Hans-Dieter Flick

[Loki]

VAR/semi-automated offsides made this style of offside trap work well with confidence. Imagine how many borderline calls to continue play would result in goals conceded for us without it

Insane how long football was played without a review option and thus making the game a coinflip. Now they need to introduce effective time, so all that time wasting and simulating injuries stops. How difficult can it be to implement, as nearly any other professional sport has it.

 

[khaled_a_d]

Now they need to introduce effective time, so all that time wasting and simulating injuries stops.

FIFA has been thinking about it for long, but that one is actually difficult.

Because actual playing time is around 55 minutes per game. Footballers right now can't play 90 minutes effective playing time, and fans would hate it if the game is lasting beyond 3 hours for the sake of it.

So to do it, you have to change football match into 60 minutes, or less, games. And while this looks good, as it is essentially the sane, it will be drastic change to the game. 90 minutes is a football tradition that is hard wired at fans mind atm. So, you can see the hesitation is warranted.

Also, 55 minutes game is weird, 60 minutes game adds another mileage on players, who are already complaining. Never mind airing time implications.

They tried the long added times in the WC, and tbh I enjoyed it, but it seems it was unpopular as they didn't continue with it.

 

[Loki]

FIFA has been thinking about it for long, but that one is actually difficult.

Because actual playing time is around 55 minutes per game. Footballers right now can't play 90 minutes effective playing time, and fans would hate it if the game is lasting beyond 3 hours for the sake of it.

So to do it, you have to change football match into 60 minutes, or less, games. And while this looks good, as it is essentially the sane, it will be drastic change to the game. 90 minutes is a football tradition that is hard wired at fans mind atm. So, you can see the hesitation is warranted.

Also, 55 minutes game is weird, 60 minutes game adds another mileage on players, who are already complaining. Never mind airing time implications.

They tried the long added times in the WC, and tbh I enjoyed it, but it seems it was unpopular as they didn't continue with it.

I think 60 minutes effective time is good enough. The game will still last around 90-95 minutes, so not much is going to change for the fans. The rest is getting used to.
I remember when Fifa introduced the free kick spray in the World Cup in 2014 and the German commentator back then said, who needs that crap. It only disturbs and distracts from the game.
Now you can't think about the game without it, the same as VAR. It's not perfect, but it made football fairer. It's the same with effective time. No need for extra time anymore, the players can't waste time dragging corner kicks, subs or faking injuries. The popularity will come fast when fans will see how much fairer the game would get. Who doesn't hate it, when the game has 5 minutes extra time and they only play 2 of them, while wasting 3.
Xavi complained about it a lot and he's right. Every other professional sport has it, why not the biggest one with the biggest prizepools? The goal needs to be to make a sport as fair as possible.