Ways to improve your chances of becoming a professional football player – Part 1

Natural talent is always important when anyone attempts to become a professional football player. However, that is not the only thing that players need to be successful. Yes, talent does go a long way in helping you achieve your goals, but even the most talented players on the pitch don’t always make it as professionals. There are even those that become professionals, but fail to be consistent and prove they still belong at the top level (argh… Mario Balotelli).

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There are ways to improve your chances of becoming a professional football player. Let’s look at a few ways to improve your chances of earning and being successful in that next trial.

A team game

When playing in matches, and especially when your on trial, it is important to remember there are 10 other players on the pitch, on your team. Coaches and scouts do not want to see how selfish you are with the ball. They want to see you bring teammates into play and that you can make the right decisions. Being selfish will get you nowhere.

Rest, eat, avoid injury and repeat

These items all go hand-in-hand, and players who can do all three will have long careers ahead of them. By failing to do one of these items, it can undo the others. If you spend your free-time up late partying, chances are you will eat more to compensate for being tired the following day. Once you become heavier, your body will have to compensate for your weight gain, leading to an injury. Ronaldinho is an example of a player whose partying got the best of him. It led to him declining just a year or two after being at his peak.

Spend your time wisely

If you want to become a professional football player, it is important you treat it like a job or university. Training is studying, but sometimes you need to study on your own or more. Football isn’t just something you do for two hours at training and then you leave, and forget about it. The very best spend hours on the training ground or in the gym before and after training sessions. Why? To become better players and to increase their skills. The players who want it bad enough are out training after the others have gone home. Cristiano Ronaldo is a tenacious trainer, and he spend three to four hours a day working on his body and his game. To be the best in the world, you have to train like it.