| South American Players in General 09:24 - Nov 15 with 2992 views | silky |
I know this is quite a general observation but they just seem to play every game like their life depends on it, such urgency and enthusiasm so refreshing to watch.
Vargas tempo in play has definitely rubbed off onto the other players. He has similar qualities to what Aguero has physically and general play albeit to a lesser extent.
As someone who knows only a small amount of South American football maybe QPR ARG can tell me is that same urgency played though out most of the lower division in leagues in South America? |  |
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| South American Players in General on 09:31 - Nov 15 with 2984 views | TheBlob |
When people say Vargas and Isla took time to adjust to the other players it was really the other way round - and it shows.I just hope we can overcome this rubbish work permit situation so we can get these little diamonds in at source. |  |
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| South American Players in General on 11:28 - Nov 15 with 2903 views | TGRRRSSS |
Tevez is an interesting case apart from when he went on strike for a while when he actually played for any side, he would work his socks off. |  | | |
| South American Players in General on 14:40 - Nov 15 with 2847 views | rsonist |
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/feb/29/newsstory.sport13
"We emerge from situations of extreme difficulty" Gabriel Heinze once told me. "That is why we mostly have enormous respect for the profession, driven by a need to take professionalism very seriously." This was about a year ago and we were chatting with an English football impresario who was bemoaning the fact that in England the academies "structure the flair out of the kid: as soon as someone shows signs of creative individuality, it is thrashed out of them like it's a bad thing".
Ricardo Villa said something similar to me a few weeks ago. "Over here," Villa said of England, "if you remain one more among the masses, you're going to be alright. However hard your circumstances, you will probably be okay. Back home, if you stay in the mass you're not going to be okay. It's a survival thing". |  | | |
| South American Players in General on 14:44 - Nov 15 with 2842 views | rsonist |
Think Wenger was saying similar recently when lauding Sanchez as being one of a dying breed of unadulterated street footballer.
Quite ironic as he otherwise seems to have been focusing on signing the most mollycoddled ponces he can find. | | | |
| South American Players in General on 21:16 - Nov 16 with 2661 views | ingeminate |
| South American Players in General on 09:31 - Nov 15 by TheBlob |
When people say Vargas and Isla took time to adjust to the other players it was really the other way round - and it shows.I just hope we can overcome this rubbish work permit situation so we can get these little diamonds in at source. |
Moses pretty much turned Isla in to his prison bitch so the prem took a bit of getting used to. |  |
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| South American Players in General on 00:05 - Nov 17 with 2562 views | QPR_ARG |
Good points and observation.
That's a natural thing. It's normal. It's taken for granted over here because it's a given with every player. Even the most talented (not ALL of them as there are always exceptions, but you get the point).
I think what Heinze says has a lot of truth in it. Here in Latin America, a lot of people don't have any guarantees that they will get to the end of the month with food on the table.
A huge number of those world class players you see out there, have gone through those situations. Tevez and Aguero are perfect examples.
Messi didn't have those sort of problems, but he struggled with a condition that didn't allow him to grow and had to give himself injections in his legs from a very early age.
Those things will shape up your character.
There's another thing...the playing level from a very early age in Argentina (and the rest of the region, for that matter) is very, very high. A lot of kids would perform a number of tricks and play really well. And that's when you also have to show that determination, that will, that drive, that something else, otherwise... |  | | |
| South American Players in General on 17:57 - Nov 17 with 2400 views | TacticalR |
They are all good fellows. |  |
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