| I will not write here as a specialized soccer guru. My | | | | with their fathers. Maybe at this age they became |
| younger son has just 8 yeas old and I have seen him | | | | conscious about football skills. Anyway, I think the |
| and his friends to ply soccer and thought: how did he | | | | father and a ball as present it takes the boy to |
| and all of those kids learn to play soccer? | | | | awake for the soccer. |
| Well, frankly, that is a mystery. And that mystery | | | | Nowadays, we can also say that the girls, in a lesser |
| took me as an important question: how Brazil kids | | | | ratio, are awaked for soccer. But the ratio of boys |
| learn to play soccer? | | | | without a doubt still is bigger. |
| I think there is not a simple reply to that question. In | | | | On the other hand, soccer is a form of socialization |
| fact, if we knew that answer the Brazilian soccer | | | | of the child. It is a strong element in such a way to |
| should ever gain the soccer world cup. But, as the | | | | make new friendships, even to solidify oldest one. |
| entire world knows, it is not right. | | | | And those friendships can be consider too an |
| However, there are some things that make us | | | | element of initiation at the art of to play soccer. |
| intrigued, not because at Brazil we have Pele, widely | | | | When we observe small football play and we find |
| regarded as one the greatest footballer of all time, | | | | natural players, making its dribbling, showing its |
| either because the Brazil national football team, five | | | | affinities and abilities with the ball, we have to imagine |
| times world-wide champion soccer. | | | | that beyond the soccer schools, the domestic |
| This curiosity appear when we see kids playing | | | | learning environment has been basic in the learning of |
| soccer without shoes, in the streets, improvised | | | | these children. |
| fields, of land, sand, gram, wherever, with a sort of | | | | In a way, to play soccer with my son is very good |
| unstoppable dribbling and goals. | | | | and it takes me a sentimental player. My abilities are |
| Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaucho, both so-called the best | | | | not the same ones of when I also was a child |
| world futboll player, they played football with special | | | | already, at my first moment of learning of the soccer |
| skills since childhood. They are identified as a rising | | | | art. I remember the football play through the street |
| star. | | | | of my house. The memories came to me facing me |
| What do they have of fellow creature with millions of | | | | at my past. But these memories are collated with my |
| Brazilian children? I do think this soccer learning begin | | | | present day, when I see my son to give me one |
| around 3 or 4 yeas old. I ask some kids how do they | | | | dribbling underneath of my legs, to mark a goal and |
| learned to play soccer and they answered me it was | | | | to saying that he is a champion. Well, I do think he is. |