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My Reply to a Great Comment on The Purist Football’s “How Morocco made the World Cup semi-finals| Tactical Analysis” Video

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Tarnished Pose commented:

Strats and tacts [sic] aside. This team seems to be the only one with players that have understood a key thing. That every match in the tournament could be their last. That this is it for them. This is the moment where they have to leave everything on the pitch so even if they lose, they know they tried their very best. That there’s nothing more important in their professional football career that these matches that they’re playing right now. There’s no energy saving. There’s no playing soft thinking in the future. If they feel tired, they’d head down and keep going. No excuses.

Is there any other team in the WC with players that have shown such sacrifice?

And some may argue that some things come down to “luck”. But what’s even that? A sort of cosmic force? A power people can channel after doing certain things? No. Luck’s just an excuse. It doesn’t exist. What exists is coincidence and cause and effect. One event leading to another, creating a sequence which if enough coincide it ends up in a scenario which just so happens to play out in one’s favor, in spite of there being no immediate logical explanation as to why it did play out that way.

But if some people will take credit away from this team for “getting lucky”, then they we should do that with everyone of us and everything that we do in our lives. Cause if we are realistic, it doesn’t matter how good we become at something, at the end of the day, what we’re really doing is to merely reduce the margin of error to the minimum possible. Especially in a game like this, where no matter the pre match [sic] training and planification [sic] and all that, nothing is ever set in stone. But what is now set in stone, though… is that, “lucky” or not, this Morocco team made history.

My reply:

Very well said! Morocco, this year, has taken advantage of European football’s obsession with possession, so to speak, which has worked wonders so far, which reminds me of that scene in the Matrix where Neo tried to impress Morpheus by trying a surprise attack from behind, but Morpheus was so ready for him, and ended up kicking him in the chest. Neither VAR nor luck was ever on our side, which always resulted in an inferiority complex where every Moroccan before the current World Cup in Qatar would laugh at the idea of Morocco even making it to the clash of 16, let alone the semi-finals — the fact that Pepe complained about the referee instead of just admitting defeat was very hilarious, and ironic to watch, while his teammate was very reasonable. A lot of people have been proven wrong again and again this year, and I like how both the coach Regragui, and the goalkeeper Bono said, and I paraphrase, “We’re here to change the mentality that Moroccan players are inferior to others.” Morocco hasn’t just made history soccer-wise, but this proves that “anything is possible” isn’t just a pathetic platitude; it is the ultimate universal truth.

Just a simple example, at one point in my life, I played Pro Evolution Soccer every single day against Real Madrid in legendary mode; they had my ass handed to me at first, but later on, I learned their patterns, and they rarely won again. Ironically, the day I defeated them 7-4 in a 30-minute match, I stayed up until 8AM while being super hungry, thirsty, and sleepy, then I slept like a baby afterwards. The point here, of course, isn’t that I have no life, mind you; it’s that, “You can do anything you set your mind to, man.” Like Eminem said. After a while, I stopped playing PES, and yet when I played against a real person (my best friend at the time), for the first time ever, I scored 25 goals (while he scored 3) to the point where he was kind of traumatized (in a funny way) by the name Edinson Cavani, so the way the Arab commentator said that player’s name became kind of a “meme” or inside joke between us. I honestly have never seen my muscle memory being on steroids — so to speak — like that before, knowing that it was around 6AM, and I was once again hungry, thirsty, and sleepy.

It’s really amazing what people can do once they stop with the insecurities that are usually self-inflicted, if you will, because unless racism or lack of opportunity can literally cause you death, there’s nothing really stopping you from getting better and better at whatever it is you would like to become good at, especially if you fight tooth and nail to get past what I call “the [learning] pain threshold“.