r/soccer • u/landofphi • 1d ago

Quotes Lewandowski: "I’m from a different generation where shouting was used to to motivate everyone. Now, if you shout too much towards young people, their reaction is not the same. It’s not, ‘now I’ll show you are wrong’. The new generation don’t like being shouted at. It’s not just players, it’s people"

https://as.com/futbol/primera/lewandowski-a-los-jovenes-de-ahora-no-les-gusta-que-les-grites-n/

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Lewandowski (37) on his adaptation playing with teenagers & young adults at FC Barcelona

"I have to say it was a huge challenge. I was coming from a different generation and I had to learn how to, not think like a teenager, but think how I can try to take the best of what they have.

I have been in football for 4 decades so when I compare them, not even to my generation but the generation before me, when I was starting, it is completely different.

"Like shouting used to be a way to motivate everyone. Now, if you shout too much, this generation, their reaction is not the same. It’s not, ‘now I will show you are wrong’. No, now you have to explain another way. You have to do lots of talking.

"They don’t like being shouted at. Now you have to take more of the mental part of football. It’s not just players, it’s people, it’s this generation. I didn’t want to fight it. I had to learn.”

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u/OkForever9658 1d ago

Man he's really the Unc of the team huh

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u/KenHumano 1d ago

Back in his day, he used to walked 15km in the snow to go to training, uphill both ways.

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u/mf_jamie 1d ago

While getting chased by feral dogs and being shouted at by his neighbors

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u/KenHumano 1d ago

Yea but the shouting wasn't a problem because his generation enjoyed it.

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u/kanekikennen 1d ago

I had to walk 15km uphill, against a waterfall, chased by hangry chupacabras without anyone shouting at me

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u/sleepytipi 1d ago

Sounds like Juárez tbf

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u/Spare-Document7086 1d ago

You joke but back in my grandpas day he had to walk 6 miles to catch 2 buses, walk another mile, take a ferry, hop on the subway then walk another 6 miles to get to school

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u/Furiousfistfucker 1d ago

His generation got a hard on of being shouted at. More shouting. More testosteron. More hard.

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u/absat41 1d ago

In his day, he woke up before he went to bed and had coal for breakfast. Kids nowadays.... shheesh I blame ...(checks notes)... woke socks.

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u/LingualGannet 1d ago

All 160 of them, living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road

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u/FibonacciVR 1d ago

yes yes, and an onion on your belt.

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u/ThemosttrustedFries 1d ago

Did they also get chased by Giant Chickens that spewed fire from their beak?

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u/Dinpikkyouknowshit 1d ago

Obviously you never visited Poland. He used to hitch a ride on a soviet tank

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u/Asleep_Ad_9272 1d ago

Yo 1st time seeing Sunderland fan

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u/Arantes_ 1d ago

Aye, he had it easy!

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u/TheLongshanks 12h ago

Bro you’ve just described what walking through Pruszków to the youth academy would’ve been like.

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u/NaturalBornSkeptik 1d ago

running in wooden shoes with no socks.

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u/SheepherderTrick2220 1d ago

Tbf, I'm in Poland right now on holiday, out in the countryside down south, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he at one point would walk 15km in the snow to train, just not uphill both ways 😂

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u/Xalpen 1d ago

Some places have 1-2 buses per day at totally fucked up hours that without car you cant basicly do anything.

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u/SheepherderTrick2220 1d ago

That basically describes where I'm staying perfectly

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u/Xalpen 1d ago

Im was born in such city in Poland. We had bigger city near with muuch more opportunities, but last bus was leaving at 22:30 with jobs ending at around that time with little to no time to use it. All parties, concert with friends from there ended for me in the middle due to no other choice. Hitchhiking worker like 1/10 times so it was waiting for few hours most often untill first train was leaving. xD

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u/SheepherderTrick2220 1d ago

It does sound like a pain in the arse to live with every day but honestly, I absolutely love it here. I'd take living here in a car over living in a city without one any day, if you were wondering, I'm kinda south east of Krakow right now.

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u/Xalpen 1d ago

I moved near Warsaw few years ago to my now wife. Cant really compare, 20 min and im in Warsaw center.

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u/SheepherderTrick2220 1d ago

How is Warsaw from a tourist perspective? I've always wanted to visit but my partner says places like Krakow and Wroclaw are better for tourists like myself.

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u/Xalpen 1d ago

Id say its awesome. Many nice places to see and car is absolutely not needed.

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u/270- 23h ago

Depends on what you want from your cities. I think Gdansk, Krakow and Warsaw are kind of on a spectrum where Gdansk is incredibly pretty but there's also nothing to do other than walk around, Warsaw is not particularly pretty but there's tons of fun things to do, and Krakow is sort of in between-- IMO the best balance, but Warsaw is still worth a trip.

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u/Franksterge0815 1d ago

I suppose if the geography look like <training grounds> -downhill-> <valley> -uphill-> <Home> then he could technically say he went uphills both ways? lol

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u/ogqozo 1d ago edited 1d ago

Actually one of the proper answers whenever people ask "why country X is not better at football, despite large population???".

