Just finished watching the Honduras-Costa Rica Concacaf game. It was not a bad game to watch. However, there is a part of soccer that infuriates me.
Before I go on, please don't respond by telling me that I am an American snob/elitist and that this is how soccer has always been and it is part of the game.
There were three added minutes at the end of regulation time. However, for almost two of those minutes the Costa Rican goalie dawdled to get a goal kick off, earned a yellow card, dawdled some more before passing the ball to his own player in the box, which led the ref to call the ball back for a 're-do'....
Lacrosse for example is a fast moving sport. Four quarters; 15 minutes each. When the play stops so does the clock. If a player goes down for an injury (or in soccer 'a flop'), there is no waste of time....the clock stops. Substitutions don't waste time.
I would be curious to know how much time is lost during a soccer game non-specific delays, substitutions, setting up free kicks, throw ins, flops and 'injuries' etc etc etc. Some of the funniest and also most pathetic videos in all of sport are soccer flops..
http://gazette.com/student-suspended...rticle/1564644
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3HebsWpZ1Q
Before I go on, please don't respond by telling me that I am an American snob/elitist and that this is how soccer has always been and it is part of the game.
There were three added minutes at the end of regulation time. However, for almost two of those minutes the Costa Rican goalie dawdled to get a goal kick off, earned a yellow card, dawdled some more before passing the ball to his own player in the box, which led the ref to call the ball back for a 're-do'....
Lacrosse for example is a fast moving sport. Four quarters; 15 minutes each. When the play stops so does the clock. If a player goes down for an injury (or in soccer 'a flop'), there is no waste of time....the clock stops. Substitutions don't waste time.
I would be curious to know how much time is lost during a soccer game non-specific delays, substitutions, setting up free kicks, throw ins, flops and 'injuries' etc etc etc. Some of the funniest and also most pathetic videos in all of sport are soccer flops..
http://gazette.com/student-suspended...rticle/1564644
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3HebsWpZ1Q
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