Strive Performance

WHERE IS THE BUTTON that sends this to every parent with a child in academy football???? “It is possible to reach the first team at an older age. You don't need to go up there at 16. There's no rush. There's no rush. My advice is tell the youth players to stay calm. Their parents should be even more at ease. Let them study, let them train, let them listen to the coaches and trainers at the club. There's no rush to become a professional. In the end, it's better to arrive at a point of maturity. There are cases like Messi's, who get away because they already have such a high level that it's normal for them to rise when they are sixteen or seventeen years old. The vast majority do not have to go up to that age. They can try out for the first team or the reserve team, but they have to go back down, they have to recover, they have to live with people their own age, they have to live human experiences that will make them mature. There's no rush. There's always too much haste. You can feel it among the parents. It's not a mistake. Tranquillity. You can be a professional at twenty two or twenty three years old, playing for the first team in the First Division, and still play for ten more years. The important thing is that when you go up, you stay when you go up and when the time comes, you are prepared. That is important. There are countless cases of players who taste the sweetness of victory at a very young age. They are unable to assimilate a complicated experience, neither are their families, and then they end up in a category that perhaps they shouldn't have even tried.” - Luis Enrique