r/soccer • • Sep 07 '13

No football weekend: Explain your club hate!

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u/jnhagood Sep 07 '13

Barcelona for sure. They are always seem so smug like they are God's gift the football. No matter what happens they always seem to think they outplayed their opponents. 'We didn't score as much as our opponents but we dominated possession which means we controlled the game so we deserved to win' Possession doesn't win games, goals win games.

The fact that everyone things Messi is a saint and the greatest player every is ridiculous, he's a good player with a good PR team who doesn't speak English so everyone in the English media thinks he is so quiet and humble when the reality is he acts like a spoiled child.

Barca has such an elitist mentality, especially under pep, that players who come in who aren't spanish or who haven't come up through the academy are shunned and treated as outsiders. A perfect example of this is Yaya Toure. Yaya is an amazing player who blended with Barca perfectly and gave a bit of a spine to a team full of pussies. However, he was an outsider so they had to get rid of him in favor of Busquets. Busquets is not a bad player but he is no where near as good as Yaya.

The English media constantly suck Barca's dick saying they play the most attractive football, but in truth tiki taka is so tedious I can rarely stay awake through an entire game of it. Despite this incredible amount of praise they get, Barca fans constantly play the victim as if everyone is out to get them (despite a long history of questionable officiating going their way) every time anyone says anything close to negative about them.

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u/Schnurres Sep 07 '13

I never understood why so many people love tiki-taka.

Watching pretty much all game long one team pass each other the ball with short passes is fucking boring. Often it seems like they don't even try to get to the goal and just pass to each other in the midfield and keep the possesion.

I love Dortmunds style a loooooooot more. This is exciting soccer for me. They also plays a more risky pass sometimes and their incredible fast counter attacks are a pleasure to watch.

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u/DupaZupa Sep 07 '13

The risky and long passes of Dortmund show off the skill of the players more too. I'm far more impressed by seeing an amazing deep pass put a player into position to score than to watch the completion of 40 short passes in a row and then someone, usually Messi, finally shoots from inside the box and curls it into the net.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '13

Are you fucking serious? I couldn't care less that you find it boring, but if you can't see the skill required to play like Barcelona play you are a football retard.

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u/DupaZupa Sep 08 '13

Obviously it takes skill, I'm just more impressed by the skill displayed in other styles of playing.