“Skipping Steps in Soccer Progression: The Dangers of High Contracts and Social Media for Young Footballers”

2023-04-17 15:19:00

2023-04-17

The new generation of footballers get too much before they win something with their clubs. Without even having made his debut with the first team, the high contracts in Europe drive the homegrown players crazy.

This is very present Jürgen Kloppthat in the Liverpool lived a unique anecdote. The coach did not tell it, but one of his ex-soccer players, the Croatian Dejan Lovrenwho agrees on this problem of how to grow and skip steps in soccer progression.

“The younger generation must assimilate what we older players learned through experience. In modern football there are no longer young players who clean the boots or carry the water, because now there are people specially trained for that and I don’t think it’s good”, began by saying the now defender of the Lyon Olympics.

“Young people must learn the ways of football as soon as possible, the way it works from within,” he complained. Lovrenwho was European champion with the ‘Reds’ in 2019.

Klopp and Lovren won the Champions League with Liverpool in 2019.

The Croatian pointed to those responsible for this: social networks, and qualifies them as a double-edged sword depending on the type of use.

“I would erase everything and focus on real things. But this is not so easy for the younger generation to do. All these stupid platforms and things take a lot of time and attention and make a person not focus on their football. It is not necessary to use it every day. There are people who check their social media three times a day, post photos, and that worries me a lot regarding young people,” she explained.

It was then during the interview that he told a real case: “In 2017, on the first day of training of the 2017-18 preseason with Liverpool, an 18-year-old player, whose name I will not say, came to train in a Mercedes and with a golden Rolex on the wrist.

“What car did you come here in?” Klopp asked. And the boy replied: In a Mercedes! What is that regarding your wrist? the technician replied. A Rolex, answered the youth squad. And Klopp left him his final message: How many games have you played with the first team? None, said the boy. The next day he arrived without a watch and in a normal car, ”he recalls. Lovren.

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