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Arcadian Empire
11-21-2008, 02:16 AM
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Rebecca, do shut up

On another topic I cannot let this opportunity pass without saying something about the silly, juvenile article Rebecca Wilson wrote in the Daily Telegraph.

Her GPS must have gone haywire on the way to work that day because her car obviously took her to another planet.

Wilson, a kind of Ray Chesterton in drag, contended that ‘soccer’ in Australia was in crisis because Gamba Osaka out-skilled and outplayed Adelaide United in the ACL final.

Which is like saying German football is in demise because Bayern Munich got pumped by Zenit St Petersburg in last season’s UEFA Cup. Or that Spanish football is on the brink of death following Real Madrid’s twice in a row loss to Juventus.

She claims, quite correctly, that Australian players lack the technical skills needed to compete at international level. Wow, what a revelation!

I guess I should feel proud that what Johnny Warren and I and thousands of others have been saying for 40 years has finally got through to Rebecca Wilson. But she ain’t fooling anyone. Most of us can smell an old fashioned soccer basher from a hundred miles.

The curious thing about this is that Wilson’s late father, Bruce Wilson, a lovely man, was a sports journo of serious integrity with a distinct affection for football.

He wrote warmly about it often, including after attending Australia’s victorious game against England at Upton Park in 2003, on which he reported with pride and enthusiasm.

This, we gather, didn’t rub off on his daughter who clings mysteriously to the belief that rugby league, her sport of choice, is some kind of cultural treasure which must be protected, above all against the smelly hordes from the north who, with soccer in their saddlebags, threaten to over-run us, rape our women and gallop off with our children.

I have news for her. The smelly hordes are coming not just from the north but from the east, south and west, from everywhere. Soccer (‘We refuse to call it football,’ she says) will soon engulf this nation to the point that we will all love it so much we won’t be able to breathe.

The times are a changing. So live with it, girl.


The article in question:

Soccer in a sad, sad state

ADELAIDE United FC was comprehensively humiliated by Japanese club Gamba Osaka in the Asian Champions League this week.

In what can only be described as an embarrassing performance, the carefully constructed masquerade around the A-League was fractured.

Read more on the match here.

The truth is that Australian soccer is not up to scratch and only those dozen or so players who represent Australia as Socceroos are good enough to compete on the international stage.

Scratch the surface of the sport at every level and you come up with a code that is in grave danger of going the same way as basketball did a decade ago.

The A-League has served to make the sport's problems even worse. Football Federation Australia is looking at creating more teams at a time when crowds are already thinning.

Creating more A-League teams will dilute the talent even more, annoying fans and ensuring the demise of the entire competition.

The existing sides have barely enough talent to field a good team. The players they do have are decent athletes but they lack the technical ability of players at the same stage of their careers competing internationally.

Australia is widely acknowledged as producing decent defenders and goalkeepers. Those who are great strikers or attacking players learned how to play in Europe or England.

Australia has no real soccer culture. Sure, there are pockets of the country that live and breathe it but it is not systemic. Unlike rugby league or AFL, soccer does not have coaching structures in place that ensure the development of good players with finely honed skills.

It is no coincidence that the best Australian players leave here around the age of 16. The likes of Tim Cahill and Harry Kewell fled to Europe as teenagers, knowing they would be taught technical skills that simply are not taught by Australian coaches.

Many more teenagers are now doing the same thing, leaving the level down from the A-League seriously depleted and lacking in any real talent.

One father I spoke to during the week will travel with his immensely talented 16-year-old to trial with a leading German club next month. The same boy missed selection in his own state team, deemed "unsuitable" for selection at that level.

He was told his risk-taking style of play was not what the selectors wanted in a young soccer team. These blokes obviously have no idea that these are the players who are most sought after in Europe for precisely that reason.

Eleven European clubs are vying for the kid's services, selecting him from amateur home video of his on-field prowess. They can't all be wrong.

Those young blokes travelling to Europe rarely return as fully fledged seniors to the A-League. Only a handful of players in the domestic competition learned their trade overseas. They are home-grown and home-coached, which is why their skills are seriously lacking.

The capitulation by Adelaide against Japan showed us just how far behind the rest of the world the A-League clubs are. The sport must surely realise there are gaping holes in soccer coaching and management that must be addressed.

Switch from an A-League game over to an Asian one and the contrasts could not be more marked. The game played everywhere else is fast and skilful. The A-League version is stodgy and slow.

One of the most sobering facts is that Australia has never had higher participation rates at junior level. There are just as many soccer players here as there are in the Netherlands.

The reality is that, while the Dutch produce dozens of stars year after year, very few young Australian blokes emerge from local competitions as star players.

