what if you had missed?
I don't like to give away my entire post in the 1st few words, but really, its a smoke bomb. I've been having alot of practise on smoking people to chao keng.
anyway, I got inspiration from today's post off a soccernet article.
If it helps, take a look.
Anyway, like I said, I got inspiration from this post, but really, the jigsaws to this post came earlier actually. I was reading off soccernet about Madrid's win over some club that I can't remember. And they described one of the goals as an 'inspired backheel from guti to Benzema to score'
Now, just to make a couple of things clear. I've never been impressed with backheels. Mainly because most people do it in when its awfully obvious. Its the same with those 'no-look' passes that Ronaldinho's famous for. Its like you pass, then you loook the other way, who the hell are you trynig to fool? Your team mate?
So when I read about this 'inspired backheel' I was really curious if it was on of those generic backheels that I've seen from Arsenal so many times that I have no idea why it still works. I'll describe it. Player A passes from the midfield to the striker who holds the ball and another defender on the edge of the penalty box. Player A runs past the striker. Striker backheels. WOW! And the next day it appears in all sorts of compilation videos.
But what I saw was.. quite frankly breath-taking. Like thos chipped goals from dozens of metres away. Like that Berba-god skill for Ronaldo to score last season. I'm a fan of last minute improvisation to serve things up for a platter. And well, ok enough of me running my mouth, Lets show you the goal.
Now you get what I mean eh. Anyone can do tricks with enough practise. But to improvise a simple trick out at the most crucial time is a whole different story. Which is why R80's still my Idol even if he's fat overweight and critics say he's over the hill blah blah.
I know the Soccernet article claims that Guti never looked back and all, but its actually quite clear that around 1:07 before he gets the ball, he's looked back and seen benzema make some sort of a run. The rest is probably instinct I guess.
Which I can attest to, because like most amateur players, I find it easier to do a flip flop than to dribble with my head up, or do anything with my head up when I'm in posessino of the ball. Most of the time my passes are directed by a mixture of instinct and a knowledge of where my team mate will be having played with him so long. I once improvised a toe punt to the other flank while under pressure, and one of my friends just came up and went like "eh you tyco one right, you anyhow zham hit someone." maybe. But well, when you've seen and sort of memorised where everyone is on the pitch, even in a game of posession play, things like that aren't impossible, sure luck is a factor in denying you your glory, for example if the wind blows it slightly off course so that the defender can steal it. But apart from that, I'd still thank my instinct and memory for the pass reaching the intended player.
Which is why I like playing with this team-mate of mine whom I shall not reveal for fear of inflating his head. Sans to the fact that he likes to hold the ball too long for most of our liking (clue #1), he's actually one of my favourite players to play with. Because when I get the ball, I know more or less where he is, the kind of runs he usually makes and 9 times out of 10, it reaches him, the time where it doesn't probably occurs because its the 20th (HINT HINT!) minute and the lazy bugger's too tired to run (clue #2). lo, sorry mayte (CLUE #3) I couldnt help it :P
but that's beside the point really. The article also pointed me out to this movie, Looking For Eric and Just for your benefit, I've even sourced out the scene which the article describes.
I know the whole thing's 2 minutes long, but quite frankly the quote that I'm pointing out is "you have to trust your team mates. always. if not we are lost."
Now I know its weird to hear this from me. Who wants to hear from a guy who never got chosen for the school team (regardless of the standard of competition of his batch), who's technique can't even be called decent, who probably isn't at your standard of play, give you comments and criticize you. Which is why I've steadfastly stayed away from the path of telling people what they could be doing better from my outsider's point of view.
But the thing is, I've had the priviledge of watching other teams play before, other school teams play. I've had the opportunity to play with some of them before. And that gives me some intimacy of knowledge of how things work.
I recently got down to have some soccer training. After hearing much about sergio ramos-es, guys with ronaldinho like skills and all sorts of wonderful performances, I finally had an opportunity to see the team. I'm not going to comment much, cause like I said, its probably beyond my capacity. But I did speak to 1 of the players about something I noted and his response was "aiya, how to pass to them, they also duno what they doing."
people that you let yourself trust will disappoint you,& they will leave, & they will break your heart.
not everyone will come to appreciate you.
but it’s alright, cause there will be ppl who actually do.
eventually you’ll forget how important they once were, but you won’t really; you’ll just get better at pretending.
cause that i...s what happens. and no, it’s not okay.
and no, it isn’t fair. reality sucks.
