Monday, September 5, 2011

TRANSFERS 2011: ROMELU LUKAKU, The Dawn of a New Age

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ORIGINAL SPANISH ARTICLE



Football fans can see how every year there are new players destined to become stars of the sport. But as in the crops, provided there are years in emerging special players, those who will not only be top figures but also will be considered to be one of a bunch of world figures chosen. But very rarely, perhaps once every 6-7 years, witnessed the emergence of a historical figure, someone who has the opportunity to stay in the top 10 in history. That time has arrived.
Perhaps the first time in history that there is a player 1.91, ambidextrous, able to run the 100 meters in under 11 seconds, and at the tender age of 18 years and have two full seasons behind him with similar performance to a dedicated professional.

FEATURES OF YOUR GAME

His physical superiority is undeniable: He is taller, heavier and faster than 95% of the mills. Technically, a player is mature enough, it leads, controls and defines fairly refined, when they say it is the new Drogba is being compared to a player who did not exhibit the technical maturity until 23-24 years.
-At the tactical level has already developed the ability to read the game within the area. If you can face, faces collateral, if you can not play with his back to goal being his major guarantee of preservation of the ball
-The long-term weakness, injuries aside, may be its youth. It is true that he has exhibited professional maturity through the observance of his father, but stardom at such young ages is always a risk.
STATISTICAL LIST: Exceptional Earliness

In this table are some of the best strikers in recent decades. All of them or have won the golden boot, or are in the table among the top scorers in the Champions League history. We have compiled the numbers of matches and goals in the league during the first two years of college they played regularly, and the age range where they were during those two seasons:
In his last two seasons at Anderlecht Lukaku has played 70 games, scoring 31 goals, and all the 16-17 years old. When compared to the scorers table, we see that only Raul approaches its number of matches played, while being a year older. The only similar case is Eusebio but we are talking about a player playing in a team of Angola.

We have developed a simple ratio to calibrate the precocity of a goalscorer:

                 Goals / Game
Earliness =----------------------- x Games
                      Age - 14

To achieve high figures will need to be moderately effective striker, it is especially young and play many games. The fact that only contemplate the age from the age of 14 because the physical progression of a player is exponentially during adolescence.

The following table ordered the results of this ratio applied to players who are in a situation similar to Lukaku, ie they are pure center-forward, began playing in leagues and played medium usually before age 18:
 
Therefore, we can say that the striker Lukaku most promising of the last 25 years.




FORECAST

Lukaku comes to a powerful club that aspires to everything and is in the midst of a generational change and a league where players like him always have a place. Your coach is an experienced young revolutionary has proven experience as a motivator of young figures. It will be difficult if you dodge the injury does not become one of the best players in the Premier over the next five years.
Then there is the figure of his father, a man who did not consent that his son left for a foreign club until they had completed secondary education and learned the target language. From this point of view, not only will Romelu faster progression to other players, but has also been eliminating risk of failure down the road.
In these times when a new creed seems generalized soccer (teams with players ultracombinativos tight and more technical than physical), the emergence of a superclass of opposite characteristics, a team of different tradition to that creed and in the hands of a young coach may allow alternative ending developments tactical triumph


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