Football's honours are colorful, golden balls, world footballers, European Cups, Copa America, Champions League and World Cup winners, these are the greatest achievements that players have been chasing throughout their lives. However, if you ask which is the ceiling of football honor, I believe that it will definitely set off a bloody storm on the football river. Just like the once brilliant hundred schools of thought on the mainland, these honors almost all have their own unique charm. However, if you insist on a hundred schools of thought, the Hercules Cup should be recognized by the vast majority of fans, of course, this is also the view of the editor. Since it is the year of the World Cup, let's discuss this question, why the Hercules Cup must be the ceiling of football honor.
1. The history is even older
After the end of the 1928 Olympic Games, FIFA held a conference of delegates and unanimously passed a resolution to host the quadrennial World Football Championship, and since then, the "World Cup" project has quietly formed. From 1930 to the present, the world has successfully hosted 21 World Cup matches. In contrast, the Champions League and the European Cup, which are comparable to their fame, are much inferior, and after the establishment of UEFA in 1954, the Champions League and the European Cup began to rise gradually. In contrast, the long history of the World Cup, the inheritance and touching that have been bred are naturally more intense. What the? You said that the editor "relies on the old and sells the old", and the times have changed. Don't worry, this is just an appetizer, please keep your appetite, the delicious taste is still to come.
2. More competitive
Speaking of this, many small partners may have to stand up to refute the editor's point of view, is it not more competitive for the European Cup with stronger average strength and the star-studded Champions League? Not really. Next, Xiaobian will support this view from the two aspects of team composition and tactical arrangement.
As the annual carnival of the football world, the Champions League battle definitely represents the highest level of strength in the entire football world. Fierce competition and group heating in the five major leagues have spawned a series of giants such as Real Madrid, Liverpool, Bayern and Juve, and finally formed a situation of hundreds of contending. Just like the NBA in basketball, this fierce competition not only makes the top players from all over the world compete to join, but also derives countless advanced tactical concepts. Therefore, on the overall quality of players and technical and tactical aspects, the level of the World Cup is far inferior to the Champions League. But does this show that the Competition in the Champions League is the strongest? I think the answer may be no.
The question is also here, will these stars who have been in the Champions League split into the national team, and they can still implement the tactical system they have previously executed? Will they still have so many ideal teammates to complete with them? I think both of these questions are difficult to come up with in the affirmative. The reason is simple, although the players of the national team are all from the same country, they are essentially a "mercenary" army. It is an indisputable fact that almost every professional footballer spends more than eighty percent of his football time in his own club. After all, club competitions are often held, and various leagues and cup competitions are held year after year, and in essence, they are no different from us ordinary "hit workers".
There is no doubt that football is a systematic sport, the key to victory is the cooperation of 11 people, and any miss in any link may lead to the final defeat of the game. But if the system is immature, what is the most necessary factor for its victory? Yes, it is the two major factors of personal ability and competitive state, one is indispensable. Whether a player can show the best competitive state at a critical moment, or even determine the outcome of a game many times, has been proven countless times in history. And do these two factors correspond to the core of sports competition - to break through the self?
So some people may have to ask here, is it impossible for a "temporary run-in" national team to tailor a tactical system for a certain player? In fact, 18 years of France gave us a good answer, when they were star-studded, and even the substitute players were the level of the main core of the top giants of the five major leagues, and the offensive and defensive ends were very balanced, and there were almost no shortcomings. According to common sense, with such a good hand of cards, is it possible to arrange tactics unscrupulously? On the contrary, Deschamps has been using the most ugly but simple and practical anti-reaction tactics, why is this?
The reason is simple, the players come from all over the world, spending most of their time at the club, they have long been accustomed to the tactical arrangements of their own clubs and the teammates around them. If every player plays the way they play at the club or chooses to play in a big way, then whether this French team can withstand the test of Argentina, we will have to play a big question mark.
Of course, there are some surprises in the vast history of football. These three countries have made breakthroughs in this area: Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. In the Netherlands, Ajax pandir led by Cruyff and Milan's central axis led by Gullit have led Tulips to a good record in the World Cup; on the German side, their main national team in each period comes from a club, Bayern Munich, so almost every World Cup Germany's record will not be too bad (personally I think this is also one of the reasons why Germany has been allowing Bayern to dominate in recent years); and Spain's famous 2010 dynasty is more obvious. The main squad is basically all the team of Dream San Barca, they have been bathed in the same tactical system since they were young, and their execution is naturally visible.
