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Freestyle Soccer Forum => Freestyle Chat => Topic started by: JerryFS on Aug 25, 2011, 09:58: AM
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Some fsers started off as footballers...how'd you guys get to quitting exactly? Like how'd you know you wanted quit, how'd you let everyone know, etc etc.
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yeah...i play football as well as freestyle but lately i've been thinking about picking freestyle......
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It was easy.
First, I quit kicking the ball into a goal.
Secondly, I told all my friends to fuck off.
Finally, I get ice-cream.
BAM.
I became an fser, My whole story in 6 sentences.
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Some fsers started off as footballers...how'd you guys get to quitting exactly? Like how'd you know you wanted quit, how'd you let everyone know, etc etc.
lol you're making this a big deal. The way you put it, it sounds like you're coming out of the closet...It's just a hobby. :great:
You don't really have to let anyone but your coach know that you don't want to play football any more.
Just like any hobby, you just realise that you're spending more time doing one over the other, and that's when you've 'quit'. There's no magical transition.
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I would it could be a difficult decision if you were good at football. If you are a top player who has a chance of getting a university scholarship or even a pro contract, you might have to come up with a sensational reason to quit.
That's unlikely to be your case, however. If you are average or shit at football and enjoy freestyle, then just quit football cuz you're not that good at it and freestyle is more fun.
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i was a football player last year =(
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football is overrated
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football is overrated
lol agree, we freestylers have the american thinking :P
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football is overrated
lol agree, we freestylers have the american thinking :P
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this thread is rubbish... if u want to quit football for freestyle, u just stop playing football.... literally the worst question ever
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some guys ( especially younger ones) can' t understand that there's no battle between football and freestyle.Personally i stopped thinking about professional football because of my injuries but i still train a lot,i try to be competitive but i always practice some tricks during training just for the fun of it.i can do simple stuff like tatw,matw,latw,timoatw ( i did my first atw back in 2000 when i didn t even know that it was called "atw") groundtricks and headstall tricks, i dont care if im considered a freestyler,but i know that im still a football player.
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Good point. There is no shame in being both. Unfortunately, the majority of footballers and freestylers don't think that way.
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I honestly don't think it's as easy as people in this thread are making out. For me personally, giving up football for freestyle was a big deal. Through playing together for several years my entire team were very close friends and we knew each others strengths and weaknesses to near perfection. So for me to suddenly announce that I was giving up football to pursue freestyle was not taken lightly. I was continually told by my Dad and manager that I was making a big mistake giving up football and that I was letting not just the team, but also my friends down. I was only 13 at the time, so to get told stuff like that had a big affect and made me question myself as to whether I had made the right decision. Many of my team mates went to the same school as me and were rather hostile about the whole situation. They'd mock my freestyle a lot and target me if we played football in P.E. lessons which sounds childish and pathetic now but at the time it was a big thing. So in conclusion, my decision led to losing close friends and provided a lot of added pressure with freestyle. However, I still believe giving up football for freestyle was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
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I honestly don't think it's as easy as people in this thread are making out. For me personally, giving up football for freestyle was a big deal. Through playing together for several years my entire team were very close friends and we knew each others strengths and weaknesses to near perfection. So for me to suddenly announce that I was giving up football to pursue freestyle was not taken lightly. I was continually told by my Dad and manager that I was making a big mistake giving up football and that I was letting not just the team, but also my friends down. I was only 13 at the time, so to get told stuff like that had a big affect and made me question myself as to whether I had made the right decision. Many of my team mates went to the same school as me and were rather hostile about the whole situation. they'd mock my freestyle a lot and target me if we played football in P.E. lessons which sounds childish and pathetic now but at the time it was a big thing. So in conclusion, my decision led to losing close friends and provided a lot of added pressure with freestyle. However, I still believe giving up football for freestyle was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
<3, must have been the motivation behind your success at lowers.
I gave up football because i had to move from one country to another and with the change of friends and everything, i found that i loved sports more than i lwanted to play football. freestyle is a sport which stays with you anywhere and also watching clips always fascinated me as a young child. it was not so hard for me.
