Re:I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I E...
by paganel on Friday May 31, 2019 @08:45AM
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I’m on my phone while riding the public bus so can’t really easily look for a reference, but I remember the same Ronaldo saying that there was an even more talented footballer than him while he was an youngster at Sporting Lisbon but that that player didn’t play anywhere higher than the Portuguese Second League because he was lacking in work ethic. I very rarely heard Ronaldo say about someone else that he was better than him.
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Re:I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I E...
by yomly on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:39AM
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I recall some clip from the Ronaldo movie where he takes the camera crew to his bedroom and points at his bed and says something along the lines of "this is my bed, it is very important - I spend almost 12 hours a day here:
I sleep for 7 hours, I get up in the morning, I train, I then sleep another 5 hours to recover, then get up and train some more"
The guy has virtually no life beyond training - and he optimises his schedule to squeeze even more training time out of every day.
Say what you like, but I find it to be a little bit inspiring to see someone at the top deciding to dedicate themselves to seeing just how much further they can push themselves just for the sake of being even better...
Re:I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I E...
by corybrown on Friday May 31, 2019 @09:04AM
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Fabio Paim
https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/02/22/the-roller-coaster-...
"Aurélio Pereira, the Sporting scout who discovered Quaresma, Ronaldo and Moutinho, once said of Paim: “Do you think Cristiano is good? Wait to see Fábio Paim.”"