Is football a sprint or is it a marathon? A simple question I asked once in an argument on why someone like Adama Traore shouldn't be allowed to play the sports. The Speed focus of the Priemer League have players like Kyle Walker and Traore extolled as the future of football, What happened to the footballer of old the lanky demons who played with grace and finnese your Cruyff, Daglish, and Zidane of the poetry in motion.
When did football become all about speed?, when did it become about muscle? when did the training change. We shouldn't be building footballers like boxers. It's a marathon, Since body size and weight is now constituting too much of a factors Fifa need to ensure that footballers are weighted like every other sports
If they are tad overweight before a game it leads to automatically disqualification. This should keep every footballer on their toes, watching what they eat how they train a struggling to keep shape that shouldn't exceed 80kg.
Anything below the average of 60- 80kg should be disqualified keep footballers healthy, beautiful and make the game of football interesting again.
Tall players must be lanky like Peter Crouch to be of equal and competitive weight with the short players.
Football is a contact sport but when someone like Van Dijk can bend Deulofeu knees against Watford, really hurting him and further damaging his confidence just by simply leaning on him, it is a matter of concern to equate this players by enforcing a weight range.
You find out that other players would simply just give way when these big players run towards them and Which is why someone like Haaland is not having any competition or challenge from most defenders, He is simply too big, that should put a damper in his goals, to me frankly I don't think he is enjoying the sport.
There must be of equal of average weight to bring back the joy of the game, makr them tired and equally spent, jogging the same weight for 90 minutes.
There will be a more use of tact and intelligence in the play rather than muscling through victory like Mourinho who used Fellaini midfield anand Lukaku attack to formulate his brutish Manchester United. They have to be lanky, to make the sport fun again, it's seems unfair when someone like Erling Haaland is so tall and still weighs just as much. and Guardiola seems to be making beast our his players.
Look at Klopp's Liverpool and Bielsa's Leeds and how lanky they want their players looking I remember he told Gomez to loose that beach boy fat, the latter might have thought he would appreciate the weight given that he played defence, But you find Klopp using Fabinho in defence to prove sceptics wrong, you don't need all that muscle to be a good defender.
Lanky footballers tend to play football with more grace and stamina like Fabinho and Luka Modric, their body control and endurance ensure and make them overmen in the game.
Victor Boniface failing a medical couldn't completely not be attributed to a case of when players just make beast of themselves with no concern for their bodies whatsoever, it's not about adding muscle, it about having muscular and neural control of your body.
Weighting would make football interesting again, it will be a hard to bet on a team that would win when both 11 players weighing the same.
I'm really hopeful of the 2026 world cup and when footballer depend on weight o am sure Japan or Hollands might finally win the World Cup.
Let us totally and be thoroughly fair in football, and stop lumping ordinary men with giants.
Let's introduce weight in football and have us a nice and fair game.
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