However, apart from these three "open and hanging" national teams, almost none of the members of the national team are from the same club. That is to say, unlike Europe under the rule of the Golden Dollar and the Historical Club, we can almost witness one or two big miracles every World Cup, such as croatia in the 98 and 18 years, Turkey in 2002, Ukraine in 2006, Ghana in 10 years, Colombia and Costa Rica in 14 years, and Russia in 18 years. In other words, the World Cup is relatively fair and competitive than the Champions League, and at the same time more difficult to achieve!
In addition to this, the World Cup has a virtually lower fault tolerance than the Champions League. On the one hand, whenever the Champions League ends a round of competition, the club has enough time to adjust the state of its players, and there is also plenty of time for targeted training for players by enemy tactics, and even many league-leading giants will make corresponding adjustments early and strategically abandon their league journey. For example, the former Real Madrid Barca Bayern and now the Greater Paris have made such adjustments. So is such a game really a higher test for players than the World Cup?
Let's look at the World Cup side, the players must always tighten their nerves, 90 minutes of the game they have almost no chance to make any mistakes, because the technical and tactical arrangements are not perfect national team is difficult for someone to stand up for your mistakes, for you to pay for the people, often called "defeat". Therefore, the World Cup actually has extremely high requirements for players' ability to grasp opportunities and the frequency of mistakes. In summary, the competitiveness of the World Cup is actually much stronger than that of ordinary leagues and Champions Leagues.
Speaking of this, many small partners may say, what about the European Cup? It's almost exactly the same as the World Cup. Yes, on this point alone, the European Championship may be even worse than the World Cup. But the following point is not comparable to the European Cup.
3. Higher sense of engagement
As a worldwide sports feast and carnival, the appeal of the World Cup to ordinary people can even surpass grand sports events such as the Olympic Games. Take the recent World Cup in Russia, where he has seen a total of 3.572 billion viewers worldwide, which equates to an average of 191 million people per game. Among them, the final between France and Croatia showed the appeal of football to the fullest, and the 1.12 billion viewers around the world are crouching in front of the TV at this moment to watch the live broadcast of the match. If you convert the number of people to our country, it means that more than ninety percent of the people are watching the event at the same time.
I don't know how many fans have been paying attention to football matches, but combined with the statements of friends around Xiaobian and some fans on the Internet, Xiaobian can basically draw a conclusion, most fans usually only pay attention to scores, transfers and some battles, only that kind of world-class competition and the key games of their favorite team will go to a lively and watch the whole field. That's right, that's the norm for most people who follow football. If you ask these fans who won the 2002 World Cup, he may be able to answer without hesitation, but if you ask him who the winner of the 2002 Champions League is, and who the winner of La Liga Serie A and the Premier League is, it is likely to create an embarrassing situation of not knowing what to do.
To put it bluntly, a thousand words can be combined into one sentence - "popular population". And because there are more people involved, the story is stronger; and because of the inevitable result of "singing and praising", the story of football is also more legendary. Without a doubt, it's a very nice cycle. Football has become the most popular sport in the world, in large part, thanks to the world cup as a global feast.
Even if we can exchange it in equal amounts, the World Cup is the embodiment of football's influence. So let's assume that you are crowned king under the shouts and gazes of the whole world, what kind of picture will it be? I guess even with a broad and profound Chinese it's hard to find a sentence that can describe that excitement, right?!
Below, we continue to talk about the inevitable result of high participation - creating a legend!
4. Cast too many legendary epic moments
Maybe you haven't seen the World Cup a few times, but as long as you pay a little attention to football, you will inevitably have the following pictures in your mind, such as Maradona's five-man consecutive, Ronaldo's out-of-print pendulum, Bergkamp's century stop, Van Persie's fish jump to the top, Götze's one-stop shot, J Ronaldo's anti-sky volley and Pavard's peach blossom shadow falling excalibur and so on. How about, do you have a hard time? I guess I can say at least one of them, right, haha. Of course, what Xiaobian said is only the tip of the iceberg of the famous World Cup scenes in previous years, and the famous scenes of the World Cup are of course innumerable. So why do you have these pictures in your heart? The reason is simple, the last one complements each other, because there is more attention, so it is easier to create legends; because more legendary moments are cast, so football pays more attention.
