Vieri: Striker Nowadays Need Instagram to Be Considered Great

DBasia.news – Social media influence in this millennial era is really huge. Comparing the current situation with the past is really different. Senior football player, Christian Vieri, criticized the football players nowadays.

At the end of the 90s and beginning of 2000s, Serie A was the king of world football with biggest fans worldwide, including Indonesia. There were so many ‘artists’ in Serie A that made the competition far from boring.

Christian “Bobo” Vieri was one of the artists in that golden era. He scored 200 accumulative goals from his performance with Juventus, Lazio, and Inter Milan. Vieri compared the current football player with his era and created a unique theory.

“Nowadays you just need a good Instagram to be a striker. You don’t need to score 30 goals anymore. No need to score every Sunday,” Vieri criticized football players nowadays, reported by Football-Italia.

“Before, if you didn’t score then you locked yourself indoors, went back out the following day to review the mistakes you made and try to improve.”

“That doesn’t happen anymore. We were sick, all my generation, especially strikers. We were sick for goals,” Vieri complained.

Social media is often becoming the escape for professional football players in this modern era when they are declining. Just like a two-eyed knife, despite their boosted confidence, they often overlooked the mistake and don’t fix it and get satisfied easily.

Moreover, Vieri guaranteed that he still remembered his goals in Serie A and also the opportunities that he couldn’t convert to be the goal.

“I wanted to start fights with everyone. I scored about 140 goals in Serie A and, more or less, I remember them all, even the chances I missed,” the Italian football expert concluded.