The main football festival of the world opens its doors from today until Qatar.

The king of sports – at least in Europe, Northwest Asia, Africa, Central and South America – will take over the cricket-loving nation in the winter and attempt to make another… multi-billion dollar red carpet podium amid tumultuous economic and geopolitical events. but also a global protest against the working “middle ages” that preceded the emirate.

No beer, no heroes and no anti-heroes (the last were Cruyff and Maradona), in this original “opening” football will try to test its strength and dynamics, looking quite predictable and causing many to talk about the “end of history”, implying that what the sport was offering regularly, he showed until the Guardiola era with Barcelona.

The hegemony of passing and pressing has reduced… indicators of unpredictability, as well as the “anarchic” individual energy that has made us admire great goals and phases in the past.

The last time a team with a defensive troika and non-dominant football caused a wave back in 2004, when Otto Rehhagel minimized any danger to the home team and with just one central striker managed to lift the European Championship in Portugal. But how many Greek teams from 2004 have appeared since then?

In recent years, football has been trying to develop through the unbreakable foundation of high pressing and instant recovery of the ball, improving the physical and physical condition of the players for continuous running and strength in contact and, of course, the technique of goalkeepers with the ball on their feet and in their movement from the hearth for their essential participation. in extension.

Teams win national and international titles, goals are still spectacular, but there has been no innovation on the pitch for the last ten years.

The use of technology has made football almost fair, although, to the dismay of many, it has removed the element of myth.

However, he also turned it into a “book”, the contents of which the reader knows even before he opens it. No team and no player can “hide” something to present it when they are ready, like the great Hungary of the 1950s who beat England twice, 6-3 and 7-1, with their groundbreaking play. Each opponent knows everything about the other.

Many experts in this field talk about the “boomerang” of excessive promotion of football, which, in fact, nullifies its development.

Bayern (Guardiola…) once tried to follow the pattern of Barcelona, ​​trying to improve their model. She did not produce anything of her own, but she wanted to overcome the philosophy of the Catalans with stronger players.