Fc Barcelona player Daniel Alves proves diving is essential to protect fair play in football.

From Busquets at FC Barcelona, to Ronaldo at Manchester united then Real Madrid. From the Drogba of Chelsea to Eduardo once at Arsenal. From Krasic at Juventus to all the other players of all the teams we follow. Diving is the curse that usually address them all and mark disgrace bruises on their talent and quality. The question is: Can we generalize and say that all diving acts are wrong? Or is there a room to classify diving in two categories: Fair and unfair?

 Advocatus Diaboli

Football and Diving

The fast spontaneous answer is that there shouldn't be any place for diving in world football. Done and dusted. Yet, Daniel Alves was able in seven days to make anyone who has an attention for details reconsider.

In the first match, Dani was at the receiving end of a knock by Zaragoza player Leonardo Ponzio. The rules are clear: Red card. And that's what happened, Ponzio was suspended. Fair enough.

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Barcelona youth academy

 

 Advocatus Diaboli

During the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith (Latin: Promotor Fidei), popularly known as the Devil's Advocate (Latin: advocatus diaboli), is a canon lawyer appointed by Church authorities to argue against the canonization of the candidate. It is his or her job to take a skeptical view of the candidate's character, to look for holes in the evidence, to argue that any miracles attributed to the candidate were fraudulent, etc. The Devil's advocate opposes God's advocate (Latin: Advocatus Dei; also known as the Promoter of the Cause), whose task is to make the argument in favor of canonization. This task is now performed by the Promoter of Justice (promotor iustitiae), who is in charge of examining how accurate is the inquiry on the saintliness of the candidate. (Wiki)

Barcelona Youth Academy:

Overrated!

Its causing headache for lot of None Barcelona fans already. Barcelona youth academy is rated for being one of its kind. You barely meet a Cule’ who is not talking about the brilliance of the Massiah, about the number of youth products who started the Champions’ league final against Manchester United, and about the upcoming promising talents waiting their chance to create a new history for the club. Alright, lets hold on a bit, Barcelona youth academy is good, no one can deny that. Still it is overrated. 

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