The code of greatness in soccer

To describe a person, we need information from four sources: self code, characters, other agents and notes. I didn’t show you notes and other agents. I said you can roughly do it with self code and characters only. You will see.

Ariel Ortega is the first soccer player I liked and remembered, because the first soccer match I watched was Argentina vs. Holland in 1998. I still think his technique is no less than anybody in the world. With the top line technique, why wasn’t he able to achieve top line greatness?

Leo Messi born June 24, 1987

Rebel	Gourmet	Self
4	3	1
(4)	(7)	(5)
Pirate	Rebel	Gambler

Ariel Ortega born March 4, 1974

Comrade	Gourmet	Self
1	3	1
(3)	(3)	(5)
Comrade	Comrade	Gambler

Look at Messi and Ortega’s life code, half of their 6 codes are exactly the same. The difference is the other half, Messi has a good “Talent make Money” structure and Ortega has all Comrade for the other half, Comrade makes people alone, so Ortega is much more stubborn.

In soccer, the word “best players” refers to the best technical attackers, let’s see some best players in history:

Pele, born 21 October 1940

Rebel	Guardian	Self
7	3	6
(5)	(11)	(12)
Pirate	Pirate	Collector

Diego Maradona, born 30 October 1960

Pirate	Judge	Self
7	3	8
(1)	(11)	(4)
Gourmet	Guardian	Gambler

Johan Cruyff, born 25 April 1947

Rebel	Comrade	Self
4	1	1
(12)	(5)	(11)
Owl	Gambler	Gambler

Ronaldinho, born 21 March 1980

Guardian	Slaughter	Self
7	6	10
(9)	(4)	(6)
Guardian	Gourmet	Collector

Including Messi and Ortega I mentioned before, all of the best technical attacks I listed have one thing in common: their zodiac date characters are all Money. Money means Gambler or Collector. If you think this is not enough to prove that Money characters is the key for great players, maybe the next example will convince you.

Michael Jordan, born February 17, 1963

Gourmet	Collector	Self
12	1	8
(4)	(3)	(4)
Gambler	Collector	Gambler

What makes Michael Jordan so special? The answer is within his code. Jordan almost has the maximum Money: In his 5 positions he has 4 Money characters, and the other one is a Gourmet that supports Money.

Why Money? Well, Money is the element being overcome by the self code, in another word, Money means: I do (the self code is I; the target code is the object). Therefore it is a sign of accomplishing things. Money makes people practical, realistic, because it makes people like to do instead of to think. And therefore, Money makes people handy and skillful. I mean, you like to do things, of course you are skillful.

We learned that front line characters represents people’s surface layer, basal characters represents people’s deeper layer. What about the columns? Well, very briefly: year column represents your parents and ancestors, month column represents your career and sibling, date column represents yourself and hour column represents your senior life and children. So the zodiac date code which is the also called the spouse position (it represents your spouse, because it is the other half of the personal you) represents a person’s inward world: who they are when they are totally by themselves. Each of those great players I mentioned has particular personality but their Zodiac date codes are all Money, which means skill is deep down what they really like, craftsmen are deep down what they really are.

Let’s see the next group:

Cristiano Ronaldo born 5 February 1985

Comrade	Collector
2	5	2
(2)	(3)	(12)
Gambler	Pirate	Guardian

Ricardo Quaresma born 26 September 1983

Slaughter	Gambler
10	8	4
(12)	(10)	(6)
Judge	Gambler	Pirate

Denilson born 24 August 1977

Gambler	Judge
4	5	10
(6)	(9)	(2)
Collector	Guardian	Slaughter

Robinho born January 25, 1984

Collector	Judge
10	2	5
(12)	(2)	(7)
Gambler	Pirate	Guardian

These four people all have strong Money but their zodiac date characters are not Money. In another word, parts of them are men of skills, pretty big parts I’d say. But deep personal down, craftsmen are not who they are. These players are famous for showing off their skills too much. However, from what their life codes shows, they are show boats not because they like to show, but they have to. Although seem by us their techniques are not any lesser than the most successful technical players’ techniques, but there is a difference: The successful technical players are technical inside out, these players are not. Thus their techniques are actually not as good in a delicate scale, which is why they have to use complex tricks when real technical players can use simple moves in order to dribble past the defenders.

