FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022™ - Qualifiers (4 Viewers)
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Great vid on how basketball in the NBA evolved throughout the years.
I was thinking whats the equivalent for footie and unlike basketball, in the past few decades football has barely changed its most important rules. imo the last rule change that had a major impact was the rule that goalkeeper cannot handle the ball after a pass from a teammate, which has contributed to evolution of goalkeepers towards Ederson and the likes who pass better than many midfielders (definitely better than most of our mids
).
I've been watching footie for a bit more than 20 years and imo the most important changes in style are these:
1. Less strikers and more midfielders. everyone has to be a two way player. nowadays you have to be an exceptional talent to be off the hook defensively, many teams press like crazy and the best forwards in the world defend a lot more than f.e. Del Piero - Trez had to.
2. Long distance shots are close to being extinct. back in the day Arsenal was famous for wanting to walk the ball in the net, now everyone attacks like that.
3. At least one fullback, but most often both must provide width and creativity upfront. 2002/03 Juve-Milan CL lineup had Kaladze, Costacurta, Thuram and Montero as fullbacks. 2021/22 Real-Pool had TAA, Robertson, Mendy and Carvajal.
4. From fancy dribbling to effective, moves like step overs that Ronaldinho or CR7 used to do hardly exist at the top level anymore.
I was thinking whats the equivalent for footie and unlike basketball, in the past few decades football has barely changed its most important rules. imo the last rule change that had a major impact was the rule that goalkeeper cannot handle the ball after a pass from a teammate, which has contributed to evolution of goalkeepers towards Ederson and the likes who pass better than many midfielders (definitely better than most of our mids
).I've been watching footie for a bit more than 20 years and imo the most important changes in style are these:
1. Less strikers and more midfielders. everyone has to be a two way player. nowadays you have to be an exceptional talent to be off the hook defensively, many teams press like crazy and the best forwards in the world defend a lot more than f.e. Del Piero - Trez had to.
2. Long distance shots are close to being extinct. back in the day Arsenal was famous for wanting to walk the ball in the net, now everyone attacks like that.
3. At least one fullback, but most often both must provide width and creativity upfront. 2002/03 Juve-Milan CL lineup had Kaladze, Costacurta, Thuram and Montero as fullbacks. 2021/22 Real-Pool had TAA, Robertson, Mendy and Carvajal.
4. From fancy dribbling to effective, moves like step overs that Ronaldinho or CR7 used to do hardly exist at the top level anymore.
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Great vid on how basketball in the NBA evolved throughout the years.
I was thinking whats the equivalent for footie and unlike basketball, in the past few decades football has barely changed its most important rules. imo the last rule change that had a major impact was the rule that goalkeeper cannot handle the ball after a pass from a teammate, which has contributed to evolution of goalkeepers towards Ederson and the likes who pass better than many midfielders (definitely better than most of our mids).
I was thinking whats the equivalent for footie and unlike basketball, in the past few decades football has barely changed its most important rules. imo the last rule change that had a major impact was the rule that goalkeeper cannot handle the ball after a pass from a teammate, which has contributed to evolution of goalkeepers towards Ederson and the likes who pass better than many midfielders (definitely better than most of our mids
).
One thing that should be changed IMO is the clock stopping when the ball is not in play. Time wasting is a massive problem and would be solved instantly with 30 minutes halves where the clock stops. Pretty much all big sports have this implemented including Futsal, but just not football. At the moment when a team is winning with a one goal lead, the time wasting begins at around the 75-80 minute mark and continues til the end of the game. On top of this, the referee gives an absolute random, incorrect number of extra time minutes that is way too low compared to the actual time wasting. And the extra time is obviously going to wasted as well.
VAR has helped a lot against divers in the penalty area, subjectively it feels like there's a lot less diving for penalties the past few years. before there was also the growing number of ref assistants, goal line technology, etc, but in the end all these are meant to more effectively enforce existing rules.
you're spot on about time wasting, its a big change but it needs to happen. either make a massive extra time clock that objectively counts every wasted second or make the clock stop.
you're spot on about time wasting, its a big change but it needs to happen. either make a massive extra time clock that objectively counts every wasted second or make the clock stop.
FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/5/2...fside-ball-body-tracking-2022-qatar-world-cup
Yayyy, less refereeing errors. I can't wait to have no referees at all tbh
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/5/2...fside-ball-body-tracking-2022-qatar-world-cup
Yayyy, less refereeing errors. I can't wait to have no referees at all tbh
