>>154225404https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7188597/2026/04/14/aurelio-de-laurentiis-interview-napoli-italy-football/
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Chasing meme changes is only going to alienate existing fans further. I think women's football could try the shorter time thing because long-term nobody is really going to follow it
>>154225414>“Number one: I will reduce from 45 minutes each (half) to 25 minutes,” he says. In his 50-minute game, the match will be tracked for in-play time, rather than match officials recovering minutes through stoppages at the end of each half.>“But also you cannot stay down on the field and play around like an actor!”>“AGHHHH!” he moans, feigning injury. “NO — you will go OUT! What I will do also — I will never use a red card and a yellow card.”>Instead, he likes a sin-bin concept. “I would say ‘YOU — get out for five minutes (for a yellow card)!’ And ‘YOU — get out for 20 minutes for a red card!’Kinda based though
>>154225414>football is losing audience. Lets copy basketball.
>>154225496>Kinda based thoughis this 'kinda based' as well?
By coincidence all his suggeetions match american views of the game. But he says the target is "young audiencies".Americans arent that young
>>154225519there is nothing that drives football jews frothing with rage like meritocracy over profits, a small team that like Chievo that reaches the top flight is a sin since they cut into their potential money. It's the worst sport anyone can decide to follow consciously. That said a stop clock to prevent teams from effectively not playing should be implemented asap.
I have no problem with top leagues having fewer teams. There are more competitions now, so teams would still be playing the same number of matches as they were when the league sizes were last determined.
>>154225519>i want less teams>...because otherwise the cablejew loses shekelsof all the good reasons to want a smaller league he picked the one that's shit
>>154225414>>154225519He is irrelevant even in Italy, also Napoli being a big club is a huge lie kek>>154225662he doesn't care about the game, only €€€
they need to stream it for free on youtube it will get billions of views
People need to realise that football isn’t meant to be watched minute by minute like a film. It’s the kind of sport where you turn on the TV, chat with people, sip your beer, maybe tinker with your motorcycle, and only glance back when the commentator’s voice rises, because that’s when something might actually happen. Then you go back to whatever you were doing. Sitting through all 90 minutes of sideways passes is the mark of a true retard.
>>154225404>net playing timeHonestly: based. The issue is that you can only implement it in the top leagues, not for 99% of games. But it’s worth that increase in objectivity. I‘d do 2x30, though. The games would basically be just as long as before>reduction of the leagues to 16 teamsHonestly, this is doable. I think it becomes apparent when looking at the names and the quality of the clubs/teams in the leagues. You can usually do without a few of them and would be able to increase competitiveness. However, you can also just keep things and take back UEFA reforms increasing the number of CL games. I think the new format is garbage. Take that back and you have fewer games as well>franchise systemKys (and I say this as a fan of a „big“ club that would profit of this)>diving punished moreEasier said than done, but good, of course>non-UEFA team in the CLKys>no red cardsDumb. But additionally introducing „orange cards“ that lead to timeouts might work. Would be tricky, though>rule changes for more goalsUnnecessaryThe easiest way to make football more attractive to the next generation is not commercializing it as it is done right now. Bring it back to freeTV and lower prices. The rest of the game is not inherently fucked, this is boomer businessmen panicking without reason. Young people want to watch football
>>154225404what a fucking retard. just forbid backward passes in your own half, and for the leagues just give bonus points when you score more than 3 goals.this would be the most effective changes but I don't want football to change.
>>154225697>can only implement it in the top leagues, not for 99% of gamesWhy? Stop clocks are used in several sports, from the very bottom of the pyramid up, youth games, etc. In basketball for example there are reps from each team checking each other if scores are correct, fouls attributed to the right players, keeping time, and so on alongside the scoreboard. And football isn't nearly as hard to keep track. A visible countdown timer to resume play would be harder but it's not like football has currently been using one to make sure goalies stop wasting time.