There is another reason: remember I said Messi had a good “Talent makes Money” structure? Talent makes Money because Talent is the character that supports Money. We can say that Talent is the source of Money. Money represents goal, success, wealth and target. So how does the self code control Money is how the person strive to make success. If you have Talent and Money, so the self code and Strength would generate Talent, and Talent generates Money. This is a sign of reaching goals in a natural way, like: success is not what I deliberately aimed for, I just do what I like (Talent), and I become successful because of that (Money). If you don’t have Talent to make Money, self code and Strength overcome Money directly represents a hard, confrontational way to reach one’s goal, like: I will fight for success. 

Look at Ronaldo, he has strong Strength and Money, so he is strong, has big ego, and pretty good skills. In his early career, he was trained as a dribbler, he has good technique, but his dribble was accused to be “fabulous but not practical”. He becomes more successful by changing style and becoming a powerful striker. Messi has strong Money as well as strong Talent; Ortega has strong Strength instead of Talent. His Talent is weak, therefore, he does things in the hard way. I often see him trying to dribble a well prepared defender. In comparison, Messi is more clever: if he cannot dribble this time, he will wait for the better time.

Except Talent and Money, Messi has a Pirate as the root of the self code, just like Pele and Maradona. Pirate makes people aggressive, arbitrary and likes to play the hero, therefore, it makes strong defenders. For example:

Patrick Vieira, born 23 June 1976

Comrade	Owl	Self
3	1	3
(5)	(7)	(7)
Gourmet	Pirate	Pirate

Claude Makelele, born 18 February 1973

Owl	Pirate	Self
12	1	2
(2)	(3)	(10)
Gambler	Pirate	Slaughter

Makelele has 2 Pirate in a column and Vieira has 2 in a row, and both of them have Pirate taking the command positions.

For attackers, Pirate is good to have, too. Because when you are strong and cocky, it will be like: “Yeah, I am doing it to you, got a problem?” it actually increased their ability to dribble. But if you have too much Pirate, you will be like:

Romario, born 29 January 1966

Judge	Pirate	Self
2	6	5
(6)	(2)	(1)
Owl	Pirate	Collector

Arjen Robben, born 23 January 1984

Pirate	Owl	Self
7	6	8
(9)	(2)	(2)
Pirate	Owl	Owl

We know how Romario and Robben play: after getting the ball, they dribble from their own half to the other half of the pitch by themselves and take the shot themselves.

Even in basketball, obvious Pirate makes player selfish:

Allen Iverson, born 7 June 1975

Pirate	Owl	Self
2	9	1
(4)	(7)	(9)
Pirate	Rebel	Slaughter

In soccer, young players who like to dribble all the way are often been trained as wing attackers. So wing attackers usually have obvious Pirate. For example:

Marc Overmars born March 29, 1973

Guardian	Pirate	Self
12	2	1
(2)	(4)	(1)
Collector	Pirate	Guardian

Joaquin born July 21, 1981

Pirate	Collector	Self
8	2	7
(10)	(8)	(1)
Pirate	Guardian	Rebel

Damien Duff born March 2, 1979 

Pirate	Owl	Self
6	3	5
(8)	(3)	(5)
Pirate	Slaughter	Comrade

We know that Talent is the source of Money, indeed it is. For example:

Andrea Pirlo, born 19 May 1979

Rebel	Rebel	Self
6	6	3
(8)	(6)	(11)
Rebel	Comrade	Gourmet

Xavi, born 25 January 1980

Gourmet	Comrade	Self
6	4	4
(8)	(2)	(10)
Gourmet	Gourmet	Gambler

Talking about similarities of players, I bet lots of people wants to know about Andrea Pirlo and Xavi, great playmakers who play the similar style. Pirlo has 3 Rebels and Xavi has 3 Gourmets, can’t be more obvious Talent is the most important character for this kind of deep-lying playmakers. They both have strong Talent and neither Authority nor Shield to disturb their Talent, and they both have Comrade to support the Talent. So we see Talent is the character represents the ability to control games, and create chances. Because it is the source of Money, Money represents efficient skills, Talent represents smooth skills, because it prevents you from doing things in a hard way.

