| How much importance do you place of Motivation and | | | | 1. What is motivating them? |
| Discipline in your quest for stardom in the world of | | | | 2. How disciplined are they? |
| professional sports, in particular Soccer/Football? | | | | What is motivation? |
| The competition for aspiring professional soccer | | | | Motivation is something that keeps you going when |
| footballers all over the world has become even more | | | | you feel there is nothing left to give. Motivation is |
| intense now with the level of participation rates and | | | | something that drives to the point of no return. For |
| professional leagues beginning to appear across more | | | | each aspiring Soccer/Footballer their motivation can be |
| countries than ever. | | | | different. For some it may be the freedom from |
| Historically Professional Football has been dominated | | | | poverty for both themselves and their families. For |
| by Soccer/Footballers from Europe and South | | | | others it may simply be the money and fame. Whilst |
| America. Over the last 5-10 ten years we have seen | | | | for someone else it may be purely for the love of the |
| the emergence of many Soccer/footballers from | | | | game. |
| many new continents and countries such as Africa, | | | | Whatever your motivation is, uncover it, understand it |
| Asia, Middle East, Australia and even some of the | | | | and use it to drive you against your competition. |
| smaller European and South American countries who | | | | What is Discipline? |
| previously have not offered to much. | | | | Discipline is something you either have or you don't. |
| What does this all mean for today's Aspiring | | | | However beware, if you do not have it, get it as fast |
| Professional Soccer/Footballer? | | | | as you possibly can, for a player without discipline is |
| Well looking at it all from a bird's eye view it seems | | | | destined to grace the amateur fields of football |
| that the competition for the very few professional | | | | forever. |
| places available in squads has significantly increased, | | | | You achieve discipline by consistently working towards |
| adding to this the amount of distractions readily | | | | you goal. Regular training instead of watching TV. |
| available to aspiring players today is at an all time high. | | | | Training at the park on a Saturday morning's instead of |
| Distractions such as Internet sites like Facebook, | | | | going to the shopping centre. Discipline is not a |
| MySpace, not to mention extravagant Cable TV, | | | | sometimes thing, it is a characteristic, a habit. If you are |
| Computer games such playstations, Xbox, adding to | | | | disciplined in your football you will be disciplined in your |
| this the lure of gangs, drugs and alcohol, which is | | | | studies, your work life and everything else life throws |
| becoming even more of a concern then in the past. | | | | at you. |
| With all this in mind it is even more critical for an | | | | With the competition for professional footballers at all |
| aspiring Soccer/Footballers that they address two | | | | time high, can you really afford not be motivated and |
| very important factors of their character. | | | | disciplined when your competition is? |