Should Football Goals Be Bigger?
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- Should football goals be bigger?
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Football goals have barely changed in shape or size in over 150 years.
Crossbars, marked eight foot above ground, didn’t become mandatory until 1882.
They were controversial from the start. The first net was used at The Kennington Oval in 1891 as Blackburn Rovers beat Notts County [3-1] to win the FA Cup. And football has since seen goal frames evolve from wood to aluminium, but the dimensions between the sticks have never altered or even been significantly scrutinised.
This is surprising considering there was little or no science behind the goal’s size. In 1996, now disgraced ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter, called for their diameter to be widened by 50cm - or as he put it, “two footballs” - and for their height to be increased by 25cm. But uproar ensued and the plan was shelved prior to any serious debate.
But were bigger goals really such a bad idea?
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Yes - some of the conversions from feet into metres are a little off (apologies - minor spreadsheet malfunction). To clarify, all measurements in feet and inches in the video are *accurate*, merely the bracketed conversions to metres are off. Here's a list of the accurate conversions:
- Average height of a man in 1863: 5'5" (1.65m)
- Average height of a man in 2019: 5'9" (1.75m)
- Average height of a goalkeeper in 1863: 5'10" (1.78m)
- Average height of a goalkeeper in 1980: 6' (1.83m)
- Average height of a goalkeeper in 2019: 6'3" (1.91m)
- Average height of Ligue 1 goalkeeper: 6'2" (1.88m)
- Average height of Bundesliga goalkeeper: 6'3" (1.91m)
- Average height of Serie A/La Liga goalkeeper: 6'1" (1.85m)
- Asmir Begovic: 6'5" (1.96m)
- Bobby Allain: 6' (1.83m)
- Fernando Pacheco: 6' (1.83m)
- Jan Oblak: 6'1" (1.85m)
- Thibaut Courtois: 6'5" (1.96m)
- Stuart Taylor: 6'5" (1.96m)
- Wayne Hennessey: 6'5" (1.96m)
- Average height of a goalkeeper at the Women's World Cup 2019: 5'7" (1.70m)
- Karen Bardsley: 6' (1.83m)
Those appearing in the video not listed here are accurate.
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Joe
I expect a goal spike from VAR and it’s strict interpretation of rules, do you expect the same?
@5syu blackbird Yep - sorry about that. Will get it right next time!
Tifo Football so keepers in 1863 were ℅ wise bigger than the average man compared to keepers and the average today.
The video itself is uncorrect, dude... the number of goals changed because football evolved and improved tactically and technically, it has nothing to do with the height of the keepers.
@Anthony Suarez you'll also see strikers waiting by the net and defenders standing at the back with them.
Please don’t, they’re already big enough ~ a Sunday league keeper
Benish Ben But all my youth players are 6'7 or 6'8😩
😂😂 omg same for me
Lol
Lol
I once remember having an absolute sh*te day in the goals and thinking... god these goals are bloody huge.
I'm 5'9 😢
The amount of research that goes into these videos is ridiculous. The dedication put into these videos doesn’t go unnoticed. 👏👏👏
Welcome to youtube :)
Yeah but the research should be put towards something less obvious
very true they work very hard
Not unnoticed , but neither appeciated tho
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well, they used to have square goal posts, and a lot more came out than went in
was waiting to read this
Well that's the strikers benefitting from a change in technology
@@James-kt4ju someone's been playing FIFA listening to commentary.
Nice fifa reference 😂
Fifa setting trends🤣
I think the reason of the decrease in goals is the evolution of tactics and training. Is more dificult to score against fit and organized teams
TheRani231 Exactly! Because the increase in the keepers’ height is met by the increase of speed the game has brought. Stopping a ball that travels at 50 km/h is easier than stopping a ball that travels at 80 km/h.
That was exactly the comment I was gonna make, before I spotted this one hehe
agreed
I don't think players are now more fit. They were incredibly fit, strong and tough back in the day. More so than now by far. I think a big part of it is that the rules have changed to where hard tackles, which would play a big part in both offense and defense are now heavily restricted. Also, changes in rules such as the offside rule change probably played a part too and many other rules.
The Pitches back then were also often in terrible condition. Like mud baths when it rained. The pitch condition could very well have an effect on scoring if it bounces, such as creating unpredictable tracjectories, making it harder to dive etc. Also the balls back then were larger and heavier I believe.
Overall I think the changes altogether, not one in particular, are probably what play a part. But I think it's wrong and disrespectful to suggest modern players are in better shape. Or more organised. It's just that the rules now present a different style of play.