Guti, born 31 October 1976

Comrade	Gourmet
3	5	3
(5)	(11)	(5)
Gourmet	Gourmet	Gourmet

People say Guti is very similar to Xavi. From the life codes, indeed they are.

Strength is the same thing as the self code, it would strengthen your self code, therefore, it makes people ego. The good thing about ego is: your ego is your inner power, when your ego is in control of your mind, you can push yourself hard to do what you want to achieve. Bad things about ego are, well, look at Kayne West:

Kanye West born June 8, 1977

Pirate	Comrade
4	3	3
(6)	(7)	(9)
Comrade	Pirate	Gambler

People say Kanye West is supper ego. Out of his five known characters, four are Strength. So people are right.

Ego is your determination, you need a big heart to win.

Wayne Gretzky, born January 26, 1961

Rebel	Comrade
7	6	6
(1)	(2)	(8)
Gambler	Comrade	Comrade

Wayne Gretzky has some technical feather (Talent and Money), but his main character is Comrade. Just like the next two players.

Bill Russell born February 12, 1934

Comrade	Gourmet
1	3	1
(11)	(3)	(3)
Gambler	Comrade	Comrade

And

Christian Vieri born July 12, 1973

Gambler	Comrade
10	6	6
(2)	(8)	(10)
Comrade	Comrade	Gourmet

So these players have some technical features, and dominant Comrade. So they have technique but most famous for their big hearts.

Want to see some real big ego players?

Alessandro Del Piero, born 9 November 1974

Comrade	Pirate
1	2	1
(3)	(12)	(3)
Comrade	Owl	Comrade

Arjen Robben, born 23 January 1984

Pirate	Owl	Self
7	6	8
(9)	(2)	(2)
Pirate	Owl	Owl

Paolo Di Canio, born 9 July 1968

Owl	Guardian
5	6	7
(9)	(8)	(5)
Comrade	Guardian	Owl

Gaizka Mendieta, born 27 March 1974

Guardian	Comrade
1	4	4
(3)	(4)	(4)
Guardian	Owl	Owl

Fernando Cavenaghi, born September 21, 1983

Pirate	Guardian
10	8	9
(12)	(10)	(1)
Comrade	Guardian	Pirate

Mohamed Zidan, born December 11, 1981

Owl	Guardian
8	7	10
(10)	(1)	(12)
Owl	Comrade	Pirate

Philipp Lahm, born November 11, 1983

Comrade	Comrade
10	10	10
(12)	(12)	(4)
Pirate	Pirate	Gourmet

Sebastian Veron, born March 9, 1975

Pirate	Collector
2	6	1
(4)	(4)	(3)
Pirate	Pirate	Comrade

Ego means strong inside. So they can be very skillful because of practice. But their skills are obviously different. Big ego players are usually either the Don of the teams or the outlier, that’s why this kind of players should be very careful making the decisions of transfer, because it’s hard to become the leader again in a new environment.

Having so many Pirate, Veron must be a badass. Is he? I think he is. According to Cannavaro, Veron was the leader in the locker room in Parma. We know Inter had a Argentina gang, Zanetti didn’t do it, Veron did, because he is the boss.

Giuseppe Sculli born March 23, 1981

Pirate	Pirate
8	8	7
(10)	(4)	(1)
Pirate	Collector	Rebel

Sculli is an Italian soccer player, he is also the grandson of Giuseppe Morabito, a notorious boss of a mafia. No evident to show that he is a mafia, but his personality does look like a mafia material.

This is not everything. I also wanted to show you: what trouble maker players look like, what bull dog fighter players look like, etc… but I decide to stop here because I don’t want to make it too long. Anyway, characters are very useful, that’s my point. Imagine I being a HR or a football manager, I can read people like a map, I can tell when will their prime be. It’s like playing game in a cheating mode.