Hello,
Watch the Euro 2012 final last night?
Awesome. I feel for Italy a little though as they almost put up a good fight.
I said since the start of the campaign, I felt Spain would keep their crown. Turns out I was right.
Football amazes me, it's a game of opinions, like home biz and indeed life in general. It's fascinating how two people's opinion can vary so much. At various points throughout the tournament I got involved in some fun debates regarding the way Spain play. Some fans say they are boring to watch and it's not in the spirit of football.
Before I give you my point, and listen up cos there's a good message in it for all ye home biz players, I think you should read this short article I came across earlier while I was searching for stats on the competition.
You can read the full article here if you want
But this is the main bit I wanted to show
Statistics can be a wonderful thing. They can be studied and scrutinised in the smallest detail, used to provide answers and presented as facts. If you look at Spain’s statistics during the EURO 2012 campaign so far, you would think that they have been the best team in the tournament in some way, a team that have swatted aside any team that dares to inhabit the same pitch as them. But as George Canning, who is the shortest serving Prime Minister in history, once said: “I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.” This applies brilliantly to Vicente del Bosque’s team.
For the truth is, Spain have been anything but inspiring and brilliant. Sure, they have completed 3386 passes, at a competition rate of 80 percent, scored eight goals (only one behind the Germans), had 49 attempts on target and had 40 corners, but they haven’t managed to set pulses racing. Their semi-final against Portugal was one of the most boring football matches in the tournament so far. There was only one attempt on target during the 120 minutes, despite Spain’s 57 percent possession, seven corners and a pass completion of 75 percent out of the 758 passes made. And it didn’t make a blind bit of difference.
Del Bosque's experiment of playing without a proper striker is failing. Spain may be making a lot of passes, and it may all look good on the stat sheet, but that’s not enough. Too many of the passes are going sideways or back, which is because they don’t have a player prepared to run off the shoulder of the last defender like a striker does. Creativity is great in midfield, but if there isn’t anyone on the pitch in the position to capitalise on then the goals won’t come. And without goals, you can’t win competitions. Ah, you might say, Spain has the second highest amount of goals scored in the competition so far. That’s true, but if you take away the four goals scored against a poor Ireland team, that leaves them with four goals from four games, a poor return from such dominant stats.
So I'd love to know what the author of this piece was smoking, he contradicts every fucking statement he makes, disgruntled Englishman I reckon :D
Yes, turns out Spain WERE indeed the best team at the tournament. maybe the Spain Portugal game was boring to start with, but it ended in a penalty shoot out, which I'm sure you'll agree are highly entertaining and, oh yea, Spain won :p
Playing without a striker is clearly not working? hahaha, they scored 12 goals, 16 if you count the penalties and, oh yea, Spain won :p
Ask anyone who plays football...
They will agree completely, if you keep the ball away from the other team, they can't hurt you. Spain do this with great effect. It wears the other team down, burns their energy and frustrates them.
The rules are set by FIFA and as long as you play within those rules, it's 100% up to you how you play.
Personally, I don't think Spain are boring to watch, The technical ability of the team is frightening. They're all confident in possession of the ball, all great passers of the ball, they work hard as a team, they're hungry to win. There doesn't seem to be any ego's
They play as a team.
However I can see why people say they are...
It's the same in life
People want to be entertained, there's no discipline. Money comes in and goes straight out. People buy all sorts they cant afford by using credit.
Goes for the home business world too.
People are looking for that 'sexy thing' that will, overnight, turn them into a raging success. They try one method for a couple days, it doesn't yield massive results OVERNIGHT so they hop to the next thing.
Doing the basics extremely well, like Spain do is the answer to running a successful business. It's the answer to becoming a success at anything.
Look at some of Spains honours...
- Spain are the first European side to win three consecutive major tournaments - Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012.
- Spain are unbeaten in their last 12 European Championship final matches - nine wins, three draws - a competition record.
- Vicente del Bosque's side have not conceded a goal in their last five European Championship matches, a new competition record.
- Spain keeper Iker Casillas equalled Edwin van der Sar's record of nine clean sheets at the Euros.
- Casillas has won 100 of his 137 international matches, becoming the first player to reach a century of international wins. He also holds the world record with 79 clean sheets.
- Spain's winning margin of four goals is the biggest ever recorded in a World Cup or European Championship final.
- Spain ended with 52% possession overall and outpassed Italy 529 to 451.
- Fernando Torres is the first player to score in two European Championship finals. He also won the golden boot.
- Spain are only the third team to have scored twice before half-time in a European Championship final
Not bad for labelled as boring huh?
Yes sometimes it repetitive and boring, and it's why most people muddle along, never really getting anywhere.
With football, there is no right or wrong answer, but I guess results are proof. Some say it's not right to put winning before entertainment, WTF? They clearly support a shyt team who doesn't win much.
But what matters in your life and business?
Would you rather entertain and conform to people's opinion of how it should be done?
Or would you rather go against the grain, do the basics well and achieve the results, the massive success you want?
Booking a consultation with us will set you on the right path to taking the basic steps everyday to turn your home business profitable.
lots of luv
ewan
