Gary Lineker It has been one of the leading major centers in the world with a great ability to score goals and never give up a ball for loss. In the video below you can see him scoring goals without stopping with his team, the English one, in the 90s. And yes, there are also some that mark Spain. Gary Lineker is the person who said, as you can see in the picture in perfect German, that "football is eleven against eleven and in the end Germany always wins." Gary wonders, in an article written in Newstatesman and which is linked below, that what happens to England that always fails in football in big events.
And between the reasons that exposes and that have to do with why children play soccer in large fields, why British coaches are taken care of so little and especially why the fathers' attitude is so aggressive.
Lineker says: "We need a parental cultural revolution. If we could just get them to shut the fuck up and let their children enjoy themselves, you would be staggered at the difference it would make." That could be translated as: "We need a cultural revolution of the parents. If we could get them to shut their mouths and encourage their children to have fun, other results would be achieved"
And I think that the overprotection that we talk about frequently in Peques and Más, is one of the causes that make parents are encouraging to compete in an exaggerated way by exceeding limits such as making fun of the children of the opposing team, overriding the authority of the coach, discuss with other parents and encourage the children to face off.
That's why what he says Lineker should make us reflect. In today's sport it seems that money and business interests encourage parents to try to get their children to achieve success and fame at any cost. And no, children have to play, learn, have fun and realize that you have to work hard to reach a goal. What can be achieved with these attitudes and behaviors is to cause children anxiety, stress and confrontation between them.
So we hope that the attitude of the parents, also in Spain, encourages their children without insulting the rival, respecting the coach and the referees and especially having fun watching the children play congratulating them when they do well and encouraging them when they could do better.