Reality is often such a "reality", and it is easy to be remembered by people is the hero, which has been proved countless times in various fields of history. Take the recent Winter Olympics, for example, many people remember Vallieva, Sasha and Qianjin, but few people know that Kostonaya and Cai Mingjie, who played well in previous years, are both champion-level players, why they are not remembered, because they did not enter the Winter Olympics, so except for those who pay special attention to figure skating, few people know them, because most of them are for the influence of the Winter Olympics. In the same way, it is not difficult for us to see a phenomenon in the major media and self-media, whether it is a collection or a story, the World Cup is always a topic and picture that they cannot avoid.
Speaking of this, some people may be about to speak, that the Champions League, leagues, Copa America and The European Cup also have a lot of famous scenes, that is not a legendary moment, and more than the World Cup, even better quality, why talk about the World Cup alone, is it a little unfair? Of course not, in fact, this is the same as our lives, the higher the stage, the more people involved, the more difficult it is for most people to play their own strength (of course, there are exceptions), such as a big test in our lives - the college entrance examination. In fact, many of the questions in the college entrance examination are not as difficult as the mock test, and the questions are much more than the straight ball in the mock test, but the achievements of many people in the college entrance examination are not as good as the mock test. Is it to say that some people's voices are heard?
Meme, doomed to the World Cup is difficult to appear in the highlight moment, but once it appears, he is an eternal legend. The so-called one minute on stage, ten years offstage, used to describe the World Cup is most appropriate. A player who can still play at an extraordinary level in the eyes of all, his psychology and skills must be the existence we admire, and this is not a true legend?
5. National honor is greater than everything
If you ask Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo if they would like to exchange 1 Or even more Golden Globe for 1 Hercules Cup, then Xiaobian guarantees that you will always get a positive answer. In addition to the many factors of their golden balls, it is more important that football is still a team sport in the end, as the world's top football players, if they can not contribute to their team and country to contribute the best answer, it will inevitably become an eternal regret in their careers.
This is the last and most important point we have to say, and it is enough to sum it up in one sentence - the honor of the country is above all else! This is the basic quality of a country's citizens, which is very prominently reflected in various fields. As a war without smoke in this era, the victory or defeat of football always plays with people's heartstrings. If you can lead your team to historic or even the best victory in a big game, you are undoubtedly the hero of this country. There are already four great players in history who have given us good answers, namely Pele, Maradona, Beckenbauer and Ronaldo.
Undoubtedly, the story of Diego is the most legendary of these, and when the Argentine Falklands are defeated, the hearts of the people are burning with a burning vengeful anger and a wavering confidence. At this time, they need someone to stand up and regain that confidence for them. And then Maradona stepped forward. Lead Argentina to victory over England and soar all the way to the top of the world!
Yes, this is a coincidence made in heaven, but as long as you deserve the title of hero, heaven will open a heroic road for you, as for the process, who cares at this time? Because it was Diego's football victory that poured a healing ganlin for the depressed Argentines, it can be said that at that moment, he was the light of the Argentines, the God of the Argentines.
Remember what Erwa Mueller said at the 2014 World Cup, "Who cares about the Ballon d'Or, now we're champions?" Although many fans and the media still interpret this sentence as a mockery of Messi, if you put yourself completely into Mueller's perspective, would you still feel that it was a mockery? Obviously, we can get a negative answer. Because in that moment, he was proud to be a German, and the Germans were proud of him. And his speech, almost also represents the heart of every Player who has won the World Cup, they don't care what they say, they don't care about personal honors, they just know one thing, our country is the best in the world this year!
In fact, why write this article, mainly hope that after reading this article, do not be confused by the kind of "World Cup has no gold content", "the World Cup is also a music" of various extreme remarks, football development so far, the Hercules Cup is still recognized as the peak honor of football, is an epic monument that every player wants to win throughout his life. This year is the year of the World Cup, I hope that everyone can not go to the World Cup with prejudice and extreme thoughts, and enjoy the World Cup. I also hope that Mero can play his best strength in the world cup with a high probability of the last time in his career, and do not leave regrets for his career!