What is the charm of football, which is called the world's first sport?

Known as "the first sport in the world", football is still the most influential single sport in the global sports world. In a standard football match, the two teams each sent 10 players and 1 goalkeeper, totaling 1 1 person, to fight and attack on a rectangular grass court.

The FIFA World Cup, referred to as the "World Cup" for short, is the world's highest honor, the highest standard, the highest competitive level and the most famous football match. Together with the Olympic Games, it is also known as the two top sports events in the world, with more influence and coverage than the Olympic Games.

Modern football originated in Britain, and it is a sport developed rapidly with modern industrial civilization. Since its birth, it has won people's love with its unique charm. The British may not have expected that their ships and guns once traveled around the world but failed to conquer the world, while their modern football conquered the world in just a hundred years, making countless people crazy. What makes football the first sport in the world to show human physique and skills? Where is its thrilling charm?

"Football is war."

-At the press conference after 1988 European Cup defeated the old enemy Germany, Rinus Michels, head coach of the Dutch national team (1928-February 9-March 3, 2005), told visiting reporters with passion. This sentence, like "Football Story" created by michels, will remain in the history of football forever and become a footnote to the great charm of football.

Every boy probably had a similar game when he was a child: using soldier models, or chess pieces, or building blocks, or anything, simulating a huge war, opposing two armies on the floor, occupying high ground on the sofa, and launching a decisive battle on the bed ... This grand narrative is a romantic feeling and will not be out of date for every man. When boys grow up, this kind of war feelings are often pinned on games. Among many games similar to war, football is undoubtedly the most legendary.

Modern football has formed a strong sense of ceremony in the long-term development process, far exceeding any other collective confrontation sports. Out of the locker room, the caddy walked with the team, listened to the national anthem at the stadium, and exchanged team flags. It was very serious before the classical war.

The aristocratic ceremony of the two armies is a simulation of the classical war.

Defective deduction to the extreme

Football is a sport full of shortcomings, just like Venus' brokeback beauty.

Football is a game with few goals in 90 minutes, which determines that football is composed of a lot of passing mistakes (steals, balls out of bounds) and shooting failures. 0-0 games are often lackluster.

This is unimaginable for many other sports-for example, it is difficult for basketball fans to understand how football fans can stand watching only two or three balls in 90 minutes, or even less; In fact, a large number of shortcomings in long-term confrontation in football matches can best mobilize the emotions of the audience. The process of organizing an attack is longer and more complicated than basketball: it is like a battle of wits, in which the embodiment of individual ability and collective wisdom is unforgettable.

There is almost no end to the arrangement and combination of personnel (22 people), space (the length of the international competition venue is100-10m, and the width is 64-75m), time (90 minutes), technical movements (the whole body can touch the ball except the arm) and other factors, just like

Football not only needs to support the body with feet to maintain balance, but also uses various movements to control the football, which limits the functions of the most dexterous and powerful organs of human beings-hands and arms (of course, it also highlights the role of the head), and also uses the convex surface of the foot to contact the convex surface of the ball to control the ball, so the technical difficulty coefficient is very high. If other factors (goalkeeper, offside) are superimposed under the strong interference of confrontation, then a wonderful pass can be completed. Football is a sport in which the foot controls the ball. The foot is one of the most clumsy parts of the human body, but football has brought the function of the foot to the extreme.

Moreover, football uses more body parts than other sports. You can use the head, chest, thighs and other parts to control the ball. The five basic skills of stopping, passing, passing, dribbling and shooting are easy to learn and difficult to master. From this perspective, football is a difficult physical art.

Football is greatly influenced by the environment, and there is a big difference between home and away. The turf and size of different venues will be different. More importantly, no matter whether it is windy, rainy or snowy, as long as it is not too serious, the game should be played normally, which requires players to have a strong ability to adapt to the environment and even use natural conditions to achieve their goals.

Luck is a part of football, especially the penalty shootout, which challenges the psychological endurance. To participate in football, we must face up to the existence of luck and dare to gamble on roulette. Luck makes people realize the cruelty and wonder of fate.

