Le footylad babby

>le footylad babby

How contrived. Sad!

Football isn't nepotism. If the kid's bad, he's bad

And plenty of times the kids of great footballers are. A mixture of them already having a cosy life, and mixing great genes with 50% shit genes.

Sports are literally the last bastion of non-nepotism in the world

Look at Zidane's kids. There is still plenty of nepotism in football

yeah sure.

Enzo never made anything in France youth teams, plays in Real B, and Lucas is a manlet goalkeeper.

>no nepotism in football
ayyyyy ayy ay

>Messi is 5'7
>Antonella is like 4'11
Kid is going to need some serious growth hormones.

if there was no nepotism in football this faggot wouldn't be a pro player

Are there any examples in soccer of nepotism leading to a mediocre youth player being given another chance, giving him time to develop into a great pro? Like I know Pique's grandpa was VP of Barca, I wonder if that led to him getting favorable treatment in the academy.

You now remember Darren Ferguson

Like it or not Morata was good enoigh to play for Juve. Which I am pretty sure is way beyond his father's influence. Morata is good enough to be a proffesional player

Diego Forlan.

If he wasn't good, all the nepotism in the world wouldn't have allowed him to play for Juve and Real Madrid.

Even given all the chances in the world, if they don't deliver, they are sacked. You don't keep mediocre players playing for the sake of being someone's son

If Messi's son doesn't play at Barca standard, he will never play for Barca

>Pique's grandpa was VP of Barca, I wonder if that led to him getting favorable treatment in the academy
most probably, nobody is going to cut the vp's grandson from the youth team

Don't know about soccer, but Cal Ripken Jr kept getting extra chances in MLB because of his dad, and he eventually develoled into a god-tier player.

false, and he's been a bench player at both teams

Yeah you're right, there are cases of nepotism in football, like China.

that's why they went from a World Cup worth team in 2002 to ranked 87th today.

That's what you get with corruption and nepotism in football: losing.

>You don't keep mediocre players playing for the sake of being someone's son
Cruyff put like half of his family playimg for Barça. All of them were utter trash

if you think there's no nepotism in football in europe and in top teams then you have no clue about football and probably never trained anywhere

Maybe he was decent, never seen him play. But not good enough for Barca which sold him after 2 seasons.

He was a starter for Juve in the CL final. How the hell could his father achive that? JUst admit it. He is just good enough to be a pro

oh right, that's why all great players of today are sons of other great players. like Neymar JUNIOR

his son and his son in law. Don't know how he managed to get jordi cruyff into manure later. Angoy was such a good football goalkeeper he ended up playing for barcelona dragons as a punter or some shiet

they probably lacked the pure talent of Johan. that's what the public was seeing.

however, they probably had the adequate work ethic and basics to be a proplayer.

many shit players have been starters in cl finals, doesn't change a bit of how morata got plenty of chances at madrid and then was kept around because of who his father is

m8, just admit you have no clue about how football works and have never played in any team

>however, they probably had the adequate work ethic and basics to be a proplayer.
His son in law was godawful and was a sub goalie. The few times that he played were a total disaster.

If Juve scouts wanted him he has to be at least good. He is good enough to be a proffessional

Kids of famous players get easily to top youth teams and have all the opportunities to succeed. Still most of them will have mediocre careers stuck in their father's shadow, at best.

I have clue about how football works and played in a team. I know spots are hard to get and often you get scouted thanks to someone who knows someone.

but if you're good, you're good. don't need someone who knows someone to get a try in a team.

at this rate only sons-of would play in big teams. and afaik few players are sons-of, almost all comes from nowhere. here it works that way. hence the number of blacks playing here.

how is that hard to understand?

the best part is angoy wasn't even the sub goalie, he married johan's daughter while he was the b team keeper. Two years later, when busi sr got injured, johan left lopetegui (who was the real sub goalie) in the bench and brought up angoy from the junior team instead. Would have loved to see lopetegui's face lel

>but if you're good, you're good.
This happens in almost every job. People that are real good will always get important positions

in normal jobs, yes, I agree.

try to break through alone all by yourself in music, movies, politics, ...

>music
Depends on what kind of music. But in most pop bullshit music you are right
>Movies
K8nd of right
>politics
Meh. Political parties usually do scoutting amongst their youth

every job where you are famous BUT sports is 95% nepotism

sports is maybe 2-5% nepotism

Bullshit, case in point roman reigns and charles flair

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I'm trying to think of players who did step out of their father's shadows.

