Vincent

Grace 🍀

Ecclesiastes 9:11

[Olumide Omotoso @Olu_Lumotz]

A lot of young athletes think confidence comes from positive thinking. My experience says otherwise.

Confidence usually comes from evidence. The more promises you keep to yourself, the more confidence you build.

Your mind trusts what your actions repeatedly prove.

[Vincent @vinny_J7]

@Olu_Lumotz Thank you sir🙏🏾

LWF/RWF
I use both legs

[Olumide Omotoso @Olu_Lumotz]

One reason many Nigerian players struggle to strike a ball cleanly and consistently has nothing to do with skills.

It is the surface.

A clean strike is a highly repeatable movement. The plant foot lands in almost the same position. The ankle locks. The contact point is precise. The body follows through in a predictable way.

That is how technique is built. Repetition.

On a proper grass pitch, a player can spend hours striking through the ball and brushing the grass in exactly the same spot. The turf provides feedback. Every repetition teaches the body what a clean strike feels like.

On many of our pitches, you are not sweeping grass.

You are trying not to kick stones.

The body knows the difference.

Subconsciously, players adjust. The plant foot becomes less certain. The ankle unlocks a fraction earlier. The strike becomes an act of compensation rather than repetition.

Over thousands of repetitions, that difference matters.

You lean back to protect the shin. You learn to survive, not to master.
You adjust, to improvise, to accommodate the surface.

You are not training the mechanics of a clean strike. You are trying not to remove your toes.

Ankles, knees, shins take constant impact every time you play on these brutal fields.

Then poor medical accessibility compounds the problem.

Limited or no physio support, delayed diagnosis, mean many players never fully restore the range of motion needed for a precise strike. They return with a guarded plant foot or a stiffened ankle. The technique never settles.

This is one reason football infrastructure matters more than many people realise.

The pitch is not just where football is played.

The pitch is part of the coach.

[Vincent @vinny_J7]

@tobyasky Yes sir... Still learning how to do the edits 🙏🏾

[Vincent @vinny_J7]

@Nsukka_okpa This is my first football edit 🙏🏾🙂
I gave the assist on the first clip, scored on the 2nd and 3rd clips

[Oyiga Micheal @Nsukka_okpa]

I’m looking for a player that I can put all my effort and resources in promoting till he gets to the next level.

Please, if you’re a really good player, I mean really good, paste your video in the comments.

I go DM you.

[Vincent @vinny_J7]

@GlobalEllah I'm active

[Vincent @vinny_J7]

@ChuksEmma947401 Interested

[Vincent @vinny_J7]

@Emarged Who hurt this guy😂😂

[Olumide Omotoso @Olu_Lumotz]

A growth mindset is not positive thinking. It is evidence-based optimism.

You train.
You improve.
You fail.
You adjust.
You improve again.

The belief comes after the work. Not before it.

[Olumide Omotoso @Olu_Lumotz]

As a footballer, take hope, luck, favour and grace out of the centre of your career strategy.

They can exist in your life. They just cannot be your plan.

Replace them with things you can actually work with:
Good preparation.
Useful relationships.
Education.
Visibility.
Performance.
Documentation.
Financial discipline.
Understanding contracts.
Learning how the industry works.
Building options.

You cannot control who notices you. But you can control how ready you are when the opportunity arrives.

Do not build a career around waiting for something to happen to you.
Build one around making yourself increasingly difficult to overlook.

[Olumide Omotoso @Olu_Lumotz]

What if the mindset you are defending so passionately is the very thing preventing your career from progressing?

I have met talented players who believe:

"Hard work alone is enough."
"If I keep playing, someone will discover me."
"Education distracts footballers."
"Nutrition, recovery and psychology are for professional players, not grassroots players."

The painful part is that many of these beliefs once appeared to make sense in their environment.

But life evolves.

The level you want to reach may require you to unlearn the thinking that helped you survive the level you are currently in.

Sometimes the biggest breakthrough in a football career is not a new club, a new agent or a new opportunity.

It is a new way of thinking about what football actually demands.

[Vincent @vinny_J7]

@Olu_Lumotz Fr😄
My coach noticed i like him, told me who I watch matters, although I loved him for the hunger he had before

[Olumide Omotoso @Olu_Lumotz]

https://t.co/sh3aChRhG9

[Vincent @vinny_J7]

@Olu_Lumotz Yeah I'm working towards it... Thank youu!