Time and Football
According to Villoro’s book, “God is Round,” in the ability to tackle the Giants, villains, triumphs, and scandals of the world’s favorite game, denotes Game Theory, referred in Spanish as “Teoria de los juegos,” as discussed by Nelson Rodrigues, specifically in Chapter Three, “Goals and Time.” Rodrigues considers football as a temporal specificity game, unlike baseball. It has limited time interrupted by timeouts requested by the team coaches only. Just like Odyssey, Rodrigues believes that “the goal is to make it home,” which, only depends on the journey taken entirely by players’ reflexes. For him, games’ universal facet depends on the suspended habitual of life flow and that it has a bright flow particularly on the floodlights, subject, and pitches of time which are made on schemes and laws. He furthermore, through the introduction of Game Theory affirms the fact that unsetting normalcy set of football itself is a portion to trace and only reasonable through the engagement of time.
As football is one of the many games with drama and anxiety- induction, the initiated time runs to that time in reality. An example connected to this as written by Nuno is that rooted feelings from death are conjoined to football with every time measured connected in the play matching the hidden vantage. In short, minutes passed in the stadium coincides with the outside one which in nations such as America, incomplete football passes symbolizes that the time should be stopped. In some instances, time in its insistent capacity might remain at zero in the destined ground with not even draw-draw score resulting in extra time. That however only happens in special cases where there is a qualification in the next level such as championship.
Additionally, Michel Foucault, in his chapter, “Discipline and Punish,” under The Birth of the Prison and later translated in French by Alan Sheridan describes, “The Organization of geneses,” and that football specifically depends on the Upbringing and instruction. It highly depends on the guide apprenticeship defined as the dependence relation of the master’s total and individuality which is fixed to the training statutory duration. A clear explanation provided via the introduction of the master’s role in sharing knowledge based on training needs and that are based depending on time arrangement. An example furthermore identified in Gobelins School examines various phenomenons which include the classical period, the development and a new method to charge of the individual existence time. Through that, trainers can have a glimpse of regulated relations, forces, and bodies via accumulated duration which is turned over depending on the movement of passing time. Generally, division of duration in regards to parallel segments or successive will often end at a particular time. The trainers can use such an initiative to isolate the practice period to that of training which should abandon the analogical repetition.
Critchley’s “What we Think about when we Think about Soccer,” furthermore incorporates Klopp-Time in his heavy metal football passion, affirms that clock-time will always find confirmation on chronometric and liner time which are in conjunction to the match’s 90 minutes which is facilitated by the referees with their assistants. And, contrary to clock time highly referred from Klopp-time indicates that moment’s ecstatic time in a blink of an eye and that for players to win in their home; they should balance the overall plays in conjunction with the time. Time is a crucial part of the game that determines the champions of a match.
References
Bernardy, J., & Vogelmann, F. (2017). Introduction: 40 Years after Discipline and Punish. Foucault Studies, 4-9.
Critchley, S. (2017). What we think about when we think about football. Profile Books.
McGowan, L. (2019). Football in Fiction: A History. Routledge.