Fuck Portugal
Friday, October 11th, 2019 22:31![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cashewI am so fucking done with the press making a big deal about CR7 scoring against fucking Luxembourg. Luxembourg. A country of 590,667.
I'm not impressed with this record.
It's absolute bullshit how much people think that qualifiers in the UEFA region is anywhere near comparable to CONMEBOL. Portugal's competition is Switzerland, Hungary, Faroe Island, Andorra, and Latvia. Portugal basically cake-walks those teams into the ground as most of them are ranked in the bottom 30% of the FIFA ranking's list (between 100 and 130). Meanwhile, not a single team from CONMEBOL is ranked lower than 50.
At least comparing Neymar Jr. to Messi's achievements makes some level of sense (although still not a lot given that Argentina's national team is significantly different in quality from Brazil's and it's really not all that comparable due to how fucked up AFA had become, but that's getting into something else altogether and I don't feel like rehashing the same grievances over and over). But to compare CR7 to Messi is utterly meaningless. They face different level competition with different competence from their teams' support system and it's just apples to oranges at this point.
At least on the club level, their careers overlapped by playing in the same league against the same level opponents and both were part of historically great teams and thus their performance during their overlapping years when they go head-to-head means there's some comparability. International performance is basically one giant RNG simulation that depends on so many other uncontrollable factors and the "analysis" is still stuck on goals per game without any other context.
In short, this is just all so fucking stupid I could flip a table. The only reason I'm not is because I'm suffering from food coma. Ugh.
I'm not impressed with this record.
It's absolute bullshit how much people think that qualifiers in the UEFA region is anywhere near comparable to CONMEBOL. Portugal's competition is Switzerland, Hungary, Faroe Island, Andorra, and Latvia. Portugal basically cake-walks those teams into the ground as most of them are ranked in the bottom 30% of the FIFA ranking's list (between 100 and 130). Meanwhile, not a single team from CONMEBOL is ranked lower than 50.
At least comparing Neymar Jr. to Messi's achievements makes some level of sense (although still not a lot given that Argentina's national team is significantly different in quality from Brazil's and it's really not all that comparable due to how fucked up AFA had become, but that's getting into something else altogether and I don't feel like rehashing the same grievances over and over). But to compare CR7 to Messi is utterly meaningless. They face different level competition with different competence from their teams' support system and it's just apples to oranges at this point.
At least on the club level, their careers overlapped by playing in the same league against the same level opponents and both were part of historically great teams and thus their performance during their overlapping years when they go head-to-head means there's some comparability. International performance is basically one giant RNG simulation that depends on so many other uncontrollable factors and the "analysis" is still stuck on goals per game without any other context.
In short, this is just all so fucking stupid I could flip a table. The only reason I'm not is because I'm suffering from food coma. Ugh.
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