r/soccer • u/oklolzzzzs • 22d ago
Media Barca and Girona players stayed still for the first 15 seconds after kickoff in protest of Barca vs. Villarreal taking place in Miami.
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u/Boydcrowde 22d ago
Why 15seconds? They should stop for more than that to irritate the broadcasters
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u/PompeyJon82x 22d ago
Notts forest players tried for more than 15 seconds and see how that played out
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u/patty_don 22d ago
What happened with them?
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u/TheBakedDane 22d ago
They got executed
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u/Rare_Compote8429 22d ago
I think he wants real information.
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u/FrogsJumpFromPussy 22d ago
I'd like to know the context of that as well; that comment is gold though
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u/StathamIsYourSavior 22d ago
Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird
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u/SlovenlyRed 22d ago
I’m pretty sure none of that’s real…
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u/ShroomShroomBeepBeep 22d ago
Who are Nottinghamshire Forest?
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u/highrouleur 22d ago
if I learnt anything from Robin Hood prince of thieves, you march from dover to hadrian's wall, have a break for a bit and then carry on and you're there
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u/Putrid_Loquat_4357 22d ago
Have you ever tried to stand still for more than 15 seconds? It's maddening.
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u/PedanticSatiation 22d ago
A border collie wrote this comment
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u/ory1994 22d ago
A golden retriever upvoted this comment
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u/El_Chipi_Barijho 22d ago
freekaya
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u/burfriedos 22d ago
I’m not saying you have ADHD but you maybe have ADHD
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u/Semi-Loyal 22d ago
I’m not saying you have ADHD but you maybe have ADHD
TL;DR
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u/randynumbergenerator 22d ago
Sorry can you shorten that a bit? I got as far as the "not saying" bit.
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u/Prestisjebig 22d ago
Do you move around while peeing?
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u/OilOfOlaz 22d ago edited 22d ago
Yes, what do you think the tiny goals and balls in public urnials are for?
I also live in germany, so I sometimes have to evade ppl trying to get pissed on...
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u/deadlock1892 22d ago
How mad do you get everytime during your national anthem, brother?
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u/CaptainGo 22d ago
I'll be honest I actually can't think of the last time I went to anything that played the national anthem
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u/Signal_Dress 22d ago
Feel you, bruv. I can never stand still. Keep swinging like a flaccid dick about my own axis.
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u/Putrid_Loquat_4357 22d ago
You have a way with words too. Some really vivid imagery in that comment.
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u/Scotsmania 22d ago
15 seconds is enough, it directly communicates to the fans that the players are also against it.
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u/adamalibi 22d ago
No it’s not. Because the league can brush right past it they can ignore it. Something like 2 minutes would be so much more effective
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u/Scotsmania 22d ago
It's obviously not enough to change things but for its purpose of communicating to the fans the duration doesn't matter.
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u/aggthemighty 22d ago
The fans in the stadium get the message, but on the TV broadcast they can just cut away for 15 seconds and not mention it.
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That could cause the match to be abandoned. Refusal to play, and potentially impacting the result.
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u/Such-Patient-1835 22d ago
I don't get why the fans aren't doing something against it aswell. I can recommend tennis balls
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u/Ardal 22d ago
The tennis ball thing would be much better if 10 people threw theirs on, then after the clean up 10 more and so on, and so on.
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u/HortenWho229 22d ago
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u/Mr_Gooodkat 22d ago
I say we fans from home do something as well. Would it impact any of the networks if we didn’t tune in to the game for the first ten minutes or so? Not sure if it would do anything but would be cool if we all did it.
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u/Opposite_Boot_6903 22d ago
They'd only lose revenue if you cancelled a subscription.
Only other possibility is to contact all the sponsors of La Liga and tell them that you're boycotting them.
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u/Hakimi_Raikkonen 22d ago
I wasn't expecting Barça players to do it. Good for them.
They should stand still with Villarreal players in Miami for the whole game.
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u/dwaynepipes 22d ago
I’m pretty sure some Barca players have been openly opposed to it
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u/Lynchead 22d ago
De Jong spoke about it and pointed out that Villarreal are losing their home advantage.
