Drunken Olympic Rant

By: CSD | July 9th, 2008

If you’re like me, then you’re a sexy bitch. If you have the same thoughts as me, then you hate what the Olympics do to football. I guess I just don’t see the point. It would be one thing if I had been born with a natural ability in badminton(real sport, shit you not) and the Olympics were the only way to compete on a national level, but this is football!

It would be one thing if there wasn’t already a huge governing body for the sport, but there is in FIFA. We have this thing called the World Cup, which incidentally, occurs every four years. Why do we need the Olympics?

I know other clubs have been affected, but Liverpool alone will lose Mascherano and Lucas, and I still can’t find out whether or not Babel is going to be included or not, but that’s a possibility of three very important players that won’t be available until September. This sport is headed in the direction of youth. Spotting talent early on and developing it quickly is where titles are won. Pretty soon, women in Brazil and Argentina will have the afterbirth quickly wiped off of their sons and kitted up so that they can go take a penalty. This is thwarted, however, with redundant competitions that interrupt normal club fixtures.

Players have to have a way of making a living and that is with the club. Recently, we have seen how important one match is as Barclay’s Premier League, the Scottish Premier League, and Serie A, all came down to the last fixture when deciding the league title. I guess what really pisses me off is that these kids could decline and stay with their clubs, but they have to feel the pressure of, “Well, if I turn them down now, they may never call me up again.”

I say get rid of football in the Olympics. FIFA has all the international competitions covered. We really don’t need a second governing body jacking with our league titles. But the more important thing is, what do you think? Feel free to express your views and vote in the poll.

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• marcus R4E |  July 9th, 2008 at 3:06 am

  
  
  

  the olympic’s will b good when the shooters r aiming at the sprinters…could u imagine the world records!!!!!!

  Posted from Australia

  

• Jones |  July 9th, 2008 at 4:27 am

  
  
  

  “these kids could decline and stay with their clubs, but they have to feel the pressure of, “Well, if I turn them down now, they may never call me up again.””

  Wouldn’t they just have to get the club to say that they refuse to release the player? I can’t imagine there’s a club that would require much prompting. I can see why some of the players would want to go though, both to get your foot in that NT door and because the Olympics are still the Olympics, even if it’s not really your sport’s showcase competition. Too bad it infringes on the club season though.

  Posted from Germany

  

• sheps |  July 9th, 2008 at 5:10 am

  
  
  

  The way the olympics should work for football is they should actually stick to the requirement that participants in the olympics are amateurs. Do you see the professional boxers participating? No. So the olympics should comprise teams made up of players not on professional contracts. I don’t really see why this isn’t already the case, since it’s slightly contraversial for an amateur sporting event to allow professional sportsmen to compete.

  Posted from United Kingdom

  

• Guillermo |  July 9th, 2008 at 6:14 am

  
  
  

  Your opinion can’t be separated from the fact that England plays as UK in the Olympics, so it can’t be taken so seriously.

  It would be nice to see Lucas playing with a color different than this ugly red, but the dumb brazilian coach prohibits me from cheering to Brazil.

  GO GRÊMIO!!!

  Posted from Brazil

  

• Martin |  July 9th, 2008 at 9:18 am

  
  
  

  If the Olympics were played only by amateurs, then it’d end up like baseball: cut from the Olympics.

  Posted from United States

  

• CSD |  July 9th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  
  
  

  22% of the public thinks I’m a sexy bitch. Thank you ladies…and Jack.

  Posted from United States

  

• steven. |  July 10th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  
  
  

  i thought you’d be all for the Olympics? all that flag waving and chants of U!S!A not get you a little teary eyed CSD?

  Posted from Canada

  

• CSD |  July 10th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

  
  
  

  I am fully behind the women’s gymnastic team and will be glued to the TV during every event.

  Posted from United States

  

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