When we started the Brazil series back in 2010 we delighted in the footage of the Brazilian top flight bucking the global trend towards free-hanging boxnets and retaining their traditional L-supports.
At that time we were genuinely optimistic that the nets at the 2014 World Cup finals would be suspended by L-supports.
However, as the finals have drawn nearer, Serie A teams who we originally featured as having L-supports - Botafogo and Palmeiras for example - have joined the trend towards boxnets.
As well, six brand new stadia are being constructed for the World Cup finals and only the most optimistic among us would consider anything but homogeneous boxnets are going to be installed by FIFA.
Brazil was once this dreamed-of place where the outside world hadn't yet reached - Echo Beach.
Now, those few stadia who still retain their traditional L-supports are like Chingachgook in The Last of the Mohicans, standing at the edge of the cliff, realising they're the end of the line.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Goalnets and FIFA's Stadium Book
In a previous post it was shown that, while FIFA's The Laws of the Game ran to some 142 pages, goalnets merited only 26 words.
Article 7 (on page 3) of UEFA's Stadium Infrastructure Regulations adds 8 words more:
d) they (the goals) must not pose any danger to players
Which got us wondering - which feature of goalposts and crossbars could possibly "pose any danger to players"?
FIFA's Stadium Book is the bible on the technical recommendations and requirements for stadium design.
On page 67 it recommends this method for suspending the goalnets:
And on the next page, under "Dangers and obstructions", FIFA adds 31 words to the lexicon of goalnet rules and details what it considers a danger to players:
Goal nets should not be suspended by any kind of metal frame or "elbow" but should be suspended by the method illustrated (see diagram above), as this does not constitute a danger to players.
So there it is in black and white - according to FIFA the stanchions (metal frames), Continental D's and L-supports (elbows), all the diversity we celebrate here, are a danger to players.
WHAT?
ARE THEY KIDDING?
Article 7 (on page 3) of UEFA's Stadium Infrastructure Regulations adds 8 words more:
d) they (the goals) must not pose any danger to players
Which got us wondering - which feature of goalposts and crossbars could possibly "pose any danger to players"?
FIFA's Stadium Book is the bible on the technical recommendations and requirements for stadium design.
On page 67 it recommends this method for suspending the goalnets:
And on the next page, under "Dangers and obstructions", FIFA adds 31 words to the lexicon of goalnet rules and details what it considers a danger to players:
Goal nets should not be suspended by any kind of metal frame or "elbow" but should be suspended by the method illustrated (see diagram above), as this does not constitute a danger to players.
So there it is in black and white - according to FIFA the stanchions (metal frames), Continental D's and L-supports (elbows), all the diversity we celebrate here, are a danger to players.
WHAT?
ARE THEY KIDDING?
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