Footballers skills seem light intelligence than might you think. Footballers skills seem light years from our own.
Stafford argues, the jaw-dropping talents on the World Cup pitch have more in common with everyday life than you might think.
The 2014 World Cup has already given us a clutch of classic moments: Robin Van Persie’s perfect header to open the Dutch onslaught against the Spanish.
Australian Tim Cahill’s breathtaking volley to equalise against Holland; and Mexican keeper Guillermo Ochoa defying an increasingly desperate Brazilian attack.
Footballers skills seem light intelligence than might you think.
Whether it a header lobbed over an open-mouthed goalie, or a keeper’s last-second leap to save the goal.
It can seem as if the footballers have access to talents that are not just beyond description, but beyond conscious comprehension.
But the players sprinting, diving and straining on Brazil’s football pitches have a lot more in common.
With everyday intelligence than you might think.
We often talk about astonishing athletic feats as if they something completely different from everyday thought.
When we say a footballer acts on instinct, out of habit or due to his training.
We distance what they do from that we hear echoing within our own heads.
The idea of “muscle memory” encourages this allowing us to cordon off feats of motor skill.
As a special kind of psychological phenomenon, something stored, like magic potion, in our muscles.
But the truth, of course, that so called muscle memories stored in our brains, just like every other kind of memory.
What more, these examples of great skill not so different from ordinary thought.
What’s in a footballer’s head?
.Whether it is a header lobbed over an open-mouthed goalie, or a keeper’s last-second leap to save the goal.
It can seem as if the footballers have access to talents that are not just beyond description, but beyond conscious comprehension.
