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Bayo Adeyinka

26 Jun, 14 tweets, 3 min read

"NOW, WE EVEN TAKE PLAYERS FROM KINDERGARTEN"

He was only 17 years when he was asked to join the Inter's
senior team.

His older team mate Leopoldo Conti who felt
slighted that he was being 'benched' by a player he
considered too young to join the team, exclaimed, ' Now, we
even take players from kindergarten'.

It was Giuseppe Meazza's debut and he scored two goals during that match.

Meazza reminds one of David who took on a big challenge of
facing Goliath at that same age. His older brothers
considered him ill-experienced for the task because of his
age.

Meazza still holds the record for the most goals scored in a
debut season in Serie A, with 31 goals in his first season
(1929–30).

The year before, when Serie A did not exist, and the Italian Championship was composed of 2 leagues (North and Central-South) with playoffs, Meazza played 29 matches, scoring 38 goals at the age of 18 years. He scored 5 goals in a single game, twice in one season.

However, one incident reverberated around the world and will
remain etched indelibly in the annals of soccer and the World Cup. It was at the 1938 World Cup which held in France. Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini had sent a telegram to Meazza with a curt message 'Win or die'.

During the semi final match against Brazil, Italy was awarded a
penalty. The Brazilian goalkeeper Walter, who was famous for
hypnotizing his opponents and for saving penalties back in Brazil, arrogantly claimed he was certain he would save the shot.

Meazza made no fuss, but as he stepped up to take the
kick, his shorts fell down because the elastic around the
waist had earlier been pulled and ripped by a defender.

Meazza, without letting this stress him, pulled up his
shorts with one hand and shot past the confused Walter, who
was still busy laughing. His celebrating team-mates
surrounded him until a new pair of shorts were produced.

The goal sent Italy into their second consecutive World Cup
final. It was his last goal for Italy. The San Siro stadium also called Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, is named after him.

In 2 Samuel 6, David went around town praising The Lord with
the ark of the covenant. He danced so vigorously that he
became uncovered but he didn't have a care in the world.

While he was focused on praising God, his wife Michal was
more concerned about pointing out his wardrobe malfunction.
God took note of Michal's scorn and she was punished
bitterly for it. She still remains the only barren woman in
the Bible that never gave birth.

Life is more important than a temporary wardrobe malfunction. If you don't allow any distraction to get in your way, you will soon score beautiful goals on the way to victory.

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Prayer- Lord, turn every mockery into celebration for me.
(Excerpts from Champions Football Devotional written by Bayo Adeyinka & Paago Aleele 2014)

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