The necessary (if) dad from international tournaments

"Have you thought about the burden of games players have ?[...] For my part, I loaded the club mundialito the mundialito selections, selections and even regional and organized a World Cup qualifying or Euro knockout and much relativity in the seedings to be any surprises and not always win them. I also loaded in the Champions League group stage and so, two knockout matches in this case. "

This comment funeral_doom in my reflection on the usefulness of the Club World Cup has made me think. Without a doubt, has a good point: how far does the load that a professional player can stand without popping legs? As our reader points out, Xavi could play 80 to 90 games this year, a hell of physical exhaustion. However, I disagree with wipe international tournaments. My central argument (romantic, I know) is still the possibility of giving small teams can beat the giant, but there are other reasons that I believe should be considered .

First, the burden of matches is solved with the amplitude of templates. In Europe there is much experience in the field with teams that are up more than 30 players available, and even the ability to set up two competitive initial onces. Of course, one can argue that only the big and powerful can afford to sign the likes of Real Madrid each season and let real gems rotting on the bench. The solution, as always, is not in the checkbook but in the quarry . And let me quote to Barcelona, so fashionable. Where do they think he left Busquets, Pedro, Jeffrén, brothers Dos Santos, Bojan, Gai Assulin, and those that come from? They depart from the basic forces, but they see activity due to their teams vying for two or three tournaments a year. They serve as blanks, experience, and those tournaments renew the blood on the grass.

But then you talk about European teams!, Discussed. In America we also have similar cases. Consider, for example, the Pumas of UNAM and Concachampions. Muertos completely in the league, the squad opted for college youth to fight the tournament. And there are the youth, drawing his face and risking a ticket to the World Cup. How many players did not arise from the need for their teams by "patching" the holes, giving rest to the stars? The problem is not the number of games, but many clubs ignore their semilleron, stunting the future of abortion promises to do her dream of becoming professional.

Another argument is that international tournaments serve as showcases. The cases are innumerable players from smaller clubs that are projected onto large thanks to their good performances in a Libertadores Cup African Nations or the European League. Take the case of Rafael Marquez, who first filled the eye of Monaco playing the Copa America, and years later, joined Barcelona after being seen in the Champions League with the club in the principality. Close this kind of tournaments involving closing the doors to many overseas players with enough talent to succeed in larger entities. Was not a good Confederations Cup which led to Oguchi Onyewu to Milan?

I admit that there are tournaments that should be abolished, or at least modified. Deleting steamed tournaments to make money just like Interleague or the Super League. But others, including the much-maligned Concachampions fueling the growth of the football world. Easily forget cases like Venezuela, a country behind in football that, by dint of earning a place in Libertadores and compete hard, caressed by the classification time to South Africa. Some would call it stupidity, but I defend at face value the need that football alive in every corner of the globe. What needs to be corrected are the vices around the ball.