Drama. It’s all about the drama. The football industry is one big Soap opera! Every where you look there is (possible) conflict: Team versus Team, Player versus Player, Coach versus Coach, Coach versus Player, Coach versus Team, Team versus Player, etc. The relationship between these parties is what makes football a great story. And we humans like a good story, it’s the way we are wired.

From our early years of existence we are telling each other stories, either by drawing on the inside of a cave, painting a picture, writing a book, directing a movie or developing a game. The world of football is filled with intriguing story lines. They become so dramatic that writers of Soap opera’s can’t even imagine that kind of misery. Without the story football becomes dull. Nobody wants to see two random teams kick a ball for ninety minutes. We want to see the internal battle. We want to see the player who got substituted throw his water bottle at the coach. We want to see two life long friends making hard tackles just because they play in the opposite team. We want to see players sent off because they couldn’t stop yelling at the referee. We want to see a player leave his club for the rival club on the other side of town.

So ladies, next time your man tells you he wants to watch a World Cup Football match: go sit next to him on that couch. And ask him about the players. Ask him about the ‘story’. And maybe, just maybe, football might not be so boring after all.

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