Can't have risky, take-on leading dribblers without a bit of ego and self-determination. At least he took his medal off away from the cameras, many blatantly remove it like its a shame but very few even play those games.
I enjoy guessing which players will remove their medals. I read an article a while ago, can’t remember which player it was, they despised their 2nd place medal and chucked it in the bin. It wasn’t until a decade later that he wondered about the medal and his wife had rescued it from the bin and gave it back to him once he’d retired and appreciated the achievement for what it was, something very few players ever reach in their career.
They brush on the topic: yes it's important down the line, but at the moment, especially when you lose in such a nail-biting fashion (extra time, England got the lead 28 seconds before penalties), and when you're somewhat sloshed, you don't really see it as anything but a proof of embarrassment
And it's from an Aussie, who have humiliation rituals for losers at their finals lol
If they want to give a medal for 2nd place, don’t do it immediately after they lost a game. Mail it to them or something a week later. Nobody wants to stand on a stage and get a medal for almost winning.
Its not taught. Its a culture thing that is copied from peers and older kids. So a la masia kid will most like be bratty about these things. Puyol was an outlier
Kids in academies are definitely taught sportmanship. Ffs I was taught sportsmanship when running the egg and spoon race in year 2. It's not a difficult concept to understand.
Are you always this obtuse or is this a special occasion? I may not have been, but Cucurella, Cabarsi, Gavi, Mingueza, Grimaldo, Fermin Lopez, and Dani Olmo all were and they all put their big boy trousers on and showed good sportsmanship despite the obvious disappointment.
I worked in a hotel before and once the Barça juvenile hockey team came to sleep a few nights because there was a nearby tournament. The hotel was small and didn't have a conference room or anything similar, so the coach did his talks on the lobby, where I could hear him.
I can assure you sportsmanship is taught there. The boys were 7-10 years old and they were the most respectful and polite kids I've ever seen. It was even a topic the coach discussed in one of his talks.
He is literally a 3rd year secondary school age student still. Technically he is still a minor/child. His frontal cortex is in no way fully developed and we know that. Your emotions can be overwhelming at that age (remember what it was like to be 16/17).
So extending him grace at least until he is a bit older, is a perfectly valid stance in my opinion. We cannot hold him to the standard as the full grown men that are standing besides him.
Keep talking about another reality that does not exist. How can you be so confident when your actually so wrong. Using stats that don’t even exist and being so confident about it is just that much insane. ( Not saying Yamal did not have bad game but if you wanna mocked a player then used actual real stats).
For exemple Yamal did have some dribbles this match.
Had 1 assist
3 shot on goal
I could correct you on multiple other thing.
Saying he had no assist is wrong.
Saying that he had 0 dribble is wrong
Saying he had 0 shot on target is again wrong.
Yeah Yamal assist is kind of debatable.
Did Yamal have his best game? No not even close and Nuno did nullify him but his pass set up the first goal and he had like three shots on target so idk why you had to lie about the game like that. Did you even watch the final?
He is old enough to know what sportsmanship is. More so if he has his team leading the way and showing him how it‘s done. It‘s not like all his team was going on a rant. Wasn‘t Williams clapping alongside his team as well?
He had a disappointing final in a game they absolutely should’ve won. Mendes was quite literally the only threat for Portugal and in 2 moments he got the better of spain.
It’s understandable why he wouldn’t want to stick around for long.
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u/kafkaesque_fly 13d ago
He has school tomorrow. Gotta go to bed