2024-07-12 21:23:26
The football players and coaches did not show their best.
İdman.biz presents an article with a link to soccer.ru.
Fatigue is the fault of officials
The Copa America is a similar story. The stars of European clubs cannot turn on maximum speed. The quality of the matches has suffered greatly because of this. Insatiable officials are to blame. UEFA President Ceferin thinks only about money. There will be more difficult matches in the Champions League from autumn, and the workload in the top 5 is beyond comprehension. FIFA President Infantino thinks only about money. In a year, they will hold the Club World Cup with 32 participants. Ancelotti said in an interview that Real will not fly to the USA, and Perez had to urgently issue a statement that Carlo was wrong. It was awkward.
Clubs and their bosses want to earn more, because no one controls the expenses. And football players are mere mortals. Pogba got himself disqualified for 4 years when he naively tried to speed up his recovery with steroids. The injections didn’t help, but led to a personal tragedy. And those who live without doping are dead tired at the Euro. For the Slovenian and Swiss clerks, football players are not people, but tools. Until there is a riot and protest, until the football players themselves create a political coalition that will nominate great candidates for the posts of UEFA and FIFA presidents, nothing will change. Many of the players at Euro 2024 are like scraps of lemons from which a refreshing summer drink was made. An objective factor that explains why Turkey and Georgia tried to play football, while France and England are crawling on the field.
The coaches have a cowardly style
If the first reason is connected with physics, then here lyrics are tactics. There are no melodies with charming harmony. Coaches with more modest lineups, like Rangnick and Yakin, showed class. And the coaches of the richest and most famous teams – Southgate, Deschamps and Nagelsmann, did not work hard. De la Fuente from the Spanish national team saved the situation. But even he had frankly bad periods in some matches. Luis is a cautious coach, he gave the ball to the opponents. There are few brave ones, but many coaching failures. Spalletti, Martinez, Tedesco, Rebrov and many others worked worse than they should have, if we take into account the strength of their national teams.
What Deschamps did with the French team and Southgate with the England team is a crime against football and the entertainment of Euro 2024. The problem is that many of the national team coaches were initially of a low level. And those who were tested at club level, like Nagelsmann and Spalletti, did not fully understand the meaning of national team football. You can’t get far in a hastily assembled team with only prohibitions and strictness. Euro 2024 turned out to be pale in tactical trends, although usually major tournaments give new ideas to club coaches.
There are no authoritative arbitrators
The referees are slowing down the game with fouls, and fouls have become more frequent because the players are not afraid of the referee and there is a tactic of minor fouls. There is one referee at the tournament with a good press. The Belgian Trossard’s double, the French referee Turpin, will work the final if Deschamps’ team is not there. And in England they joke that Southgate’s appearance in the decisive match will save the world from a British referee in Berlin. But even Turpin does not have the authority to calm down two tough teams that have broken loose.
There were many antics of the players, because the football players and coaches do not respect the official representatives of UEFA at all. When referees know how to make themselves reckoned with, there are no matches like Germany vs. Spain, where from the first minutes they hoped that the referee would chicken out to show red cards. It is disappointing that now in the UEFA zone there are no referees who know how to put teams within the rules from the first minutes. It is good that technology prevents frequent mistakes, according to modern standards there are many correct decisions. But the referees are so faceless that they did not explain the innovations. For example, the interpretation of handball in a natural position. People are not aware of the recommendation of Rosetti, the curator of European referees. People are indignant even when the decision is made strictly within the framework of modern football rules.
The Germans did not prepare the lawns
The main problems are related to the grass in Frankfurt. It was criticized by Southgate and Nagelsmann. Julian noted that the grass was “too fat and soft.” The description helps to understand the problem – a loose field, where the foot sinks into the ground, prevents the best football from being shown. In Frankfurt, the problems were attributed to away NFL American football matches. They had to re-lay the grass, which turned out badly. But other arenas also unexpectedly had problems with the grass. Luckily, the rain did not harm everything. For example, a thunderstorm before the match between Turkey and Georgia did not prevent the teams from showing their class.
But now another extreme has appeared after the rains – heat. It will be difficult to breathe in the final matches of Euro 2024. The weather is difficult. Sometimes slippery balls, sometimes stuffiness. The grass is often too long, the surface is soft. By the way, the grass also affects injuries. The surface should not be like stone, but the Germans unexpectedly failed in preparing the key infrastructure. Bad fields affect the speed in football.
The main stars are in bad shape
Ronaldo is often compared to the villain from the series “The Boys” Homelander. But this show is a satire on the topic of radical political movements and inadequate leaders. Cristiano also allowed himself to be bullied, was not ready for the tournament. And it is not only about the fatigue of the players. Morally, the main hopes of the big teams are in bad shape. Many young people act as if they have won almost everything in football. Look at the contenders for the “Golden Ball 2024”. Mbappe is a spectator. Bellingham scored goals, but plays badly. Foden is terrible. Kane is weaker than in the “Bayern” team. Wirtz and Musiala did not earn the “Golden Ball” at the Euro.
We praise the schoolboy Yamal, but this is a pleasant surprise. Next to the winger there is a long list of central forwards who failed. You can shout that the players and coaches do not owe you anything. And this is not true. They are poorly prepared, so they look for excuses like high stakes. The stakes are always the same – 23 teams without a trophy. Now among the heroes of the Euro there are more middling and young players than big names.
It turned out to be a tough tournament for superstars, with tough decisive matches to watch. Euro 2024 has become somewhat of an understatement, even though the tournament started with a magnificent first round. Boredom is affecting the popularity of the game in the world. Of course, you can cut interesting episodes and distract attention in the style of TikTok. Penalty shootouts have their own charm. For example, Pickford became a hero with a cheat sheet. But if you evaluate the tournament as a whole, then there are specific people to blame for the fact that the football festival was not a hundred percent success.
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