1994 July 14, after Baggio missed a penalty in the World Cup final in the United States,

From tactics to strategy

The football field is too big, which belongs to "big corps combat". There are 22 people fighting on the field at the same time, which is unmatched by other sports, so football pays great attention to tactical formation. According to the staffing of defenders, midfielders and forwards, there are various tactical formations, which should be adjusted in time according to the actual situation of opponents in the game. The WM formation in Hungary, the 4-2-4 formation in Brazil, the all-football formation in the Netherlands and the TIKI-TAKA tactical system in Spain are constantly evolving, with short pass penetration, long pass rushing and hanging, flank cooperation, long-range shooting for points, positioning balls and so on.

In the game, the coach's command means is relatively simple-that is, changing people (and there are only three places), so you must be fully prepared before the game. If there is evidence within the team, it is difficult to win the game, and a slight cooperation mistake may become a hidden danger of failure.

"... in contrast, the study of the relationship between civilizations in the universe is likely to be more quantitative and mathematical, because the distant distance between stars makes civilization punctiform, just like watching football in the last row of the stadium, the complicated technical actions of the players themselves have been hidden by the distance, and only a constantly changing matrix composed of 23 points appears on the stadium (one of the special points is the ball, and only the football match with ball games presents such a clear mathematical structure, or it may be so.

-Liu

On June 4th, 2002, in the second match of Group C of Gwangju World Cup, South Korea, players from both sides fought for it, and China lost to Costa Rica 0-2 in the first game.

Lord of War.

Football shocked the world because "in all successful sports, there is no one like it because it simulates the largest offensive war to the maximum extent." Football is almost the most similar sport to war. People like to watch "war" and football, just as the news of war in reality attracts people's attention. Football is sometimes associated with politics, religion, nationality, race and even real war. We can open up another "battlefield", such as the "Great War between Britain and Afghanistan". The confrontation between the United States and Iran and China and Japan never needs mobilization.

No sport has such great cohesion as football. It is said to be a war in peacetime because there is no smoke in the war here, and the war it reflects is different from the war in the traditional sense.

The fierce competition of football has made people associate it with war intentionally or unintentionally. The game between the two teams was described as a battle between the two armies. The players on the field are brave fighters, and the coach is the commander of China's military account. Its combat instructions are defensive counterattack, transfer and cross pass. The striker is a sharp knife to attack the city and pull out the village, and it is its duty to charge; The guards are engineers who perform mine-clearing tasks; The avant-garde in the midfield should delay the attack and transport shells, which is the hub of the battle. With the deepening of the fighting, the two armies are bound to smoke everywhere.

The stadium is the battlefield, where coaches and players plan their accounts and fight bravely. The competitive ability of players, the level of referees, the command ability of coaches and the environment are the main factors that determine the outcome of the war. At the same time, there are many unpredictable factors that will have unexpected results on the outcome of the war.

Modern war is a war of economic attrition. Without strong economic backing, it can't stand the consumption of war. It has been proved in recent years that the victory or defeat of the war has a great influence on the warring parties, such as the US-Iraq war and the Kosovo war. The development of football has been increasingly combined with the country's economic strength. There are many countries that affect the development of football because of the economy, even football powers such as Argentina and Brazil are no exception.

In recent years, due to the domestic economic recession, Argentina and Brazil have lost a lot of football talents, which has caused many negative effects on their national leagues. Football is affected by the economy, and it will also affect the economy. Football industry has become one of the pillar industries in many countries. In the 2002 World Cup qualifiers, beckenbauer scored at the last minute to beat the Germans. According to experts' estimation, this goal will create 1 100 million pounds of income for England. China's victory in the Top Ten matches not only brings infinite business opportunities to China football, but also brings infinite business opportunities to the host country of the World Cup.

Today, with the high integration of football and economy, the talent war around the stars and the commercial war around football are another war without smoke outside the football field.

On the other hand, football must be pure and its purity comes from the divinity of sports. FIFA expressly stipulates that political slogans are not allowed in football matches and it is forbidden to engage in any political protests. Football has nothing to do with politics.

In an official warm-up match before the 20 16 World Cup, all the members of the Argentine team played a political slogan "Malvinas Islands belong to Argentina" before the game. The FIFA Disciplinary Committee decided to fine the Argentine national team 20,000 pounds, and even once considered that Argentina suspended the Copa America 20 16.

Messi led Argentina to the runner-up of the 20 14 World Cup in Brazil and missed the World Cup.

