Talent is also the ability to make what is complex simple – 03/21/2023 – Tostão

Before taking my psychoanalysis course, I thought I wouldn’t understand Freud’s ideas, because I thought they were too complex and that I didn’t have the knowledge to do so. With the teacher’s help, I was surprised by the clarity of the texts, which said what I observed in the world. I understood that even the mysteries of the soul had a logic. Freud brought order to chaos.

When I worked alongside Pelé, I realized that one of his main qualities was making what was complex simple. With few movements and gestures, Pelé reached the goal with ease, in addition to having an extraordinary technique.

When I became a columnist, a critic, I went back in time and tried to discover something that, on the field, Pelé had difficulties, that was not exceptional. I wasn’t able to.

The great writer Graciliano Ramos said that writing is the art of cutting words and that words exist to say, not to decorate.

Talent goes beyond skill, technique, creativity, fantasy and physical and emotional qualities. It is also the ability to make the complex simple.

The top scorer, like Cano, needs one, at most two touches of the ball to score a goal. The ball does not look for the scorer, as the cliché says. He is the striker who knows before others where the ball is going to go.

Neuroscientists say that it is a kinesthetic, spatial intelligence of movement. In a fraction of seconds, the player maps what is around him and calculates the movements and speed of the ball, opponents and teammates. None of this matters if the player does not have a great technique to finish.

The classic top scorer doesn’t need to dribble to score a goal, but if he also knows how to dribble, it will be even better, like the phenomenon Ronaldo and others. Messi, like Pelé, uses the dribble, always forward, to find the right moment to finish accurately.

Great players, especially midfielders, the brain and soul of a team, play without looking at the ball. See better what’s ahead. They act as if they were a drone, as if they were watching the match from above and, or, with a mega computer placed in the body. It gets easier.

The great defenders, like Thiago Silva, anticipate the pass and anticipate the opponents. They disarm and start offensive plays with a good pass. Everything looks simple. The goalkeepers learned to be more attentive, to arrive before the attackers in the balls launched in the back of the defenders.

One cannot confuse talent, simplicity, the ability to make things easier, with the vulgar, the common or with the lack of knowledge and critical vision. The theory, what is written in the books, is fundamental. Practice without theory is a gross simplification.

The ability, with a few gestures and actions, to choose the right moment to do things is also a collective virtue. This is Palmeiras directed by Abel Ferreira. The team, even when they don’t play well, do the right things. It doesn’t complicate. Score a goal and don’t let the opponent tie, as they have a great defense.

The best teachers, professionals with great theoretical knowledge, are not always the most efficient. It is also necessary to be a great observer, capable of making the best choices with a few gestures, making what is complex simple.

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