Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Seeing that Ronaldo was about to confront the referee, Deng Kai immediately stepped forward and pulled him back.

In fact, Ronaldo's fall in the penalty area could have been a penalty kick.

However, you could also argue that calling it a dive is not a big problem, as the probability of either is equal.

Because Cristiano Ronaldo is in a state of "passive resistance".

This is also the biggest difference between football and basketball.

Every now and then, the NBA produces some groundbreaking players.

The four great centers.

Jordan.

The four major positions.

James.

After them, two players changed basketball.

One is Curry.

He ushered in the three-point era for basketball.

One is Harden.

He ushered in the era of flopping in basketball.

Before Harden, drawing fouls in basketball and football were essentially the same: head-on collisions.

Those who incite others to commit fouls must also bear certain consequences for their actions.

In those days, drawing fouls was a double-edged sword; it was one way to prove oneself as a hero, and it carried significant weight. But until the very end, very few star players would choose this self-destructive tactic.

However, Harden's innovative "drawing fouls" style of play, characterized by his constant drawing fouls, has turned the term into a derogatory one.

This style of play seems to comply with the rules, or even exploit them.

At one point, people dared not approach within a meter of him.

Those shooting motions that weren't actually shots repeatedly earned him free throw opportunities and created space for him to handle the ball.

This style of play is essentially anti-basketball.

It is draining fans' passion and love for basketball.

This is also a major booster for basketball, which was originally a highly competitive sport, to enter the era of "glass basketball".

Since then, every breakthrough has been accompanied by a foul; this is a change in the severity.

Previously, most shooting fouls were just hitting the hand, but now, if you dare to defend, the opponent can almost always draw a foul. This is a change in purpose and nature.

His seemingly problematic playing style, however, was actually in accordance with the rules, so much so that the NBA couldn't think of a way to stop Harden for a while.

The practice of faking fouls was only gradually changed by enacting regulations such as "any foul-drawing action where the shooter leans at an abnormal angle towards the defender is invalid".

This inevitably leads people to consider whether we are playing by the rules or playing basketball.

This is actually related to a question that many people didn't understand in their childhood... Everyone, including the police, clearly knows that the other party is a bad person, but why can't they arrest the other party and let them get away with it?

This is a classic debate, and it's very difficult to say who is right or wrong.

In terms of sports, some things are not written in the rules, not because the rules are missing, but because those things are simply not in line with the sport. Everyone understands this without me saying it, but I never expected that someone would be so shameless.

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Americans, for various reasons, have become metaphysical in this regard and in many other aspects, leading to numerous laughable situations.

But Europeans have never forgotten the original purpose of football.

No one is allowed to exploit loopholes in the rules to profit from them.

Therefore, many fouls in football are sometimes penalized and sometimes not. Excluding the influence of biased refereeing and match-fixing, the reason lies in the referee's judgment of the motives of both sides.

According to the American perspective, if someone enters the penalty area, there is contact between the opponent's leg and the ball carrier's leg, and the ball carrier falls, it's definitely a penalty kick.

Even if the player with the ball deliberately uses their foot to hook the defender's foot, it's still a penalty.

However, in Europe, in football, if the referee believes that the player with the ball has not fully controlled the ball after entering the penalty area, the level of confrontation between the two sides will be much greater than the level of confrontation when the opponent tries to contest the ball after you have control of it.

If you fall down easily at this point, it means you lack the ability to resist the force.

Or you enter the penalty area without any intention to attack, or you deliberately fall to the ground within the range of normal physical contact, etc.

None of these will be awarded a penalty kick.

Therefore, Ronaldo's penalty kick in the penalty area was both a "penalty kick under American ideology" and a "dive under European ideology."

He deserved that yellow card.

Many people are debating which of these two attitudes toward the rules is better or worse.

These two types of confrontation actually exist in every country and in every field.

"Following the rules absolutely" seems fair at first glance and is very persuasive.

But upon closer examination, it becomes clear that this is overly idealistic and too easily exploited; it's nothing more than a pie in the sky painted by capitalists.

Any loophole in the rules that a normal person can exploit, a capitalist can exploit as well. But a normal person can only exploit it once in a certain period of time, while a capitalist can exploit it countless times in a certain period of time through means such as hiring and replication.

Who do you think will benefit the most?

What appears to be fair immediately becomes an absolute injustice.

Therefore, on any public social media platform, over time, the influx of paid accounts from capital firms will render the voices of genuine users almost nonexistent.

This is the absolute crushing of individuals by capital.

"Subjective regulation" seems unfair and is fraught with a crisis of trust.

However, simply being able to shield oneself from the interference of capital to a certain extent, ensuring that one's competitors are still individuals, already provides ordinary people with tremendous opportunities.

Even if those who exercise subjective control are corrupted by capital and engage in fraud, this is still a low-probability event in large-scale data.

This is a million times better than capital being able to openly crush ordinary people by changing the rules.

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This is why there are many memorable cases of biased refereeing in European football, while there seem to be fewer cases of biased refereeing in American basketball. However, everyone knows that the NBA's level of control over the game far surpasses that of the top five European football leagues.

That's why many people love watching basketball when they're young, and then love watching football when they get older.

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During halftime, Viorante was brainstorming with the coaching staff.

They tried to plan better ground passing combinations to break through Poland.

But Deng Kai believes this won't work.

The Polish defenses are truly formidable, making it extremely difficult for the ground to penetrate.

Besides... the Portuguese actually had a better way.

"Actually... Almeida is very good at heading the ball," Deng Kai commented from the side.

The coaches looked at Deng Kai with some confusion, as if to say, "You shouldn't be here; you should be under the car."

You're just a player, and this is a discussion among coaches.

However, head coach Viorante remained silent, instead looking at Deng Kai, indicating that he should speak.

Deng Kai continued, "Almeida won headers several times in the first half. Although the quality of his shots wasn't high, as long as he touched the ball, the quality was just a matter of adjusting the angle and luck."

"Almeida is very tall; even without jumping, he has a good chance of winning the header."

"Cristiano Ronaldo has good jumping ability, and his heading ability is also very good."

"If they can consistently contest the same spot, it will be very difficult for the opponent to defend. It's easy to mark one, but very difficult to mark both at the same time!"

"And in our team, there are more than just one or two players who are good at crossing."

I like playing football on the ground: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him.