>>154225414There's already basketball for people who like short duration, high scoring games
>>154225683>It’s the kind of sport where you turn on the TV, chat with people, sip your beer, maybe tinker with your motorcycle, and only glance back when the commentator’s voice rises, because that’s when something might actually happen. Then you go back to whatever you were doing.but this is exactly how i watch films
>>154225808shameful to admit this
>>154225790they could also just watch futsal if they want football but shorter and fasteron that topic i'm surprised futsal isn't shilled more, you'd think it's everything that advertisers would wantoverall simplified football, less players to keep track of, smaller field and shorter games but at the same time it can be way flashier both individually and team-wise
>>154225769I don’t know about Belgium, but here, we probably can’t afford to create an additional vacancy regarding official timekeeping. We just don’t have enough personnel to serve every single of the thousands of games happening every week. Asking amateur refs to keep the time while officiating the game itself seems too demanding to meThe way I imagine it to be in the top leagues is that there is a sensor in the ball that automatically stops the clock as soon as it leaves the field. Additionally, the ref can stop the play with every whistle and resume it with the next. And then there is a timekeeper in the VAR room.In the leagues immediately below, you can keep the time with more simple methods as you‘ve said. But I don’t see the logistical possibility to extend that to the 13th tier in rural Mecklenburg. However, it isn’t inherently problematic that way. The games would still last 90 minutes in total, the pros would just play the 60 minutes of net playing time that are already more or less standard (more like 58, depending on the league, I believe). Amateurs have less net playing time, asking them to play 60 minutes of action is a tall order and not necessaryIt’s of course a bit nicer to have no structural differences between tiers, but I don’t see a problem in handling things like this
>>154225404>>154225414we already have that. it's called futsal. guess which one is more popular?
>>154225827Forgot to add that I think trusting clubs to do this in a mannerly way is too risky. Football is a sport of chimpouts and bias, I see this every week watching amateur football. Doesn’t even take violence for that. I wouldn’t trust any involved party with keeping track of the time. It might work in other sports that are more civilized (basketball is better behaved in Europe than football in my experience, as is handball - and yet they keep the time centrally via officials whenever possible)
>>154225684>mwaaaaaaaah the French........champagnehasalwaysbeencelebratedforitsexcellence...
>>154225519make the top 3 leagues in italy 12 teams apiece with 2 up 2 down. also transfer ownership of all stadiums to the clubs. serie a would become awesome again>>154225662the cablejew loses because football fans don't want to watch it>>154225670you make money if you have a good game though. pl makes more money than loi because the games are better>>154225697>Honestly: based. The issue is that you can only implement it in the top leagues, not for 99% of games. But it’s worth that increase in objectivity. I‘d do 2x30, though. The games would basically be just as long as beforeallows more advertising too, which means games can be viable being given away free
>>154225735>just forbid backward passes in your own halfwould make the game into hoofball, not sure if that's good or bad
>>154225519Reducing league size is based. His reasons for it are wrong though. A league that is too big is essentially two leagues, the big guys and the small guys. No one cares about half the games because they know how it's gonna go in 9 times out of 10. With less teams you have higher quality games more often and as long as there's relegation everyone has to keep competing and even the second and third tier leagues will have interest in them. Most people are going to care more about their team when it's fighting for promotion or relegation than when it's in the lower half of the table but not in risk of relegation. Shorter halves with clock stoppages are required if football wishes to stay relevant. All the time wasting and acting bullshit doesn't work with zoomers that have no attention span. Stop the clock when ball isn't in play and there is no need to game the clock.
>>154225827You literally need one person with a button to stop and start the clock.
>>154225404>>154225414>>154225519this doofus kept pushing for play-offs to be added to the league double round robin format because his team of chokers couldn't win shit, only to then immediately forget about it when his team was winninghe's a glorified modest shop clerk who has extensive political connections with local federal prosecutors (who conveniently cover up the falsified financial statements submitted by his club, see the Osimhen transfer involving forged signatures) and who seized the opportunity to start over from scratch with a debt-free phoenix club. reborn Napoli also benefited enormously from the decline in technical standards of Serie A, mainly caused by the legalized scam known as Calciopoli which, coincidentally, was tried almost entirely in the Naples courtanother proposal he made in less turbulent times was to have Italian league matches played in small 10,000-seat stadium-theaters, with spectators seated in armchairs and watching through binoculars, as if the sport were some kind of Pierrot-style opera entertainment keklike all the whinging permavictims from that part of southern italy, he spouts a load of bullshit, cries and whines, and then only sometimes reaches the right conclusion but through completely twisted and convoluted reasoning. since he's shown zero effort to invest in young players in his region of influence, he should be one of the last people to be consulted when it comes to revitalizing Italian football or football whatsoever
>>154225684pic for ants
>>154226240The pros won’t just have that, they will at least try to go for some tacky shit for image reasons. I guarantee it. Big clubs won’t be too keen on just trusting a guy with a stopwatch. It would not be seen as a real improvement. In the pro circuit, there would probably be a real timekeeper additional to the sensor thing, which isn’t super hard to implement either these days. So same result in the personnel regardRegarding the amateurs: we have a ref shortage and can barely keep everything running with refs. One additional official is not doable. I expect most other countries to be roughly the same. We have up to 65,000 amateur games per weekend. No way this works, you can’t just put an additional official everywhere. As I said, maybe for the next-highest tiers below the pros.But as I said, that seems doable to me. And again, the low-tier amateurs can do without 60 minutes of net playing time, they are more used to 40-45 or something
>>154226793If a player has shoulders and/or his ass touching the grass, time stops. It's that simple.
