The general aim of Bestplayerintheworld.com is two-fold: to enable fans to follow the best players in the world in a focused way perhaps not found in the daily news or on sports websites and to help future players become the best players they can be by exposing them to the performances, experiences, messages and lessons of the best.
While our Best Player tag cloud often highlights the top players in the world of soccer / football such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, increasingly our attention is broadening to other sports like cricket, basketball, tennis, golf and hockey and athletes like Sachin Tendulkar, Lebron James, Novak Djokovic, Tiger Woods and Sidney Crosby.
The term “best player in the world” is in widespread use throughout the sports world. It is the key term used when talking about the great players mentioned above and is a term that young, aspiring players often use. We believe that right now, somewhere some kid is saying to himself, “I want to be the best player in the world”.
Ronaldinho as a boy
Our long-term objective for this project is to build on top of our blog a community in which young players in a multitude of sports the world over will be able to develop a rich profile and forge relationships with other players, coaches, teams, sports competitions and organizations. It is our belief that while such a community will function within specific sports, it will moreover thrive on sharing across the sports spectrum.
The question we ask is: “What do the very best players in all sports share?”
And sharing is what we hope this project will be all about as we set out to follow and assist the current and future best players in the world.
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Quote:
Arsenal FC manager Arsene Wenger:
“Life is about performance. It is about hard work. If we live well in society, it is because people before us worked very hard. The guys who invented the vaccine and the aeroplane didn’t lie about. A little boy in a shanty town with belief, talent and attitude can become the best player in the world. With hard work.” (Telegraph)
Malcom Gladwell, Outliers, p. 285:
“They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky – but all critical to making them who they are.”
