With club football, international tournaments, and young stars breaking through everywhere, world football feels like it’s in a really interesting place. Do you think the game is improving tactically and technically, or are money and fixture congestion hurting it? Curious how fans from different leagues and countries are seeing things right now.
World football is shit and in a very shit place my AI friend
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Football hasn’t been exciting for a least a decade. Supporting your team now is a labour of love with the odd high point. Nobody really plays beautiful football in England anymore, because the stakes have become so high that teams appear to play to not lose. None more so than us, who have solved the defensive issue Wenger was miopic to, at the expense of any kind of regular brio.
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Yeah, If you have to conjure up a typical statistics/AI startup logo, that’s about it.
As for the question, the athleticism & basic technical skills have increased but less mavericks in the game.
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Apart from dodgy owners and commercialism, football is longer for working class people, it’s very big business masquerading as sport and it’s all about profit.
That’s why it’s good to watch any local amateur league team. Bit of a refresher to bring some perspective.
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Yes
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AI or the more traditional “Hi, I’m studying the psychology of football fans and wanted you to contribute to my research?”
It’d actually be a fairly creative approach to the latter.
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What I find strange now, and was thinking about it the other day…
The game, and the managers nowadays became so obsessed about having technically sound defenders and GKs, while they tolerate strikers who can barely work some basic stuff with the balll. I won’t name any particular examples…
I don’t like the way the game is “progressing”.
I mean, you can find a pretty obvious reason for this. All the teams use that high pressing so much that you are basically forced to have players who are decent on the ball on your defesive areas, unlike before. Otherwise you’re risking losing the ball in front of your own goal too much.
But the standars of ALL the attacking players seems to be going down. Partially - because they have to do so much PRESSING!
The game is EATING it’s own attacking talent with the way it’s EVOLVING atm.
Yeah. The other point, the money too.
The players get too exposed and they get too much money way too early, compared to a decade or two ago, where they still had to work their way up intil their mid 20s to get some silly money they now get with their first contract as teens.
Also too much pressure and expectations too early doesn’t allow them to develop some creative skills and their own individial thinking enough.
Game’s gone.
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I can’t blame the managers. If you give managers the likes of Suarez, Falcao, Forlan, Zlatan; they would absolutely love to use them and focus on their strengths. Managers are just making do with the talent pool we possess right now.
It’s the coaches that brought up young footballers in last 2 decades. I look at so many clips of young boys playing with a system and it looks great to see 8-10 years old playing positioning football and stitching together a great play. That kind of coaching give us more refined more technical defenders but I would speculate they are killing off attacking instinct from these players. Maybe gems come out from chaos, not order.
European strikers were already boring in 00s but seems like they are taking away personality from South American strikers as well.
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Henry, Villa, Torres, Rooney, Ibra, Berbatov, Cassano, Vagner Love…
I wouldn’t describe any of those as boring.
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Every reply to this thread feeds the non-sentient being by the way. Eduardo is sucking the marrow out of the bone and everyone is galavanting about, not taking this seriously.
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Dog shot.
Next question.
yup, this vibe’s also real these days
One of these names really isn’t like the others 
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Love was lethal on ultimate team
I think PL teams are miles ahead of the curve tactically in Europe similar to how la liga was in the 2010s with positional play and tiki taka. All PL sides right at the top of the defensive stats.
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