@@TheTaterTotP80 On average, they are definitely more fit now. Better healthcare, scientific conditioning, planned recovery, and better diets make sure of that. They may have been tougher in the past tho, since modern training is heavily focused on longevity and treats players delicately. Fitness is a prerequisite since total football, which favours high work rate players, became common.
If people can still score screamers for 40 yards away then goals are big enough
Dragonaut111 Jesus I can imagine someone score a goal from 60 yards if they expand the goals
Charlie Adam would become KDB
@@homersimpson6585 Like Hakan Çalhanoğlu against Dortmund xD
_TiFo Football_ should start a new series titled _'Sensible Questions.'_
... This video was just one of them. 👍
Oslo MGTOW Good idea
I like that idea a lot.
Could you please do a video breakdown on all the upcoming new rules the FA have implented on the Premier League for this season?
Louie M what new rules??
Bakang Holden
1: Don’t pick up the phone
2: Don’t let him in
3: Don’t be his friend
@@someguy7567 i'm absolutely howling at this comment
Their recent podcast on VAR are quite good. Otherwise would recommend the Extra Inch's recent podcast (though it's a spurs one so if you want to miss team talk you'd have to find the right section)
For better or worse, there is not a culture of heavy tinkering for entertainment that is found in "American Sports."
When the MLS was founded, they actually asked FIFA if they could have bigger goals. They were laughed off.
MLS was hilarious. Remember those run-up penalty shootouts?
@@Andy-dc2zo I didn't, but I do now. They're a lot more fun to watch than regular penalties, but probably too easy for the attacker. It was worth a try, though.
instead fifa allowed them to call it the s-word officially
@@Andy-dc2zo Those are fun, and a more interesting test of goalie skill.
@@usamahattaymiyah8670 actually there's a possibility that it's easier for goalkeepers
I think you missed a trick by not counting how many times the ball hit the crossbar / post and using that as a measure for how many extra goals would be conceded by increasing the frame of the goal
Love your videos btw!
very true. if they wanted to, they can make a short update using your suggestion
thats true. If they wanted to they could do that.
@Awais Alam, why don't get down to it and do that count.
True but maybe also one to take with a slight bit pinch of salt to account for the possibility of cases where hitting the post is a result of a player trying to bury it in the bottom corner and being slightly off therefore hitting the post?
That's a good idea. Also the keeper positioning would be different relative to a bigger goal so it wouldn't tell the whole story.
There’s one thing you’ve not considered regarding the saves-to-shots ratio and keeper height. Taller keepers are much more capable of catching the ball when it comes into the box in the air, such as corners, indirect free kicks, crosses, etc. Shorter keepers are more likely to punch the ball in these situations, or simply fail to reach it at all. This often leads to scrappy, scrambling attempts on goal from close range, that are commonly not that powerful or precise.
This would mean that shorter keepers would have a better saves-to-shots ratio because they invite more shots to be taken at them, particularly weak ones that they have a decent chance of saving. The taller keepers are better at preventing those situations to begin with, but it gives them fewer saves in the stats.
Bigger keepers have the weakness of low shots so it's balanced. We DON'T need to change the goals
Also female keepers face less powerful shots and smaller strikers when coming for crosses. If it ain't broke...
Agility may also be a problem for taller keepers
Don't forget that balls now weigh way less than they used to be mid 20th century. Goalkeepers now are getting tougher shots so no need to make goals bigger.
I am 14 and I am 6.4 and I don’t struggle I’ve been scouted for a professional football team
Jack Wright we don’t care at all
5 ft 9 is not 1.8 m
More like 1.75 m
Mate just Google it
Also 6’5 is not 199cm
@@DrFreakyFlow That's Peter Crouch tall
That’s me tall as well
@@williamnyhan3892 maybe you need to, you idiot, 5 foot 11 inches is about 180 cm, and 5 foot 9 inchest is 175 cm
Others: Maybe, not sure
Goalkeepers: you wot???
The comparison of short and tall keepers stats should be made keeping in mind that there are less short ones and that those (short GK) who reach top european football are the ones that are especially good.
Yamil Yamil Tifo Football first off, huge fan! You guys are awesome. I just have a question as to how you would pool the smaller sample size of shorter keepers against taller keepers and how you could achieve an accurate average or
Estimation pointing in the direction that the smaller sample (smaller keepers) size has better stats?
