A call for help - Be Pro Athlete

PROPOSAL— A CALL FOR HELP

To whomever this reaches,

my name is Youssef Bayoumy. I‘m posting this because I’m on the very verge of giving everything up. This is a vulnerable call for help by just sticking through to my last word.

Six years ago I dropped engineering school to persue a professional football career— if I‘m completely honest, not just a normal professional career, a wanted the Balon D‘or. A naive goal at the time for a non-professional 26 years old who has been disallowed by several doctors to play any running or contact sport again. Without going through my hurdles and challenges I faced and without further ado, I chased my dream in Germany, Austria, Malta, Greece and lately Italy.

At first I tried to calculate the training hours of an average professional football player and make up for the gap on my own by a daily six-hours training schedule. That obviously did not work and my body broke down even more. Besides, I had to work to sustain and travel around trials, which was practically impossible with this schedule.

By these metrics even if I had the previlage of putting in six hours of training daily, reaching the “best in the world“ neavue would’t be enough.

The gap between an amateur player and an elite footballer in terms of rehabilitation, recovery, nutrition, training facility, massage and saunas and what not is synonymouse to their training hours advantage. Even if I was offered all these advantages at this moment, making it from amateur level to a World Cup final is impossible without something extra and totally new. A hidden gem or a secret formula— a revolutionary shortcut.

The Current Athletics Trajectory

It’s a given fact that humans advance athletically in correlation with time, technology and research. Even though the level of competition and performance demands rise with time, the average retirement age still keeps up with it; in fact, it even increases. Players like Kazuyoshi Miura still play today in a professional level at the age of 57. On the other side, players like Lamine Yamal as young as 16 years old are conquering Europe. With this projection, a time will come where age gaps are insignificant. A time where a 70 years old man can play football in the level of today’s 20 years old professionals. Maybe not in the next decade but in a century or two for sure.

The possibility is there and we are heading towards it. But what if there is a shortcut? A ways to bring us there faster? A way to bring 2074‘s football and athletic levels to our present. One where a 31 years old amateur player plays his way to the world cup final in two years. This is what I am trying to find out and work on with my creative methods— unorthodox outside-the-box problem solving techniques.

The Formula

Firstly, I strongly believe I have a professional level skill set [but lack a proper CV, Transfermarket profile and strong contacts/agents that can put me in that level], but most importantly I poses the cognitive creativity, observation and problem solving skills to find my way to the highest levels of performance through eye-opening new means of training and play.

Why am I on the verge of giving up?

“He had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses— ever makes it alone“

These are Malcolm Gladwell’s words on Christopher Langan the extraordinary man with an IQ higher than Einstein and why he did not achieve the “success“ that other geniuses like Oppenheimer achieved in their times.

This is my sad reality. I‘ve failed to proof myself and will continue failing if I only have myself.

When Maradona wanted to play in the 1994 world cup midst his drug addiction and being outside the football field for 15 month and 12 kilos overweight, he called upon Fernando Signorini. Despite his innate ability, being history‘s most gifted player and his sheer will to play this world cup, he would have never made it back to the squad alone.

In the same year Micheal Jordan was only able to change his career and body mechanics from basketball to Baseball with the help of his personal trainer Tim Groover.

Today James Rodrigues played less than 10 matches in the last 8 month for Sao Paolo before calling the Colombian federation asking for a psychologist and a physical trainer to prepare him for the Copa America one month before it starts. James with help of his coaches went to the final, won player of the tournament, scored one, assisted six and won 4 MOTM and best player of the tournament at 33 years.

Mike Tyson had Cus D‘Amato.

Every single elite athlete had their fair share of help, opportunity and legacy around them.

“Practise isn‘t the thing you do once you‘re good. It‘s the thing you do that makes you good.“—Malcolm Gladwell also said. I need the privilege of practice. Kicking a ball on a wall is not enough. Playing with amateur teams is not enough. Eating nutritionally poor and inflammatory foods on my budget is not enough. Having to work for bread instead of training is not enough.

But most importantly, getting all the practice privilege there is, is still not enough. I need supporting people that help me seek and implement this revolutionary formula.

The Proof

Before I ask for help, sponsors, or anyone to go in this battle with me, I have to proof that I have at least some promising elements to bring to the table. Otherwise who am I but one of many millions sharing the same naive dream.

Part I: The Theorist

Here I display a glance into my theories to give an idea of my problem-solving style and vision.

One way I do this is by deconstructing elements of athleticism or the game and try to excel in them by connecting certain dots according to my understandings. Here for example is how I breakdown how to implement Steph Curry’s basketball shooting ability in football:

Integrating Basketball Shooting into Football

Other Problem-solving notes and observations:

Experiment #1.

Experiment #1 Update— Dancing Sober.

Volleyball (a shortcut to exeling in headers).

Shooting (active vs tense)— How you finish is how you breath.

PRI: Post Restoration Institute— sessions notes with Kazufumi.

Other unarticulated and unedited work:

*DNS: The Prague School and Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization— Sessions with Dr. Federico Luzi.

*Dribble Theory— The single-leg dribble.

*Dribble Theory— Leg extension agility

*Dribble Theory— The hidden reason behind Messi‘s signature feint.

*Dribble Theory— the cross-over.

*Dribble Theory— a tactical page for American Football play book.

*Stance: What makes Zidane and Bellingham great.

*Pubic Floor— The Key Flow.

*Timelessness— The Wait.

*Timelessness— Implementing Boxing Vision to Football.

*Tactical Open Mindness: Escaping the chess-like movement roles to more peculiar plays.

*The Pause: The denied truth of non training progression. (Ronaldo, Sancho and MJ.)

not only do I lack the privelage of time to implement all my exercise theories due to work and lack of personal trainers, I also lack the finances.

I do not have the luxury of professional training facilities, personal, recovery and performance technology. I also currently do not have the privilege of training time due to work times. Last but not least the things listed in my training theories are not free. One session with Kazufumi for example cost me 200 euros and 150 with Dr. Federico. Boxing classes are not free nor a bag full of volleyballs.

Physiotherapy when I was injured including shockwave therapy and other have cost me thousands the past years. All the money I made on side hustles like food delivery went straight to my football journey. I have nothing left and my financial system does not work to sustain my athletic journey. Therefore I need help and hence my proposal.