The Next Football World Cup Superstar

  KEY No.  1<br />
                 DESIRE<br />
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 Do not lose the importance of this.  Make no mistake: your personal<br />
 inner desire to play for your country at the FIFA World Cup may be the<br />
 most important of all the keys.  You must be possessed  by this<br />
 desire, to attain your peak performance that it will fill your<br />
 thoughts everyday.  Note that the pursuit of football excellence<br />
 demands almost everything from you but the rewards are well worth the<br />
 cost.<br />
 To attain peak performance in football you have to have it as a core<br />
 desire in your heart.  It is extremely difficult to excel in something<br />
 you’re not really interested in.  There must be enough intense desire<br />
 or interest from within you.  This is because no coach or educational<br />
 materials on their own can make you excel in football without real<br />
 interest coming from you.  Deep desire is like the foundation upon<br />
 which you can now build the other essential elements.<br />
 We excel in anything we love with passion.  What you need to do is try<br />
 to find real personal<br />
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 reasons that would create sufficient interest in you.  Luckily, such<br />
 reasons are not difficult to find now.  For example, ask yourself if<br />
 you really desire to be popular and rich. With the kind of outrageous<br />
 salaries, benefits and bonuses given to football stars in different<br />
 football leagues these days, it should be easy for anyone to create<br />
 real interest to want to become a football star.<br />
 Football stars also retire young and rich.  By the age of forty, most<br />
 of them retire from active, competitive football and then go on to<br />
 invest the wealth they acquired during their<br />
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 playing careers in other businesses.<br />
 Again, have you noticed that most professional football players are<br />
 usually physically fit and live well to a ripe old age?  This is<br />
 another good reason to heighten your interest in the beautiful game.<br />
 Also, football is the single most popular sport and therefore you will<br />
 be popular and famous not only in your country but all over the world<br />
 when you attain that peak level of play.<br />
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 KEY No. 2<br />
 EXPOSURE<br />
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 Exposure will teach you most of what you need to excel in football.<br />
 Actually it’s exposure to the right knowledge, basic skills and<br />
 tactics of the game.  This exposure is gained  through training under<br />
 a good,  modern coach.  In the same way that babies learn to talk more<br />
 by listening to people talk, you can also be a football genius by<br />
 being exposed to latest football techniques.<br />
 Exposing ourselves to models of what we want is a powerful way to<br />
 learn.  A person who travels to America to live there probably from<br />
 Asia or Africa would after some time start speaking with an American<br />
 accent.  In fact, watching great footballers play alone goes a<br />
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 long way to make you a great footballer yourself in the same way as<br />
 listening to a great preacher can help you become one yourself.  That<br />
 is the power of exposure.<br />
 The more the exposure the better.  Football Clubs all over the world<br />
 have a daily training program where players are exposed to modern<br />
 techniques and tactics of the game.  For example, if you watch Lionel<br />
 Messi playing football consistently, you would eventually learn his<br />
 various tricks and even start playing the way he does.  It works like<br />
 magic.<br />
 As a footballer you need to be highly disciplined to make sure you<br />
 don’t miss any training sessions.  The importance of exposure cannot<br />
 be over-emphasized.  This is why good coaches don’t take lightly<br />
 absenteeism to daily training sessions.  Indisciplined players are<br />
 usually punished.  Exposure is the all-important key.<br />
 It is important to point out here that you should listen and watch<br />
 your coach like an<br />
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 apprentice rather than like a mere spectator.  There is a big<br />
 difference between the two.  And apprentice watches every step and<br />
 tactic with observant attention.  With focused intent.  A spectator<br />
 does not do this as he watches only to be entertained.  As an<br />
 apprentice, you want to see how and why every step and tactic is so.<br />
 This should be your attitude during training and even if you happen to<br />
 be watching a football match on the television or during a live game<br />
 at a stadium. This way, you are on your way of becoming a football<br />
 legend.</p>