Like if I scored 1 goal in 1 game I have a 100 percent scoring ratio over 1 goal in 10.
Plus the advantage of the tall keepers being able to grab high crosses over the heads of attackers. This is a significant advantage that leads to the scoring opportunity never happening in the first place.
The decline on goals per game is due to better defence and not because of the height of the keeper
Next Up on TIFO: Should you have two keepers per team?
"Should keepers be allowed to punch the ball in the other box?"
@@Micha-pt4mr I like this
@@Micha-pt4mr that's exactly what oliver khan did
@@LoightaFluwid And got send off for (though to due to a second yellow).
You should have 4
As a goalkeeper the answer is simple.
No.
Goalkeepers will not like this change for obvious reasons, but what matter here is soccer viewers opinion!
Mourinho: Should goal posts be smaller?
You have no understanding of what Mourinho is all about.
Harman Hundal r/wooosh
@@HarmanHundal01 r/woooooooosh
Didn't get the joke
@@PP-xj7vg
Mourinho was criticized because he played a defensive football. So the joke is about Mourinho wanting smaller goals, because his team only defends and doesn't attack.
As a goalkeeper who's 5ft 11, that question makes me cry...
Joshua Paes Now imagine me at 5’5 seeing this...
You can goal keep perfectly fine at 5ft 11
me too and in my first under 14 game what is in my country the age the change from the smaller youth goals to the normal ones i was just 4`11
There's some extreme selection bias going on, when looking at gk height and performace correlation. Increasing goal size would ABSOLUTELY increase scoring. Just think about it that way: if you gave a team the choice of whether their goal should be bigger, would they ever choose so? Of course not.
How on Earth did the wwc manage only 2.81 goals/game with 5'7 people in goal??? Just go for any of the 4 corners and it's a guaranteed goal! Coming from a fellow short GK (5'11)
because the attackers are poor quality
isn't england adopting the metric system anytime soon? its 2019 guys, join the winning team
I think they're still working their way up to it. They still haven't gotten rid of freaking _stones_ as a measurement
We're kind of in the middle, were imperial for height and very British for weight lol. But other units such as temperature and distance were comfortably metric/European..
Note I've never been comfortable with fucking °f that shit is weird
You could make them 12' x 10 ' and still Benteke wouldn't score.
Morata would still miss
and Paul pogba would still miss
FanofAslan Joelinton wouldn’t either
Lingard would still miss
Lies
my man said 5'9'' is 180cm... what are u smoking bruv?
They have used google like retards, and put in 5.9ft instead of 5ft 9"
@@user-sb2mt6pz4o Searching Google for cm conversion to feet will give the result in just feet - not feet and inches.
There are 12 inches in a foot, so 5ft 9" in inches is 69 inches > Or 5.75 feet, which is 175cm.
Get a grip u neeks free content
I'm 5ft 9 but not 180cm😂😂
@@DjoXey left my comment before him genius
Me: “Ima go to sleep early today “
Also me at 3am “Should Football Goals be Bigger ?”
Hahahah same with me tonight 🤣🤣🤣
People who want higher amount of goals don’t understand football and thats a fact
Thanatoast :)
Yes. I've watched really exciting 0-0 games, and I've also watched really boring high-scoring games. It's not about the goals.
More goals on average lessens the value of each one, would rather not
@@shutupMaji Thats a good way of looking at it
Football exists to remind us that life carries an ever present threat of an existential wound to our heart.
Low scoring games are useful to the game's greater purpose.
Goal keeping is not about height, it's about reactions and agility. The goal has room to expand, maybe 6 inches taller and 18 inches wider.
We need a video about women's goalkeeping. The same amount of goals being scored per game in both world cups is a cherry picked stat to try to convince us that the quality of goalkeeping at the elite level is the same in the men's and womens game. This is clearly not true from watching some of the goals that went in during the Women's World Cup and women's football in general. Should their goals be smaller? It feels like the channel won't address this because of the possible PR backlash when it is a clear and obvious issue that turns people away from women's football.
I don't think they are trying to compare the mens and womens games like they are the same game in this episode, they're just arguing that the goalpost size isn't worth changing and is suitable. Women's shooting geometry, centers of gravity, pace, and strength are all different than the mens game, but it doesn't make the matches less enjoyable once you recognize that there are differences.
