It seems like a news coming out of the cartoons about football that aired during the 80 / 90 years and instead of pure reality. A reality that undoubtedly snatches a smile, but that would involve a team of Primera C, the fourth division of Argentina, the South Dock in fact, whose training methods, at least those dedicated to goalkeepers, appear somewhat bizarre.
South America is known, it is the land of excesses, and football is no exception. Usually it is the world of the fans that makes us talk about themselves, and while for example in the "old continent" Italy included, the extreme fringes of the typhus face often and willingly in battles made mostly of fistfights, bolts or throwing objects , in South America it is not rare that there are even shootings among the contenders. Fortunately this is not the case, and the reason for the news in question involves the field and the competitive activity. More in detail it concerns the training of the players, especially that of goalkeepers.
Hanging upside down, placed behind barriers of fire, forced to dive into real pools of water and mud and many other physical tests extreme, no doubt better suited to training soldiers of special military bodies rather than football players .
This is what happened in the Dock Sud Sports Club, a group founded in the distant 1916 that has as its headquarters the city of Dock Sud, in the district of Avellaneda, belonging to the province of Buenos Aires. The goalkeeper coach Diego Svery was using the marine instructor methods, which he made recently public, seriously embarrassed El Chapa, who immediately took all responsibility, exonerating the club that would have been unaware of the bizarre training methodology adopted. "Sacrifice, will, passion are the keys", this was published by the coach on his social pages, but probably must be excessively beyond.
Boys who have to train in the mud, reject balls rebounded on tires and, worse, hanging upside down or through curtains of fire. In short, a training by raiders, rather than goalkeepers. The criticisms were understandably heavy. "I realize that everything that has been published is my entire responsibility, since the club did not give me the authorization to carry out these practices and they were also carried out outside the institution two years ago (2016). I apologize with the management committee from the South Dock Sports Club, with the coordinators and the comrades if you caused any damage. I've never meant to hurt anyone, let alone the boys. I would say that I am a fan of football and I take an example from the training of goalkeepers from abroad and I regret it again if I damaged someone, because it was never my intention. I hope they know how to understand me ".
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