8/08/2006

The rise and fall of football "empires"

The rise and fall of football “empires”
   Before six or more thousand years the first (known) empires appeared. They rose and then fell. It is unavoidable for one empire to rise and after a period it will fall. History has given us plenty examples, such as the french empire, the english empire and the russian empire among others. In this rule there are no exceptions, even if the “empire’’  is a great football team.
   Many teams that were in the past the leading teams of the European football now are in the second or third division of their country or  they are not so great teams nowadays. For instance Nottigham Forest  once won the so called champions leauge and now it is not even a great team in England.
   The last three years many great teams are underachieving. The greatest ever teams of Europe cannot find their “good” profile, such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester United and many others. However we cannot say that these teams are falling because they have still a leading role in their countries.
   The only great team that is falling and it will be difficult to rise again is the, until now, favourite team in Italy, Juventus, which is relegated to Serie B (second division of Italy). Even if Juventus doesn’t  play to Serie B from the forthcoming season it will be pretty difficult for her to build a team that can “chase” something in Europe.  
   Maybe it is better for empires to rise and then fall, so as new empires rise and there is variety and competition, because if one (football) empire was dominating for a long time then it would be too monotonous….

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