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Johnny J

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I hit Dele with it all the time. Most of the goals his misses are because he can't use his left foot (and his right ain't that great either but that's a whole 'nother can of worms I would prefer not to open again...at this moment :X3:).

But on our team name a right-footed player that doesn't utilize his left foot when necessary? Harry? No. Sonny? No. Eriksen? No. Dier? No. Vic? No. Serge? No. Are you seeing a pattern? Now let's look at the lefties use of their right foot - this is gonna be fun. Mousa? Lamela? Hugo? Danny? Jan? Davies? What's that pattern look like? Perhaps this is why you don't hear about righties because all of our can and do but our lefties don't or can't.

Look through the league and pick out lefties and gauge how much they use their right foot. You get some real humdingers like David Silva (who I love) but he does the 'Scotty Parkers' to get back to his left. Mata? Tadic? Sane? Ozil? Wilshit? Salah? These are real left-footed people that can barely walk such is their disregard for their right side.

You see, the issue IMO is that lefties are usually really 'leftie' whereas the right-footed players are always taught to utilize their left even if that teaching is perfunctory. Youth teams are usually so happy to have a left footed/sided player that they don't get the coaching reinforcement...IMVHO.
Well, this might be a shit analogy, but I'm left handed and left footed and was always encouraged to use my right, whether for writing or sports, when I was younger. Noone who was right handed or right footed was encouraged to use their left, because was seen as "normal" to use your right.

That probably stems from historical attitudes to left handedness: my dad was literally forced to learn to write with his right hand. Because lefties are the great exception - about ten per cent of people - I think there is far more pressure on them in certain aspects of their life to confirm to something more "normal", and i would not be surprised one bit if those sort of norms didn't find their way into football coaching and development.
 

heelspurs

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Well, this might be a shit analogy, but I'm left handed and left footed and was always encouraged to use my right, whether for writing or sports, when I was younger. Noone who was right handed or right footed was encouraged to use their left, because was seen as "normal" to use your right.

That probably stems from historical attitudes to left handedness: my dad was literally forced to learn to write with his right hand. Because lefties are the great exception - about ten per cent of people - I think there is far more pressure on them in certain aspects of their life to confirm to something more "normal", and i would not be surprised one bit if those sort of norms didn't find their way into football coaching and development.
For the forcing of lefties to use their right hands in larger society that is just backwards and I hope we are past that. Can you imagine the damage done to a kid by telling him from a very early age something is 'wrong' with him?

But from a sports perspective I can think of 2 examples where the lefty is 'celebrated' as it conveys an advantage to the player or team. Football being 1 and in baseball where left batters and pitchers are seen to have situational advantages. And of course the odd example of lefty golfer Phil Mickelson being a wholly right handed person but only playing lefty because he copied his father's motion while facing him, ergo a 'mirror image'. And at that time many golfers were turned around because left-handed clubs were scarce.
 

Johnny J

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For the forcing of lefties to use their right hands in larger society that is just backwards and I hope we are past that. Can you imagine the damage done to a kid by telling him from a very early age something is 'wrong' with him?

But from a sports perspective I can think of 2 examples where the lefty is 'celebrated' as it conveys an advantage to the player or team. Football being 1 and in baseball where left batters and pitchers are seen to have situational advantages. And of course the odd example of lefty golfer Phil Mickelson being a wholly right handed person but only playing lefty because he copied his father's motion while facing him, ergo a 'mirror image'. And at that time many golfers were turned around because left-handed clubs were scarce.
Cricket too, as the other team has to change their fielding positions, which is always fun.

And in snooker, being able to use both - though rare - is a literal advantage, because you don't have to use the rest and can play shots that you otherwise couldn't.
 
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Spurrific

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"You can only kick with one foot at a time, otherwise you fall on your arse" - notorious lefty Ferenc Puskás.

A very one footed righty we're all very familiar with is one Luka Modrić, who has such skill with the outside of his right he needn't bother with his left.

On topic, selling Érik would be madness.

Modric isn’t one footed at all
 

dagraham

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Well, this might be a shit analogy, but I'm left handed and left footed and was always encouraged to use my right, whether for writing or sports, when I was younger. Noone who was right handed or right footed was encouraged to use their left, because was seen as "normal" to use your right.

That probably stems from historical attitudes to left handedness: my dad was literally forced to learn to write with his right hand. Because lefties are the great exception - about ten per cent of people - I think there is far more pressure on them in certain aspects of their life to confirm to something more "normal", and i would not be surprised one bit if those sort of norms didn't find their way into football coaching and development.

