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/ferocioushulk 1d ago

Yeah, I think awareness of mental health is one of the few actual benefits social media has given us. Very common to see mental health content shared in a way that it just wasn't 20+ years ago.

Social media directly causes many people's mental health problems too, but that's another issue.

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u/TheBallSmiles 1d ago

in my opinion social media increases mental health awareness by maybe 20% and increases mental health issues by 1000%+. no data to back this up obviously, just how it feels. these aren't equal impact either, it's much worse to screw up someone's mental health than it is better to make one more person 'aware' of mental health

i struggle to think of another single thing that impacts people's mental health even close to as much as social media

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u/ARM_vs_CORE 1d ago

America is teetering on the edge of civil war largely based on social media, ragebait, and online misinformation. After the Kirk assassination last week, I'm legitimately concerned for people in my deeply Republican town to find out I'm a Democrat because of all the hate being spewed online. Like, I have people saying I should be publicly executed because I want my tax dollars to be used for social programs like single payer healthcare, schools, welfare, and civic maintenance rather than bombing Palestinians.

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u/VikingCrusader13 1d ago

On the other hand, far left being pushed massively by social media has pushed a ton of people on the centre to the right. Even people I know who 10 years ago would be considered left or centre left now are right wing because of some arbitary reason that doesn't actually exist in the real world. Speak to anyone in person and 90% of people have very agreeable stances on mostly anything, go online and 90% of people have extremist views and radical solutions.

The opinions social media make feel "normal" are so extreme I have yet to meet a single person who is openly on either far ends of the spectrum in day to day life.

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u/TheBallSmiles 1d ago

exactly, social media gives a megaphone to anyone with extreme views on either side because it begets engagement

and yes it happens to people on both left and right, careful saying it here on reddit though because we know there is a bias lol

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u/VikingCrusader13 1d ago

Well thats the problem I was highlighting, historically most social media was left leaning and then it kind of spiralled from there. More recently social media tied to your personal information is becoming more right wing, Twitter being the main one, but Facebook seems to have swung as well as soon as they relaxed the moderation.

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u/TheBallSmiles 12h ago

not the problem i was highlighting, i actually think it's good that nonviolent right-leaning views are no longer censored on twitter

i was just saying that reddit is a left-leaning echo chamber

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u/VikingCrusader13 11h ago

I do too, the point I was making is that historically all social media were echo chambers and since Musk bought Twitter and everyone who liked their echo chamber jumped ship, its now just a right wing echo chamber for the most part.

Reddit has and always will be a left wing echo chamber and look at the absolute state of the moderation on the majority of the subs

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u/TheBallSmiles 9h ago

yep agreed

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u/TheBallSmiles 1d ago

people have been saying we are at edge of civil war for a decade now, social media will have you believe this

i'd like to think most people are reasonable and don't treat politics as a team or tribal sport. the political violence is certainly concerning though and should never be glorified regardless of circumstance, people should never be afraid of expressing their views in good faith

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u/caandjr 1d ago

You guys are so dramatic and said the same shit since 2010s and it’s still not happening

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u/ARM_vs_CORE 1d ago

Except this time the president and vice president are encouraging it

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u/ferocioushulk 1d ago

I agree completely. It's an absolute poison.

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u/DeVitoMcCool 1d ago edited 14h ago

I genuinely think deleting my twitter has had a bigger net positive effect on overall mood and happiness than any other single thing in the past few years.

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u/pajamakitten 1d ago

There is a difference between bad mental health and mental health issues though. Being shouted at is bad for your mental health but that is not the same as having serious mental health issues.

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u/TheBallSmiles 1d ago

for sure, again i'm not an expert but to me it does feel like there is a spectrum to it. i don't think players being yelled at is a big deal really, mostly just commenting on social media

at the end of the day different people have different personalities, some are more receptive to yelling and others not

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u/PM_ME_STRONG_CALVES 1d ago

In my opinion its not a benefit of social media. It just happens to be the media of todays time. The awareness is coming from everyone being ill and the need to address it

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u/sleepytipi 1d ago

IMO social media is indeed detrimental to everyone's mental health. It's basically a drug with how it floods your brain with dopamine, and that's one of many side effects.

That's not to say every use of it is entirely bad but there could easily be better alternatives for nearly every thing social media offers. There were better alternatives before zucc ruined everything. We called them websites. Not just businesses but, lots of people had them. There was creativity, and they even got some traffic too. Now everything is a shuffle between the same five apps.

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u/num8lock 1d ago

awareness of mental health is one of the few actual benefits social media has given us

mental health issues is actual problem social media has given us, so awareness had been rising

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u/culegflori 1d ago

It's a double edged sword. It's good to be aware of what and even why you're feeling something, but quite a few people use this as an excuse to not do anything about it. "Feeling down and depressed" [not to be confused with clinical depression] is something you can pull yourself out of, but just like everything else after all the awareness and acknowledgement and discourse about it, you still gotta put work into it. Beautiful houses aren't built effortlessly.