Fact is that African football is always over rated and Media always is gaga over them.Ghana was the most overrated team. Those who label Suarez as " Cheat" should take the treatment. It is not charity. Ghana themselves are responsible.African team should not take every thing for Granted. Asian teams played much much better than Africa in this world Cup.
IMO, it is the football rule that need to be revisited - is 'penalty kick' compensating enough for 'denial of a sure goal'? In this case, the rules should have allowed the referee to award a goal to Ghana and not just compensate with a 'penalty kick':-)
No fault of Saurez, since even if Gyan had done a similar handball - it is the same...
Re: Bend it like Beckham!
by Zeng on Jul 15, 2010 02:14 PM
Penalty kick sending off the player is good enough. Football is just a game and these occur once in 100 matches or less. Anyway, rules are same for all.
Mr. Nandakumar, Leave aside Suarez whether a villain or hero. But I am sure u r a hardcore football fan like me yet to come out of the hangover of the world cup and going thru the several defining moments of the tournament. Just to take ur logic further, what Suarez did as an individual for Uruguay, the same feelings prevailed over the entire dutch team, who didnt mind putting their reputation of football style at stake for the bigger goal of winning the world cup for their nation.
Its pity after seeing many people in this forum supporting this. I fail to understand how can a player become a hero if he deliberately violate a law. Infact its a shame for his country. If this is the coaching given for this BEAUTIFUL GAME,then Im sorry and I just pity for all the futball supporters in this forum. Some people evn commented that I bet on Ghana and lost. I pity them too for their sheer ignorance. Guys-Grow up-Play the game honestly whether its Futball or cricket or something. You guys look like kids to me when u make such comments. I really dont care and I'll continue to say that Suarez is a cheat and should be banned for life.
Re: Hand of God
by Against Pseudos on Jul 15, 2010 11:03 AM
Nice Guy:
"Deliberately violated the law" is an excellent term. But did Suarez start the "deliberate violation"? Or was it the Ghana player who "dived" gloriously to earn that free kick in the first place? I am sure it wasn't an instinctive dive, but a very calculated dive designed to produce a free kick. Suarez's reaction on the other hand was a split second instinctive reaction to a ball he saw looming towards his own goal. He got penalized. But the sporting spirit of the game ensured that the resulting penalty didn't materialize, because it was a result of a foul (Suarez's handball) which was a result of an attack emanating from a deliberate dive; and more so, whilst he was busy handling the ball (after the first rebound off his knee), Ghana's Number 10 was actually offside (and in the spirit of the game the play should have been stopped after the first knee rebound and a free kick awarded to Uruguay).
Hence everything happened in the spirit of the game, ensuring a sporting result; despite the lacklustre refereeing and the obvious absence of technology & replays to ensure that the selfsame spirit should have been upheld.
How does this analysis sit with your heightened sense of justice?
Re: Hand of God
by satish chandar on Jul 15, 2010 10:58 AM
It was not a planned one dude.. In a matter of a split second, a decision which comes first in mind ll win..
Country or spirit of game?? On the spot decision.. He got the punishment for what he did.. We are seeing many players intentionally fouling and acting as if they were hurt for normal incidents and make the refree give cardss to the opponents.. Is that within spirit of game?? Its also cheating..
when i am playing for my country its my duty to save my country. i think Suarez did the right thing although its agaisnt the moral. when a soldier fight for his country his duty to kill all the enemy to his country.
It is not Luis Suarez blender had generated this discussion, it was the stupidity of Ghana player who shot the penalty kick unfocused and succumbed to pressure that has made raise the question if Luis Suarez is good or bad? if the Ghana player hit the penalty kick successfully this would have raised.what ever Luis did was a mistake and given red card and also given penalty on opposition , it is the Ghana responsibility to score.... "fortune favors the brave not chokers"
The higher the stakes, the more serious the offence. When a player loses all sense of morality and denies another fellow footballer the chance of glory, it is a shame, and will always be.
Furthermore, enjoying the other's pain while being penalised for your actions is even more despicable.
A red card is the ultimate shame for a footballer, at any level. It means that the player is not even capable of going through an entire match without being thrown out for unsporting behaviour. That is something to be really ashamed of, after all the training and hard work that has gone into making a player into what he is.
The only silver lining here is that Ghana got an opportunity to score through a penalty kick. In the case of Maradona, not even that was forthcoming.
Re: High Stakes
by Venkat Pendyala on Jul 15, 2010 09:08 AM
Now you will say the winner must not enjoy the victory. If winning was not important; why do they keep score?
Re: Re: High Stakes
by Venkat Pendyala on Jul 15, 2010 09:22 AM
Also; Suarez's act is not the Hand of God. In this case God did not work in mysterious ways. Even the referee saw it. With Maradona; anything that humiliates England is good fun for those hapless souls except Gary Linekar. Gary Linekar was the only man that English football ever had.
Re: High Stakes
by Against Pseudos on Jul 15, 2010 10:13 AM
D'Souza:
Your first line was really very emotionally moving. A players should always allow fellow footballer the chance of glory. Which is what Gyan did. By allowing the Uruguayan goalkeeper to glorify in a saved penalty.
We should all take note of Gyan's sporting behaviour.
Re: High Stakes
by clyton travasso on Jul 15, 2010 02:13 PM
u should stop following football or stop playing football if ever you do.Stick to kabaddi or playing marbles because there are not many controvosies in these games.
Re: Lie
by anand kulkarni on Jul 15, 2010 09:19 AM
Justness and respect to what is right comes even above national and personal ambitions.Same as saying doing unjustice to men of other countries is not partiotism to your own country.
off course in football field you can;t apply philosophy. Even Krishna did preach in Gita to fight and take Kauravas by cheat....like killing karna...while fixing his wheel of chariot.
There is no one best answer. :-) I guess personal and national pride works in most practical cases.
i can understand the dilemas facing any person, how to be a role model, sacrificing, getting the best out of the team, there is no perfect cut and dried solution thanks Mr. Nandakumar for a thought provoking article
