Ben Davies names three of the most intelligent players at Tottenham
Ben Davies has insisted that, contrary to popular perception, there are quite a few intelligent footballers going around.
Davies is undoubtedly one of the most intelligent players in the Tottenham dressing room given his academic achievements,
The Welshman is always well-spoken during interviews and the likes of Dele Alli and Eric Dier nominated the left-back as the smartest player at Spurs in their interviews with Sky Sports’ Soccer AM.
Steven Bergwijn even told Tottenham’s official Twitch channel recently that he would choose Davies as his partner to be stuck on a deserted island with as the former Swansea man would give him the best chance of escaping.
The Spurs defender has an economics degree from the Open University but admitted that he is not quite sure what to do with at this point.
Davies told BBC Sport: “I was realising I was getting home in the afternoons and I didn’t really have a lot to do.
“I thought I’d do something productive in my own time and managed to get my degree sorted.
“I’ve not a clue what I’ll do with it but it’s nice to have in my back pocket.”
The 28-year-old admitted that he has plenty of competition within his own team when it comes to intelligence.
He added: “The headlines don’t do us much justice but there are actually quite a lot of smart footballers. You have to be willing to learn to get to the levels where we are in the football world.
“There are plenty of brainy players at Spurs – Eric [Dier], Harry Winks and Joe Rodon is surprisingly smart with geography!”
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I think the general stereotype about athletes being thick stems from the fact that many of them are in a bubble from a young age due to their talent and do not have to contend with learning to create value in the marketplace to the level that many others need to.
However, they are certainly uniquely placed to know much more about things like high performance, discipline, health, the art of negotiations, at a younger age than most people. So, I actually suspect that the average footballer would be much smarter than the average football fan.
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