Posted on 07/13/2014 3:10:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
RIO DE JANEIRO – Mario Goetze volleyed in the winning goal in extra time to give Germany its fourth World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Argentina on Sunday.
Goetze controlled the ball with his chest and then shot past Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero in the 113th minute.
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What I like about the timing in soccer is that if there is a threat on goal when the clock runs out, the ref will wait until the threat has ended. That makes for some exciting finishes. That is an accepted practice in soccer and everyone involved approves of this tradition. The tradition is so strong that if a ref violated it, the authorities would note it with a strong disapproval.
A 20-30,000 stadium costs a small fraction per seat when compared to a 60-80,000 stadium.
Why not, after all regulation and overtime play, use the number of goals attempted throughout the game as the tie-breaker? I'd bet "ties" and ball-hogging would go the way of the dodo, if they instituted that!
1-0. Must have been more exciting than The Catch. Can’t believe I missed it. What was I thinking?!
The one rule I’d get rid of is the one that allows referees to tack on an amount of game time at the end of the game.
Stop the clock when they’re flopping. Game over at the end of clock time. Have extra periods for tie games if you like, but have them defined.
Wow.
That is history.
then if you did that the team winning would run out the clock which would be boring to watch.
The extra time is what is exciting as you never know if say Portugal might grab a goal, plus they d tell you near the 3nd of the game how long is left and 99 times out of a 1000 the ref calls it on that.
Look at NFL, the players and team know when the end of the game is so many teams winning just stop playing or the losing team knows they can’t win and give up which is extremely boring
It’s all a matter of point margin in any sport, and soccer would be no different. If there’s a minute left and you’re down 1 score, then you’ll work hard to even the score.
If you’re down by 4 scores, then it will be different.
That would encourage flopping.
If you are winning, the more time your players spend lying on the pitch, the less time the opposing team would have to even the score.
Adding time informs players that even if they flop, there will be time added to counteract it.
And again, adding time at the end is nothing compared to the level of clock manipulation NFL refs can employ.
In the EPL, where the differential can be the difference for a weaker team between staying in the league and relegation, the losing side will fight hard just to get one more goal.
I’m sorry you took my statement out of context since it was obvious I was commenting on the state of sports in America.
There is no denying America is foremost in the world, but people like us get denigrated for waving the flag.
It is sadly ironic that the Left Alinskyites have made half this country ashamed of it. We need something to regain our pride. Germany has found it, millions were waving their homeland flags which were once almost verboten, and I’m glad it is escaping its horrendous past that we liberated.
You must have loved that Georgia Tech game against Cumberland which they won 222-0. Talk about excitement.
I’ll take 1-0 any day over that kind of excitement.
Fussball is akin to a great baseball game with Koufax and Cy Young pitching. In fact home runs were rare in Young’s day.
Not much difference in waiting for that winning home run or soccer GOAL ! And Fussball has more ongoing action between scores.
I’ve watched games where a team had 30 seconds left on the clock. The other team thought they had won it and were trying to play the clock out. Extra time came, 2 minutes and that team losing got two goals.
That is the excitement which it creates
Ever heard of a game where some umpire decides where the strike zone is?
Ever heard of a game where some referee decides when there has been excessive celebration or taunting ?
It wouldn’t change the time at all if the clock is stopped.
Bastian Schweinsteiger also took one hell of a beating in that Weltmanschaft. One that any of our quarterbacks in pink petticoats could hardly endure.
Thanks for informing certain Freepers about the midfield mastermind.
Agree with all the points you made and well stated.
I’d also add that Soccer (apart from iron man marathons and races like the Tour de France ) undoubtedly has the best conditioned athletes in all sports.
Football, baseball - the guys sit on their butts half the game and then there are commercial time outs and endless reviewing of the plays . . . . and on and on.
Yeah and Chicago should have gotten the Olympics but they didn’t because the world shoved it to OweBowMao. Thank you world.
Remember how East Germany’s women in the Olympics had a reputation for it as well. I guess that means we can be assured other countries doped too. Indeed, the USA has had its share of Olympic Athletes that did.
I'm sure their Sports Confederation that set up the report would be glad to hear that.
The old East German women athletes are not singled out and remembered like none others are for nothing.
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