It is no surprise to any of my friends that i consider FUEFA the biggest responsible for the current soccer crisis. Their resistance to improvement/change/evolution is hindering what was once a nice show/sport.
There are 2 recent examples of this that you follow up in the Internet : the first is France - wouldn't it be better (and fairer) if France was not in the finals ?
They scored with the hand (yes, i know FUEFA is a big fan of hand-scoring goals and they support it, right Maradona ? Right Vata ?) and now France's team refuses to train ?!? Way to go France - you should not be there and even so you put on such a sad sad spectacle ?
The second is Italy vs New Zeland - take a look at FIFA's statistics. Final score was 1-1; 23 shots from Italy versus 3 from NZL; 15 Corner Kicks from ... who else ... Italy and an astounding 0 (zero) from NZL; In fact there were only 2 things that NZL was far superior to Italy : Fouls Commited (more than the double of Italy) and yellow cards (3 ... none for Italy).
Statistics by itself is not absolute - it should be analyzed with common sense - so we take a look at soccer stadiums today and observe the defensive methods used (repeated fouls and theater) allied to less and less people attending.
With these 2 facts we have no other choice but to say that FUEFA should do something (well, something different from validating hand-scored goals to favor the chairman's national team ...)
There are 2 recent examples of this that you follow up in the Internet : the first is France - wouldn't it be better (and fairer) if France was not in the finals ?
They scored with the hand (yes, i know FUEFA is a big fan of hand-scoring goals and they support it, right Maradona ? Right Vata ?) and now France's team refuses to train ?!? Way to go France - you should not be there and even so you put on such a sad sad spectacle ?
The second is Italy vs New Zeland - take a look at FIFA's statistics. Final score was 1-1; 23 shots from Italy versus 3 from NZL; 15 Corner Kicks from ... who else ... Italy and an astounding 0 (zero) from NZL; In fact there were only 2 things that NZL was far superior to Italy : Fouls Commited (more than the double of Italy) and yellow cards (3 ... none for Italy).
Statistics by itself is not absolute - it should be analyzed with common sense - so we take a look at soccer stadiums today and observe the defensive methods used (repeated fouls and theater) allied to less and less people attending.
With these 2 facts we have no other choice but to say that FUEFA should do something (well, something different from validating hand-scored goals to favor the chairman's national team ...)
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I do not like the FUEFA too but I think this criticism is unfair. Football is the art of defending and attacking. Sure it is more beautiful to see attack and goals than defending. I particularly like both. The art of defending allows soccer to be so unpredictable. If there was not this art you could go see rugby or other sport where the favorites almost always loose. In football the smallest team can win and that is the beauty of it.
as long as it is within the rules (no handballs or foul play) I support NZW like I would Greece.
I meant win, not loose :).
lol. It is a fair opinion :-)
Maybe you are right and it all comes down do what you like. I guesse i a more of an "american" ... i like the show and to me it is not fun to see one team "hammering" the other to go through its defensive wall.
But to make the show fun and at the same time allow small teams to win also (yes, this is crucial also) FUEFA would need to implement some balancing mechanism to keep things even (say set a top expense budget or something like that)
I really do not know what could be done, all i know is that soccer is starting to get boring (again american-like opinion, hehehe)
But i understand your point of view and it is a valid one.
PS : Rugby is not so predictable - Portugal's tem has made some surprising performances
Agreed :)
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