Whenever one sees soccer adverts, the shibobos, tsamayas, skill, skill, skill video clips are the ones that get used to advertise soccer.
Yet if one can look back when those players did those skills one can uncover heaps of criticism from fans and coaches alike directed at those players. Watching soccer is like watching robots because of the rigid direct soccer that is being promoted. Bafana Bafana beat Seychelles by 6-0 yet throughout the game nothing was amazing...Tv uses skills to advertise soccer yet once one gets into games one sees none of that,just boring direct soccer! Why is flair being destroyed? A player like Pogba has been a subject of criticism in from English analysts partly because of how he plays with flair.
I pause!