Research Paper On Brazil Footballers

Brazilian Flair:
Why Footballers from Brazil Have Better Career Paths Than Englishmen

Phillipe Coutinho, Neymar, Thiago Silva, and Marcelo are the paragons of Brazilian footballers playing overseas at the highest level, as they all share a few skills that exemplify the Brazilian way of soccer. All are great with the ball at their feet, dribbling past defenders and making it look like anyone sitting in front of the TV can do it. They´ve honed this skill, dribbling for hours and hours around their houses, and playing in street games with other kids. English players, however, are an example of the old-fashioned way. Tall kids play center back, and the smaller ones play midfield, their only job to pass it high to the big kid playing up front.

Brazil does not boast an extensive or reputable youth development system, only picking up children once they are approaching thirteen or fourteen. This means kids must learn the game on their own. This is not a problem, as many kids will play together in pickup games out in the street. Families will even come out to watch the children play, as it becomes a social gathering for the families, who will talk and watch their kids play soccer. For example, Phillipe Coutinho would travel to the street pitch that his brothers played at every day, and gradually became a great player, and was picked up by Brazilian team Vasco de Gama when he was fourteen. On the other hand, Harry Kane was scooped up by Arsenal’s academy when he was just eight. England places an emphasis on getting into a club’s academy at a young age, with the best ones following Kane’s lead and joining the academies of the elite clubs at eight or nine. They will play against other teams every weekend, and train the rest of the week, which means more coaching help, but the coaches will impress their beliefs on to the

As stated before, English children are playing in a club’s system much earlier than Brazilians, which does end up becoming a time-consuming commitment, with their personal lives becoming inundated with sports. They then must juggle school and soccer and a social life every day throughout their formative years, and they have been taught for many years by the same coaches. Many of these coaches have been disciplined in a certain style of play, the old-fashioned English way. This means that they pass it on to their players, and these players unwittingly gobble it up, not understanding the other ways the game can be played. This means that physicality is put at a premium, which means people like Messi or Modric, players who are quite shorter than the average player, are not usually believed in at a young age. Modric played in England for a few years, during which the media continually said he was a lightweight and too small for England. In Brazil, soccer players are independently driven to learn the game, which means they focus more on what they want to learn. For children, the most appealing aspect of the game is to learn how to skill and score, which means this is what they focus on learning the most, leading to increased finishing and dribbling ability among them. All types of players are accepted throughout Brazil as well, as long as they have the talent to compete