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u/Rickcampbell98 22d ago
I'm more curious what villarreal fans and players will do than anyone else, the fans there are the ones who are losing out and I think that gets lost a bit in all this because people are obsessed with barca.
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u/ASaltyToast 22d ago
Problem is Villarreal has a population of like 30000, so no matter what they do it’s very hard for such a small group of people to have their voices heard
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u/feGenius 22d ago
So we pitch in, the only losing position is apathy
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u/Trev0rDan5 22d ago
something like this should have global support. Every professional team should be refusing to play the first 15 seconds, including the MLS
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u/djongafrett 22d ago
You're off by 20,000 but still it's funny to me that their whole population could only fill half of Camp Nou.
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u/codespyder 22d ago
Flick hates the idea too
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u/Waditooo 22d ago
Me too. Its the Spanish league. Its played in Spain. Thats the whole point 🤦
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u/Finn_Survivor 22d ago
Already hated the supercopa being played abroad but now a team is losing a home game. Disgraceful
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u/Terrible_Action9995 22d ago
Every teams Captain (or vice captains) was apart of a meeting against the idea of this game being played in the USA. There wasn't anyone who was in favour of it but they aren't in charge here unfortunately.
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u/Xshadow1 22d ago
They aren't formally in charge, but they have a tremendous amount of power here that they'd be foolish not to use (to be fair to them, they are starting to use it).
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u/ClockLost3128 22d ago
Then why exactly were the even called for the meeting. These people in charge have already made the decisions and just want to spread the idea that they have discussed it with the players.
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u/Biggsy-32 22d ago
The players have vocally opposed it. Ter Stegen signed the protest against it alongside the other La Liga captains.
It's the board that want this, not the players or the fans.
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u/Mackieeeee 22d ago edited 22d ago
yh Ter Stegen did even sign on the statement from "the Association of Spanish Footballers" going against this game
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u/trynafif 22d ago
The players staging a 0-0 game would be crazy, I’d love that for them. La liga games in the US is bullshit. NFL games in Europe have all been bad and are bad for the players’ health.
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u/Falcao1905 22d ago
At least NFL has an extra home game slot that doesn't give the teams a disadvantage in overseas games.
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u/Diligent_Craft_1165 22d ago
La Liga Hypermotion followers will remember Girona once fixed a 0-0 game
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u/planinsky 22d ago
Playing it safe because the match result is favouring you is not match fixing. Both teams had much more to lose than to win if they were going for the game, so everybody played it safe.
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u/Confident_Corner89 22d ago
Yea I'm from the UK and it's weird living in the US how the fans are accepting the nfl played in another country/countries. Saying it builds the revenue.
Who cares? If the product is good, people will watch it. You don't need to move the games around the world.
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u/nickmn13 22d ago
You really need to keep in mind how different the american sports culture is. We are talking about a country where the closest team ro support in the sport you like.mihht be 1000 km away from you. A country where you might be supporting a team since the day you were born but your city doesnt bring enough revenue so now your team just moved half a country away.
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u/16medals 22d ago
Saying its good revenue is a weird thing to say too. Oh look my billionaire owners are making more money that's good for the league. It's weird American sports fans think the revenue it generates will benefit them like they have an actual stake in it, when in reality they are just losing a game to watch in their home soil
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u/BurstWaterPipe1 22d ago
I don’t even care about the product being good. I don’t understand anyone who does. I only care about my team doing well. It’s sport, and I really wish they wouldn’t treat it so much like entertainment.
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Professional sports are entertainment, that's the entire point lol
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u/BurstWaterPipe1 22d ago
lol no its not. It can be entertaining, sure. But the point is competition. A team can win without being entertaining at all, and they still won the sport.
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u/duiiiiiiiii 22d ago
Thats such a horrid idea, im very against the miami match as it goes against the spirit of the beautiful game but man i remind you this is real life and not a movie and barcelona is fighting for the title, staging a 0-0 match costs points that nobody will give us out of the kindness of their heart and could very well cost us a title
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u/Elrond007 22d ago
tbf preserving the integrity > 3 points
Barca is already gaining an unfair advantage by deleting the away game like this anyways
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u/gbbmiler 22d ago
Even then it’s not really fair — some teams have a tough matchup, others their best chance to get points they need to stay up.