Football: A Fairy Tale for Adults

With the rapid economic growth and the increasingly narrow urban space, the pressure of human survival is increasing, politics is gradually fading out of people's field of vision, and new pure folk carnival demands are quietly brewing. It is this social background that opens up the space, and a large number of carnival activities with hidden commercial motives gradually appear. The World Cup is undoubtedly such a stage. Television has created a surrealism for us by editing, dramatizing and misinterpreting the world.

"Because they come from the appearance of TV", they are more real than reality: they are juxtaposed in order to form the reasoning mode and information meaning of the media, thus creating a complete system for editing and interpreting the world.

Today, there are only two camps left in the western outdoor collective carnival: football and music. Other forms have withdrawn because of political and social significance, but they are getting closer to Bakhtin's freedom and unrestrained, and revelers become their own heroes under the stage. Bakhtin believes that carnival is a folk festival life and a second life composed of humorous factors, and happiness and freedom are the essence of folk carnival.

In stark contrast to this, the carnival activities organized by the government, in Bakhtin's eyes, the carnival under the official will is related to the institutional order and hierarchy, and its purpose is to create inequality and sanctification, which is completely opposite to the essence of folk carnival. Spontaneous folk carnival pursues freedom and equality, and the object and subject of carnival behavior are praised by the public, which is an insurmountable gap in the era of pan-entertainment

According to the agenda-setting theory of communication, although the media can't decide people's thoughts, it can. Frankfurt School's criticism of cultural industry holds that cultural industry combines advanced technology with factory assembly lines, and generally produces a large number of standardized products, which are mostly similar in content and structure. These products copy the existing social relations, paralyze the public consciousness with leisure and entertainment, and meet the false demand.

The antagonism and contingency of football create dramatic conflicts and suspense, and at the same time, because of its unified industrialization model and the characteristics of competition rules, it provides excellent materials for the formulation of mass media texts. By setting public questions and creating dreams, the media has made football a modern myth. The contingency of football covers everything, and the audience thinks that they are reading personalized and autonomous media texts and will continue to be crazy.

Pop culture not only provides a space where the two poles are opposite, but also builds a rising chain between them, which enables us to rise from a low point to a high point, making people feel that they have the opportunity to jump from all their present positions to a higher social position, and you can find corresponding cultural support on different steps. When popularization is combined with the principle of social distinction, it constitutes the internal operating rules of popular culture.

In our hearts, we all yearn for a mythical realm. It is a myth left by popular culture, which meets the subconscious needs in our hearts. Football is full of conflict and suspense, confrontation and contingency, strength and speed. The audience saw the fierce, almost animal-like flexible movements of the players with original aesthetic feeling through the TV screen, which obtained great sensory satisfaction.

At the same time, media culture creates another kind of dream, which gives psychological compensation to the audience. The story of Greenwood's seemingly endless siege and siege, riding the savior alone, satisfied people's heroic complex.

Let people who live in the ordinary real world be happy physically and mentally. The process and result of the game arouse the illusion of the audience's autonomy. The conflict between the stars and the obstacles on the field has actually become the illusion of self and external obstacles in real life? Sensational writing is very popular in sports reports, which can stimulate the resonance between human nature and emotion and become one of the main means of media dreaming. The conquered story audience got great pleasure and psychological satisfaction from it, and the dream also gave football endless charm.

Roland barthes called this process "naturalization", that is, turning what originally belonged to the cultural category into the natural attribute of things. Roland barthes believes that the production of symbolic meaning creates myth, meaning is myth itself, and cultural symbols connect form and concept.

"The charm of football is irresistible, and I quickly integrated into the sport. Moreover, I immediately found an unparalleled feeling, which seems to be innate.

Yes, on the football field, long-distance running makes people enjoy happiness at the fastest speed;

You can sprint, stop, turn around, dribble, pass people, attack the city and pull out the village all the way, and then make an immediate move;

You can take the ball in the middle of the court, capture any fleeting moment on the court, and then quickly divide the ball and pass it to launch a fatal blow;

You can also be like an iron gate in the backcourt, blocking your eyes and blocking enemies thousands of miles away; You can fight one-on-one, attack in groups or block in groups;

You can make a diversion or a diversion. Sometimes, a look and a gesture may change the situation on the field.

This is a brave sport,

This is also a battle of the wise.

I sometimes think,

It's like a war,

It is the perfect combination of physical strength, intelligence and technology.

-Sun Jihai's My Sun