Asian soccer star, London – With all the games in the last 16 done and dusted the quarter finals of world cup 2010 should hopefully provide the world with the much awaited footballing extravaganza.
And I say that with great hope.
So far, world cup 2010 has been a great disappointment with most of the 'big players' failing to perform. The games have lacked the ambition and fluidity that we have been accustomed to in past world cup finals.
But there are plenty of lessons to be learned, especially for anyone that wants to play professional football and realise their dream of becoming an Asian soccer star.
You see, every kid has dreams of playing professional football but very few make it.
Even those kids, and that is the majority, with real outstanding talent never get scouted or get dropped by the professional club academies and centres of excellence if they don't seem like they're not making the grade.
Getting scouted and dropped is in the hands of other people who have their own club and budgetary pressures as well as their own ideas of which kids are likely to make it in the professional game.
To a large extent they also have their built-in bias to profile and stereotype players before the kids have a chance to settle in and really shine; that's if they get to trial in the first place.
Asian kids already have it tougher than most to get a foothold because of this stereotyping which is precisely why asiansoccerstar.com has been increasing in readership month after month.
Any kid aiming for that goal of becoming an Asian soccer star needs to train harder, longer and smarter than they can imagine. They need to work on their mental toughness and have an unrelenting hunger, desire and ambition to succeed.
Asian kids need to be learning all the time from each training session, each match and every match they watch. World cup 2010 has provided many opportunities to learn; about determination, grit, ambition, desire, hunger and the will to win. They also need to learn about nutrition, psychology and develop their awareness.
Many of these skills can be developed away from the football pitch in every day life.
So far most of the world cup 2010 finals teams have drawn a blank in many of these crucial areas with players and teams under-performing to their potential; France, Italy and England being the worst culprits.
The South American teams have fared better but we expect more of them in the quarter finals.
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