Has the football world gone absolutely maniac and bizarre? Does hard work not count anymore? The thing is, it is not always skill that counts, the way you can handle a ball, it's the way you create a path for the ball to encounter without actually leading it to the end.
Short: The ball must roll, the player must run, yet they should not be together for long.
Yet that is not all. The ball must connect with the net of the goal. Let us look at a recent match.
Croatia versus Turkey. The second named team won during the last possible sequence. Penalties… Yet how did that happen? Croatia was in the lead, two minutes before the whistle of the ref ended the game. Few seconds before the end, Turkey scored. One may ask oneself how such a high ranked team from the Balkans could let themselves be played with in such a manner. So the question is, did the hard work that Croatia had undergone during the match not conclude the fact that they must have had to win? One would answer, sure thing. Another may answer, nope. I wouldn't know. Some may call it fate, others luck. Fact is, the most hard working team may lose if they lack efficiency. That is the point. Efficiency. Some may call it bad luck if the ball connects with the bar of the goal, I'd say it was lack of efficiency. To conclude the point of this short article, to all the people who have the privilege of being able to compete in a football team, remember that a team with little effort but high efficiency will win against a team with maximum effort and no efficiency.