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i just did both... although when i was freestyling more than footballing, and then i started playing football again it is suprising how much you forget, ive actuall yonly just got back playing football at a decent level
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I told my coach to fuck off
I knew it was right decision becuase Freestyle is much more fun 4 me, too many limitations with football, i hate being in one positition and it got boring being in a more pressurized team took the fun out of it, sometimes ppl tried and take the piss out of FF at school but when i improved they shut up
Do what is most fun for you, you live one life, but tell me you'd rather play football after watching this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3KdSQf5Xc&feature=related# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3KdSQf5Xc&feature=related#)
TF's story is very cool and somewhat resonant with me :great:
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Well said, TF. It's probably easy for someone to tell the coach and team to fuck off if they are not very good, or if you simply are not a team player. Freestyle is obviously an individual sport and might fit some people's personality more than others.
It sounds like Tom was quite good at football and a team player which makes the decision a lot harder.
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well actually i didnt say f*** off i used a euphemism lol
but it was to that effect
and they were important team
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I left football ages ago, before I start in Freestyle
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Randomly found this thread. Why does there necessarily have to be a choice? If you prefer freestyle to football, no problem. If you prefer football to freestyle, no problem.
Tom's story was kind of interesting. Fortunately for him, it has worked out pretty well. He has become fairly successful as a freestyler. Now, I don't think he had to quit football to do this. He could easily have continued with both, but that was his decision. I don't agree with the way he said his teammates treated him, but I understand how they may feel bitter. I've had friends quit football for different reasons, and most of the team felt similar about it.
The fact of the matter is they are both two great sports. Most of us started about playing or watching football in some manner. Maybe not all of us played on a team or at a decent level, but we kicked the ball with our friends or something. This enjoyment of football at one point is why we became interested in freestyle. Freestyle for some may be far more enjoyable now, and I'm happy for anyone that feels this way. I just don't like the whole Freestyle vs Football mentality that many have. If you don't like the other, ignore it.
Another point, Adi mentioned something on this earlier. Most footballers that dislike freestyle are the less technical and skillful players. Many times, they just plain suck at football. I think many of the freestylers that hate football either had a bad experience in football one time or another from a bad coach or they just plain sucked at it. Neither reason is a legitimate reason to hate on the other, so just ignore what you don't like and enjoy what you do like.
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15 years football. Told everyone to fuck off and went full nerd for a year. Then started fs'ing
edit: nice necrothread :p.
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Yeah, I still wonder what the fuss is about... you can do freestyle, football, or just do both. You don't have to choose really. What's wrong with doing both... that is if you enjoy both.
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15 years football. Told everyone to fuck off and went full nerd for a year. Then started fs'ing
edit: nice necrothread :p.
same here
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Yeah, I still wonder what the fuss is about... you can do freestyle, football, or just do both. You don't have to choose really. What's wrong with doing both... that is if you enjoy both.
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I'm also not a fan of this whole "I told my coach or I told everyone to fuck off" mentality. Well, I strongly doubt you told anyone that, and if you did, it does not make you cool. It makes you seem like a loser.
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Coach was a huge jackass, team was full of idiots that hardly bothered showing up and couldnt reach a levelworthy of being called football player.
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I still play football and just fs in my sparetime...no problem with that :)
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Coach was a huge jackass, team was full of idiots that hardly bothered showing up and couldnt reach a levelworthy of being called football player.
You can fix the first two things if you're any good. Just switch teams. :great:
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You can fix the first two things if you're any good. Just switch teams. :great:
Good point. I've had many dick coaches in my football career. I even actually did tell my highschool coach to suck my dick senior year. I quit the team, but I didn't quit football. I just played men's league, and I already had a soccer scholarship.
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It was easy.
First, I quit kicking the ball into a goal.
Secondly, I told all my friends to fuck off.
Finally, I get ice-cream.
BAM.
I became an fser, My whole story in 6 sentences.
lol... that's a nanotale :grin: :grin: :grin:
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imo doing both seriously is damn hard. I dont know if i am still motivated to go out and train freestyle when i go to school having 3 times training and at every weekend a match :D After 2 bad injurys lying about 3 months just in the bed becauese i cant move my leg(still the reason cant train wf) i watched a palle vid and decided to try freestyle and stop football.. One of the best things about freestyle is to train when you want!