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ProspectHello all.... its been a long time. I had to leave my personal blog behind to guest blog for another site durring the world cup, but you have me back for good now,ha.
so yano what i am just going to jump straight in there and blog what is on my mind this time.
I had a really INTERESTING conversation last week and it really got me thinking. It got me thinking that i do not think that i have ever heard others people perceptions on this topic other then my own and and maybe i need to look at the other side of things before coming to my conclusion?
When i had this conversation, to say it really took me by surprise would be an understatement, but i do like a good old fasion debate and this was a good one!
I hope that the person involved in this conversation does not mind but i wanted to share it with everyone just to get different peoples opinions etc and open it up for debate (i will try not to use no names, but i can not promise that,lol)
As you may guess by the title on the blog the convo i had was about Goal celebrations and it went a little somthing like this.
Cast yourself back a couple of years to 2007, the place china, the occasion, the womens world cup, England v Japan 1st group game, England womens 1st appearance in a world cup for 12 years.
So now you have all that in your mind here is the rest of the story. A certain someone (kelly Smith... opps did i mention a name, shame on me) receives a ball just inside the penataly area, spins one defender and slots the ball in the back of the net. she pulls the game back to 1 - 1 and score's her 1st goal in a world cup final. The main part of the converstaion, yep you guessed it... her goal celebration (check out the link to se for yourself)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd_tfAJwvNs or here is a picture of the celebration?
so what do we think of this celebration? kissing her boot after she scored??
well it seems that 'some' deemed this celebration as arrogant! kelly smith arrogant, really wow. Is this what a goal celebration says about someone? If you kiss your boot you are arrogant.... well unles you are lucky enough to meet or play on the same team as kelly and find out she far from it, you would have always branded her as an arrogant person on this 1st impression by what you saw on the TV......really, is this what we do?
As you may tell i was VERY SURPRISED by this and went on to pursue the conversation more.
This persons belief and answers to my questions were. The celebration was all about her, it was not about the team, basically it was "LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME" LOOK AT THE PERSON IN THE BOOTS. The team however did Celebrate with Kelly and did not think the same thing?
but like i said i am trying to see things on both sides here... After the game, Hope Powell our england manager took to the press and said the following statment
I didn’t like it at all,” she said of Smith’s celebration. “I thought it was disrespectful. She won’t be doing it again. She’s a player who will be targeted by defenders and there’s enough attention on her anyway, so she doesn’t need to be drawing any more.
We the boston breakers played FC Gold Pride last week they won the game 2-1, marta scored the 2nd and proceeded to wait for her team to run over and then pretend that she was bowling and her team mates were the pins, she boweled her pretend ball and her teammates fell to the floor. the crowd thought this was fuuny and laughed! was this disrepectful to do this on our field?
The same quote from Hope powell used above can be said of this celebration and marta right. Marta more then anyone has enough attention on her, should she be doing this?
Me.... i think fair play to you,we should have done more as a team to deny her scoring, but we did not. Did it make me mad and want to get the ball and score... "Hell yeah" of course! but did i not want to do this when the game was 1 - 1 anyway or 0 - 0. Is this not all part and parcel of the game. i hope we score and do a well thought celebration when we play them next.... why not,lol
The converstaion went on.......and basically came to this. This person does not believe in goal celebrations, basically you should get the ball from the net and resume play as quickly as possible and celebrate after the 90 mintues of play is up?
Me I strongly disagree. Why because i think how boring not to celebrate a goal, Me i want to show passion, i want to show how much scoring for my team means. Why did we start playing the sport in the 1st place, TO HAVE FUN, to express ourselves. How do you win games.... You have to score goals, soooooo celebrate them.
The conversation then went on to other sports aswell..... when you see basketball players bang there chest after they score a basket or bang the floor (punch the floor) is this because they are arrogant? (well i sure do not think so). i see a player showing passion or trying to get them self pumped up and stay in the zone, or maybe geting rid of frustration.
When i was younger, i remember when i would watch games on TV and see celebrations, it would be that, that i would be trying to replicate in the school playground the next day.
Klinsman goal celebration....come on how many times have we seen that been done .The German's trademark goal celebration, the one that's been mimicked by millions...usually involving a dirty big puddle or a great deal of mud! Watch the link to see
we all seen Usian Bolts now famous celebration after he wins a race? i have seen this celebration replicated so many times in different sports its untrue. my point also being, its just about having some fun and being able to smile.
if i score and do Usian bolts celebration... i am not being arrogant, i do not think i am faster then everyone on the pitch and look at me im special, i just like seeing usian bolt and that confidence he has and his relaxed nature and having fun.
what about from a Fans point of view, is this not another way that we can identify with players.... I dunno?
here are some clips for you to decide for you self and tell me what you think?
At the end of the day what you believe in is what you belive in, but a goal celebration could be because of the occasion, how about the expectation, what if like our England team in the 2007 WC everyone had wrote our team off, we was a team there to make the numbers up, is what other teams had said. Here is a quote what the German team said about us
Ariane Hingst, the defender, said: “In Kelly Smith England have a player we’ll have to keep an eye on, but we have 11 players that England will have to watch out for. If we hit top form, then England won’t have a chance against us.”,
wow!! really... now something like this makes me want to score and do a goal celebration,lol. Seems like we did have a chance however...the score line ended 0-0.
like i said before the celebration could be pure passion! or to finish this off.... how about the meaning behind the goal to the person or to the team?
Either way.... just so this is not all one sided, im trying to be diplomatic here.... could it then be a coincidence, that as a team you are more likely to concede a goal, straight after you have just scored??
so this is all i have for you just know..... im off to work on my celebration, the Breaker girls will tell you, that i can not help but do the Drogba celebration, even when i score a goal in training i will do this, it basically involves arm jolts wide open while running, its very infectious and i even have some of the other girls doing it now,lol
untill next time, your England boston breaker!
Ps it seems this goal celebration just may have made it into the top 10 now... go iceland,lol