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What Is It All About
How to become a professional soccer player? This site is all about techniques and insights to make you a better soccer player. A lot of people want to become a professional soccer player, but there are limited spaces available. The information on this site could make the difference between a good amateur player and a good professional player. Although everybody wants to be the new Messi and Ronaldo. The truth is you have more chance of becoming a professional soccer player with a great attitude, technique, smartness, and physique. The choices you make when you have the ball and don’t have the ball are more important than any skill you might possess.
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.
Johan Cruyff
The Truth About Soccer
The data is not very accurate, but the chance of becoming a professional is slim. For youth players (22.000.000) there are about 113.000 professional positions. This is about a 0.5% chance. Data from 2006 from FIFA (The Fédération Internationale de Football Association) shows the following numbers;
- 270.000.000 soccer players
- 239.000.000 male soccer players
- 26.000.000 female soccer players
- 5.000.000 referees
- 39.000.000 registers players
- 113.000 professional players
- 16.000.000 adults amateurs
- 22.000.000 youth players
- 1.000.000 futsal players
- 33.000 beach players
- 105.000.000 unregisters players
- 122.000.000 occasional players
- 4.000.000 coaches, administrators, technical and medical staff
Soccer Is The Game Without The Ball
Soccer can be described as the game without the ball. Soccer players only have the ball around 2% of the time. During an average game, the typical athlete;
- Moves about 12 KM per game
- stands about 20% of the time during a game
- walks 41% of the time
- around 30% is in the low-intensity range
- only 8.7% is in high intensity
- 1% of the time sprinting
Why Soccersync
Compared to other sports, soccer is lacking a scientific approach. While most sports have a great number of specific coaches, soccer has 1 or maybe 2. Johan Cruyff, most of the best players in the game of soccer is quoted as saying;
Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.
Soccersync aims to provide scientific information to make you a better soccer player. Luckily, sport science is catching up with the soccer world. Soccer unions are implementing new rules (video, goal-line technology) and are more open to receiving information. Also, scientists are getting into the soccer scene. Look at the graph below of the number of studies published on the topic of soccer and youth.
Browse through the website and see what it takes to become a professional.