The A-League is the only summer football code in Australia. While it may have been a good idea to move it away from the more competitive winter market, crowd figures must surely be telling the sport's bosses that something is wrong.

Either the game does surgery on itself here or soccer faces a future that is very bleak indeed. Once this crop of talented Socceroos retires, the next lot down don't look too flash.

In recent years, the Joeys have gone from being in the top four junior sides in the world to not even making the top 20. These are the players that soccer bosses reckon can fly the flag for Australia in the future.

The juggernaut that threatened to come from the last World Cup campaign has failed to materialise. Soccer is in crisis and Adelaide United's horrendous two losses in recent weeks proved once and for all that something has to be done to fix it.

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Now the comments to this!

Mac your comments about AFL and the passion for the game are admirable, but it is a Micky Mouse sport compared to the world game of football (please that is it's proper name and the only game that should be called football). If AFL was a truly great sport it would be taken up and played around the world. As it isn't then it can't be as good as you make it out to be. Without a doubt the sport does match the Aussie character. A League is still developing and does have a long way to go as it does not have major stars regularly playing here which can put more bums on seats. That is a fact of life as the top players will always want to play in the top leagues where the rewards are much higher. But as you witnessed during 2006, when finally Australia was part of a huge world event it brought home just how popular and huge football really is. Football may never take over AFL and NRL at the elite level of standards and support in this country, but Football will continue to be played at many levels in this country in far greater numbers than AFL or NRL, despite the twists of the facts this paper in it's obsession with NRL puts out every now and again. It's a shame that the English Premier League is not shown on free TV as the entertainment so regularly dished up is so much better than anything AFL or NRL can offer.

The Asian Champions League final between Adelaide and Osaka was watched by over 250 million viewers around the world. Potential sponsors take note. The AFL grand final was watched by 3 million.

Even as an avid Perth Glory fan I must admit the passion generated at a Football (soccer) match in Australia is non-existent as compared to an Australian Football (AFL) match. However it must be recognised that Rugby League is also in a dire state, crowds are comparatively low in relation to Australian Football and at least four clubs are in severe financial difficulties. The demise of Rugby League has been painfully slow and is most probably due to an oversaturated market and the lack of interest Sydney residents have for sport, as they would rather be intoxicated or in a drug induced state. Australian Football is the only sport in a respectable state in Australia and I am sure it will continue to prosper.

Mac, you make a very good point about AFL and that you don't care how big it is internationally. I for one don't like AFL but this is because I was born and bred football, football, football. The reason you get such crowds is due to generations of support, I bet your kids are/will be AFL fans too.To your point Rebecca - We now have more footballers than the Netherlands hey? Look out, I'm sure most of these kids will have kids of their own increasing the support of Football in this country. To heavily criticise a new league (of any sport) after only 4 years especially after one of its competitors reaches the highest pinnacle it can (well done Adelaide) is a farce. Football will never be dead and buried here Rebecca unlike your Ice Aged journalism. More and more money will be pumped into football and the cream will eventually rise to the top. The inclusion of FFA into Asia is massive and Adelaide would have made a nice windfall to help buy and coach more starlets therefore creating more revenue etc. Crowds have dipped, yes, but football is so strong in this country I hope Dinosaurs like you get to witness the full effect of it's global domination come into full swing here in Oz!

GOLD comments:

Rebecca, as a kid i grew up playing soccer & copping all the same crap you are dishing up from school mates and friends. The only senoir games available to me were local first grade & the EPL wasnt televised up our way, so soccer was thin on the ground. Now with the rise of the a-league we travel to every jets game and have been members for 3 years. Its a 4 hour round trip plus the time at the game but my wife & kids enthusiasm is probably stronger than mine and we have the time of our lives. Finally we have our own national league with no ethnic ties, and with time it will only get better and grow. Negative ill informed and prejudiced comments like yours dont help so stick to AFL and Rugby as your intellect is obviously not high enough to appreciate a game based on skill and not violence.

Mac, AFL is only popular in VIC, SA and WA. The Melbourne Victory are a bigger club than North Melbourne, Western Bulldogs and Melbourne Demons. In its 4 years of existance, Melb Victory have the clout to have a new stadium built for them and at a capacity that they demanded!

Give us some more soccer slagging articles Beccy, you gotta divert attention from the farce that is the rugby league world cup.

Should an obviously biased writer like Rebecca Wilson be allowed to abuse her position to push her own anti soccer agenda? This is very un--Australian indeed. It is also very myopic, given that there are over a million Australians playing soccer now, all of whom she has managed to offend.

She offended me, the DoC. Bitch.

IF rebecca wilson got out of the NRL dressing rooms long enough to let the liniment clear from her nose, she would note that football in this country is going from strength to strength. you dont have to like it but as a <ahem> journalist, you have a responsibility to report the truth,. not what your mates at the NRL want you to report.

