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Zlatan

Zlatan

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Xaviesta;3787131 said:
After his ten-match ban for biting Ivanovic, he had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration, the damage to the player is incomparable with that suffered by a horrendous challenge. Suarez knows biting appals a lot of people but it's relatively harmless, at least it was in the incidents he was involved in. When Ivanovic rolled up his sleeve to show the referee the mark at Anfield, there was virtually nothing there.

When he got home and saw the tv pictures of his bite on Otman Bakkal in 2010 he cried. His wife hadn;t realised what happened at that time. She said "What on earth were you thinking?"
Suarez says these moments, Ivanovic and Bakkal, happened in crucial moments for Ajax and Liverpool. At Ajax, their manager was going to get sacked and at Liverpool they needed to beat Chelsea to still have any chance of making it into the CL. Then again, about Chiellini, moments before the bite he had a great chance to score but he missed the chance. (I remember it). "We're going out here and that's because of me". It's suffocating. Liverpool sent a sports psychologist out to see Suarez in Barcelona after the Ivanovic incident and they spent like 2 hours talking about what it felt like and what was going through his head at the time.

Suarez is a very emotive guy, this is after he scored 2 goals against England.

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The short version of this story is: lots of people can't stand losing and that's okay. For an athlete that's even a pretty handy character trait to have.
Luis can't stand losing either, but to such a perverted and radical extreme that it gets scary. It's funny how this radical desire to win is the thing that makes him such an incredible player and at the same time such a bad loser.
 
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Filipower

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Yeah he definitely doesn't have more desire than many others and you don't see them nibbling on other people's arms.
 
Zlatan

Zlatan

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He doesn't have more desire than others, but his desire to win is way more perverted than any other athlete I've ever seen. He's just completely nuts and him being completely nuts is probably for a big part what makes him such an incredible player. The thing that makes you disgusted by him, is also the thing which makes you love him. I'm intrigued by that.
 
chygry

chygry

Starting XI
Whoa.. What's this? Talk about ways to turn a thread offtopic, and I haven't even been around lately!

Anyway finished reading Stu Ungar's book. It was good. Actually in a drunken state I discovered the "niceties" of online poker because of it. Not again. I'd quadruple up in 5 minutes then get bored and lose it all. Not about money at all. I'd rather play live with my mates than this shit.
 
chygry

chygry

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I thought you were over Luis Suarez after he left your beloved Liverpool. Anyway back on topic. If I was to read some biography on a footballer, then it would probably be Pirlo's (oh and Guardiola's latest one seems intriguing as well, I believe Shifty has praised it). Some of the paragraphs that have been available to read on the net have been promising, I really like the style its written in. Suits Pirlo's character really well. I suppose that's a quality read. Anyone here read it?

I held on to a Zlatan's book for two months that my friend gave me, never read it. Half of the book is already readable on the internet. Random articles, at least the most interesting stuff. Couldn't bother and never really been a fan of his.
 
Dytza

Dytza

Banned - Playing with Fire
I read Pirlo's, wrote about it few posts ago. I wouldn't call it an autobiography, more like a compilation of stories in no exact order, but it's pretty good and better than a boring reminder of scores and matches we all know anyway.

Dytza;3786686 said:
Btw, Pirlo's book is a good 1-2 days read at only 150 pages and it has a lot of funny stories about his teammates, without filling pages with bullshit statistics and goals you can get from wikipedia. Same goes for Zlatan, just that everything is more detailed and in a chronological order.
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chygry

chygry

Starting XI
Mmm sounds good then. Just like I thought. Perhaps I should read it then. Thanks for your input.
 
chygry

chygry

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Agassi? Do you follow tennis? I gotta order books over the internet because the local shops sell it in translated version to Estonian. Now I have to say I don't like my own mother tongue very much and I prefer English. Much better vocabulary etc. Well to each his own you know man.. I'd have to order the thing from Amazon which takes weeks to arrive - which sucks.

I read the bits of Suarez' one on Amazon which was available to read and it doesn't really strike me.
 
chygry

chygry

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Sir Didier Drogba;3790896 said:
I always wondered who actually reads these shitty sports (auto)biographies.
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Yeah most of them are shitty I gotta agree with you. But if a special athlete interests you then why not? The only reason I'm talking about Pirlo's autobiography is because I like the way it is written. At least the pages that have been made available to read on some sites. But yeah it's not something "I have to read", the Stu Ungars' book was one of those, but I'm just saying you know?
 
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