Thanks for sharing! I've always felt like soccer and rugby were both a bit stuck in their ways, so it's neat to read about ways that a country that doesn't have the same ties to the structures put...
Thanks for sharing! I've always felt like soccer and rugby were both a bit stuck in their ways, so it's neat to read about ways that a country that doesn't have the same ties to the structures put in place by European leagues can bring innovation to the rest of the world. It reminds me of the idea of the cultural melting pot. We become stronger and better when we share our ideas. When we cut ourselves off from the world, we become insular and our societies basically just become big ol' circlejerks.
I went to a Syracuse-Cornell game that had a lot of youth players show up in the audience as well as foreign students who were speaking various languages and got the feeling that I was part of a...
I went to a Syracuse-Cornell game that had a lot of youth players show up in the audience as well as foreign students who were speaking various languages and got the feeling that I was part of a soccer universe that goes all the way from Kindergarten soccer to the world cup…. That cosmopolitanism makes soccer so appealing to me.
As the article mentions, salary caps are not happening any time soon. In a world where some teams are spending the equivalent of a country's GDP on player wages, restricting yourself via a salary...
As the article mentions, salary caps are not happening any time soon. In a world where some teams are spending the equivalent of a country's GDP on player wages, restricting yourself via a salary cap is just shooting yourself in the foot, competitively speaking. Top players will move to other clubs or leagues. So unless it's something that comes directly from UEFA or FIFA I doubt any team or league would try something so harmful to their competitiveness. And even if something like that did come from UEFA or FIFA, I'm sure clubs and players would fight like mad in the courts to keep their extremely inflated wages going.
The main thing I can see catching on from America to the rest of the world is the reliance on technology for refereeing games. It's something that's just now starting to be rolled out into the world of football/soccer at large in the form of VAR (goal line technology too but that one is a bit older and a somewhat separate subject), but the other American sports take it to a different level than most other countries are used to.
Stats too are another thing that really grew popular first in American sports (mainly baseball but the other ones too) and now has taken over top class football/soccer. xG and xA are only the tip of the iceberg there compared to some of the insane shit baseball gets up to.
Salary caps aren't happening. UEFA tried an ultra-giga-nerfed version (applying to overall budget including both salaries and transfers) called Financial Fair Play, and it was no match for Man...
Salary caps aren't happening. UEFA tried an ultra-giga-nerfed version (applying to overall budget including both salaries and transfers) called Financial Fair Play, and it was no match for Man City's state-funded army and navy of lawyers.
Thanks for sharing! I've always felt like soccer and rugby were both a bit stuck in their ways, so it's neat to read about ways that a country that doesn't have the same ties to the structures put in place by European leagues can bring innovation to the rest of the world. It reminds me of the idea of the cultural melting pot. We become stronger and better when we share our ideas. When we cut ourselves off from the world, we become insular and our societies basically just become big ol' circlejerks.
I went to a Syracuse-Cornell game that had a lot of youth players show up in the audience as well as foreign students who were speaking various languages and got the feeling that I was part of a soccer universe that goes all the way from Kindergarten soccer to the world cup…. That cosmopolitanism makes soccer so appealing to me.
As the article mentions, salary caps are not happening any time soon. In a world where some teams are spending the equivalent of a country's GDP on player wages, restricting yourself via a salary cap is just shooting yourself in the foot, competitively speaking. Top players will move to other clubs or leagues. So unless it's something that comes directly from UEFA or FIFA I doubt any team or league would try something so harmful to their competitiveness. And even if something like that did come from UEFA or FIFA, I'm sure clubs and players would fight like mad in the courts to keep their extremely inflated wages going.
The main thing I can see catching on from America to the rest of the world is the reliance on technology for refereeing games. It's something that's just now starting to be rolled out into the world of football/soccer at large in the form of VAR (goal line technology too but that one is a bit older and a somewhat separate subject), but the other American sports take it to a different level than most other countries are used to.
Stats too are another thing that really grew popular first in American sports (mainly baseball but the other ones too) and now has taken over top class football/soccer. xG and xA are only the tip of the iceberg there compared to some of the insane shit baseball gets up to.
Salary caps aren't happening. UEFA tried an ultra-giga-nerfed version (applying to overall budget including both salaries and transfers) called Financial Fair Play, and it was no match for Man City's state-funded army and navy of lawyers.