If goal keepers were competent in women's football every game until the final would've been 0-0. The fact the average is still only 2.81 when they've got kids in goal should be a signal to the teams to start getting competent shooters
I disagree with the last line. Increasing goal size DOES increase scoring. Think of all the shots that hit the woodwork or were just slightly wide. Sometimes there are more than 10 in a single game
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Few things that should help
1) Football should use rolling substitutions like they do in Basketball. Most players retire not because of skill but they can't carry on for 90 minutes. An older Steven Gerrard for 45 minutes is better than not having him because he can't go 90 minutes.
2) Offside rule should only apply in the penalty box.
3) Play extra time if the match is draw after 90 minutes. If a team wins in extra time match, they get 2 points rather than 3 and the loosing team gets their 1 point. Only a win in regular time should get you 3 points.
Number 2 is just awful
The videos here are usually excellent, but this might be one of the most interesting.
Using this, what would then be the "ideal" height of a goalkeeper?
I was always biased to taller keepers, because of those massive finger tip saves - this being the case, it would be interesting to know the goalkeepers which have the highest percentage of saves in those bottom corners.
If that's where the goals are mostly going in, then surely the best shot stoppers according to the data would be those who save there the most consistently.
in less than 20years huge Keepers will be useless imo
I never rated massive keepers tbh. They should be the most agile players in the squad.
De Gea is 6'4" and is very good at making low saves, while Casillas is 'only' 6ft. So probably somewhere between those two
I'll always favour good ol' 6 foot 8 keepers because they're funny to watch
Your Dad Has A Dog Filter He uses his ability to use his legs to save shots tbh
I think it's a team game, especially these days. GKs can be effective ranging from 5'10 above as long as they apply appropriate playing style and work well with their teammates. These days GKs can't just be stopping shots on their own anymore.
So all of a sudden 6’2” is “well below” 6’3” alright Tifo... 🙄
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The effort and skill in making an excellent detailed video like this is understated. Mad props mate! Keep em coming!
With the time Rb and Lbs are becoming shorter and quicker helping the teams in the attacking and pressing obligations. Like so tht tifo can see and make a video on this
Two words, Junior Firpo.
@@pepehimovic3135 there are more players I believe far more better than this young talented Catalonian : Gaya ; Alexander Arnold ; Digne; Wan Bissaka ;Jesus Navas;Trippier; Robertson ; Hakimi ; Jordi Alba; Marcelo; etc
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@@cammymc9660 Rangers are lucky he stayed at the club
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Decline in goals is because it’s harder to get past defence...
Nowadays we have many options for entertainment ( playing video games, watching movies online...) So it's hard to convince someone like me to wait 90 min to see 1 goal, and the match can even end with no goals at all. That's why i mostly watch the summary only. I understand that some people are afraid of changes, but the goal need to get bigger.
Absolutely not,alot of things are unnecessarily changing in the beautiful game,this is one of those things you just shouldn't, change,keepers don't regularly keep cleen sheets already so why change it?
Agreed... if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Because football is very low-scoring, especially at the top level, compared to other sports. People are scratching their heads on how to increase that tally, this is one of the simplest ideas. Some shots are already "unsaveable" this would mean more of them.
@@usamahattaymiyah8670 People who focus on wanting more goals and how to make it possible, probably never played football in their lives. Same goes for people who want to change major aesthetics of the beautiful game.
@@BoqPrecision true
@@BoqPrecision The game ordinary people play is at a much lower level that what happens at the top level, so our experience doesn't apply all that well.
What a lot of us as fans dislike, for example, are park-the-bus tactics that aren't as effective without top-level organization. More goals would promote more attacking philosophies.
Regarding the short goalkeepers thing, I think due to the general opinion that ‘goalkeepers should be tall’ it means that in order for a short(er) keeper to go through the ranks, they need to be fairly exceptional to justify their not not being tall creating an artificial spike in short goalkeeper ability when it might not necessarily be the case.
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I think it would do the opposite, as players know that their is more chance of the opposition scoring, so they become overly pragmatic - it may be an extra 10% chance of scoring, but now they'll defend much more due to the psychological impact of it
If someone is 186cm or above, he's 6'2. And that is no way a "short keeper".
That really short
Next on: Should Goal Keepers be able to fly ?
Short answer:
Probably not.
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They need to rework the offside rule that's what keeps players from scoring
The Goals are already big enough there is no need to make them even bigger.
It's already hard enough to defend goal sometimes
Who decided that keeper height is the biggest factor in the number of goals scored?
1. There are lots of missing factors here: for example, there are probably more goals in games between unevenly matched teams- have the standards of top-flight teams become more uniform over time? Or has the game just evolved in a way that favours the defending side? Have tactics changed?
