Messi Vs Ronaldo

eyesofconfuse said:

Not a fan of soccer one bit, but one of my gripes with the sport is the skill gap. I mean yeah you have the players stand out and so on. But if you reduce the amount of players on the field, you then create a larger window of opportunity for those great players who can get past 2-3 defenders to shine brighter. If that were the case it would make the arguments for these cases deeper and more debatable, since you would have that much more to argue for players.

Sadly that will never happen and whenever I present my argument on improving the sport of soccer, I'm met with 'you just don't get it'. Then there's the whole 'heritage' thing, which I think is garbage and old man syndrome of 'I don't like change'.

Watch all sports pretty much, exception of soccer, hockey and golf. Not high enough tempos and usually few opportunities for scoring. I feel as if it's somewhat easier to disguise a soccer team of how bad it might be due to them being low scoring affairs, where in others it gives you more of a definitive answer of how bad they might be based on box scores opposed to w-l alone.

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michaelr1988 said:

Past 2 years Ronaldo.

Before that, I believe there was three tiers of world class players. Some stand out slightly more then others. Top tier and untouchable at that time is Messi, then a 2nd tier of players would come Ronaldo, Iniesta, Xavi, Lahm and Carlton Cole then 3rd tier Robben, Ibra, Schweinstager and so on..

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hmeister said:

Why would you need to improve the sport? Football is the biggest sport in the world and it shows that you don't understand it at all.

There is more to it than just scoring and to millions of fans around the world, watching a John Terry or Nemanda Vidic defend their goal and command their back line or watch a Roy Keane or Javier Mascherano dominate the middle of the park and break up attacks is just as enthralling as someone putting the ball in the net.

Plus, as footballers are as fit as athletes in the professional game, trying to get them to do what they do is hard enough with11 v 11 on a full size pitch...Playing 8 v 8 (for example) on the same size pitch could kill them, especially when you factor in the heat of a World Cup location like Quatar.

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eyesofconfuse said:

By improve, I mean more along the lines of americanize

The game just isn't fast pace enough for me I suppose and there isn't as much opportunity to score or make the stars shine as bright as possible.

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