Or because they were playing against a North Korea side that was horridly outmatched. Anyone can kick pretty much any soccer ball into an unguarded net from 6 meters out. The controversy only shows up when you are dealing with the extremes, when you have players at the top of the game trying to get a very precise reaction from a ball at high velocity.
There may be something going on with the ball, I don't know. Redesigning the ball every 4 years still seems pretty weird to me, but I understand that they want to have the ball change because Addidas makes a hell of a lot of money putting out a new World Cup ball for sale every 4 years. As with most sports, I'd guess that the weather conditions and the condition of the pitch (which has been a problem in some matches this tourney) plays a bigger role in variation than the ball does. But people like to bitch about the ball, it's tradition. Fwiw, I seem to recall that Major League Baseball had this problem not too long ago where new balls were suspect and there were big calls to investigate and change them and such, so this problem isn't limited to Fifa. Judah On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Players are complaining that the ball is acting inconsistently. > > Also, maybe Portugal scored 7 goals because of the differences in the > ball, rather than in spite of it. :D > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322255 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
