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Brothersjudd Forum: BrothersJudd Blog: EUROS ARE SO SPASTIC THEY CAN'T CATCH...:

  • Tom · 1 year ago
    But the balls are, if not broken, very different now. They dip, dive and swerve in ways they never did even just five years ago.

    I just returned from my Sunday league game, in fact. Our goalkeeper is a top-end athlete who played running back for a Midwestern college. (If anybody has good hands, in other words, it's him.) We're playing with the new Euro 2008 balls, and he's getting beat left and right with this thing.

    I know the point of this post was to bash soccer, or Europeans, but I'm steamrolling right past that and leaving an earnest comment in good faith.
  • orrinj · 1 year ago
    Earnest, good--kickball, bad.
  • Ryan · 1 year ago
    "Unlike players such as David Beckham, who mastered the ability to put spin on the ball so that it dipped and swerved into the net, Ronaldo kicks the ball so that it barely spins on any axis. This means that as air rushes over the seams of the ball it creates turbulence that can suddenly change the ball's trajectory at random."

    He's kicking knuckleballs, apparently, but no one over here is begging MLB to change the design of a baseball so that Varitek doesn't look like an idiot catching Wakefield
  • orrinj · 1 year ago
    Jeff Francoeur is....
  • poormedicalstudent.blogspot.co · 1 year ago
    Seems like a stupid request. While the ball may move more now than just 5-10 years ago, that's part of the game. Not everyone can hit the ball perfectly without spin, so if a player is able to master that shot, more power to him.
  • Brandon · 1 year ago
    Anything that makes it easier to score in a soccer game is good.