After respective twelve minutes of a friendly fight of the Argentina national squad with a lone Polish goalkeeper, Providence has mercy on us. The harassers came to the rescue, so Group C left the goal ratio alternatively than yellow papers. By the time a football pitched by the Saudis into Guillermo Ochoa's goal got into the net, I was already moving to post a pre-prepared entry on social media. And then I looked at another comments and... I fell into a cesspool.
“Unfortunately, we will should be ashamed of 1 more game before the world.” squad parody - complete crap.” “No triumph has yet been so sad. truly embarrassing, embarrassing and dramatic.” And so on, and so on. There was no end to the net bathroom. Football experts, who are experts of almost everything, constantly poured out their regrets on the mediocre kind of Polish representation. However, I have an interesting curiosity for all “scientists”. Namely football is not ski jumping or figure skating. You don't get points for kind here. That's why, erstwhile I read vain regrets about how it should come out of the group, Mexico, due to the fact that it played beautifully and offensively, I get empty laughs. The Mexico squad has higher possible than the Polish team, but it has adopted erroneous tactical assumptions, which is why it has not achieved its goal. Period. The conditions were known, readable and equal for all. At least in theory.
Unlike home-grown experts, I don't think I know football. But I'm beautiful good at management. So I'm assessing the performance of the white and red with a camera I know. Before the championships, for which we qualified at least in part by accident, we placed a clear goal in front of the coach and team. It was leaving the group. The selector assessed the possible of its players and squad (this is not the same) and the possible of our rivals, after which he accepted tactical assumptions. As it turned out, he did it right. He yet achieved his goal.
A rational approach to the implementation of the assumptions is completely incomprehensible for us, hence Poles were shocked by the severe cognitive dissonance. So the usual Polish whining started, constitutional for the Polish psyche. due to the fact that although we know the wise maxim of the student Descartes, we like to usage it in a completely different variant of queer, ergo sum – I complain, so I am.
We can separate 3 basic types of malcontents. The first is the aesthetics mentioned above. Esteci believe that playing ball should be primarily beautiful. That's why, too the result, kind matters. Yes, it is much more crucial than the result. Football players in each game should give 100 or 110%. True, this would lead to a series of unfortunate losers, but we would fall out of the Mundial highly stylishly. That would make us moral winners. This attitude is the essence of Polishness, like amber bib and buckwheat like snow white.
The attitude related to the aesthetics is occupied by worldly people. Their main concern, not only in this area, is “what the planet will say.” The quintessence of this attitude is the sentence: “Unfortunately, we will should be ashamed of the planet another match.” This is the dark and mysterious planet looking at each of our actions and issuing harsh judgments over us. Let us not exposure ourselves to his wrath or contempt... And so on and so on. How it is easy to know that making specified remarks speaks much more about the psyche of the world's own than about the substance of the problem.
A completely different category of malcontents are realists. They tread hard on the ground, reluctantly leave anything to chance. Counting happiness is offensive to them. They declare that they value only the skills and hard work that forge these skills. It is simply a pity that with all their realism they do not see that the time to learn skills, whether in school, work or sports, is between tests and not during them. erstwhile it comes to the minute of confrontation, we only have what we worked out before. And that's how we get to the root of the problem.
It would be good to have players trained like Brazilians, making a squad reliable like Germany in their best years. But we have what we have. any old stars, any uncut diamonds, and quite a few mediocrity. Michniewicz managed to glue this together so that at least about he could realize the assumptions set before him, both for individual matches and for the full tournament. It's ugly and axy, but no 1 promised it would be different. Surprisingly, it worked.
Both the coach and the squad achieved the goal we set before them. If we now resent that this was an unambitious goal, we can have it only to ourselves. Instead, let's enjoy the first game in 36 years in the cup phase of the Mundial. In my memory, I was 7 years old in 1986. If, on the another hand, you esteeming malcontents like amusement in the form of intellectual self-defeating, you have a sacred right to do so. However, I assure you, with your grumbling, you will not spoil the least of my joy at watching another, most likely the last 1 at these championships, a white-red match.
Since all Pole has something to say to a selector, I will besides give him any advice. Coach, don't perceive to the counselors. The planet is full of miserable losers, capable only of criticizing and diminishing another people's successes. Sad compplexed people who only enjoy another people's faults and failures. No substance what you do, they'll be convinced they'd do better. That's why you do your job. I thank you for your promotion. I can't believe the guys you took to Qatar can make a team. I can't believe you're going to win against France, although I want you all my heart. But even if we say goodbye to the Mundial on Sunday, you'll be my coach. large letter.
Przemysław Piasta
