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Información de primera mano del primer equipo de fútbol del Barça. Noticias de Piqué, Ansu Fati, Pedri y todos tus jugadores favoritos. Camisetas BATE Borisov
Oh do try to join the rest of the football planet in the 21st century.
Life moves on and football isnt YOUR game anymore. Its played in the summer and winter (image that, playing a sport in shorts in the sun) and its been played on dirt fields in africa for decades and life moved on.
Every pro team has 3G fields. Most top ones train in a covered turf field when the weather is bad.
Its is a NECESSITY in countries that have extreme weathers (hot and cold).
It is here to stay and is LEGAL to use in international football from all those russian, ukrainian and swiss, icelandic and scandanavian games weve seen.
And it is THE way teams teach young players to play and improve their technical skills..
Half the fields at Ajax and Barcelona are turf fields.
The techniques and maneurisms of the best young technical players in the world are honed on turf. Go check out the Barca Youtube channel and the top goals of the week from the youth teams to see what fields they use.
Ever hear of that Messi fellow? He, Pique, Iniesta, Cesc and others all played their youth careers from 7 to about 16-17 on turf fields (when they get older they play in stadiums with real grass). And if you watch the old videos of Leo scoring goals as a kid, you will see that he wasnt brought up on the nice 3g stuff but it looks like worn out Astroturf from the 80-90s.
Did playing on turf hurt their careers? No.
Did it shorten their careers? No.
It 'used to be done like this' and 'this is how the game was MEANT to be played' is lazy and scared old men who prefer to watch a 'get stuck in' game of shin kicking over a game that demands passing and skills.
Im sure so old farts were also scared when gloves were introduced for GK and when they stopped using leather balls and leather shoes and went to plastics and how many weep each week whenever they see a line sprayed on a field?
Football is stuck in the previous century on topics like technology because of teh same fear. (but noticed how quickly they moved to ban snoods which in snowy countries is good to have, and it could have been velcroed just like the religious headgear was allowed, because snoods werent 'what real mean wer', in other words snood wearers are homos and that it wasnt part of the game).)
But as long as FIFA is run undemocratically and allows favoritism to certain groups and maintains at 50% seats at IFAB, we will have the same old guard of dinosaurs moving at a glacial pace because it 'wasnt like that in 1875!'.
Not a biased answer at all McManaman welldone 🙁