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Footballers: the new Gods
As I am already old I have to admit that football has changed a lot, specifically I would like to refer to the contact between footballers and their fans. In the past you could access all the training sessions of many teams during the week and see your idols, nowadays it is impossible to access them, even as a journalist you have restrictions. Also, when you were waiting for your favorite team to arrive in your city, the soccer players would stop and you could talk to them, take photos, make comments and many other things. However, nowadays they get off their bus with the hood of their sweatshirt on (it doesn't matter if it's hot enough) and with their giant headphones and they don't even pay attention to you even if you're a child who. Hence that is why I have given this title to my article, they believe they are gods and they are simply athletes who with more or less luck have managed to reach the top, many of them forgetting their origins from humble neighborhoods and families without resources, hence it would not be bad for them to remember it when a child approaches them with bright eyes to get your signature or the photo of your dreams with that footballer you admire so much.
txema77updated
Footballers: the new Gods
As I am already old I have to admit that football has changed a lot, specifically I would like to refer to the contact between footballers and their fans. In the past you could access all the training sessions of many teams during the week and see your idols, nowadays it is impossible to access them, even as a journalist you have restrictions. Also, when you were waiting for your favorite team to arrive in your city, the soccer players would stop and you could talk to them, take photos, make comments and many other things. However, nowadays they get off their bus with the hood of their sweatshirt on (it doesn't matter if it's hot enough) and with their giant headphones and they don't even pay attention to you even if you're a child who. Hence that is why I have given this title to my article, they believe they are gods and they are simply athletes who with more or less luck have managed to reach the top, many of them forgetting their origins from humble neighborhoods and families without resources, hence it would not be bad for them to remember it when a child approaches them with bright eyes to get your signature or the photo of your dreams with that footballer you admire so much.
txema77updated
Footballers: the new Gods
As I am already old I have to admit that football has changed a lot, specifically I would like to refer to the contact between footballers and their fans. In the past you could access all the training sessions of many teams during the week and see your idols, nowadays it is impossible to access them, even as a journalist you have restrictions. Also, when you were waiting for your favorite team to arrive in your city, the soccer players would stop and you could talk to them, take photos, make comments and many other things. However, nowadays they get off their bus with the hood of their sweatshirt on (it doesn't matter if it's hot enough) and with their giant headphones and they don't even pay attention to you even if you're a child who. Hence that is why I have given this title to my article, they believe they are gods and they are simply athletes who with more or less luck have managed to reach the top, many of them forgetting their origins from humble neighborhoods and families without resources, hence it would not be bad for them to remember it when a child approaches them with bright eyes to get your signature or the photo of your dreams with that footballer you admire so much.
Ireland's Top Goal Scorer of all time
Weighing in with an impressive 68 goals, Robbie Keane is the Republic of Ireland's all time leading goal scorer having found the back of the net 68 times over his long career with the senior team, which starts when Robbie was a boy of just 17 years of age and ended almost twenty years later in August 2016. We could really do with another striker of Robbie's pedigree right now, but players like Robbie are once in a generation players. Here he is as a young lad, starting for Ireland and even though he looks around 12, he is actually 17 here! Robbie quickly became a fan favorite and was known to score both spectacular and poachers goals. Robbie didn't care, he just wanted his name on the scoresheet no matter what, it didn't matter if it was a bicycle kick or a lucky deflection. Robbie went on to captain the team in later years and would have been the first name on the team sheet for most managers down through the years and he goal record and overall ability will tell you exactly why. There are only twenty players in the history of world football who have scored more goals for their countries over the years and there are some seriously talented footballers on these lists as you'll see below. Something else to note also is that today there are even more international football games than there would have been back in Robbie's day with new things like the Nations League coming on stream in recent years. It's just a pity that Robbie didn't bag another ten over the years to put him in the top ten, where he belongs in my opinion, but nonetheless, his achievement is something else, especially when you consider the 2nd, 3rd and 4th top scorers for Ireland have 19, 20 and 21 goals respectively for John Aldridge, Frank Stapleton and Niall Quinn respectively, as Ireland have never traditionally been a high scoring team. I can tell you one thing for sure and that is that Ireland's current manager Stephen Kenny would give his two front teeth to have a fit and young Robbie Keane in his team to score the goals, as that is the main weakness of the current Irish team - they don't score enough goals. That's it from me. Peace Out.
