Leagues receive the value they deserve, all against all and at the end of the course, is who has more merit because he always wins has been more regular, which has been better. But the cup, particularly in the Spanish, is undervalued by their leaders, be treated as the ugly sister to which we must endure to be with the beautiful. Due to its elimination, the Copa has its own nature, very different from the league but not worse. In the Cup anything can happen: a bad day to send home to the most painted and a moment of inspiration can elevate the altars to the most sinful. The Chaos Tournament nickname should not be construed as something negative, but quite the opposite: Cup small fish can feed the larger.
The less powerful computers are almost impossible to win a league but the Cup is another story, everyone can have their moment of glory. To sample, the track record: over the past fifteen years, only five teams have won the League: Barca 6, 5 Madrid, 2 Valencia, Atletico 1, the year of double, and 1 the Depor, the smallest team who has never won. The Cup, by contrast, has twice as champions, ten, in the same period of time, joining the winning teams of the league above Seville, Zaragoza, Real Betis, Espanyol and Mallorca. Ten different champions in fifteen years. If that's not a competition attractive ...
This year, the fact that it was anticipating a duel in the final between Barcelona and Madrid has given him more minutes and columns in the mainstream media, which have been pending Cup as long ago did not. But make no mistake has occurred because Barça, Madrid and its thousand and one controversy, real or fictitious, has become a mine for a press that every day is less demanding of ourselves. But we all know how it has been none of them the Copa del Rey in recent years to become uncomfortable in a tournament that always appeared to disturb and interrupt the League.
One measure that has always been taken into account in the street, but not in the offices, is to reward Cup champion with a Champions League place. I agree with this for several reasons: the first is that I've never understood how to play the Champions League third or fourth in a league (and I say no win ...). The second and most important is that greatly benefit the Cup, giving a huge boost to the path of the revaluation. Under the current system, would spend to see many players in the league reserve teams for the next Cup match, and not vice versa, as is usual: for teams of mid-table First up, the Cup is the Tournament Alternates .
But I want to go further. If up to me, would be even more radical when looking for a project to change the continuing loss of interest in the Cup, again put in the place it deserves, alongside the League, not below. To do so would adopt (and adapt) the Copa system they use in most other team sports in Spain: to devote one or two weeks exclusively Cup, stopping and holding the league finals with eight teams in a single headquarters. Let me explain:
The early rounds should be disputed in a single match in the field of lower-level team or draw if both contenders are in the same division. Maintain this system to reach the quarter-finals, when only the top eight, and that would stop the competition. Taking advantage of a gap between the different stages of European competitions, would schedule the finals of the Cup from the quarter to end at a single site, either in a city-Madrid, for example, has the Bernabeu Calderon, Alfonso Perez ... - or several nearby submit a joint bid-A Coruña and Vigo, GijónyOid, ec # 22 ./><> Aarnes
Each round will play a single match and the winner, besides their honor to lift the Cup would be awarded a place in the Champions League rather than Europe as now. In total, spread over seven games would be played in three rounds, which does not take more than two weekends (for example: rooms on a Saturday, semis on Wednesday, final on Sunday). Thus, at best, shut down the league for two weekends (one could play the final game on Wednesday and / or the following weekday), whereas now it takes up to five dates, as the quarters and semis are played over two legs. So the new system would have a significant advantage compared to the present: thin the loaded schedule we have in Spanish football
But the main value would acquire the final phase system would be the great festival of football that we would live in the city that hosted the mini-tournament between the eight best teams in the championship. Of course I would have to do a great job of organization and that police presence would be very important, but I think it would be very beneficial for our football that every year the inhabitants of a city, and visitors could enjoy a festival of football never seen in our country.
Sure after a couple of issues, revalue the Cup and all teams would fight with everything to reach the Final 8. So much for the prize may involve (the square Champions) and by the demands of their own fans, that his team would finish transmitting their desire to participate in a week dedicated to the best football in the country. Business interests by removing the dark (beginning with the RFEF) that escape me, and the most likely position against the top teams (Madrid and Barcelona have already secured a Champions League place with virtually lifetime revenue sharing broadcast and prefer that the tournament is the simplest and most favorable for them), everyone would benefit if the Cup back to the place it deserves. It is a unique competition, with some virtues which lacks the regular season and would be unforgivable to follow him forcing bad life in the basement of our football.
Photo | Training Athletic Club with the Copa del Rey, 1903
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