Although a goal like that IS beautiful and amazing given the moment/pressure etc. I can't help but think he's probably scored that exact same goalisw about ten thousand times in training, probably with loads of sensors attached to him like Andy Serkis playing Gollum, and so I'm less impressed
Yeah... but anyone in the world could theoretically train like that and he's better than all of them. At sixteen. Also cos of the nature of football every single moment is slightly different, you can't practise literally the same thing like a tennis serve or a snooker break or whatever. That's part of the beauty of football compared to more regimented sports. And he pulled it off in front of a huge crowd - which makes a difference, see how snooker players missones they could hit fifty times in a row at home - with a load of the other best players in the world trying to stop him.
That said, corners bug me, they are one dead ball you CAN drill perfectly cos unlike freekicks etc you know exactly where the ball will be. You got some guy earning fucking 50k a day who should have the time and inclination to practise it a billion times until it cannot possibly go wrong... yet still they balloon it into the crowd, well, I dunno how often, but one time is too many.
I saw a series called Lincoln Lawyer and in one bit this guy was drilling free throws for basketball. He said "I don't even like the game but i wanna do this to satisfy myself that there is no excuse for them to miss these. Ever. Same shot every time from same spot, no challenge - I find it insulting when a multimillionaire paid to do that contrives to miss". Which I guess is the same point.
In basketball can you sub players off and then bring em back on? If so why not develop a free-throw specialist who never ever misses?"
