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The VAR is the limit: the sophistication of the technology clouds the World Cup - voila! FIFA World Cup

2022-12-03T10:08:23.921Z


Instead of correcting, the VAR creates mistakes out of nowhere and it will be if someone from above directs it. Amikam summarizes the group stage, admires the closing of the gaps and calls on FIFA to make a change


The fans of the Iranian national team after the loss against the USA (Paz Hasdai)

If anyone had the feeling that this was a strange, non-standard, or even unsportsmanlike World Cup - he is not the only one.

A few days ago, this keyboard asked to see football in the face of the waves of complaints about the World Cup in Qatar, etc., but this keyboard also gave in: after the group stage, we enter the knockout stage tonight with a slightly sour feeling, maybe even quite a bit sour.

There are a variety of reasons for this and not because HM is a Uruguay fan, who is going home a lot through her own fault but not only.



Uruguay did not go alone. Denmark, Germany, Belgium and Serbia also went with her. Each and their reasons, each and the effects of this World Cup on them. These are five teams who could have potentially reached at least the quarter-finals, but instead are in the glorious duty free at DIA, the airport in Doha.



For the first time since the World Cup in 1994 and for the first time in the era of 32 teams in the World Cup - there is no perfect team in the group stage, but unlike that World Cup in the United States - where Mexico, Ireland, Italy and Norway ended up with 4 points each - here there were a variety of reasons for that.

Hichon's disgrace is back.

Pedri and Morata (Photo: Reuters)

First, the gaps are narrowing.

Only the host Qatar - which has no connection to successful football - and Canada, which had not been to the World Cup since 1986 and looked naive and inexperienced, did not take a point.

Everyone else tried and competed, there were houses where what was seen in the first round looked completely the opposite in the third, and it's not just in the house of Argentina and Saudi Arabia.

The fact that the World Cup is in the winter and big teams are made up of stars who have exhausted themselves in the teams until the World Cup, forced some of the teams that promised promotion to slow down in the last cycle.



France, Spain, Brazil and Portugal - three of which were the only ones who guaranteed it to the next stage after the second round - are four teams that are candidates to win the World Cup and all of them lost in the last round.

All of them will claim that they wanted to allow the first team to rest before the load in the knock out phase.



Spain, for example, was not perfect after two rounds, and for three minutes was also out of the promotion picture when Costa Rica led Germany, but it cannot be ignored that they were given the choice between Morocco and Croatia and they got Morocco, so maybe they did choose.

And it's funny that it's actually Spain, because until today we lived with the disgrace of Hichon, that match between Austria and West Germany in the World Cup in Spain in 1982, where West Germany needed a victory over its native-speaking neighbor Austria, leading 0-1 and from that moment on, the teams devoted themselves to each other, without a goal occupation, and leave Algeria out of the next stage.



Hijon is back in this World Cup big time.

And there will be those who will ask themselves how France allows itself to be humiliated like this against Tunisia, how Brazil can dare to lose to Cameroon and of course, since when is Ronaldo - who loves breaking records and dominates national teams - replaced against South Korea?



Since that scandal, FIFA moved to hold the final round matches at the same time, but left the knockout stages dictated in advance, and mainly holds two houses that touch each other, at different times. It's distorted, it creates conspiracy theories and it's up to everyone. A blind lottery, like In the Champions League, and crossed houses that will play at the same time, this is the last thing that FIFA will agree to.

After all, who wants a final between Japan and Morocco?

Who wants spectators shuffling between four pitches?

FIFA has already been shown on Netflix as corrupt, so why stop here if you can move forward with it?

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A sign that something is wrong.

Ronaldo is replaced against South Korea (Photo: Reuters)

Take VAR for example, that wonderful technology that allows referees to make mistakes and correct themselves with the help of video referees.

The VAR was originally designed to resolve controversial cases that require intervention, not to create out of thin air.

In the group stage, the VAR was perfected and turned the game virtual and the field into Xbox.



Cases that differ or do not differ by millimeters, by the protrusion of a shoe or a toe, balls that cross the line but appear on the screen as such that the sides of the ball do not pass it, cases that in the past no referee would whistle about them and no player or fan would complain about them, have become controversial Precisely after the intervention of the VAR.

