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Author: cska
Date: 15-11-2006, 14:24

Dear friends,
Although it doesn't sound like that, this topic is really dedicated to coefficients.
The problem is that very often former football stars speculate with their fame and use it only to compell UEFA to accept their views on football and to follow their interests.
Platini doesn't like something and immediately he rushes over UEFA demanding changes in the system.
Rummenigge doesn't like the way coefficients are calculated and immediately he uses his positions in UEFA to demand changes in the system.
Every collective human system is a kind of compromise. Nothing could be seen as equally useful by each and every person involved.
UEFA system is not invented to serve Platini or Rummenigge. It was a kind of very unstable compromise between the rich clubs and associations and the poor ones dreaming to become rich (and the poor ones willing only to have the chance to participate).
Sometimes I get very annoyed when a former star thinks that the whole work must "suck his dick" till the end of his life (sorry, the expression is not intended to be so harsh). Even here, in Bulgaria, the footballers of the WC'94 team (who won 4th place there) think that everyone must accept their ideas, views and villaneous behaviour, only because they have past successes and fame.
I become deeply concerned where football is going and where the whole world is going. Football is no longer a game. It's an industry. It's production, trade, marketing, PR, market performance, financial indicators, money, money, money... But not a game...
And if we live to 2050 (I will be 71 years old), we'll live in a world which is something between a desert and a thrash-can. It's nice to think "OK, I live now and if I will not be in the world after 50 years, then I don't care about it". Money can build, but money can kill too. And money is gradually killing football... real football. Some day, people will see that the only thing they have is money and nothing else left around them.
Anyway, no mre "world saving appeals" here.

But I really don't like when people's egocentrism can kill the passion in football. And former stars should be real stars and care about football, not about their bank accounts only...