How To Help England Soccer

[vernonk]

Stop foreign players like Balloteli and Suarez playing for English clubs, surely?

[Buenchico]

Pixie:
The terms 'play for' and 'represent' aren't synonymous.

Suarez has a particular talent which means that he can be highly paid but only during a fairly short career. To secure his future, it makes sense for him to simply 'play for' whichever club will pay him the most money.

However, if he had the right to choose between 'representing' different national teams (which he doesn't anyway), it has nothing to do with money. He would logically choose to represent the country where he was born, where he was brought up and where most of his family and friends still live.

[pixie373]

Ok. Well I've understood and semi-agreed on the other one;-)

[Mass_Hysteria]

Randy, SirPrize is being picky! 2nd goal came from a "drop kick" from the goal keeper!

[RandyMarsh]

glad you agree and as such some more practice against such long balls would have helped.

[pixie373]

Yes, ok, buenchico. Thanks - that's pretty much what Jim is saying. I do think i would be annoyed though, if i was a Liverpool player and had to play on his team again, though!

[sir.prize]

Hysteria - not being picky at all. Just being 'precise'.

http://worldsoccer.about.com/od/glossary/g/Clearance.htm

[RandyMarsh]

lol @mass, i know, it changes nothing but he appears keen to make some kind of point.

[Mass_Hysteria]

pixie, all will be forgotten when they all return to there £150k+ per week jobs!

[RandyMarsh]

there was no pressure thou sirprize, it was not a clearance. You have muddied the waters here. Did you watch the game?

[RandyMarsh]

hoisted by some sort of petard there perhaps.

[jim360]

There was a South Korean player who scored the goal that knocked Italy out of the 2002 World Cup and his Italian club tried to sack him. I don't remember the rest of the story off the top of my head, but I don't think I'd have been best pleased.

[lozzer50]

stop paying stupid money pay them by performance might see some goals then

[Booldawg]

Alot of International players get ridiculous salaries. I don't think its linked to that.

There's far less of a football culture in this country. Football in this country is very much regimented into formal training such as in school or for a 'proper' team. From my memory school football sessions was very cliquey and if your face didnt fit you were chosen last. I was quite good in goal but never got to play there as it was the chosen position of a few more 'socially adept' children. You don't see kids honing skills in the streets or parks with mates like you do other countries.

I remember being out on the balcony of a hotel in Tenerife and there was a young girl kicking a ball around in her back yard on her own. Unbeleivable skill and ball control; bouncing it off the wall, catching it on the volley. You don't get that running round cones on a Saturday morning. We're too unimaginative.

[VHG]

>>>Stop foreign players like Balloteli and Suarez playing for English clubs,

That would be like stopping foreign actors coming over here to appear in plays and films and TV shows.

The UK gains a lot by having foreign actors coming here to appear in films and so on made in the UK, like Harrison Ford coming here to appear in the Star Wars film they are currently making in the UK.

[TWR]

If Suarez had been marked due to his ability to score, the outcome could have been prevented, England paid the price.

[berniecuddles]

say what you like but we are not good enough end of!

[ichkeria]

Balotelli plays for an Italian club :-)