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 09/03/2016
 

 
 
 
 
 
      
 

 
 

Common sense beats racket, pure football

at the last World Cup championships Brazil made history a goal by Benzema: doubling for France against Honduras was the first goal of the assigned story with the goal line technology. In our league is the same thing happened with the captain rigor of Naples, Marek Hamsik, Atalanta and a beautiful free kick by Chievo, Simone Pepe football player, against Roma. Either way, looks a bit ‘, zero controversy.
seemed already a success, a small revolution. However, this week, comes the news that sounds sensational: the “new” Fifa Gianni Infantino finally opens to the use of replays. Without Blatter and Platini to oppose for ideological reasons … we say, the elephant football finally puts his hand to his rules that seemed carved in stone. The novelty could be applied as from European
2020. The comparison with other sports is merciless: the first was the cricket in 2001. Then, in sequence, rugby, American football, hockey, tennis, basketball and volleyball have followed, all successfully, the road of technological support for match officials. Technology is not a panacea for all ills, of course. Has limitations, it is just a tool that must be applied with intelligence and made available to the arbitrators themselves. But this rate (which comes ten fifteen in some cases, years after many other sports) goes toward a new football culture, modern and in line with the times. Our country has often proved a kind of allergy both to observance of the rules as to the fact that, in enforcing them, there were an objective principle. Just around the subjectivity of football judgments have been published thousands of pages of sports news and produced thousands of hours of television programs based on one absolute principle: the racket.
Is known as football in Italy and in the world , worth the rule of “identification.” The stadiums are full of fans who identify with their idols players to the point of thinking “as if” they were actually themselves to toddle in the field. The same, alas, for which parents troops often project themselves and their frustrations in matches of their “chicks”. It seems, in fact, that our mind does not distinguish an experience vividly imagined by a real life experience.
That’s why, this footballing revolution could be a huge growth opportunity for our country: if the same identification process take us towards the ability to accept objective judgments? If it became customary to remain silent in the face of perceived injustices, then contradicted by the facts? If there abituassimo draining rivers tearful alibi and recriminations against someone or something that has unfairly prevented us from getting what we deserved?
The football world has already divided: romantic fake who already advocate a return to the past even before the future manifests itself, warily suspicious waiting for judging and innovators who were enthusiastic about this change of perspective. It will be an opportunity for the most popular sport, to be able to change (for the better) a piece of the company. Today football has seventeen official rules and eighteenth often cited: common sense. Just for good sense one wonders: why football has hated technology so long?