Trust (1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.) , is a terrible act of faith (2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact. ). In my book trusting someone is akin to gambling. Same difference. I got the aforementioned quote from someone's facebook comment, and I do believe its from another person's blog.
I've always wondered why the people that you trust the most, are the ones who break it the most easily as well. I guess its because we throw out trust too blindly sometimes, staking out faith in them in something we believe that we see. Because we're only human, we see what we want to see. Now pull this context even further, probably the worst thing about this all is that these trust issues often occur when you trust some guy/girl to reciprocate this that blah blah. Which really makes things worst, cause you start seeing things that were never there, and no... becomes yes and all.
and quiet frankly, the worst thing after trust has been broken, is that you give yourself excuses to 'not trust anyone anymore' only to fall in at the sight of the next fella that ticks half your resume list. We take it out on the people who trust us, who give us their faith in us. We blow them away, and try to hide in out own world about how that fucker bastard us, when really, it was a mis-act of faith on your part, so stop blaming others, look at yourself, did you set yourself up for all this?
That's that, and all, bu sometimes I see posts like this screaming for sympathy, and sometimes you wonder, putting that victim in the position of the offender, would the victim have done the same? Probably. Hypocriscy is so prevalent its not even funny these days (don't worry, I'm not referring to you, slut.). You hear someone complaining about this guy dumping her and stuff, when like just half a month ago, you hear the same girl doing more or less exactly the same thing. A year ago (gasp, has it really been a year already?), I knew this girl who was complaining bitterly about how this guy more or less broke up with her thru and sms, and how he wasn't speaking to her and stuff, how like people shouldnt give the cold shoulder just cause someone else likes them. Next thing I knew, she was doing the exact same thing to another guy, and even before he had even confessed or anything. poor guy? nah. stupid boy. fuck head. dog. fat fuck. (okay fine, the last 1 was uncalled for.)
So where does this put us?
You just learn that everything you've learnt in school about right and wrong is bullshit. Eveything depends on your friends, your status, your power. If shit happens to you, its because you let it, its your fault, stop whining. Because everything in this world is so judgmental. history is spelt HIStory, victor makes the rules. The world isn't fair, it was never designed to be. Humans just tried to give themselves an excuse to be 'above the rest' and made it that way. For life to work, things can never be fair. Just look at your fingers. If they were all of the same length, you would have problems with the most basic function of your hands. to lift things up.
So what does this leave us with? people end up trying to hurt others before others can hurt them. Everyone builds up more walls. People become more hypocritical and...
what kind of a world is that?
I don't know. But the next time you feel you've been betrayed, how things aren't fair, if someone's been a bitch/bastard. Think about it this way, did you put yourself up to it? Take responsibility. Because no one really cares about what you say. Especially the one's that you want so badly to hear you. The ones that you care about will never bother with you. And the ones who really care for you.... you really don't care about them.
on a sidenote: I recently peeped at choy's blog. It was filled with the same philosophical thought-provoking stuff that I love and used to write. I guess sometimes I'm just sad that itshard to find people who can chat with you about such stuff. These days, all people are interested are is like having fun and all that, over sitting down to chill and talk and.. discuss stuff about the world. I know it runs on like a broken tape-recorder, but you used to offer some opinion, and conversations used to get somewhere. Nowadays with some, it just ends as a do or die, or that same 1-liner comes out and the conversation ends, with no food for thought or anything.
and I hate NS, for turning everyone i see into mindless robots, for instilling disdain in everyone i know towards the actual events of the world. For cutting me away from the world. For making me so apathetic about everything these days.
I know my appearence doesn't suggest it in anyway, but deep down, sometimes, I just like independent movies like these, because they are just so much more thought provoking.
Its like how I find myself gravitating to indie music these days too.
anyway, probably the greatest movie quote I've seen since the matrix one (which is terribly long)
I am not a man. I am Cantona.
Note: woah, I just realised this is an awfully awfully long post. lol. I think alot of you all will probs be too lazy to read it already lol.
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