“Joga Bonito” loosely means: Play beautifully. It has been said that soccer is the beautiful game. I won’t argue with that.
I found a great couple of videos on Youtube today that I wanted to share here. Billy Wingrove watched this Nike commercial about the 1998 Brazilian soccer team at the airport when he was barely a teenager.
After seeing this, he was inspired to become like the players he saw. He felt that he didn’t have a strong chance to become a pro player, but he did aspire to a level of freestyle soccer where he could complete those moves. After years of visualization and determination, Nike released this video:
Just a great example of what can happen when one sets a HUGE goal and stays with it despite all obstacles thrown in the way. I love it.
