Post-World Cup 2010

World Cup 2010 is over, and maybe it's time to analyse a thing or two about it. How do you rate this year's world cup organiser and how's the overall performance of all teams in the tournament? Generally I think world cup is still a world cup. No one can take away its prestige status, but I am a little dissapointed with some performance from teams, players, organiser and FIFA.

First teams are not as strong as we expected them in a tournament of World Cup. There are some team perform well below par, and their sub-standard performance has effectively reduce the excitement of the games itself. Then organiser didn'tput in enough effortin advertising and promoting the tournament as we can see there are lots of empty seats in all the matches. Probably this is due to its country's economic reason.

Then most of the star players performing well below par, and I think this can't be blamed because after a long season in the domestic leagues, they are finally human too. Tiredness has hampered their performance during the tournament since they don't get enough rest in between domestic league and WC. Therefore World Cup tournament is always a place to discover new stars.

Overall I think the world cup really starts from the 2nd round onwards. Teams started to perform to their true strength and unfortunately it's been too late to create the usual havoc from a world cup tournament I think, but still it's a good tournament.

Last but not least, is the performance of referees and officials. There are too many discripancies during the games, and I think FIFA should seriously thinking of introducing new technologies into the games to cut down unnecessary mistake by referees. Afterall referees and officials are human too, and they tends to make more mistake nowadays because of the advance technologies around.

Players nowadays are smarter in using dirty tactics because they deeply know there's no harm in doing so since TV replay will not get them punish during the game. So to win the game they will try whatever tactics to win the match first. If there's any aftermath action, so be it because the game already won and result are not changeable. Referee are under more pressure these days than before too because they only have a pair of eyes, and they can only see one particular spot at a time.

So in order to make football more exciting, and fair, new technology is a must for the game. Just look at other sports like Tennis, Cricket etc, new technologies means to cut down human error. It's time football or soccer game to start using it as well.