Analysis: The element that disappeared from football in the last 10 years and the goal boom

Why are you suddenly marking so many goals?

We all remember Morainho's first season at Real Madrid. Embarrassive loss 5 to 0 from Barcelona. The disgruntled Maurinho fans whistled even when his team won. In that year, Mourinho applied defense football which is the tactic that I identify with. Morainho without that kind of game, doesn't exist. And indeed, Morainho, although formally he was in Madrid, in the next two years, he was just for show. Just to motivate the team. Because Real Madrid had no tactic. He played to score goals and entertain fans.

So does Manchester United. Last year Morainho was allowed to apply his defence football. That resulted in Europe's League victory, but only with sixth place at Premier League. And that was clearly a failure after all those investments. This year, Hourinho again doesn't exist. United is applying offensive football to small teams and winning thanks to the attackers' high quality. But in the big games, however, Mourinho is insisting on applying his tactic which resulted in once again unexploring and boring for United fans [intelligent association with Liverpool and loss to Chelsea].

In general, teams have changed the way they play soccer. They all attack without exception. There are goals more than ever. While the first period of 3-4 years was much more expensive and produced mainly boring football. Because this was football through which it was won. Imagine, that's how Maureeno won the Champions League with Inter and Porton. That's how Italy won the World Cup. Even Spain [although, defence tactic here is high ball ownership, which allowed Spain to achieve only one goal in the entire World Cup tournament]. So Greece won the European championship. But in general, there is no change at the national level because Portugal won the year that Europe Championship went through that tactic. However, at the club level things have changed.

What happened? The popularity of football is at stake. This game is becoming a wheeze from the almost constant, annual repetition of major races. Generally, we have the same champions and the same claimants. The race is closed. In the past nine years, eight times as part of the Champions League finals were Barcelona and Real Madrid. In the meantime, the serious claim was hardly more than six. This constitutes a fundamental difference between football playing in the 1990 ' s, where the race was an open - air stick and where surprise teams were very large. Half of the teams participating in the team stage of the Champions League had a real chance of going to the top. Crvena Ziesda was champion. So did Marseilles. Then it was twice a final. But now, the teams of this level can't even dream of it. Cause? Big financial difference.

Today, the Champions of the League or the League of Champions, or even the principal contenders, is known that in summer, by their transfers. And in this respect, losing teams deepen losses year after year. Because winning teams constantly increase victories.

This has caused football to be in the hands of a handful of people owners of major European clubs. These owners are not demanding titles, but what is most necessary to increase their profits: show and goals. The Arsenal, noted for its beautiful game, has the most expensive tickets in Europe, despite having won only the FA Cup in the last four years and never the Champions League.

No longer is victory required in the Mourinho style but playing Wenger and Cruyff style. And if Wenger didn't have the financial potential to compete with his Arsenal Real Madrid, Barça, Bayerin, Paris of the two Manchesters these owners have these possibilities.

But Wenger brought the beautiful game anyway, by means of non-alarm players technically. These owners are offering beautiful football through narrowing the concept of competition, and getting the job done with young people in clubs all over Europe. This has led real football to look more and more like that virtual, the Playstation, for example, where every action of every goal, is of some style previously defined by game technicians and where the sense of what is spontaneous and real loses.

Wenger's football wasn't just nice. He had a dimension that these large teams have no way of offering - spontaneousness. The goals we've seen in the '90s, or even in the first five years of 2000, may have been technically unfulfilled but they were much more beautiful precisely because of the thoughtless and developed schemes there. So, as a cause of spontaneousity.

Will football lose its popularity? No doubt. In fact, this one-time shift in tactics is a clear symptom of this. If things continue to be so defined outside the field and in the field, then global audiences will become increasingly colder to the world's most popular sport. P ERISCOPIA