Bahrain Soccer

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=327635
The Bahrain national football team is defending themselves for their victory over Indonesia. This match was part of a World Cup Qualifier and has sparked a probe by Fifa. The match ended in a final score of 10 to zero which is a very high scoring football games. The reason for the probe is that the Bahrain trailed the Qatar team by 3 points and nine goals in qualifying before this match. The coach of the Bahrain National Team said that the high score can be attributed to the inexperience of the Indonesia team as they were mostly reserves. The Indonesia team had nothing to play for in this match as they were already out of qualify. Fifa is going to conduct interviews with players coaches and refs about the match.
I found this article to be very interesting in how much attention is being given to a soccer match. Soccer or football is the world most popular sport in the world. Still at the end of the article it said that this match did not have an effect as Qatar tied their match with 2 goals apiece and therefore advanced. Also the fact that FIFA is going to do an official probe tells a little bit about how all matches are taken serious. This to me seems important as neither Bahrain or Indonesia are World Cup powers that the mach would have a great effect on. The fact the Bahrain need a win and nine goals to over take Qatar and got ten goals is really weird with out something else happening though not unheard of. If the Indonesia team was mainly reserves and the Bahrain coach say that there was an opportunity to gain ground that he took a great opportunity.
This game and the follow probe is something that needs to happen more in the sports world. Many time if the game is being played by two teams that are not very good or are way out of first place that there is not much attention and interesting things can happen. These thing can be either large jumps up in the standing due to lopsided victories or more commonly one player has a career game. These could be just that one team is better or that player happen to wake up on the right side of the bed that day. The other side is that since these two teams are bad to great interest they make a great story that has to get noticed later. I thing that FIFA is doing the right thing to investigate this game and that more sports governing bodies should do the same thing. Also i will be interested to see the out come of this case.

Kevin Whaley