Ireland's Top Goal Scorer of all time
Weighing in with an impressive 68 goals, Robbie Keane is the Republic of Ireland's all time leading goal scorer having found the back of the net 68 times over his long career with the senior team, which starts when Robbie was a boy of just 17 years of age and ended almost twenty years later in August 2016. We could really do with another striker of Robbie's pedigree right now, but players like Robbie are once in a generation players. Here he is as a young lad, starting for Ireland and even though he looks around 12, he is actually 17 here! Robbie quickly became a fan favorite and was known to score both spectacular and poachers goals. Robbie didn't care, he just wanted his name on the scoresheet no matter what, it didn't matter if it was a bicycle kick or a lucky deflection. Robbie went on to captain the team in later years and would have been the first name on the team sheet for most managers down through the years and he goal record and overall ability will tell you exactly why. There are only twenty players in the history of world football who have scored more goals for their countries over the years and there are some seriously talented footballers on these lists as you'll see below. Something else to note also is that today there are even more international football games than there would have been back in Robbie's day with new things like the Nations League coming on stream in recent years. It's just a pity that Robbie didn't bag another ten over the years to put him in the top ten, where he belongs in my opinion, but nonetheless, his achievement is something else, especially when you consider the 2nd, 3rd and 4th top scorers for Ireland have 19, 20 and 21 goals respectively for John Aldridge, Frank Stapleton and Niall Quinn respectively, as Ireland have never traditionally been a high scoring team. I can tell you one thing for sure and that is that Ireland's current manager Stephen Kenny would give his two front teeth to have a fit and young Robbie Keane in his team to score the goals, as that is the main weakness of the current Irish team - they don't score enough goals. That's it from me. Peace Out.
Ireland's Top Goal Scorer of all time
Weighing in with an impressive 68 goals, Robbie Keane is the Republic of Ireland's all time leading goal scorer having found the back of the net 68 times over his long career with the senior team, which starts when Robbie was a boy of just 17 years of age and ended almost twenty years later in August 2016. We could really do with another striker of Robbie's pedigree right now, but players like Robbie are once in a generation players. Here he is as a young lad, starting for Ireland and even though he looks around 12, he is actually 17 here! Robbie quickly became a fan favorite and was known to score both spectacular and poachers goals. Robbie didn't care, he just wanted his name on the scoresheet no matter what, it didn't matter if it was a bicycle kick or a lucky deflection. Robbie went on to captain the team in later years and would have been the first name on the team sheet for most managers down through the years and he goal record and overall ability will tell you exactly why. There are only twenty players in the history of world football who have scored more goals for their countries over the years and there are some seriously talented footballers on these lists as you'll see below. Something else to note also is that today there are even more international football games than there would have been back in Robbie's day with new things like the Nations League coming on stream in recent years. It's just a pity that Robbie didn't bag another ten over the years to put him in the top ten, where he belongs in my opinion, but nonetheless, his achievement is something else, especially when you consider the 2nd, 3rd and 4th top scorers for Ireland have 19, 20 and 21 goals respectively for John Aldridge, Frank Stapleton and Niall Quinn respectively, as Ireland have never traditionally been a high scoring team. I can tell you one thing for sure and that is that Ireland's current manager Stephen Kenny would give his two front teeth to have a fit and young Robbie Keane in his team to score the goals, as that is the main weakness of the current Irish team - they don't score enough goals. That's it from me. Peace Out.