Violence Control: Possible?

June 9th, 2006 | by: Euler Costa |

Out Injured When you read something like ‘Ronaldo pleads for protection’ in the BBC site you start to feel that he is starting to lose his mind, believing that the Brazilian team can receive a different treatment from the referees, right? But when you read his quotes it is clear that he says nothing like ‘oh mister ref, please look after us’ but he is only asking Fifa to keep its word. We are always hearing from them that violence will not be tolerated, but in the end we see some referees not applying the rules correctly.

Parreira said something like that too. “We always hear people talking about it. I want to see it applied for real. If that occurs it will be better for that team with a higher technical quality and it will be also good for football in general.”

After what happened to Cisse I can only agree with our team’s concerns. After all, violence is the weapon of the cowards. I was speaking to my friends here at Rio and we all agree that we want to see every major talent fully healthy in this World Cup. We want to see England with Rooney, for an example. Let’s not leave any room for people’s ‘what ifs’. If we lose, we lose to the best. If we win, we win over the best. I hope that every football fan on the globe feels this way too. In other words: don’t hurt our players, you cowards!!!

Special thanks to Vin and Zé!

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Miguelinho

Yes, we’re looking at you, Australia. Is your football team the same as your rugby team?

If you feel frustrated during the match, try stepping into the sidelines for a spell. You can cool off and maybe actually make some clean passes. In any event, DO NOT injure our players, or Adriano and Ronnie will need to get psycho on you fools.
Guus Hiddink

Please Australia, let’s just realise that we are here to make up the numbers and enjoy our three games and not forge a reputation for notoriety by playing our ugly version of the game and prematurely ending the tournament of any of the Brazilian stars. I would rather endure another 32 years of non-qualification that have that rep
http://brazil.worldcupblog.org Euler

At least today in GER x CRC and POL x ECU the refs were exceptionally accurate. Only 1 or 2 offsides were wrong, nothing more.
Miguelinho

I don’t know, Euler… The GER – CRC refs were good. But in POL – ECU, they made blunders:

1) The Poles put the ball in the net, only to see the flag go up after the fact. Replays showed the forward was actually a bit behind all the defenders. No way was he offside. I know I wouldn’t like it if this happened to my team.

2) With the score 1-0 in the second half, Ecuador began a great attack. A forward sent in a shot, and the goalie spilled it. The ball fell to an Ecaudoran forward – who would have probably scored. Instead, the other sideline ref raised the flag for offside. What offside?! When a forward receives the ball from the opposing goalie, the forward cannot be penalized for standing closer than the defenders.

So there you have it – two crucial mistakes by both assistant refs. The main ref also made blunders: yellow cards for regular fouls, and complete ignorance when harsher, professional fouls occurred. This team of refs was not up to par.
http://www.originalrudeboy.com/ Tomislav Chagall

the cissé incident was not a deliberate foul, their legs happened to intertwine during the sprint and unfortunately, cissé got his leg broken. i would have loved to see him play, but this for a change was not a foul aimed at harming the player on purpose.

typical case of “wrong place, wrong time.”
matilda

Not sure why Cisse is being used as an example here. ??? The Chinese player wasn’t a “coward” or being deliberately violent. As Tomislav said it wasn’t a foul, let alone a reckless tackle.
http://brazil.worldcupblog.org Euler

I’m sorry, I didn’t watch the game. I was talking about playing serious friendlies. Now I know that it wasn’t foul play.

This post is more about the referee’s role in the World Cup. Until now I believe it is ok. I hope it goes on like this, with zero tolerance for violence.

I just don’t want our rivals to break ‘our’ legs, you know?