Blue marking, orange balls, snowballs - everything that makes football attractive in winter.
Snow, frost and other inalienable attributes of winter often come into conflict with football, canceling matches, as it happened on Sunday, February 25, in Turin, where Juventus and Atalanta were to play in the Italian championship, provoking ridiculous injuries. But still there is a zest and in winter football. It is necessary only to try to find it.
February 28, was scheduled for the match of Milan with Lazio in the return match of the semi-final of the Cup of Italy. However, because of the snow in Rome, "devils" the day before were forced to cancel training in the open air and work in the. hotel lobby.
This event decently spoiled the mood of the coach of the "Rossoneri" Gennaro Gattuso, whose character is severe enough and without such surprises.
Funny episode occurred in the duel of the German championship between Cologne and Freiburg. The hosts were given the right to a penalty, but the referee who made such a decision in the 15th minute when the score was 1-0 was in a difficult situation - he could not find in the snow 11-meter mark! It was necessary according to the old yard rule to simply count the necessary distance to the gate in steps ... Sometimes the receiving side does everything possible to ensure the match is held at the proper level, but the element is stronger.
In Rotterdam snow fell so powerfully that before the match Sparta - Vitesse snow-removing equipment only having cleared the field, had to start working again.
But if diligent Dutch tried hard to bring the matter to an end, then the stadium workers on the eve of the Korean League match between the teams Gangwon and Incheon did just as much as they had the patience. The footballers reacted to the original field philosophically and with true Eastern calm began to play.
Some players, probably when playing in extreme winter conditions, remember childhood, and they are happy to use any opportunity to lie in the snow or sprinkle them whoever is near.
That's how he did in a duel against Blackburn Carlton Cole in those days when he played for West Ham.
And how many opportunities unusually to celebrate the hammered ball! For example, you can thrust your head into a snowdrift with overclocking!.
And another nice thing is to launch a snowball into an opponent who insidiously took the ball from you when you already went to the shock position and was ready to hit the gate.
pic. twitter. com / a2CjzS48dZ - Real Salt Lake (@RealSaltLake) 10 квітня 2017 р.
Well, the fans himself God told me to have fun with snowballs, if nothing special happens on the field. You can arrange a shootout with the fans of the team-rivals Wee snowball fight broke out at the St Mirren game pic. twitter. com / 1DJDPjNMm3 - Liam Robertson (@ LiamRobertson11) 29 грудня 2017 р.
And you can throw an opponent who went to a warm-up.
But the most interesting is that some people do not see anything strange in "snow football" and are genuinely surprised by those who decide to stop the match because the conditions for its holding do not fit into any framework. Roy Keane refers to the supporters of the old football wisdom: "Match sostintya in any weather". And at a time when the Irishman was working as Ipswich's coach, he was never able to convince him that the Lester-Ipswich match must be stopped.
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