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When you are a kid, it’s easy to get caught up in your own fantasies. You can day dream about having superpowers, find a cool looking rock and think that it has magical properties, see something totally explainable but think you’ve just witness a miracle. There are no ground rules when it comes to interpreting situations as a kid, and the situation in which these 55 kids were placed in 2013 was ridiculous to begin with. How would you react if you were seemingly between the ages of 7 and 10, and had to face two professional athletes? In soccer kids fail sometimes, but this a unheard of.
SWARM!!!. Photo: YouTube
I’m imagining what these kids must have thought — what must have been running through their heads — as they lined up to face Shinji Kagawa (then of Manchester United) and Hiroshi Kiyotake (then of FC Nurnberg), and maybe it’s just the music that was laid over this video, but I can’ help but think that they we’re all unbelievably stoked.
It all must have seemed like something out of a comic book. Here they are with 54 of their peers, about to attempt to stop these two professional athletes that might as well have been superhuman when it came to what they could do with the ball at their feet. I mean, that’s exactly the kind of thing that would have sent me over the top with fantasies that my brethren and I were brave warriors attempting to stop two demigods from achieving their goal.
Uhhhh, kinda. Photo: @DMRegister
Of course they failed horribly. As the video shows There’s just no way that 55 kids have the organizational skills to prevent two professional footballers form moving up and down the field.
Maybe try again in 10 years.
55 Teenagers against 2 pros. That’s something I would pay to see.
To see more kids gets absolutely owned by a professional, check out this video of professional freestyler Soufiane Touzani nutmegging pretty much the entire Manchester City youth squad. The players can't believe what's happening to them, and they're supposed to be the best kids out there!
Related: Pro Freestyler Touzani Nutmegs Every Kid At Man City's Youth Academy
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