I’m also left handed and I notice about the same age as you. Where did you go to school? I thought those attitudes died out with my parents generation as I was never told to use my right hand or foot.

Cricket too, as the other team has to change their fielding positions, which is always fun.

Interesting that you should mention Cricket. Completely off topic for this thread I know, but certain cricketers who you would assume to be left handed are actually right handers playing what is perceived to be the correct left handed way and vice versa.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/...been-holding-their-bats-wrong-say-scientists/
 

Johnny J

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I’m also left handed and I notice about the same age as you. Where did you go to school? I thought those attitudes died out with my parents generation as I was never told to use my right hand or foot.



Interesting that you should mention Cricket. Completely off topic for this thread I know, but certain cricketers who you would assume to be left handed are actually right handers playing what is perceived to be the correct left handed way and vice versa.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/...been-holding-their-bats-wrong-say-scientists/
Grammar school in greater London.

That article is interesting: Even though I'm left handed I play right handed, with a right handed guitar, because it always made more sense to me to use my more dextrous hand for fretwork, rather than picking and strumming. I would say I'm playing left handed, but obviously most of the world would disagree with me lol
 

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I loved coco playing for us before the injury, although I think we're gonna part ways in the summer. It's not about his performance on the pitch, but it seems like he still has some issues with adaptaion and is not super happy to live in London.
Lamela will leave if Pochettino doesn't want him. There have been a lot of rumors but the guy just wants to play football. If he gets back to the Lamela of 18 months ago he'll get a new contract. Meantime he's just as happy in London as anywhere except Argentina. I think he has a lot of love for Poch and will stay if wanted.

“I’m happy at Tottenham,” Lamela says. “If not, I would have left. I feel a part of the club, I’m at home here. I am not thinking about how long is left on my contract.”

I'm also glad that Guardian interview brought up the rumour some 'supporters' liked to push on here....

Lamela faced an additional issue, which comes with the territory of being a high-profile footballer and makes him smile broadly – the wild rumours on social media. “I will answer this question because it makes me laugh,” he says. “These things always get back to you eventually and I heard thousands of complete inventions while I was injured – that I’d tested positive for drugs; that I wanted to leave Tottenham. They were things that people had invented.
 

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Well, this might be a shit analogy, but I'm left handed and left footed and was always encouraged to use my right, whether for writing or sports, when I was younger. Noone who was right handed or right footed was encouraged to use their left, because was seen as "normal" to use your right.

That probably stems from historical attitudes to left handedness: my dad was literally forced to learn to write with his right hand. Because lefties are the great exception - about ten per cent of people - I think there is far more pressure on them in certain aspects of their life to confirm to something more "normal", and i would not be surprised one bit if those sort of norms didn't find their way into football coaching and development.

I’m left handed and right footed. Genuine head fuck.

I play some sports right hand and some left. Can’t write with my right but can play sports with my wrong hand better than the average right handed.

I am ok with my left foot, I put it down to my stance.
 

PhantoM47

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I’m left handed and right footed. Genuine head fuck.

I play some sports right hand and some left. Can’t write with my right but can play sports with my wrong hand better than the average right handed.

I am ok with my left foot, I put it down to my stance.

Friend of mine is right-handed and left-footed, too. Good footballer as well. He's never thought it as odd... which struck me as odd.
 

Colonel_Klinck

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I’m a weird mix of left and right. All left footed but a complete mix with hands. I write with my left, play tennis with left but serve with my right. Cricket bat and bowl right, darts right, snooker left. It seems anything that requires power it feel more natural with my right but precision I use left. I am quite ambidextrous for some things like darts, I can use either. With practice I could be just as good with my left. When I left school I trained as a plasterer. It felt more a left thing for me but my dad was right handed and pestered me to use my right as it doesn’t really work plasterers using different hands. Within a couple of days I was just as good with my right.
 

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For the forcing of lefties to use their right hands in larger society that is just backwards and I hope we are past that. Can you imagine the damage done to a kid by telling him from a very early age something is 'wrong' with him?

But from a sports perspective I can think of 2 examples where the lefty is 'celebrated' as it conveys an advantage to the player or team. Football being 1 and in baseball where left batters and pitchers are seen to have situational advantages. And of course the odd example of lefty golfer Phil Mickelson being a wholly right handed person but only playing lefty because he copied his father's motion while facing him, ergo a 'mirror image'. And at that time many golfers were turned around because left-handed clubs were scarce.

Rafael Nadal is also supposedly right handed, but for some reason decided to play tennis with his left arm instead.
 
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