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There's a long and glorious history of the greats in life using failure, rejection and criticism to spur them on to heights that, perhaps, they wouldn't have achieved without facing what they considered to be gross unfairness. The question now is whether Vinícius Júnior is about to join the ranks of those who suffered "the slings and arrows of life's outrageous fortunes" and retorted, defiantly, with: "Is that really all you've got?"
The fascination, after his and Real Madrid's furious reaction to last week's Ballon d'Or snub, is augmented by the fact that other people, no matter how talented, take slights, put-downs and setbacks personally, allow adversity to corrode their focus and allow the permanent chip on their shoulder to clip their ability to soar.