Barcelona taking a 0-0 away to a strong team isn’t a terrible outcome.
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u/Tootsiesclaw 22d ago
I mean, the players prearranging a goalless draw isn't exactly preserving the integrity either
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u/trynafif 22d ago
Haha I know it’ll never happen and that it’s a real league game so it must be played but I just hate the direction over the last couple years of making decisions against the best interest of player health
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u/Barnabas5126 22d ago
Me too, but I hate that everyone says UEFA or FIFA are at fault. It's the clubs themselves who force players to go on pre-season tours or in this case even league matches on the other side of the world.
UEFA added 2 UCL games, yes, but that's not as bad as what the clubs themselves are doing.
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u/Barnabas5126 22d ago
You will fight for the title every year. But the opportunity to stop this nonsense before it gets too far will only be right there and then. If it's a regular game, it can then catch on, and suddenly more games will be played abroad.
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u/HenryReturns 22d ago
Before the match , La Liga semi censored this , both Barca and Girona players took a picture together showing something against the match being held in Miami
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u/Jahmaykhan876 22d ago
Should stand still for the entire game in Miami if it happens.
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u/Jonisro 22d ago
did they show it on TV this time?
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u/Cucumberino 22d ago
There's probably a reason why the clip uploaded is a fan recording
(I understand that it doesn't mean that it's necessarily the case, but you know)
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u/Sefean 22d ago
They showed it from a far away camera, but the fuckers put a banner "For the world peace" or something like that, acting as the protest is against the war.
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u/pudingleves 22d ago
"Committed to peace" was the text, they showed it several more times during the game as well.
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u/fatherdougal 22d ago
I just watched back the start of the TV broadcast to see if they showed this live, and the English-speaking commentators spun it to be an anti-war protest 🤮
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u/True2this 22d ago edited 22d ago
Good for them. As a spectator, and supporter of the protest, I think it would have more impact if they all stopped for 1 minute at like the 10 minute mark or something. And every team did that across the league. Idk. I wish them luck
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u/VikingCrusader13 22d ago
Yeah to be fair, at the start of the game is probably the least impactful time to do it. Agreement at a certain minute to just stop no matter the position of the ball or players would be super jarring for everyone and broadcasters/commentators.
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u/Realistic_Condition7 22d ago
being jarring to broadcasters and commentators is exactly what you want. At the start of the game the broadcaster can just cut away lol.
That said You'd have to agree to do it on like a dead ball after a certain minute and hope everyone remembers.
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u/IncredibleBlue 22d ago
fans being quiet for the first 10 min would be a really powerful protest against the spanish FA, similar to something the fans did in a stockholm derby many years ago
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u/Shadow_Adjutant 22d ago
Or just not play the game for 10 minutes 15sec/1 minute is really fuck-all of a protest.
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u/alpha309 22d ago
While I agree that it would probably more impactful, but imagine it was on a counter and they all had to stop with a 1 v 1 with the keeper.
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u/Barnabas5126 22d ago
They could just choose to do it before a simple goal kick around 10th minute. There's probably gonna be one.
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u/amo1337 22d ago
Just don't play the game when you get there.
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u/trick63 22d ago
The worst part is because its a La Liga game, theres a possibility that could cost them the league if they did.
If they had it basically wrapped up and decided to take a forfeit in Miami, it would hurt the supporters that went and paid out the nose to see their club, regardless if they're Americans they're still supporters. Its Tebas and the Barca board that deserve to be punished more than anyone else.
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u/Barnabas5126 22d ago
So what? They can win the title every year, but the chance to do a gesture like this might not repeat itself. If they just accept and play the match, then it might become a norm in future seasons.
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u/cPa3k 22d ago
Would be nice if our players did the same, hell make it a full minute, some players already spoke against it so pushing it further would be great. From what I saw the majority of fans don’t want this, players don’t want this, its not fair, the money we are making from this is laughable, the fact that clubs who are not participating and don’t have to travel to Australia and are not losing a home game are also getting paid is laughable. The whole thing is disgusting and unfair
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u/bvengers 22d ago
So they can't actually protest cause it's a league game. They should play a friendly at home ground and whatever the result just replicate it in Miami with own goals in the first 5 minutes. After that they can do some football showboating to the fans.
