"Football is for people who play with cunning...so to put technology like a chip in the ball to see if it went in...I think you take away the cunning and then football ends for the great players...it takes away what football is about, Football is for the cunning, not for technology." - Sergio Romero (Argentinian keeper)
Argentinian goal keeper suggests that you have to be cunning to play football, and might be hinting that introducing technology might take that away from the game. I have to admit that I agree with him. I think for a contact sport like football, pushing, shoving, handballs etc. are integral to the game. I played a little bit of high-school soccer to understand the inevitability of leg-kicks, shoulder-pushes in these tight spaces, and the necessity of these things to win games. Lesson 101: say you are in position to meet and head-in a corner kick, how do you get elevation? You put your hands on the defenders' shoulders and help yourself up as you push him down.
If you have played a totally non-contact sport like cricket, the goalkeepers' view might not make sense. Essentially, in cricket, you play in isolation in your own personal space. Now in Soccer, if we introduce camera reviews of certain incidents, it becomes so much harder...what with every kick, shove, shirt-grab being reviewed and judgements passed. It could lead to situation where players are compelled to give each other space and that isn't soccer anymore. Worse, if these reviews are done during live matches it disrupts the very flow that makes the game so beautiful to watch.
One might object saying that we *start* with simple things like goal line technology, offside calls etc. But question is, what other incidents will you include as we go on, and more importantly will you stop there?
I feel that a few 'Hand of God' incidents make soccer unpredictable while being delightful and we don't need an all seeing 'Eye of God'.
Argentinian goal keeper suggests that you have to be cunning to play football, and might be hinting that introducing technology might take that away from the game. I have to admit that I agree with him. I think for a contact sport like football, pushing, shoving, handballs etc. are integral to the game. I played a little bit of high-school soccer to understand the inevitability of leg-kicks, shoulder-pushes in these tight spaces, and the necessity of these things to win games. Lesson 101: say you are in position to meet and head-in a corner kick, how do you get elevation? You put your hands on the defenders' shoulders and help yourself up as you push him down.
If you have played a totally non-contact sport like cricket, the goalkeepers' view might not make sense. Essentially, in cricket, you play in isolation in your own personal space. Now in Soccer, if we introduce camera reviews of certain incidents, it becomes so much harder...what with every kick, shove, shirt-grab being reviewed and judgements passed. It could lead to situation where players are compelled to give each other space and that isn't soccer anymore. Worse, if these reviews are done during live matches it disrupts the very flow that makes the game so beautiful to watch.
One might object saying that we *start* with simple things like goal line technology, offside calls etc. But question is, what other incidents will you include as we go on, and more importantly will you stop there?
I feel that a few 'Hand of God' incidents make soccer unpredictable while being delightful and we don't need an all seeing 'Eye of God'.