Diego Forlan?
Eiður Guðjohnsen?

Paolo Maldini before all

Nepotism exists at grassroots level
I used to play for an under 15's team with my dad as the manager. He refused to not start me, even though I was weak and unathletic, and played me up front and made the other players pass to me. I scored 1 goal in 36 games and we finished bottom of the league.
Dad didn't fucking care though. In training he actually printed off pictures of me and stuck them on the training cones then had an entire session of everyone kicking the ball at the cones 'to learn to use our star player better'. The next year nobody signed up for his team and I moved to the next age group and never played.

Sergio Busquets, though his dad wasn't that famous.

Paolo Maldini, son of Cesare Maldini

>Following the sacking of his son Darren by Preston North End, Ferguson immediately recalled loaned players Ritchie De Laet, Joshua King and Matty James from Preston under its new managerial system.

Name a bigger cunt in EPL history than Alex Ferguson.

Pro tip: you can't.

>In training he actually printed off pictures of me and stuck them on the training cones then had an entire session of everyone kicking the ball at the cones 'to learn to use our star player better'.

Kek. How did he get away with it?

Mazinho, one of our best DMs in the 90s, 94WC winner, father of Rafinha and Thiago Alcântara.

Usually having a famous footballing father opens a lot of doors (top academies, contacts, etc), but at the end of the day either the kid is good or he isn't.

>is a babby
>is part of the La Masia system

great. just what we needed. fucking systembabbys.

what about nerman

this lad is next

he's got the autist face and overall look of the young goat, this could be it!!!

Kasper finally got respected as a top keeper. Being son of a legend is not all easy street, especially in this position. If you fuck up, you're out.

Abate is the son of Milan's goalkeepers trainer or something like this and I'm pretty sure it's the only reason he still starts

>Gaddafi is known for his involvement in Libyan football. On 6 June 2000, the BBC reported that Gaddafi had signed with Maltese champions Birkirkara F.C. and would play for them in the Champions League.[6] The move failed to materialize.
>Libyan football was arranged to favor Gaddafi. One law forbade announcing the name of any football player with the exception of Gaddafi. Only numbers of other players were announced. Referees favored Gaddafi's club and security forces were used to silence protests.[7][8]
>He signed for Italian Serie A team Perugia in 2003, employing Diego Maradona as his technical consultant and Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson as his personal trainer.[9] He made only one substitute appearance before failing a drug test.[10] An article in la Repubblica said that "Even at twice his current speed he would still be twice as slow as slow itself."[11]
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>Gaddafi joined UEFA Champions League qualifiers Udinese Calcio in 2005–06, playing only 10 minutes in an end-of-season league match against Cagliari Calcio.
>He joined U.C. Sampdoria during season 2006–07, without playing a single match.

Now this is nepotism

Rafinha and Thiago Alcantara are children of Mazinho, 1994 World Cup champion.

>Even at twice his current speed he would still be twice as slow as slow itself

What did they mean by this?

pretty sure he starts because Milan can't afford anyone better

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But Diego Forlán was good. He was the top scorer in Europe twice and he won best player at the World Cup and won a copa America

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There's nepotism in football, the managers, assistants, fitness coaches, academy directors, under 20 coaches, sub 18 players are normally linked to the owners of the clubs, national federations or the sponsors of the club. You only see the lack of nepotism in the players of big clubs, because they need to be good players.

>thiago
Gayest name ever seen desu

Busquets, his father was a goallie an awful goallie btw.

Pelé had a bunch of son playing professional/youth soccer.

I remember one of them was the goalie for Santos when they lost the Brazilian league to Botafogo in 1995. Last time I heard of him he was being arrested for drug trafficking.

Juan Verón and his son Juan Verón both won the interontinental cup, the highest title you can win with a club

Xabi Alonso and Juan Mata

>Morata is not good

Stephane Chapuisat. His Dad's most well known as the guy that ended Lucien Favre's playing career, while he's one of the Swiss GOATs.

They are brothers?

it's a riddle, the answer lies within the question

Did you even read what I was replying to?

Veron

>top scorer at Madrid while appearing off the bench half the time
>nepotism

Kys, did Morata cuck you as a child or something?