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When people denigrate the World Cup with “it’s a 7-game tourney” to hype up CL, I wonder if they realise that CL is a 13-game tourney in which you play 6 games at home in your comfort zone. And 6 of those 13 games are group stage games that big teams get through in their sleep.
CL becomes serious in the KO stages in which these teams play 7 games to win it. You play 3 of those games in front of your fans. Those 7 games run through 4 whole months. Your (big) teams are strongly backed by money & sometimes have it easier until the semis.
Money means your big teams can bully smaller teams for their best players and assemble irresistible teams. Etc. Lots of advantages you wouldn’t get in a national team, in a World Cup.
And the pressure isn’t as huge as the World Cup pressure.
And the pressure isn’t as huge as the World Cup pressure.
But this doesn’t stop you from dismissing players over their CL performances (or questioning them), laying their CL KO records bare no matter what they do in their domestic leagues. Does it?
But you hate it when this energy is used to highlight World Cup failings.
But you hate it when this energy is used to highlight World Cup failings.
“It’s just a 7-game tournament in a month.”
That’s how the grandest tournaments typically are. The Olympics - every 4 years. Etc. The NBA is yearly but your entire season is reduced to your playoffs performances. Your season MVP award means nothing beside your report card.
That’s how the grandest tournaments typically are. The Olympics - every 4 years. Etc. The NBA is yearly but your entire season is reduced to your playoffs performances. Your season MVP award means nothing beside your report card.
*playoffs report card.
What you’ll notice about all these grand stages and tournaments are THE PRESSURE. The stakes are unreal. The pressure is highest. The best players are EXPECTED to deliver under pressure and get past all the limitations and circumstances.
What you’ll notice about all these grand stages and tournaments are THE PRESSURE. The stakes are unreal. The pressure is highest. The best players are EXPECTED to deliver under pressure and get past all the limitations and circumstances.
You’re not even in any “the greatest” discussion of you don’t win either CL or the World Cup, to begin with. Your case is weak, no matter what you do in your career. Why is that? The stages. The stakes. The pressure.
That’s what makes the Olympics, the grand slams, NBA finals, The FIBA tourneys, the CL, the FIFA World Cup, etc what they are. That’s what makes them so valuable. Stakes. Pressure. Facing the best of the best in those tournaments. You’re where the best converge.