2. Does it matter WHY the number of goals is going down? I f we think that enlarging the goal would result in more goals and that more goals would improve the sport, THEN we should consider goal enlargement no matter what the reason is.
Hey Tifo,can you make a video on explaining about the player-coach system?
What is the easiest way to score? The bottom corners they are just aren't as fun to watch. I am glad you mentioned that. Keep goals the same size, with VAR, goals will go down even more on average.
So In the 10minutes it took to watch this video what did we all take from this...
*NOTHING*
I belive the most impacted style would be parking the bus. Now it depends if you feel parking the bus is the right direction or not.
With two footballs at each side, the goal keeper will be two footballs away from the far corner. Making wild curls and tap ins easier, also making a player defending the far corner mandatory making more space in the box. Dont't feel any miracle will happen through this, but will make miracles more viable, making the game more exciting.
0:50 - It's the KENNINGTON Oval, not Kensington.
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Small correction: the conference at which it was agreed that the crossbar should become mandatory took place in December 1882, but the law change didn't actually come into effect until 1883. Before then, it was permitted to have a tape or a crossbar. The height of 8 feet was set in 1866, and has been unchanged ever since.
As an NHL fan I thought we were the only ones who argued about changing the net size
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@Faizan Manzoor tbh the whole debate of net size or pad size in the nhl is just a knee jerk reaction to goalies adapting to shooter's tactics. God forbid athletes actually innovate their playing style.
@Faizan Manzoor u have brain cancer
In Ireland kids football, all clubs must play in professional goals when the children turn 12.
KBEZ same in england
It's 11 in Wales
@@nlcrr1617 in germany too if your born after the summerbreak
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I don't think it matters whether the height of the goal post should be increased or not. As, the players' height increases so does their skills and creativity in performing goals as well as saving it.
2:40 Those are supposed to be short keepers? Jorge Campos is 1.70 m (5.6 feet) tall.
Make more Bielsa vidios!!! Maybe how he implements technology in football.
Great Channel BTW
Number of goals don't necessarily correlate the quality of the game. Don't mind an old-fashioned 1-1 if both teams tried attacking.
Yeah I would rather see attacks and shots on goals then just fewer goals
The goals looked like massive chasms during the Women's World Cup. Where I'm from, where people are generally on the shorter side, the goals appear huge when we stick our standard 5'8 keeper in it.
Just a pointer on the Mandarin pronunciation: "Q" is pronounced as "ch" in Mandarin. So "zúqiú" is pronounced something like "zu chew". Other than that, excellent video as always Tifo.
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Regarding the ‘shorter keepers are better than smaller keepers’ i think the cause is likely thet shorter keepers have to be far more talented to get picked over taller keepers due to increasing insistency on height over all other considerations
2:51 Ter Stegen is 6’2 wouldn’t call that well below 6’3..!?
Also, Keepers training and skill level has seriously improved so that is a big factor too
He is 5'11.
This is football, not basketball where a point/goal needs to be scored every turnover to keep the audience entertained.
Really great video. I'd love to see you look at the away goals rule in the same way.
It has certain positives and does give teams some incentives to score away from home but overall I think it's a flawed system.
You messed up the convertions.... 5ft7 for example is actually 1.70 meters. That happened because you converted 5.7ft straight to meters, but that is wrong because the 7 stands for 7 inches, and the 5 stands for 5 feet. You need to convert 5ft to meters, then you convert 7 INCHES to meters, then you add both, and you get the correct measurement :)
Amazing how you guys are able to dig out and come with all these amazing stats. Truly commendable
Tiffo: Using Save percentage to evaluate a keepers shot stopping ability is wrong.
Also Tiffo: Uses Save percentage to evaluate a keepers shot stopping ability.
Millennials always trying to move the goalposts
Sepp Blatter, epitome of a Boomer...
I commend you for raising this issue. As always, you address the topic intelligently and with the best intentions of football in mind. Whether your conclusions are correct, I can't say but allow me to add the following points to the discussion:
Regardless of height, modern goalkeepers are more athletic, agile, better trained and thus able to cover all areas of the goal quicker than keepers of the past could dream of.
Nowadays, there are many Banks' and Yashins'.
For the better part of sixty years tactical changes and innovations have been unable to move the needle on goals, or lack thereof. Putting hope in tactics to increase scoring is like Waiting for Godot. The Pyramid has been inverted long ago.
