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It's because it's BS. A football is a football. They make a new ball to sell it, and the players don't complain cause the changes are negligible in a real world
by d--b 5y ago
It's because it's BS. A football is a football. They make a new ball to sell it, and the players don't complain cause the changes are negligible in a real world environment. Wind and human imprecision have a much larger effect on a ball's flight than the difference in texture between a regular ball and a world cup ball.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoThe Jabulani is proof that this isn't true. The ball can have an enormous effect.
- littlestymaar 5y agoIt was supposedly the a keeper's nightmare (because of its chaotic trajectories) yet this world cup was the cup with the lowest amount of goal scored in the past 20 years and came with the record of the fewest goals scored by a world cup winner, so we can argue that it didn't have the effect people feared…
- lordnacho 5y agoCynical old man here says that all this talk of the ball making a difference is made up by marketing people to sell more balls. It's not hard to coax someone into saying Coke tastes different to Pepsi. It does, but not enough to make a real difference to anything. Similarly you can get someone to say one ball is different to another. And you will, if you want to get people to buy this special world cup ball. We've all played with different balls at times. Did it ever matter at all? I think that prior has to stand until there's some quite compelling evidence that isn't just advertising in disguise.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoIf you had played football with a shit tier ball and with a top tier ball you would know how large the difference between them is. Does it have an effect on the outcome of the game? No idea. But the feel is extremely different.
- chupasaurus 5y agoJabulani wasn't the worst in that decade of World Cups' balls: Fevernova had the crazy curving ability and was significantly faster than others at the time, Teamgeist is the lowest diameter possible and feels like a rubber ball for kids. To GP: a difference in texture results in a slightly different technique in ball control and trajectories possible due to a friction drag. As for GGP's comment: a professional football player can adapt to a ball in a couple of training sessions.
- matsemann 5y agoWhy write so confidently about something you know nothing about? Some of the footballs are wildly different in how they curve when you hit them, for instance, which even an amateur will notice.
- danlugo92 5y agoI like it. It brings enthropy.