The Ballon d’Or is an award given by UEFA and France Football magazine, while “The Best” is awarded by FIFA, the ethically questioned referee of the world’s most popular sport. Though prestigious as degenerates, both awards are nothing more than tangible accolades from the writers and pundits (confederation administrators, coaches, soccer team captains, fans, etc.) whose opinions and votes were solicited. At present, both awards have become a selfish first beyond the post, as no one embodies the toxic and political nature of both awards than the recipients of the past decade. Comparisons of soccer players between and within soccer leagues (for these awards) is a guilty pleasure for fans. Like most sports awards, fans will always root for their favorites, but unlike many others, it’s hard to make a statistical case that one player is more valuable than another. The point is that computers are like machines. One part, important as it is, cannot function properly without the other. That makes the award merely a measure of prolific goal scoring, but as any coach will tell you, that’s probably not enough to run a successful soccer team. Comparisons between football players are essentially what makes trading cards, trading cards and fantasy football so popular, but there should be no place for them in an official capacity. And how can we improve what we currently have? The basic truth is that we cannot, unless the awards are suspended due to the following reasons:
Soccer is a team sport – the debate about individual soccer players among soccer fans is fun, but in a team sport with so many leagues, such individuality is impossible to accurately measure. Soccer (as we all know) is a team sport where eleven men from two separate squads of players compete against each other for a trophy or, in modern times, to get a paycheck at the end of it all. All soccer teams require world-class goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and attackers (with supreme talent) to excel and win at the national level. [EPL, Serie A etc.]continental [CAF, UEFA Champions League] and intercontinental [FIFA Club World Cup] trophies No player or position is expendable or superior to the other as all must work in unison to achieve a common goal. Most of the great attackers of today (and of yesteryear) would probably make terrible defenders and goalkeepers and most of the great defenders and goalkeepers could be terrible attackers and midfielders in the game. It feels wrong to constantly elevate a particular set of soccer players over their teammates because of their position on the field of play. Soccer games are taken ‘in first place’, by the goals scored by the forwards, midfielders, defenders of a team and ‘in second place’, by the (potential) goals of the opposition saved by the defenders and the goalkeeper of that same team. No player really wins a game without anyone’s help, except playing all positions simultaneously, being in their penalty area defending and deflecting opponents’ shots on goal and at the same time running to score all kinds of goals in the box. rival penalty. Most FIFA and UEFA singles winners perform brilliantly when their team’s style of play and passing is tailored to them, giving them freedom like no other team could. Most coaches strive to fit 11 players into the best team instead of having to fit the best 11 players into one team. There is a reason why world-renowned coaches like Arsene Wenger and José Mourinho have categorically scorned and criticized such individual awards in a team-based sport.
Attacking bias: FIFA and UEFA award winners (currently and in the past) are (almost) always players who play close to the opponent’s goal, such as forwards and attacking midfielders, allowing them to score a lot of goals while they rely on their teammates (defenders and goalkeeper) to prevent the opposing team from scoring and winning the game. In football it is widely known and accepted that the attack wins matches but the defense wins titles and trophies. Very few defenders and goalkeepers are recognized for their performance on the pitch and the dirty work they do (so that their attacking teammates in the opposite goal can get the ball to score). It’s pretty disheartening that attackers are so much better paid than defenders and goalkeepers. Goalkeepers are often the least paid on a soccer team, even with the alarming level of scrutiny directed at them, which raises the question of why anyone would choose to be a goalkeeper. No one has really found a way to compare the value of goalies to outfield players, to the detriment of goalies. Should a goal saved by a goalkeeper be treated as a goal scored by a striker? How much should quality defenders influence our judgment of a goalkeeper and how much should quality midfielders influence our judgment of a forward? There is no denying the fact that some players improve the overall quality and effectiveness of certain teams, but even then, such extraordinary players could not win anything for their respective teams if, for example, the goalkeeper spills every shot thrown at him. does the opposition. The beauty of modern football is such that each player (except the goalkeeper) is minimally obliged to score goals at any time, in any way and when it pleases him or (to a certain extent) his coach, which makes the fact The fact that individual awards are only given to offensive players does a lot of damage to their teammates and the sport.
There are no specific criteria in the delivery of prizes: There are no specific criteria in the delivery of individual prizes to players by UEFA and FIFA in the soccer competitions played. Most fans and administrators don’t know which competitions: the domestic league (EPL, La Liga, Serie A), the continental leagues (UEFA Champions League, as all individual FIFA winners are based in Europe) or international tournament (FIFA World Cup) – Player performances have top priority when compiling nominees for FIFA and UEFA individual awards. Although most of the nominees and winners of these awards play for soccer teams that are champions in their national leagues or champions in the UEFA Champions League or champions in the World Cup (in a world cup year) with their countries, some winners of such awards play for clubs and countries that were not champions in national, continental and international tournaments. Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or in 2010/2011 (because he scored 91 goals in one year) without winning the Spanish League or the Champions League with Barcelona or the World Cup with Argentina, surpassing other serving players who won at least one of the mentioned competitions
It Breeds Individualistic and Selfish Footballers: In the pursuit of individual FIFA awards, some players forgo teamwork and effort, preferring to play alone on the pitch, to show off (as the fans would say), to the detriment of the team. These players don’t care if the team is winning or losing a game, as long as they score goals, increase their goal tally, and compete for prizes by shooting on goal instead of passing the ball to a higher-ranked teammate, taking each set. -piece – free kicks, penalties, corner kicks – awarded in a game even when they have bad records taking such a set piece. This creates instances where a player wins Ballon d’Or or player of the year awards because he has the most goals in the football season plus 5 or 6 man of the match performances and some impressive ones. Highlight the season reels as your team finishes that season trophyless and second in the competition finals.
In conclusion, if there are to be individual awards (for whatever odd reason), they should be based on objective criteria such as number of goals scored (best striker), number of saves (best goalkeeper) or number of tackles made (best defender) etc. Even that wouldn’t make much sense because, again, scoring a goal is a team effort. No player can score a goal without the help of his teammates. And yes, even solo goals require team efforts. Therefore, it becomes unfathomable why the governing body of soccer, FIFA, would hand out these awards that are destructive to the very nature of the sport that it is supposed to regulate. FIFA shouldn’t lend its name to a beauty pageant.