World Cup 2010 official ball from Adidas, Jabulani, continues to receive criticism. The ball, which means "celebration" was now interpreted by the United States goalkeeper, Marcus Hahnemann, as a "nightmare."
Hahnemann is among the person to criticize the ball. Previously, some goalkeeper have criticized it. In fact, all Danish players do not feel comfortable using the ball.
Italian goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon, said that the Jabulani ball difficult and unpredictable. Meanwhile, goalkeeper Julio Cesar who is a Brazilian Goalkeeper judge that Jabulani like a toy ball purchased from the mall.
Jabulani even start accruing polemic between Brazil and the Secretary General of FIFA, Jerome Valcke. According to Valcke, Brazil only to find excuses with the ball. Brazil coach Carlos Dunga, immediately responded. According to him, Valcke was the only person who never appear in the field to give an assessment of Jabulani.
Another Complaint Arise
Italian goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon, complained about the quality of the official World Cup ball in 2010 or Jabulani. According to him, Jabulani quality below standard.
The complaint was leveled after Juventus goalkeeper training with Andrea Pirlo. Buffon watched the ball passing released by Pirlo often strayed far.
"World Cup official ball is bad. If Andrea Pirlo missed sending passing, usually only up to 10 centimeter, but with this ball from 10 centimeter can be three meters," complained Buffon.
As a goalkeeper, Buffon became the most suffering from the poor quality of the ball. Moreover, said Buffon, in the World Cup will be a lot of players that that kick well. "I’ve never played against Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. So I want to know how it feels. Better use a different ball," snapped Buffon.
Critics of the Jabulani not the first. Some world class players also threw his disappointment towards the character of the ball skin. Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar, even called Jabulani as a cheap ball. Similarly submitted by England goalkeeper David James. "The ball is terrible," said James
"The new model clearly is not enough. I think a shame if in important competitions like World Cup with so many champion players playing with a ball like that," lamented former world’s best goalkeeper of Italy, Gianluigi Buffon.
Agreed with Cesar and Buffon, England goalkeeper, Joe Hart, was experiencing the same difficulties. He felt the new ball was hard to catch, but that’s the challenge. "It’s hard to deal with, but pleasant enough. It makes the game to be fun and I think that’s the goal (the ball is made)," said Manchester City’s goalkeeper.
Not only the goalkeeper who feel this oddity. The players, especially strikers and winger players, feeling the strangeness of Jabulani. They generally have to adapt more to do and deal with cross-feed.
"Very strange," said the Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano. "The ball was suddenly turn directions. Looks like not want to kick. This is incredible, as there are people who control it. You want to kick and the ball moves away from the track. I think this is supernatural, this is very bad. I hope to adapt as quickly as possible, but must be difficult. "
The same ball is also difficult for the Italian striker, Giampaolo Pazzini. "The ball moves too much so it is difficult to control. You jump to heading the cross and suddenly the ball will move and you lose the ball," said Pazzini. "It’s bad, especially for the goalkeeper, meaning they conceded that they could not guess the direction the ball."
"It’s bad for the goalie and bad for us. The player tries to pass it and the ball moves in the opposite direction," commented the Brazilian midfielder Julio Baptista.
However, FIFA did not think much about the difficulties of these players. Besides, players are always complaining about the new ball on important tournaments like the World Cup
The Origin of Jabulani
Jabulani, first time introduced to public together with the drawing session in Cape Town, Friday night (4/12). The ball was created and designed by Adidas. Jabulani name taken from the Bantu languages, one of 11 official languages in South Africa, World Cup host in 2010. Jabulani more or less the meaning of "to celebrate".
The meaning of number 11 became one of those ball-making inspiration. Incidentally, in South Africa there are 11 tribes and 11 official languages. In addition, the number 11 represents the number of players in each team. Thus, the design of this ball is not far away from the philosophy of that number.
Noah Johnson is sport lover. He loves mainly Soccer, F1 GP and Formula 1, but he loves all other sports. Trying to serve a website about sport, to keep following the sport news, in the first place. Information about sport exercise and healthy sport included in his website, either. 
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