (compared to the highest level they play at).
Whereas in Tennis, even players who are nowhere near the top like Dustin Brown and Richard Gasquet are clearly extremely talented and skilled.
Tennis is also an individual (or doubles) sport so you can't hide behind your teammates or the system. If you have flaws or technical deficiencies you'll be brutally exposed within 5 minutes of playing time.
Football is definitely not the most talented sport. It involves more talent and skill metrics than most sports though.
Maradona37
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That was all you needed to say in saying tennis players can be more talented than footballers.
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