The Story of The Defender Who FORGOT He Was A Defender
let’s pretend that you’ve always dreamed of scoring goals as a striker however your coach forces you to play all the way behind as a center back so what do you do well the answer is obvious just dribble the ball all the way up from the back by yourself and score easy right well not so much because as a Defender scoring goals are an incredibly rare and difficult opportunity to come by however throughout football history there have been rare cases of Defenders who scored over a 100 goals in their career with famous ones like Roberto Carlos’s
scored 1133 goals or Sergio Ramos who scored 135 in counting but even amongst them there was an anomaly a Defender who scored goals so often you just might think he forgot what his position was because with nearly twice as many goals as Ramos Ronald kumin scored an insane 252 goals in his career that’s more than players like Zinedine zidon and even more than Tony Cruz Luca modri and casemiro combined in fact he scored more goals than most top division Strikers will ever see in their entire career scoring so many goals as a center back that
there was even a season where he led the champions league as the tournament’s top scorer but to see how he would eventually become that type of player
are the greatest footballing nation to never win the world cup and they’re also tied for producing the most Bell Andor winners of all time and as a kid Ronald kumin would play so much football outside with his brother and father that his mother would literally throw them their food from their home balcony so that they didn’t have to come back in and eat and as he developed as a young player kman would find a passion for defending as he had Incredible strength despite not being except Al tall and his father would notice just how incredibly
powerful his kicks were for his age eventually going on to suggest and start helping his son to put that strength to good use continuously practicing what no other defender in his day was doing on a regular basis focusing on improving his long passing shooting free kick and penalty taking ability which will be very important to note going on to the later parts of the video on just how his career would eventually progress and over time his prodigious Talent would stand out even amongst such a footballing abundant country being that young and knowing what role you
wanted to play but still being obsessed enough about football to force yourself to go outside the box of what it means to be a Defender is really what would make the young Kuman so different he just truly lived and breathed the game but if you can’t get enough football and want to further surround yourself with it as much as possible then today’s sponsor Teemu could help you do just that and save money along the way teu is the perfect place to get exactly what I need at an amazingly affordable price they have literally anything you
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a match for the club and in his first season for the struggling Club he would taste victory only five times in 24 matches however even as a club struggled to dominate any match the young Defender showed himself to be an oddly gifted goal scorer finding the back of the net six times in his first season and at the end of his first year FC Gro again just barely avoided getting relegated only securing immediately 25 points the entire season but this would just Mark the beginning of cuman’s goalscoring Journey as by next season he would regularly
be included in the starting 11 with a center back managing to score an impressive 15 goals and provide six assists That season then following up in his third and final year with the club scoring 12 goals and providing seven assists actually helping his small Club secure a spot in the UFA Cup by now the unusual goalscoring Center back was slowly building a reputation in the air divy as a must-watch player with his incredibly unique skill set for the position and it was enough for Dutch giant aak to go on and grab Kuman to help boost
their squad there he would go on to win his very first piece of silverware his career with the 1984 85 Air deisy title and he would only further add to his trophy case with a Dutch cup title The Very Following season because kumin was not only scoring goals like he would every so often but he would also be an absolute wall at the back line playing alongside fellow Dutch Legends like DeMarco van Bastin up front scoring goals and Frank reard down the middle to connect the two making for an absolutely monstrous lineup because kumin would
go on to score a total of 31 goals and provide 19 assists in his three seasons for the club an absurd statline for someone who played as a center back because remember when I mentioned kin’s father had trained him to make use of his monstrous shot Power by practicing his passing penalty taking and free kicks despite his natural love of playing a more defensive role well that training helped kin’s on ball composure allowing him to Showcase remarkable versatility sometimes acting as a sweeper with exceptional vision and ball handling skills which made him one of if
not the most prolific attacking Center back in the history of football kumin was almost like a marksman who had this uncanny ability to shoot the ball from distance and it wasn’t your normal shot it was like a rocket launched into orbit the power and precision he put behind those shots made goalkeepers and Defenders hesitate while leaving fans in awe in fact kumin has one of the five strongest shots ever recorded in football history maxing out at 188 km an hour just an absolute Cannon coming from his right foot in fact when he would launch the
