World Cup!!!

For a forum that deals with a subject like "evolution" all the time, I find it amusing that you think football hasn't reached somekind of 'optimum' yet, lol. :-)Look, soccer is a game that is being played by hundreds of millions of people in every possible place in the world, and since more than 100 years. Billions of dollars/euros are involved and the big clubs continuously hunt for supertalents in the most remote of places, just to make sure that they don't lose a nugget. On top of that, it is played with incredible passion; if you're good at it, you can become a hero or even a GOD.Believe me: just about everything had been tried out, and the things that have definitely proven not to work, have been weeded out. Certainly when it comes to matches on a world championship. The weakest teams have been eliminated in preliminary rounds, so you end up with teams that are already levelled to some degree.If you would watch closely, you would see that the kind of wild shots that you promote, will simply be blocked by defenders 90% of the time. And in the majority of cases, these balls end up with the opponent. There's also a GOALKEEPER in that goal, who catches 95% of anything that gets shot at him from outside the big box and isn't aimed exactly near a goalpost. Consider that not even the very best players will always manage to aim a ball that accurately, not even from a free kick where the ball isn't even moving!Really, you're just a bit ignorant in this particular subject, I'm afraid

In soccer, defending is much easier than attacking. It's easy to kick a ball away, and on the other hand extremely difficult to pass a defender with a ball on your foot. If you're not a superstar the likes of Ronaldino, Maradonna or the early Ronaldo, the only way is passing someone purely on speed, or creating room for a player by playing the ball around and looking for a gap to penetrate into. On a high level, that can take quite a bit of time because the defenders are very skilled.To return to 'shots at the goal': you will notice that they ARE tried quite often once players are inside the big box. But even there, they are often blocked. Defenders will always make a priority of blocking the possible path of the ball. And once you're outside the box, a shot needs to be both powerfull and precise. In modern football, you just don't often get the time to set yourself up for a powerful strike. And anything less is simply useless. That's another subject, on which I tend to agree. There's so much money involved, and so much at stake in general, that soccer (in all aspects) has become an accurate reflection of general society in that respect. You gotta look hard to spot any ethics, lol... I also regularly get all riled up seeing the things that happen. A couple of years ago we had a player over here who scored a goal with his hand. The referree hadn't spotted it. All the opponents had, of course. The amazing thing was that, after the game, the player ice-cold admitted that he had used his hand. It was very visible on TV images as well. The result? He was NOT sanctioned!!Nice example for the youngsters...