Soccer will allow 5 substituions - 08/06/22 11:58 PM
Imo This is a disgrace to the tradition of the game and a disrespect to the sports world and soccer as a whole.
Soccer traditionally has allowed only 3 players to sub in for a player leaving during the course of a whole match, and if injuries occur beyond that then the club just plays a man down.
They let 5 because of Covid but went back, but now they are going back again.
I'm not sure yet if it's 5 substituions or 5 players on only 3 occurances but either way
Changing the rule means what you are watching is not Soccer.
What they are playing is not Soccer it's some b--izaton of the game.
It would be about as crucial as if football changed the number of points a touchdown is in relation to a field goal,
Much of the allure of soccer as a game to watch was caught up in the fact that they only allowed 3 substitutions for a whole game.
It gave each substitution so much weight of importance in strategy.
Any change in the number of substituions in soccer, in this case from 3 to 5, ...( What will they just let anybody play and endless subs now? ) It Cheapens the game.
It would be as if the NBA would never let a player foul out again by allowing enless fouls before a player fouls out.
It would be as if Baseball added another base and the players had to run 5 bases intead of 4, (counting home plate as a base)
Soccer needs to get back to doing what it does best, and that is not act stupid
but in this case, it's changing the game forever.
There will never be able to be a comparison again from the soccer of all the past and this new, "5 substitution nonsensical game that isn't pure soccer.
To summarize: Soccer Will Allow 5 substituions instead of 3
: this is a fundamental dismantling of the game
: and I know nobody in society will care
But this is the world is losing one more thing to the lack of standards in 2022.
Soccer traditionally has allowed only 3 players to sub in for a player leaving during the course of a whole match, and if injuries occur beyond that then the club just plays a man down.
They let 5 because of Covid but went back, but now they are going back again.
I'm not sure yet if it's 5 substituions or 5 players on only 3 occurances but either way
Changing the rule means what you are watching is not Soccer.
What they are playing is not Soccer it's some b--izaton of the game.
It would be about as crucial as if football changed the number of points a touchdown is in relation to a field goal,
Much of the allure of soccer as a game to watch was caught up in the fact that they only allowed 3 substitutions for a whole game.
It gave each substitution so much weight of importance in strategy.
Any change in the number of substituions in soccer, in this case from 3 to 5, ...( What will they just let anybody play and endless subs now? ) It Cheapens the game.
It would be as if the NBA would never let a player foul out again by allowing enless fouls before a player fouls out.
It would be as if Baseball added another base and the players had to run 5 bases intead of 4, (counting home plate as a base)
Soccer needs to get back to doing what it does best, and that is not act stupid
but in this case, it's changing the game forever.
There will never be able to be a comparison again from the soccer of all the past and this new, "5 substitution nonsensical game that isn't pure soccer.
To summarize: Soccer Will Allow 5 substituions instead of 3
: this is a fundamental dismantling of the game
: and I know nobody in society will care
But this is the world is losing one more thing to the lack of standards in 2022.