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 ...)
