Can Anyone Explain To Me..

[chrissa1]

Why the World Cup matches are more entertaining than League matches?

I’m no football fan, but the matches I’ve sneaked a peek at seem more interesting and more lively than MOTD.

There never seems to be a phalanx of defenders in the goal area like there are in normal foorball matches.

Explain please. Thanks. I’m a novice.

[Buenchico]

The syllabus that FA coaches (who work with kids and older players) have to work through in order to get their qualifications appals me. It seems designed around a set approach of "make sure that our team's defence is 100% tight and then, and only then, try to find ways to attack". With such an approach, it's hardly surprising that players in this country learn to put defending ahead of attacking.

When I was running schoolboy teams, we won many championships (at local, county and regional level) based upon my own approach of "I couldn't care less if we let in 10 goals every single match - as long as we always score at least 11". It would have been pointless for me to seek a formal FA coaching award though because such an approach simply wasn't acceptable to the 'powers that be' in English football. However it's the approach that many South American sides (among others) tend to adopt, resulting in the matches they play in being far more entertaining to watch.

[chrissa1]

I take your point Chris, but not knowing much about football apart from the fact that they “pretend” to be injured all the time, why are the World Cup matches so more entertaining for non-fans like me than the English League matches?

[Buenchico]

Precisely because you'll see far more attacking play, Chrissa.

If a defending player gets possession of the ball and then he and his team-mates repeatedly pass it sideways across the pitch (while they seek out a possible opening) it's likely to be as boring as hell. If the same player immediately plays the ball along the wing as soon as he receives, it with the next player immediately seeking out a colleague on the opposite wing, who immediately looks for one of several team-mates who've rushed to pack the opposition's penalty area, things are likely to be rather more exciting for spectators.

[johnk]

There's 38 matches per team in the Premier league so there's more games to recover from a loss or draw.
In the group stage of the World Cup there are only 3 so if you lose you're in trouble

[waterboatman]

There's a football tournament going on?

[rowanwitch]

There is also a lot of big boys v plucky underdog matches, more styles of play and the energy that comes with big international tournaments

[chrissa1]

That’s answered my question, I think. Lol. Thanks Chris.

That’s why I’ve always thought football is a boring, boring game.