Football is war (modern football coach, the "general" in michels): Every man fantasizes about war since he was a child. Many games are simulated wars. Football is the game with the highest degree of war simulation, and it is a cold weapon war between the two armies. The grand narrative sense is very romantic for men. Shoot a detail about a series of short-lived behaviors before the start of the game, and go out of the locker room to line up at the stadium to listen.
Football is the perfect embodiment of many elements, but the ultimate measure is extremely simple and clear: the real war is a direct confrontation between the comprehensive capabilities of the two countries, but all kinds of factors will eventually turn into a cruel and clear result of winning or losing. Football is the sport that can best examine the comprehensive ability: speed, strength, technology, teamwork, competition strategy, psychological quality, ability to adapt to the environment, luck, and even further, it is a confrontation between different cultures and different ways of thinking. However, regardless of comparison, other sports may be more extreme in personal ability than football, but there are not so many elements perfectly concentrated in one sport.
Football is the most suspenseful game: the suspense of football is reflected in many aspects. The strong is like a forest, the weak is not weak, and the wind and water turn around, better than Barcelona. Playing the vice squad leader in La Liga also risks capsizing. Manchester United were eliminated by Basel in this year's Champions League. Unknown, sudden, accidental and minor factors may change the result of the game. All classic games are suspenseful and thrilling epic masterpieces, and there is a game that can make the most imaginative people break their glasses, which is also a very suspenseful game. Compared with basketball, the suspense in the final stage of basketball is based on the accumulation of previous scores, which is gradual, but the drama of football is that there can be no warning at all. A team besieged its opponent for 90 minutes and bombed indiscriminately to gain the overall advantage of the situation, but the opponent's successful sneak attack or small mistakes may eventually lead to the other side going to heaven and hell.
The fun of game strategy: to quote a passage from Liu in the postscript of Three-body: "Looking at the football in the last row of the stadium, the complicated technical movements of the players themselves have been hidden by the distance, and only the ever-changing matrix composed of 23 points appears on the court. Only football in ball games presents such a clear mathematical structure, which may be one of the charms of this sport, because the football field is big enough and the time of a game is long enough. No matter how strong the individual ability is, it is impossible to cover all the spaces. No matter how strong a person is, his high-intensity state cannot be sustained. The movement of the ball from one door to another, no matter the distance or the length, is enough for many stories to happen, which gives a lot of room for tactics. Football needs to control the space through formation, compress the opponent's space, and also need a reasonable sense of rhythm to ensure that the whole game is controllable.