fixing time to actual game time is based tho. The semen slurping diving needs to stop
>>154225404How about no?
>>154225519Anyone who thinks the entertainment value of the sport is above the competition should be beheaded (footballistically speaking)
>>154225404>no red cardsIt depends on what's replacing it, because yellow and red feel outdated with the current game where any touch is a foul>25min halvesToo big of a change. I would rather 3 thirds of 30 or 2 halves of 40>US teams in the Champions LeagueGood idea but initially it would be a pain for everyone involved and might fail if Americans don't get into football at a faster pace>>154225519>reduce Serie A to 16 teamsHorrible idea. This is a great way to make the league even more stagnant and top-heavy. They should change the format and look to develop other international competitions with other nations that face the same problem.>muh number of fansFuck off
>>154225827All of this can just be done by a volunteer, parent, another kid. It's not that complex.I remember working the score clock and scoresheet at ice hockey games when I was as young as 10 and it wasn't difficult.Also wtf is wrong with 4chan today it takes like 3 minutes to post all of a sudden.
>>154225404>>154225414>>154225426>>154225458>senility and memesNot really, most of it is not actionable but something needs to be done about time wasting diving and rolling enough until the matches are....50-70 minutes of effective time. >>154225519It is kinda based, these days a lot of people look for extended highlights or mini matches. Less time wasting bullshit, goofy if not almost intentionally bad refs, and stupid political nuisances.
>>154229106>Also wtf is wrong with 4chan today it takes like 3 minutes to post all of a sudden.Same problem here since yesterday
>>154225496>In his 50-minute game, the match will be tracked for in-play time,wenger has been trialing that at FIFA/UEFA, whichever it is Wenger works at. but i think longer, about 30 to 35 minutes as the average game only has about 32 minutes of inplay football per half. so a basketball like in-play timer countdown for 30 minutes wouldn't actually change the amount of football played and the experience wouldn't really be any shorter, but it might have a psychological impact as there is no time-wasting and no added minutes at the end. throw-in, clock stops, corner, clock-stops and so on.
>>154225414>>154225519He's absolutely right.
>>154225404his family should stick to producing movies where their stupid ideas accidentally make kino
>>154226793You can get refs for the upper leagues and for the lower, amateur leagues you can pay some kid 20 euros to work as a clock operator. It's a non issue.
>>154231077It works in sports that operate on a shoestring budget. It works in kid's games, amateur/recreational games, ... There are more than enough volunteers in football. It's a non-issue.
>>154226130it's good
>>154231317based
>>154225697>The easiest way to make football more attractive to the next generation is not commercializing itWhen they say they want to make it more attractive what they actually mean is they want to commercialise it more successfully
>>154225404But who asked?
>>154229106At (most) youth games perhaps. But no one will give a random guy in an amateur league a stopwatch and tell him to have fun. My local village club averages 200 viewers, there is not a single „neutral“ at these games. Someone would feel fucked over and complain. There would be more chimpouts. I have been to like 200 of these games and I can guarantee handing a volunteer the stopwatch and putting him in charge of timekeeping would have ended in disaster in at least 150 of them. Not necessarily violence, but extreme bitching and appeals.And again, implementing net playing time in low amateur leagues would mean they have to play 50% more or something, they probably can’t handle that for the most part in the long run. Just let them be
>>154225683>isn’t meant to be watched minute by minute like a filmThis is a recent (netflix) concept. In legacy television you just turned on the tv in the middle of a movie or any broadcast really
>>154225414Zoomer here, I just leave the game running in the background while playing vidya or shitposting and alt tab into the game when the commentator gets excited. It's kind of like how the radio worked for boomers
>>154232429It works in literally every sport that has a stopping clock. And that's most sports with playing time.
>>154225414he deadass cooking fr fr on god
