There is more to this than flamboyance, European Standards and other additional factors to this whole debate, football is a game of intelligence, and the use of skill comes with a certain comfortability with the ball. We are always taught to express ourselves when we are in possession of the ball ...
Whenever you come across a player who is finding it difficulty to express themselves when in possession of the ball, there are two things you can say to that player :
-Play simply football and/or
-Play your football.
What Masibusane did on Saturday didn't cost the team whatsoever, we can give the Man of The Match to a player who scores 2 or more goals in a match or the player with that single goal in the match, but also when its goalless draws you need to credit the defenders as well as the goalkeepers for the clean sheets and and absorbing the pressure. But Saturday's encounter between Stars and Sundowns really created a platform for any player who wanted to be Man of the Match to step up and do so.
Zongo created a pleasant atmosphere on the pitch and in the stands and with his style of play he exposed a few defenders of the well empowered Sundowns, going on to question the worth of the quality, but then in the eyes of those who are constantly seeking to get praises week in week out, i feel heart-broken that a player like Zongo gets a second chance to revive his career and continuing to offer us what we have known him for, which is flair and to have his performance questioned after a goalless draw where much of the entertainment was under his names justifies the pain.
Whenever you come across a player who is finding it difficulty to express themselves when in possession of the ball, there are two things you can say to that player :
-Play simply football and/or
-Play your football.
What Masibusane did on Saturday didn't cost the team whatsoever, we can give the Man of The Match to a player who scores 2 or more goals in a match or the player with that single goal in the match, but also when its goalless draws you need to credit the defenders as well as the goalkeepers for the clean sheets and and absorbing the pressure. But Saturday's encounter between Stars and Sundowns really created a platform for any player who wanted to be Man of the Match to step up and do so.
Zongo created a pleasant atmosphere on the pitch and in the stands and with his style of play he exposed a few defenders of the well empowered Sundowns, going on to question the worth of the quality, but then in the eyes of those who are constantly seeking to get praises week in week out, i feel heart-broken that a player like Zongo gets a second chance to revive his career and continuing to offer us what we have known him for, which is flair and to have his performance questioned after a goalless draw where much of the entertainment was under his names justifies the pain.
Yes I agree with Pitso that the use and implementation of skill should be constructive to a team moving forward and going on to score goals and further on to winning matches, but then if minuses numbers from where that skill is performed, should we look to criticise such.
There's more to come from this stay tuned................