Pawned.

"Australia has no real soccer culture. Sure, there are pockets of the country that live and breathe it but it is not systemic. Unlike rugby league or AFL, soccer does not have coaching structures in place that ensure the development of good players with finely honed skills." What a load of rubbish Rebecca. Its a fact that more children are playing football in this country than any other sport. The coaching and development structures in place for it are rapidly improving. There's no doubt a 'systematic' culture in place for Rugby League and AFL in this country but how can we compare the development of players in these codes with countries around the world? Football has the biggest culture on the world stage so it is obviously more difficult to compete with. Just because our Rugby teams beat another nation 30-0 doesn't mean their players are more skilled at their respective sports, it just means the competition is lower! Take a look at the Rugby World Cup and compare it to the Soccer World Cup... Our AFL players also have no basis for comparison internationally! Just because we don't have Ronaldinho roaming our streets doesn't mean soccer is not a major part of this country. I for one am proud of Adelaides achievements in reaching the Final! Something we should be celebrating not criticizing. After beating the Asian Champions in the Semi Final I dont think they should be subject to the criticizm of someone who clearly doesn;t know what they are talking about.

Pawned...again!

Its obvious she doesnt follow the game. Adelaide had to defeat the champions of KOREA VIETNAM JAPAN UZBEKISTAN to get to the final. DO YOUR RESEARCH IN FUTURE!

From grammar, this person is 10. And he/she evened pawned her! LOL.

Last time i checked, Badmitton was international too. I suppose that makes it a more superior and more exciting game than AFL? Correct. Badminton is a superior and more exciting game than AFL.

LOL

Good one Mac of - Let's talk about the neanderthal sport of AFL: played by the same old 16 teams, with no relegation because the game's not big enough to support it, a draw where teams don't all play each other twice, a game that rewards mediocrity with the bottom team getting the best draft pick(s) (now that's called socialism, not competition), a game that isn't embraced by 99% of NSW and QLD (it can't be that good!), a game where the AFL has to bail out at least 5 clubs financially every year just to keep the silly comp going, a game that parents don't want their kids to play because it promotes violence, poor sportsmanship and a drinking culture.... and I could go on! The only reason it has a hold on the southern states is because it's rammed down people's throats 24/7 in the media every day by mostly ex-AFL players and narrow-minded AFL journos - eventually this will change. As for you dumb comment about AFL practice matches getting bigger crowds than A league games I remember a certain Australia V Greece 'friendly' game at the MCG in 2006 attracting 95,000 - I've never seen those crowd figures for an AFL practice match! If AFL people don't care that their sport is not international, why then does the AFL organise an idiotic hybrid game with the Irish and why does it send AFL teams to play 'Exhibition' games in front of 1 man and his dog in foreign countries? Because they know their little piddly franchise is doomed without an international presence (which it will never have because the world thinks it's rubbish).

^ Gotta love it.

What drugs are you on Rebecca?

wtflolpwn.

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Just thought I'd post this girl getting wtflolpwned. Quite funny actually.

Arcadian Empire
11-21-2008, 02:22 AM
I love this comment:

Rebecca forgets footballs true strengths. It is the most accesible of all codes. Children and women play the game in large numbers. Other codes cannot boast both. It is played and supported by all sections of the Aussie community (ethnic groups, social groups whatever). It is the game of the people. It can be played on concrete (try playing Rugby League on concrete), it can be played in small spaces (trying playing Aussie Rules in a confined space). It is not bogged down by rules (hello Rugby Union) - any one can just get a ball (or something resembling a ball) and have a kick around very easily. One person can play by themselves, two, three etc. Try playing AFL with 1 or 2 players. Thus the accessibility of the game is its strength. It is also the global game - the way in which the world communicates. So you can see how other codes - confined to a couple states in Australia, or just a few countries, are by their very nature, estremely limited. This is why football can grow so easily and AFL has to spend millions upon millions just to expand their game.

:wub: Football.

I also like this one:

It's Football, not soccer. The world calls it Football, and it is symbolic of the major (albeit obvious) differences you pointed out in your incredibly uninformed and obsolete article. I hope your NRL loving readers got a kick out of it, to help them maintain their sense of national superiority, but I don't see the nation rallying behind the Kangaroos at every home match, selling out stadiums for World Cup QUALIFIERS! This Rebecca, is only the start of a nation consumed by Football.

I know... I was one of the 83 000 fans who attended World Cup Qualifier although Australia was already through to the next round.

83000 can't be wrong, eh?

AzureShadow
11-21-2008, 03:22 AM
I can't help but LOL at good old American Football. Such a bad game :D