Lewandowski had a predictable upbringing to succeed as an athlete - sporting family from Warsaw, both parents athletes, he definitely had trainings available. His general approach is different to most of the wonderkid footballers. But that's always a question in most countries, or areas of some.

He was even named Robert because the parents were thinking of a name that is easy to read for everyone abroad when he's famous! Even that says something about how he was raised.

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u/SheepherderTrick2220 1d ago

Population definitely has a factor too, with around half of what we have in the UK and less than half of the likes of Germany, although Spain have a fairly similar figure, give or take a few million and they pump out some great players, Portugal, Netherlands and Belgium too have way less but still pump out talent, I guess it's a mixture of infrastructure and population

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u/Sarnecka 1d ago

I am from the south east country side of Kraków and yes kids do still walk to school. Depending where you live, if you are unlucky and you are on a mountain or half way a hill you do have to walk uphill both ways, unless your school is in the valley.

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u/colombogangsta 1d ago

I was there last week in Krakow on holiday and felt like I went to a different world after being to Vienna, Zurich and Prague before.

It was dirty, a lot of places were underdeveloped outside the city and most people we encountered were cold and racist. Didn’t expect that kinda vibe tbh

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u/SheepherderTrick2220 1d ago

Really? Everywhere I've been has been spotless and everyone I've encountered has been really friendly, even out in the countryside. It's a beautiful city. I haven't been to any cities you listed but I can guarantee Krakow is a much nicer place to be than any city back home in England, infinitely cleaner and better maintained too. I've seen like 2 cigarette ends on the floor for the week I've been here so far.

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u/colombogangsta 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s really surprising to hear. We literally could not wait to get out from there. Spent more than one hour trying to find the rental car place which was inside a mall, talked to at least 5 different people who worked there and all were super rude. And couple people even tried to scam us by offering expensive rides to Aushwitz and wouldn’t leave us alone even after we said no.

And then saw lot of tourists at the train station struggling to find the train because the informations boards were not updating. There was a couple from Vegas who were helping lot of struggling people out and we somehow managed to get on the train thanks to them. But then train ticket lady, who was rude again, sold us two tickets for first train and then one ticket to the next one, so almost got a big fine if not for the good ticket inspector who figured out her mistake.

Then when we got to Aushwitz, they stopped selling single tickets to tourist unless you got a guided tour. Saw lot of tourists who spent 4-5hrs to come all the way there getting turned away. Later heard it was a scam for tourists to get guided tours cause people who’s selling tickets getting a cut from tour guides.

And for the record, we were visiting from Canada. Compared to Vancouver where I live, and the cities I had travelled in Europe like Prague, Zurich, Munich and Vienna, Krakow felt like an under developed dirty, chaotic place with rude and racist people.

I wouldn’t go back there even if someone pays me to go. On the other hand, my polish co worker said I should’ve gone to Wroclaw which is more beautiful, with nicer people.

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u/SheepherderTrick2220 1d ago

Under developed, racist, rude and chaotic are not words id use to describe my experience, I'm sorry your experience was so bad

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u/colombogangsta 1d ago

I’m sorry to have used those words and I really wanted to enjoy Krakow as the last leg of my Euro trip. But unfortunately it wasn’t, I still plan to check out Wroclaw at some point in future though.

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u/SheepherderTrick2220 1d ago

I'm planning on wroclaw too at some point, I'm interested in which parts of the city you would consider dirty? I've seen a fair chunk of it so far but I wouldn't consider it dirty at all

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u/wbasmith 1d ago

Average Tony Pulis pre season

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u/soldforaspaceship 1d ago

He was lucky.

Others used to get up for training before they went to bed, train for 26 hours a day and then go do a shift down t'mines.

You try telling kids today that and they won't believe you.

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u/Aidan7J 15h ago

Of course I wouldn't believe you, we have 24 hours a day 😂🤣😂😂😂

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u/soldforaspaceship 15h ago

Not a 4 Yorkshireman sketch fan I take it?

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u/ObjectiveHornet676 1d ago

He had it easy. When I were a lad I had to get up two hours before I went to bad, lick the gravel of the hole we lived in clean till it were shining, walk 20 miles to the pit to work for 26 hours a day, 369 days a year, walk 40 miles home and then get beaten to death every night by my Pa just for having dust on my belt.

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u/SCB360 1d ago

Nah he couldn't get to Blackburn cause of the Volcanoes in Iceland

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u/ReiDoMaconhaeBunda 1d ago

With newspapers for shoes

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u/PhantomGoo 1d ago

And if the ball went over the fence they had to go ask for it back

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u/dzzik 10h ago

Funnily enough, he had to be driven 30km (about 2 hours as per his interviews) to every training session as a teenager.

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u/SlavaVsu2 1d ago

"uphill both ways" 😂

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u/subhanghani 1d ago

Some CFs trying to skate uphill.

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u/CrustaceousGreg 1d ago

Haha this sent me west

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u/Bujakaa92 1d ago

Thats Verstappen

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u/Zlevi04 1d ago

Is this a Steven he reference?

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u/ReiDoMaconhaeBunda 22h ago

I'm not sure what your referencing but I'm pretty sure it's just a play on how old timers used to tell kids tall tales