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If life throws obstacles at you, don’t sit and complain.
Use them. Turn them into tools.
Most players from rich countries grow in comfort, but comfort rarely creates monsters.
Struggle, scarcity and pressure do.
Players from Africa, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and many other places don’t realize they have something Europe cannot teach — survival football, street football, and the ability to grow without perfect conditions.
Here are 7 “problems” that can become your unfair advantage — if you know how to use them.
NO PERFECT PITCHES — BETTER FIRST TOUCH
Bad fields destroy weak technique but sharpen great technique.
When the ball bounces on sand, gravel, dirt or broken grass, you must control it perfectly or lose it.
That’s why top Brazilians and many African players have world-class first touch.
Use it: train with smaller balls, tennis balls, uneven surfaces, walls and bounces.
Lesson: chaos creates mastery.
NO ACADEMY STRUCTURE — HIGHER FOOTBALL IQ FROM THE STREET
Street football teaches decision-making faster than any academy.
There are no coaches shouting patterns, no breaks, no explanations.
Everything happens at full speed.
You learn how to protect the ball, how to survive pressure, how to combine, how to feint, how to improvise.
Use it: but add structure later — study your position, watch games, learn tactical roles.
Lesson: instincts + structure = professional intelligence.
NO MONEY FOR ENTERTAINMENT — MORE HOURS OF FOOTBALL
If you don’t have video games, malls, Netflix, or expensive hobbies, you have the most powerful resource in the world: time.
Time to play, train, repeat and repeat again.
Most players in Europe or the US waste time on screens.
In many African and South American cities, kids spend hours outside with a ball.
Use it: if you have fewer distractions, fill your hours with football.
Lesson: boredom builds greatness.
NO PERFECT GYM EQUIPMENT — NATURAL STRENGTH AND ATHLETICISM
Not having a gym does not stop you from becoming strong.
Sprints, hills, calisthenics, climbing, carrying, playing barefoot, running on sand — this creates explosive athletes.
Africa produces explosive players. Brazil produces balanced players.
Use it: make the environment your gym.
Hills = power. Barefoot = ankle strength. Sand = balance. Long play = stamina.
Lesson: the world is a training ground.
NO SOFT COACHING — HIGH COMPETITIVE MENTALITY
In Europe and the US, kids are protected, praised and encouraged.
In Africa and South America, you must fight for your place every day.
Nobody gives you space. Nobody gives you sympathy.
This creates warriors.
Use it: keep the hunger and aggression but learn discipline and control.
Lesson: mentality wins trials.
NO EASY ACCESS TO TRIALS — GREATER PREPARATION WHEN THEY COME
When opportunities are rare, you treat them like gold.
Players who get trials every month in Europe become soft.
Players who get one chance in a lifetime give their soul.
Use it: train as if your trial was tomorrow.
Lesson: scarcity creates seriousness.
NO PERFECT BALLS OR EQUIPMENT — MORE CREATIVITY AND ADAPTABILITY
A plastic ball, a tennis ball, socks rolled into a ball — that’s how many legends started.
This creates creativity, sensitivity and adaptability.
Use it: vary the ball, vary the space, vary the speed.
Lesson: creativity is born from limitations, not luxury.
FINAL MESSAGE
Never complain about what you don’t have.
Use what you have.
Because many great players were not shaped by perfect facilities — they were shaped by the streets, the dirt, the heat, the dust, the chaos and the hunger.
Comfort makes football easier.
Struggle makes football better.
If life gives you wood, don’t cry about trees.
Build a sawmill.
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Rejection is not the end.
It’s your beginning.
