@PID_NCC@MarkKav15119614@misscarsonn His point is sound. The data doesn’t lie. Looks at anxiety, depression, suicide in youth since the smart phone, and then social media.
The correlation is no coincidence.
You’re being ridiculous because you don’t want to look at what’s in front of you.
🚨🗣️New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Vinicius Junior refusing the mandatory halftime interview with FIFA at the World Cup:
“People are shocked that Vinícius walked away from a halftime interview. I am shocked that anyone thinks he should have stopped in the first place.
Halftime is not a television studio. Halftime is not a podcast. Halftime is not a red carpet. Halftime is the heartbeat of a football match.
For 45 minutes, players are warriors in a storm. They run, they fight, they suffer, they bleed. Then they get 15 precious minutes to recover, to breathe, to listen, to think. And FIFA wants to spend part of that time chasing soundbites? That is like pulling a Formula 1 driver out of his car during a pit stop and asking him how the race is going.
And FIFA’s idea is to shove a microphone in the player’s face and ask, ‘How do you feel?’
How do you think he feels? He’s exhausted.
This is modern football’s biggest disease. Everything is content. Everything is sponsorship. Everything is television. The match hasn’t even finished and they’re already trying to manufacture headlines.
They tell us they care about player welfare. Really? Then why are players playing more games than ever? Why are tournaments expanding? Why are injuries increasing? And now they want halftime interviews too? The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
Halftime is sacred. It belongs to the players and the coaches. That’s where games are won. That’s where tactics change. That’s where injuries get treated. That’s where leaders speak. It is not a media circus.
And don’t tell me this is for the fans. Fans want better football, not a tired player giving a robotic 20-second answer because somebody sold another broadcast package.
Vinícius understood that. He chose football over public relations.
The funniest part? They threaten him with a fine. A fine. As if that changes the principle. If I were there, I’d pay it too. Because some things are worth more than money.
If FIFA really had their way, they’d put microphones in the dressing room and call it innovation.
Football should come first. Not content. Not commercials. Not corporate greed.
For once, a player pushed back. And that’s exactly why so many people are angry.”
@ChainLinkHawk@LFCAmericanReds I’ve just looked at the numbers and 5-9 almost double play football than soccer. Through high school the numbers are almost identical and college/elite almost identical also.
@ChainLinkHawk@LFCAmericanReds It’s not about that though really. The US throws a ton of money at soccer already and they are still shit.
Soccer is the most played sport in the US now no? With that amount of ppl playing and the money they should be better already.
@ChainLinkHawk@LFCAmericanReds I didn’t say they were American lol. I was saying just like there may be some US athletes that would be better soccer players there would be some world athletes better at US sports.
You used the Olympics as an example.
The problem in NA with soccer is how the kids are coached
@ChainLinkHawk@LFCAmericanReds Actually hockey is the best example I feel. It’s such a rich white man game.
The “best” players in the world aren’t necessarily best cause if others could afford it they could be great.
US athletes to soccer. World athletes to US sports. It’s all the same argument really
@ChainLinkHawk@LFCAmericanReds Yes. Because the Olympics are American sports.
It’s really not hard to grasp. If the entire planet played sports that only North Americans play. There’s going to be athletes that would be better than Americans.
It goes both ways. Imagine if poor kids could afford hockey!