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The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/kibme37 on 2025-12-28 11:58:22+00:00.
Original Title: Vitinha “If you’re not faster, stronger, taller, you need to have other things. Your head has to think faster. Your feet have to be better. You have to anticipate a lot and position yourself differently. That’s evolution, like giraffes that needed to lengthen their necks to reach the food.”
“We have to work on other things to compensate for what we don’t have. And the opposite also happens with strong and fast players. Often, they don’t need to think, that is, they can afford not to think. They don’t work on that part and are usually not as intelligent. Why? Because they are fast and it compensates. A player who is fast and strong in physical contact ends up winning the ball in the duel. In terms of speed, he ends up beating the opponent. He doesn’t need to position himself so well. He doesn’t need to because he ends up solving it. Maybe they are not so intelligent because they never needed to practice, to solve, because they could already do it in other ways. In training, they were already faster, stronger. A full-back or a centre-back who is fast will probably make more positioning errors. A full-back, a defender who is slow will be in great position and be more alert, because they know that at the slightest mistake they will get caught. That’s how it is, it’s normal.”