The Premier League is starting tomorrow and so is the excitement of a lot of people. Premier league is one of the most watched league in the world. It has got a huge fan-base in India too and attracts a lot of football fans. It is great both commercially and in terms of the football played. One great thing about PL is that it is an open league, which means that almost all the clubs are full with potential and give a tough fight to each other. So the tables might turn anytime in fantasy. Anyway, there are a lot of things which you might learn from football. Let us see a few of them.
- Teamwork: Football is all about team work. If you win you win as a team, if you lose you lose as a team. There is no self-game, and if you are selfish, you won’t succeed in a long run. A great thing to learn from.
- Vision & real-time decision making: This vision is a physical vision. You need to have a good eye sight and co-ordination between your senses to look around and pass, lobe or head perfectly. Also, the decisions that you make on the pitch are real-time, so your presence of mind and quick thinking is really needed.
- All around awareness: You need to be alert to understand who is marking you, or who is around you, again to pass accurately.
- Self-confidence: Ever seen Zlatan in an interview? Or a manager, they are full of self-confidence. The reason for their success is partially their confidence in themselves. Otherwise amidst a talent pool of millions it’s difficult to keep your case up.
- Physical fitness: Obviously, that is to be there in any sport. A minor injury can knock you off for a long-long time and even make it difficult to make a comeback. Tell you how important it is to keep yourself fit in order to perform. Not everybody is Peter Cech.
- Discipline: With the tight fitness regime, to a difficult training pattern, they need to follow everything. Have to live away from their families at times and have immense self-control when it comes to diet and a lot other things.
- Right attitude: They have just the right attitude to survive and to play. Even after losing they come back, and keep fighting till the last minute. Losing is not an option for them.
- Out of the box thinking: When everybody is going with plan A, they think out of the box and go with plan B and that creates a difference. This is the story of great managers who master the art of devising tactics. Sir Alex, Mourinho and Wenger are to name a few.
- General awareness: If you are a faithful follower of football, you get to know a lot of places because your team travels there. And other associated things, like issues with Brazil due to economic issues or a lot of things about a lot many places.
- Passion: It is what you feel when your team wins. When your favorite player scores or when your goalkeeper saves the last penalty. When you win at the last minute almost after losing a match. When you love your team no matter how bad the season has been. It’s about loyalty, it’s about passion, it’s about a feeling which can’t be described.
