Congratulations! One of the most famous Austrian soccer teams, Rapid got better and better by revitalising and applying some of the simpliest rules that have been already standard 30 years ago and they struggled hard to come that far.
One of the main problems nowadays is very often that when players win, they become nosy and as a result lose again. Arrogance is one of the reasons why today many games are lost.
Today money is dominating all types of sports and somehow the quality of sports decreases. As a further consequence behaviour and common sense suffer. Rapid is only a typical example.
What is the difference between Spain and Austria? If you compare the players, the Austrians show lot of overstrain signs, don't look helathy even when they are playing, the Spanish are, physically spoken, in a much better condition. - and - the most important thing - you can see that the Spanish enjoy the game, enjoy playing soccer, the Austrians give the impression that they hate being there, it is obvious that they do it ONLY for money. The Spanish also let their children participate at the end of their EM game. They plaid soccer in front of the whole stadium with their children and everyone enjoyed it. The Austrians never did something like that. Although they took part in more activities with children. But it was not like in the olden days, when the Austrians also had the same mentality like the Spanish and won many games.
The main problem is really thinking that money could solve all problems. The moment Rapid lost the next game, the Austrians blamed the system of sponsorship, not themselves! Money destroys the character of people. The stupid actions of youngsters, people between 20 and 30 show! The character makes a champion, not the age and not money!!!
What is the difference between America and Austria? Simply the fact that in America when an amateur player is good at his league and seen by a talent scout, he can change to the professional league and keeps the position he is good at and has been choosen for. And it works!!! Of course there are also problems, but not like here.
Hooligans, no way! First of all you should intensify the body search at the entrances. - but watch out! Today the typical hooligan is not a huge guy with
lots of tatoos, its a the little shy office type of guy. Place security and police in civil clothing amongst the spectators. As soon as there is a wrong movement, they can act quicklier.
In Austria, the general idea is, as soon as you "bought" a new fantastic player the world is perfect. But somehow, after a while the players perform worse. Why? Wrong position, greed, jealousy and playing with not completely cured injuries or maybe also getting all the time injuries caused by too much pressure on the body caused by the wrong type of training. In former days we got much more medals without less money and less suportive personnel. The reason? Simply said, those few people that were there, were human, respectful and competent.
In the olden days, there were almost no injuries at this sport. If, today, more than half of the team is sitting on the bench because of ligament ruptures, fatigue breaks - well there must be something wrong...
All sports have been national sports, meaning that you trained your youth and when they were good enough they took part in international competitions to represent their country. Austria always looks at other athlets and complains instead of motivating, strengthening and backing up their own athelets. Of course, you could also take foreigners into the team, but then you have to make sure that all of the players form a team - soccer is a team sport!!!
And - there is no back up from the management any more for the trainer and the players. Why can it be that one of the best trainers ever, after even a row of victories, is sacked???
If the players lose one game after the other, it can't be only the fault of the players, it is the responsibility of the entire club.
But also with other Austrian sports, the back up for good behaviour, achievement and hard work is not there anymore - no wonder that sportsmen behave like little misbehaving children!!!
But the worst thing I think is that an official calls Dinko Jukic (ex-Jugoslave and now Austrian), a swimmer that achieved lots and won medals in the name of Austria the worst name you can call a foreigner in Austria adding that the swimmer should better swim at home in his own country!!!
THIS IS NOT THE ATTITUDE OF ALL AUSTRIANS!!! LOTS OF PEOPLE SUPPORT JUKIC!
But it should make people start thinking about their actions, in the past there was almost no scandel, no misbehaving, insulting, humiliation, but a little bit more fairness and therefore much more achievements - !!!
The basic idea of sports is completely gone! Go to a soccer field where little kids are playing and see the fun and enthusiasm on their faces - this is what sports is all about!
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