Comments on: Impressions about ghana 2008

By: jermaine

jermaine — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:28:28 +0000

i partialy dissagree since i am right here in
ghana to witness the tournament.
about the attendance,the location of the camera
does not really give u a good sight of its sides
besides.i think each and every ghanain goes crazy when a goal
comes even the president of ghana
LORD!!u should be here to see the jubilation infact i am forced
to surpport ghana, for the partying after each machT
and about the organisation, i think it gets better every second.
in all WAY DE GOOOO GHANA!!!!!

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By: Eagle Watcher

Eagle Watcher — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:44:52 +0000

An argument can be made that due to design concept, at high velocity, the ball tends to swing from side to side. This unpredictable ball movement can cause problems for goalies.

Granted that there’s ball mal-tracking, it still boils down to clever defending and alert goal keeping. Poor defensive schemes and marginal defensive skills allow attackers ample time to set and fire off. There’s the real problem.

By: tamim

tamim — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:48:04 +0000

thanks for your long comment. but concerning the ball, there is sth that people ignore. a ball has official measurments that it should meet. if it doesn’t it will be refused.

By: Medionsaturn

Medionsaturn — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:56:24 +0000

I have to agree with you on pretty much all points, the football does have a jagged edge to it, the refereeing has been average, organisation has been poor (although without experience countries can’t improve) and I have been disappointed at the attendance rates, though I’m sure there are reasons for that. Perhaps the tickets are too high for the average working class to afford to go to the matches regularly, they just aren’t really interested in football, etc. Another reason I think that there hasn’t been much in the way of attendance is that some countries who have people who’d travel are priced out by a land journey being too risky and they can’t afford alternative means, can’t afford that and a ticket, etc. These are all just guesses of course, although in a way it does make the stadium expansions a bit of a waste that their good work didn’t fill the seating.

I do have to say that, on the point of there being many goals, it is probably both the fact that most African stars are attacking players, and the defensive ones generally aren’t up to the quality of the attacking players, making it difficult to defend. I also feel that this is backed up by organised teams with a solid rear guard like Ivory Coast make it difficult for opposing weaker teams to play their attacking game when it’s difficult to launch an attack.

Also, I do disagree with labeling to goalkeepers “bad” when the ball used for this AFCON is making players look good by bamboozling the goalkeepers, thus making drilling at the goal a better option than one would normally think. There was an article about it a while ago on this website.