The LAB: What Football can learn from Boxing

While watching Mzansi Magic sho Top 10 at 10 interview with Baby Jake Matlala, I learned of a crucial thing missing in football development, which is dicipline. Boxers & Footballers have reletivly simillar lower IQs because they come from the same backgrounds.

Boxers would never risk sleeping with a woman before a match, but for footballers its a totally different story. I found out that the big factor in this situation is the accountebility, Boxers feel the impact of a missed hour of training in a match, in boxing throwing a punch with a marging of 10% error could lead to the end of a fight. Boxing is very detailed interms of athletic & technical requirement to win a match.

In football players hardly take accountebility for the outcome, a striker can miss an easy chance or a defender can conced an own goal, but the team can still win the match. The problem is that this happens oftern & players start accepting not being perfact at mastering there own technical abilities. Players pick up this behavior from a young age & eventualy becomes incapeble of building themselves.

This issues kills a lot of talent in SA because we are a country thats so dependent of players technical abilities instead of athletic.

By Prof "The Chosen One" Matwetwe