ball there were times he would even cause players to break down in pain from the sheer force of his shots I swear I’m not making this up and you can see for yourself but even with power kumin definitely had accuracy and precision as well if this was true especially when it came to his free kick ability by one unleashing a thunderous strike that could break through defensive walls or by two finessing the ball and curving it like a brush stroke making it nearly impossible for the goalkeeper to save it when placed just perfectly into either
corner and it was this blend of power accuracy and finesse that would really set him apart it’s almost shocking to know that a center back was this accurate consistent and proficient at scoring free kicks because you’ll almost never see any other Defender who could come even close to doing it as good as kumin dead because if you watched him solely from his goalscoring reels and didn’t already know who he was you’d probably have thought the man was a pure Midfield Maestro with the way that he would strike a dead ball but arguably the thing he
was known for best was no other than his insanely accurate penalty taking ability kumin had this amazing poker face when it came to taking penalties because on one hand he could approach the ball like a charging bull but on the other hand he would delicately place the ball into the bottom corner with a Simple Touch the Mind Games he would play with goalkeepers during his penalty kicks were legendary sometimes he would take his sweet time while at other times he would simply rush in you could almost feel the tension in the air even watching through
your screen as he approached the ball that’s how he would go on to score 111 out of 118 penalties that he would take in his career a mind-blowing 94% accuracy with both big moments and sheer volume to prove he was genuinely one of the top three greatest penalty takers in football history and if your life was on the line and absolutely depended on it having Ronald kumin be the one to take your penalty is definitely not a bad choice but beyond his setpiece and penalty taking Mastery kumin was like a maestro in the back line
imagine a a calm and composed Center back with the ability to read the game anticipate the opposition press and could still be an absolute unit of a defensive tank able to handle even the strongest and most dominant of opposition players he was truly one of the best options you could ever ask for in your back line but after his three seasons with Ajax he would make the controversial move to Rivals PSV however this was when kumin would put on the best displays of his skill scoring the most goals of his career and reaching his absolute
Peak because throughout the next three Seasons kumman would go on to score a ridiculous 64 goals and provide 36 assists in 130 matches that’s an incredible 100 goal contributions throughout three seasons or80 goal contributions per game as a center back there aren’t even many midfielders or forwards who could manage to average that many goal contributions kman would also achieve much more Club success with PSV claiming three aisy titles two Dutch cops and a legendary European cup or modern Champions League title I mean again if I were to tell a casual or maybe newer football fan
the numbers that kumin was able to produce as a center back they probably wouldn’t believe me he was so good that during these years he would also be named the 1987 and 1988 back-to-back Dutch footballer of the year which just tells you how dominant and respected he was even in such a stacked footballing generation that had names like Frank Reichard rude hulet and maroven Baston not to mention in his final Years playing in the a divisi kman would also help his Nation win the 1988 European championships being an incredibly crucial part of the squad even
infamously wiping his rear using the jersey of a West German player in a match where he would score a clutch game tying penalty that would eventually keep them alive long enough to win the entire tournament I mean just imagine that winning the 1988 Euros then going on to win the treble with PSV later that year in his final season with a club Justin absolutely insane Peak that would Place him fifth in Bell onor voting and with that kumin basically achieved everything you could within Dutch Football so after that incredible high he would move on to
the next stage of his career playing for FC Barcelona now FC Barcelona copyrights all my videos so I apologize if I try to show as little footage as I possibly can but anyways Coman would spend the most time of his career with the Catalan club which would be six seasons of only further continuing his goal scoring Legacy under his former manager and Yow Dutch alltime great Johan cro being a part of what would be known as Johan C’s dream team and to sum up his time with Barcelona kumin would have his biggest moment in club
football during no other than in the 1992 European Cup or modern-day Champions League final as it would be no other than the unusual Center back who would score the only goal in the final against zdor off of no other than a free kick just outside the box to hand Barcelona its first ever European Cup title yeah as hard as it is to believe it was no other than a free kick from a center back that would basically give the Catalan Club its very first Champions League title and during his six years with a club he
would go on to win four consecutive La Liga titles in the 1990 91 9192 9293 and 9394 season alongside three Spanish super cups one Copa del re and one European super cup eventually leaving as a club’s highest scoring Defender and helping usher in the beginning of Barcelona’s Elite history a true maest drone defense and a playing style Harmony of power finesse and strategic Brilliance from unleashing thunderous longrange shots to delicately curving free kicks and the perfectly placed penalties kumin was truly a Pioneer in redefining the role of a center back his unique ability to be
both a defensive rock and a goalscoring Phenom is a truly unparalleled anomaly till this day cementing him as the highest scoring defender in history and securing him a unique Legacy of a play style that we might never ever see again
