They say that Jack Grealish, on Manchester City, had trouble placing England on a map of England.
This is one of the examples cited to perpetuate that stereotype, false without a doubt, that athletes, and specifically the players, are rather inconvenience and have few lights.
There are many other cases. Mohamed Anas, from Ghana, said at a press conference after a match that was very grateful to his wife and his lover. He rectified to highlight that he loved the first.
Mario Balotelli set fire at home after deploying fireworks in the sink and is also famous for Paolo Di Canio in which he referred to his rival Francesco Totti. “If you tell Totti that there is tension in the Middle East, he will assume that there has been fighting on the right side of the midfield.”
Lamine Yamal celebrates Lewandowski’s goal, yesterday at the Olympic Stadi against Alavés
That said, and many other derogatory cases, David Brooks, columnist of the The New York Times Specialized in behavior, attack the topics. “We all know that people with a high intellectual coefficient behave as silly as a stone,” he wrote. “I do not think that there are stupid people, but stupid behaviors and as the Italian historian and philosopher Carlo Cipolla on one occasion, ‘the probability that a person be an idiot is independent of any other characteristic of that person’.”
Well, that, despite high profile errors, a recent study, in which the University of Oxford has participated, confirms that the players ( Soccer in the United States) they have a very high memoristic capacity, executive functions and other cognitive abilities. The work concludes that they have high intellectual coefficients, although they do not submit to the tests.
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It is one thing to receive education – this chronicler, in his childhood, fascinated Gárate, center forward of Atlético de Madrid, industrial engineer and elegant type – and another being intelligent.
“When you want to drive, you need to see quickly what the defense is doing and act in advance,” the study authors emphasize.
If there are many examples for the bad – what a patent thing about Maradona -, the most current case embodies that 17 -year -old boy, still growing, called Lamine Yamal. That deployment of display, dribbles, movements or passes that exhibited in front of Alavés are only available to someone very skilled, but also intelligent, with that ability to intuit situations before anyone else. Faced with stereotypes, Lamine.
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