For decades, lack of scoring has been a serious concern to many of the sport's brightest minds and thinkers. Books written on the subject from the sixties to the nineties tirelessly exhorted coaches to adopt "a more attacking spirit". It hasn't worked.
Yes, football has always been low-scoring, but 2.5/game is pushing the envelope toward being "no-scoring". If the sport wants to maintain its popularity it will have to compete for younger fans with a vast array of leisure/entertainment alternatives, and in areas of the world where the sport isn't traditional and might have a tenuous foothold (read: huge global markets). I think this will become increasingly difficult.
No fan of Sepp Blatter I but must admit his proposal to enlarge the goals was sensible; raising a hue and cry and dismissing it out of hand was not. It's an issue that will not go away anytime soon.
Short answer No. I wouldn't like it.
An increase in the size of goals in men's soccer would essentially require a change in the size of goals in women's soccer. This would mean that men and women would be required to play on specifically designed fields with gender specific goals. This limits the opportunity for women to play, and makes co-ed leagues less viable for casual players. One of the reasons that the sport is so brilliant is because of its heritage and simplicity, lets not go and change something that isn't broken! Great work on the video as always!
It's like the equivalent of asking "Should the Volleyball net be higher?" In my opinion, no. If the players (goalkeepers) evolve, let the game adapt to that change in the evolution of players.
Unless it starts to become impossible to score then I agree with you
Players don't evolve, human being stopped evolving on the effing Stone Age... and by the way, to my mind shorter goalkeepers have more advantages than taller to play football
I think goals should be bigger, not because of the size of goalies but because score lines should be higher. One of the biggest issues with football is how often the score does not reflect the game. How often have we all watch a 0-0 game and know one team deserved to win. Scoring in football is such rare thing (compared to other sports) and is the only decider for who the winner is, it struggles to accuratley reflect the ability of each team. Goals will be less special but at least the team that deserved to win more likely will.
I always wanted to be goalkeeper im pretty good but im only 5’4 and wont grow much more......
Become a futsal keeper maybe it's better for your height
Wear a pointy hat to be 6’1”
I wonder if teams look at where keepers concede the most, like the Hennessey stat, to tell players where to aim for when finishing
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Dude when you see a penalty, do you see how much fucking space they have it's huge.
Even if we did increase the size of the goal, whatever increase in goal scoring that would result would be both difficult to track and temporary.
the question wasnt did they used to score more, it was should they be bigger.
i dont know how or where, but you changed topics completely.
Really interesting video! I've always thought that the ideal keeper height is around 6'2"-6'3" (188cm-191cm). Tall and long enough to get to the upper corners, but low enough to the ground to drop quickly on low shots.
Talking about Courtois performing under par hits different after the 2022 Champions League final.
13 year old me who was playing in Goal for his school and club would really be unhappy, was already enough that all the strikers at that age were just the ones who hit puberty first, so I always had to contest for corners with fridges who were 1-2 heads taller than me, having to literally run from post to post was just too much
i know this feeling had the same problem just that i was 12 with the move from the under 12 to the under 14 team and the change of goals from the smaller youth golds to the real ones
'Please don't, it's miserable enough already with how my Captain plays" -David De Gea-
FIFA when the game isn’t going according to the script
the quality of players AND referee calls, ever-changing tactics, and VAR as of late, affects more than the size of goals.
A very important lesson can be learned here: size doesn't matter
Maybe goals should be bigger to encourage to strikers to shoot into the top corners. If 61% of goals are scored in the bottom part of the net, and smaller keepers are still considered better, I feel like giving strikers more reasons the belt the ball into the top corner wouldn't be a bad thing...
decline of goals per game correlates with many things, such as an increase in global temperature and decline in species diversity of moths in the british isles. what is RELEVANT is that football defence tactics have developed to a point where it is much harder to score goals
the stat where goals are scored is insane. you said on the bottom left or right is where shots are taken more often. during the community shield, salah would always shoot on the bottom right corner and bravo saved every single shot that salah hit on target. meaning, bravo is on the “shorter” side for keepers allowing him to save those shots more consistently. bravo tifo, bravo.
It is not so much a question of height of keepers, but an improvement in techniques.
And yes, football goals should get bigger.
That proposal of 50 cm more on the sides and 25 on top is excellent.
I never used to do even a third of the research for my college projects that you guys do for 10-minute odd video essays. Kudos Tifo.
These videos just feels so calm
It's pretty obvious that the implementation of VAR will increase the amount of goals scored across the board. Look at how many goals were scored in the recent World Cup.