Bellingham: People have forgotten about the beautiful side of football where it's not all about stats

Josip Brajkovic
Josip Brajkovic
Published: 23.12.2021.


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Bellingham: People have forgotten about the beautiful side of football where it's not all about stats

Jude Bellingham is only 18 and will be a teenager for a year and a half, yet the midfielder plays and speaks with conviction and bravery few players do. Recently, he didn't fear criticizing the referee for the Bayern Munich match. Now, the young English footballer has called out the public in general.


Speaking about his picks for a theoretical five-a-side, Bellingham picked Zinedine Zidane as one of his desired teammates. Using Zizu to dish out a much-needed lesson to the audience that is obsessed with statistics.


"You talk about elegance, there's players that score a goal a game and assist, but I think people have forgotten about the beautiful side of football where it's not all about stats and you can just sit and watch them. I think there was no one that was better than him really in terms of that," stated Bellingham.


In that sense, football is truly in limbo between stats based viewers and viral moments influenced viewers. With the latter overestimating a player because of his good moves that went viral, forgetting it was only a moment in a whole game. Where the simple watching of the game is forgotten.


Another football figure echoed similar remarks around the same time. Yannick Bolasie, a veteran of over 100 Premier League games spoke that he often got praised by his surroundings for games in which he scored, even though he played badly in them.


"I’ve had games where I scored or assisted and played like shit and people who I know haven’t watched the game have called me and said 'yes Yannick sick game.' Man had to block them dons! Dangerous guys," stated Bolasie on his social media.


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  • 1
    Shuaib Yunus Hassan 23.12.2021. 18:38:12
    It's true , it's not only about to goals and assists. People especially in social media would troll players so badly if they do not have goals/assists in games and they do not care if he plays well or not.
  • 2
    Shuaib Yunus Hassan 23.12.2021. 18:38:44
    And on the other hand if he plays badly the whole game but gets a goal, they won't say anything.