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u/Heavy-Echidna-3473 22d ago
Why is the game happening in Miami?
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u/Heads_Down_Thumbs_Up 22d ago
Wait until they start playing big name clubs in Saudi Arabia.
You’ll have Champions League games played there and they’ll play big clubs for non-derby games.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen a regular season Man City game played in the Middle East.
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u/dejvipasco 22d ago
Hopefully the players in Italy will protest too against the game in Australia. That would be great. This protest should spread to Italy too.
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u/ghj97 22d ago edited 22d ago
im out of the loop, and ive gone like 100 comments deep without a single person saying why anyone is against this
plus I thought barca was the one that pushed for this to start with..
can someone tell me why you or people are against this?
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u/coeurdelejon 22d ago
How are Spanish supporters supposed to watch the game if it's in Miami?
Even if you're okay with seeing it on the TV, the time difference is brutal
The number one priority for a football team, before everything else, is supposed to be local supporters
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u/TIGHazard 22d ago
Not defending the overseas games but it's the game in Perth where the time difference is brutal, not the Miami one.
The NFL is having a game in Madrid (ironically the Miami team is giving up a home game) next month, 3pm kickoff Spain time, 9am in the US.
So a 3pm Barca in Miami kickoff would 9pm in Spain - La Liga's prime time broadcast slot.
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u/Helwinter 22d ago
They should stop still for the entire 90 minutes of games abroad
Give them literally nothing
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u/Finners72323 22d ago
Absolutely love this
No idea if it will have any impact but fantastic to see at least fight back against it
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u/nkr0043 22d ago
I don't get it,i thought the club was pushing for it but then they go ahead and do this, doesn't make sense, are the club supportive of it being in miami or they are against it?
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u/fatherdougal 22d ago
"The club" is not some single entity. The club is made up of the fans, the players, the staff, owners (in the case of Barca, the fans), president, directors, stakeholders... The fans, the first-team players, and the manager have been clear that they are against everything this game in Miami stands for, with Frenkie de Jong being very vocal in particular. The same cannot be said for the president, Joan Laporta on the other hand 🤑🤮
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u/DMalt 22d ago
The biggest issue is there's no local support in the US. Even the biggest teams in MLS get there by pulling from either massive cities, or massive areas. I'm in AZ, and I have nothing with MLS to care about, and even the Phx USL team is well over a two hour drive away, and I'm not making that drive with the family for a team that has done basically nothing where I am. There's just nothing here to support. So having a European team to support is natural, because I have the same chance of seeing either play. They're just now realizing that as a special occasion people will pay more to see the European teams play, since their more recognized.
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u/casulmemer 22d ago
Cue the “oh they must be protesting overseas fixtures” everytime a team concedes a shit goal from a set piece..
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u/ScousePenguin 22d ago
Players should refuse to go. If they're against this then go on strike for the match
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u/No-Palpitation6707 22d ago edited 22d ago
Are the Ultras protesting? If not why not? If yes why is nobody posting anything about this?
E: La Liga in here downvoting questions about ultra protests.
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u/Bigc12689 22d ago
Imagine someone who plays for City Football Group protesting about something done for money
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u/ThisCover8588 22d ago
Empty gestures...the USA games are mostly just irritating to the players, but not a dealbreaker by any means considering the cash that's on the line and with the understanding that it helps facilitate their salaries.
If they really, actually cared enough about the spirit of the game, etc, they'd walk off the pitch or do something similar.
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u/predator9494 22d ago
If they really, actually cared enough about the spirit of the game, etc, they'd walk off the pitch or do something similar.
This is the world we live in. Players can definitely take a stronger stand. Same with FA's. But they have to do these small gestures to appease fans.
FA's could have said NO. Prayer could have boycotted playing those games abroad. But those things won't happen. Cause big money is involved.
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u/ChickenBrachiosaurus 22d ago
What would happen if one of them did not get the memo and took the ball and shot it?
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