1118: NWSL Season Period

(Added October 28, 2024)

In addition to better dealing with the weather, dividing the off period into two, one for winter and one for summer, seems to also be a good solution for the exhaustion issue. I do not think that having all that period in one chunk is needed for recovery. I wonder what the players themselves think. I also would understand  if a majority of the players say that they prefer to take the whole off period in summer because they see that avoiding the hot weather is also the best way to avoid exhaustion.     

(Added October 27, 2024)

To be fair, I think the effect of the kind of weather especially the heat and humidity need to be taken into account for evaluating performance in both genders soccer. I even read Yesterday about how Maradona objected to the time assigned for the match of 86 against England and was labeled trouble maker because of that.   

(Added October 16, 2024)

Are you kidding me? What a change in performance for the matches of August 23 to 31 (which is what I am currently at) in comparison with that during the hot weather period! And, of special interest to me is how the defense is more active and has much less, if any, of those pausing moments. Most if not all the goals I saw in this period are the result of the attack performing better than the defense rather than the defense having that lacking.     

 (Added October 15, 2024)

If the physical activity itself is not enough to keep one worm in winter, there is also the option of wearing more or thicker clothes (although current FIFA rules may need to change to allow more options for that). But what would you do in hot and humid weather? Carry your own air-condition machine with you? Also, does it have to be that all winter is avoided while all summer is taken? The season could for example skip December, January and mid June to mid August. In addition, the scheduling could be required to be by as much as possible for that places closer to the south to have matches during the colder months and places closer to the north to have matches during the hotter months. 

However, as I said before, I have not seen before soccer matches played while the sun is still strong like I saw that in the NWSL. Avoiding UV danger is clearly even more important than playing in comfortable weather.             

(First Posting)

 I have talked about this before and here is another reminder. I wonder how much when making any tradeoff here there was careful and sufficient taking into account for how much hot whether affects the quality of the playing. Frankley speaking, in general, the quality has deteriorated from probably mid May, while in the matches of August 23 (which I am currently at) it seems to have made a big leap for the better. 

By the way, how about the goal at around 1:25:26 video time of THIS  match?