About the Ghana-Uruguay game
by bruno
I’ve been reading rants about the outcome of the Ghana-Uruguay game, the one where a Uruguay player got sent off on the last minute of overtime after stopping a ball from crossing the line with his hands. Here’s my take on it as I’m getting tired of reading a bunch of crap from people that have not even played the sport all of their life to be able to provide any interesting insight.
Soccer is a sport governed by rules. Breaking those rules is part of the game. Anyone that tells you otherwise is being cynical. Breaking the rules is part of any game. Watch the last three minutes of an NBA game and it becomes clear by what I mean by that. Watch the last fifteen minutes of a soccer match and observe that every team winning adopts a strategy that takes advantage of every trick in the book to keep the clock running towards their purposes.
Games are won by those that know the rules and play them to their advantage. Yellow cards and red cards can be used as tools by the brightest players and those that can’t tend to get angry for no reason. Most people that are playing the Soccer God and invoking ethics are so clueless about the sport that they don’t even realize how countless situations throughout the game are much more critical than stopping a ball from crossing the line. Games are not won by defending the ball from crossing the line, they’re won by the countless seemingly inoffensive rule-breaking that occurs throughout the entire game, team work and sometimes, individual talent.
Had that situation happened at minute 15 most likely than not the player would not have stopped the ball from crossing the line. At minute 120 in a world cup game playing for your own country when that is the only possible chance of saving your team from losing, are you fucking kidding me? If you aren’t nodding your head approving my outrage, chances are you’ve never cried after losing a game that you felt meant everything to you. Your own existence on earth.
Ghana can only blame themselves. They could have won on multiple occasions. They could have won at minute 120. They could have won after penalties. They didn’t. They didn’t have it in them that night. That’s the beauty of Soccer. That’s why the sport is King. The “Soccer Gods” don’t understand this. They haven’t played the sport enough or to such extremes to understand the sports’ inner game. The unwritten rules and essence that you learn going through pain and joy on the field.
These games make Soccer great. This game will go down in history as a great game. It represents what the sport is, oscillating between emotional quadrants within seconds. It teaches you never to give up and that sometimes you need to sacrifice a pawn to save the king and eventually win the game.
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