And there's nothing to be done, Japan was great but advanced to the round of 16 because they were allowed a goal that would never have been approved if not for extremely sensitive sensors;

South Korea advanced to the round of 16 because the VAR was afraid to bully the German referee with a clear penalty on Cavani in the game between Uruguay and Ghana, because he overruled an earlier VAR intervention after Nunes' questionable failure.



Now ask conspirators, why are Japan and South Korea enjoying gross refereeing errors (some think there are no refereeing errors here at all), in the first World Cup held in Asia since they both hosted it together in 2002?

Maybe because these are industrialized countries with huge corporations behind them?

And how is it that Messi and Ronaldo get ridiculous penalties - thanks to the VAR - maybe they want them to reach the final, because that's what the world would be happy to see?

FIFA turned the World Cup into FIFA2022: choose players, choose tactics, control the referee, determine the result.

Time for conspiracies?

The goal approved for Japan against Spain (Photo: Reuters)

Asia swept the cards in the group stage.

Three of their five representatives (Iran and the political Qatar dropped out) advanced to the round of 16.

A new record, certainly when South America sends two of its four delegations to the eighth, less than Asia.

Just 53 years ago, only seven teams from Asia, Oceania and marginalized teams were registered to compete for a ticket to the World Cup.

Today, Asian national teams are more successful than tier B teams in South America, Central American teams and African teams.



Europe and Asia are sending ten teams to the round of 16, the other continents are already sending six - a new World Cup record.

In 1970, FIFA apologized and gave one ticket to Asia and one to Africa. Today, the World Cup returns to Europe once every 12 years (compared to once every four years in the past), the number of European and South American teams is reduced, the European teams drop out, and the number of teams from other continents that manage to pass a stage - increases To remind you, Australia reached the World Cup after knocking out Peru in the playoffs. FIFA took the heart of soccer - the talent from South America, the competitiveness in Europe - and used it for its own use (17 teams out of 32 came to this World Cup from the strongest conferences, 22 out of 48 will arrive in the next World Cup and this class will be decided), but at the same time there has been a substantial improvement in the level of the relatively weak conferences.

Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Italy (which did not advance to the World Cup at all) - outside;

South Korea, Australia, Japan, Morocco and Senegal - inside.

It's beyond VAR, servitude to corporations and a World Cup in the middle of the season.

A real revolution.

The Moroccan national team celebrates (Photo: Reuters)

Despite everything, there is something refreshing about football that is soul, war, movement and pressure compared to the tactical, heavenly, sometimes smug football displayed in this World Cup.

Almost all the national teams - except for Qatar - showed something, showed presence, gave a few minutes of effort and technique.

Even Belgium as awful as they looked.

The amount of surprises and complicated calculations created a situation where big teams had to go out of their way at such an early stage, and sometimes it wasn't enough.



Belgium didn't score in the right moments, Germany beat Costa Rica less than Spain did, Uruguay scored one goal too few, but they all had one thing in common: they misjudged the intensity, they came too calmly, they underestimated.

Payment in world football today is interest.

Greece won Euro 2004, Brazil was beaten at home 7-1 in the World Cup semi-finals, Argentina, Germany and Spain lost in this World Cup to Asian teams who turned them around in a few minutes, not at the end of the game but at the beginning of the second half.

The easy games are over.

Costa Rica, which suffered an uncharacteristic 7-0 in the first round, almost left the same team that defeated them out of the eighth round in the third round.

The easy games are over.

Muller (Photo: Reuters)

Neymar was injured after a game, Messi missed a penalty and looked half-clutch, Ronaldo messed with Bruno Fernandez's goals, Lewandowski scored for the first time on the last occasion, Cavani excelled in vandalism.

We predict this World Cup will bring down the curtain on the golden age of world football.

It might end in a trophy for one of them, but it's over soon.

In their place will come fast (Ambapa), tall (Gakpo), fearsome (Holland).

We are completely on the cusp of a new era.



And one note about an exception that does not prove the rule: Serbia looked good in this World Cup and they go home with one point and last place in Group 7.

How did it happen?

Ask the captains of Guangzhou City (formerly Guangzhou RF), Eran Zahavi's former team, how such a refreshing attacking group would have snatched every game.

The answer is Dragan Stojkovic the coach, lines (parallel) to his character.

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