Tag: Manchester United

Rio Ferdinand on Work Ethic

We often talk about sport for sports sake, or letting children play sport just for fun, but there’s one very important lesson that sport teaches us and it is the need to develop a solid work ethic to succeed in any field.

And this is what Rio Ferdinand, one of England’s best defenders, talks about here in this video. Speaking to youth at the Oxford Union Society on the importance of work ethic, Rio tells us that as players, leaders, managers and coaches, we need to be able to criticize ourselves first, before we criticize anybody else.

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Under-15 Indian Footballer Lives the Dream

The Under-15 winner of the Apollo Go The Distance Scholarship football program from India, Vanlalzahawma or Zoma as he is known, recently got the opportunity of a lifetime when he was chosen to attend a week-long residential training camp at Manchester United Soccer Schools in the UK.

While training with Manchester United, Zoma got the opportunity to get this click!

Zoma with the Manchester United squad

Zoma with the Manchester United squad            
Image Credit: Fever Pitch

Here’s wishing young Zoma the very best for a bright and successful football career!