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Originally Posted by lysglimt
some people seem to mix stupid with uneducated...l.
a lot of people call Rooney stupid, but as a en expert on tv here said. No stupid player can do the things he does - a stupid person would never make all the right decisions on the footballfield, it requires way too much intelligence for that
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I've always argued this.
Technically Wayne Rooney would be considered a genius for the things he's able do on a football pitch; the mental agility needed to take one quick look at a situation and then from that mentally visualise the various potential outcomes, picking then to play the ball so consistently into the right path so as to regularly initiate favourable plays for his team, all this mental calculation subconsciously and accurately rendered in an instant takes an extreme level of intelligence. Wayne Rooney is a genius of vision and skill, genius such as that of a master painter; and as you've pointed out, there's a big difference between intelligence and education; to an expert in the field of human intelligence a quality footballer would be considered much more intelligent than the vast majority of the disparaging public who believe those playing the game to be stupid.