Does "how" you play the game really matter?
This topic comes up often in soccer . First you speak of the result, then how the game was played. Was it beautiful? Technical? Ugly? Sloppy? What was the style of play?
Do people really care how a sport is played? Well, let's go back to 1972 and how the Soviet brand of hockey captured everybody's imagination. With more European hockey appearing before us, many fell in love with their style. And it continues to ruffle the feathers of some hockey dinosaurs in Canada.
For some people, the score is the only thing that matters, regardless of the level. Even at the youth levels. For those people I offer this:
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When we visited the academy of Club Brugge in 2009 there was a U15 game going on. The Academy director said to me, of their opponent, "Nobody likes that team because the players don't have ideas when
