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