Maradona37
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There's been several, though it was in a less professional era.Show me one example of a GOAT player with this lifestyle?
Garrincha, Best, Maradona. Other top players who drank (not GOAT level) - Bryan Robson, Gazza and numerous others.
People really go overboard about how a 'bad lifestyle' (if you can even call sleeping around like Yamal might do a bad lifestyle, I personally do not) can affect a player. Probably never played football themselves. Players used to go out on the piss the night before and run the show the next day. A player with loads of talent and a bad lifestyle will still generally outperform a moderately talented player who lives like a monk.
If they mean it cannot happen in Yamal's generation then fair enough. But in the past players were playboys and partiers and still ran the show most weekends. The stories are legendary of boozing and then running the game on little sleep and half pissed. Abd back then players could get away with being a bit chubbier too.
I don't think Yamal shagging a new girl every night or week will really affect his game much to be honest. Sex is good for you. It might make him less focused, but on the other hand it could fulfil him as a person and make him happy as Larry, and more likely to be motivated on the park as he has the time of his life off it.
Like I say, it's a different game now, so you might have a point about now. But in the past LOADS of unprofessional players thrived.