DAILY TOPIC: Should football create the All-Stars game, and how?

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The All-Star games are long-established in American sport. If the American franchise system can have All-Star games, it is not impossible for football to come up with a similar concept.

Should football create the All-Stars game, and how?

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Experts of last DAILY TOPICWhy some clubs succeed in major tournaments but fail at domestic leagues?

@Barcelona-Arsenal: Players of a team are more enthusiastic and ready to perform in the big spotlight.

below I state a factor have observed in my time watching football: I look at it like this, let me make the analogy of football to Running.

if you must run a 2 km, you don't run it all out at the beginning, you slowly and gradually must keep a steady pace each second while running. more than outright speed, or flare of victory, you need endurance, like you need consistent results week-in week-out in the domestic league. in the domestic league, you must play 38 matches or more. in a knockout round competition, you play at most 6 Group stage, 2 RO32 2 RO16, 2 Quarter, 2 semi, 1 final, or 15 matches AT MOST. this is substantially less, and I compare this to short distance running, like a 200m. you must give your all-out in that very few moments, you have about 20 sec (or 90 min) to impress and probe the skill level you have.

@Sir_Dextrose:

I think it comes down to the fact that Tournaments are drastically different when compared to a League. For one, teams often use their best players for the Champions League, but they might experiment when it comes to the league because there's always another game. You also have to win a lot more games if you want to win the league than compared to the Champions League. You could say that the league is easier because the tournament has all the best clubs in Europe, but really, so do the leagues. If you're in the Prem you have to go up against teams like Man City, Man United, Liverpool, and I could go on.

@auwalrogo: I think the logical explanation of teams making a triumph in tournaments like UCL and failing in domestic league is that, in domestic league almost all the competing teams are very much familiar with each other and knows each other's strength and weakness, unlike in the tournaments where teams are virtually new to each other.

Also the issue of local derby and other "believes", where a relatively weaker team used to have an upper hand against a stronger opponent because of some historical reasons and believes. Like we have a situation where by Barcelona find it difficult to win in Espanyol or Real Sociedad's home, real Madrid also find it hard to beat Atlentico Madrid and other teams with a historical derbies, or Liverpool find it hard to beat any smaller Merseyside team. And again, the bigger teams in London like Chelsea and Arsenla also find it difficult to beat other smaller teams in London like west ham and the rest, which will never be the case in tournament like UCL.

Another explanation is that players sometimes used to get more motivated and lots more enthusiasm when it comes to tournament than in the league cups. May be as a result of higher regards attached to the tournaments like UCL

The issue of 'LUCK' factor is also contributing to the situation of winning the tournament while failing in a league cups. This is because a 'luck' is more likely to make more impact in a two-leg knockout tournament than 38 league matches that lasts through months in a year. 

We have a situations of 'luck' making a great impact in match when for e.g. Chelsea knocked out Barcelona and bayern in 2012 UCL and lifted the trophy, also Liverpool coming from 3 - 0 behind to beat AC Milan in 2005 UCL final, even though both Liverpool and Chelsea are relatively weaker than the teams the won against. While in league cups just 3 or 4 lucky wins can never guarantee u to win the league.

The number of matches also matters when it comes to winning a trophy. while a team is needed to play 38 or so matches in league cup, a team only needs to play only about 17 or so matches to reach and win the final in a UCL tournament.

The time taking between the matches. While it takes only 4 to 7 days to play match and another in a league cup, it takes some weeks or even months (e.g. after group stage in CL) to play another match. So by implication, injuries are more likely to affect the performance of a team (negatively) in a league cup than in a tournament.

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