SPORTS: A 7-team draw is possible, let's make the game fair and enjoyable.
Sinach
Published Date:
Jun 19, 2024
Last Updated:
It’s time to embrace the radical potential of equitable grassroots football draws
There was something so exciting about putting on my football kit as a kid. Slipping on a shiny pair of shorts and a matching football shirt, then pulling knee-length socks over shin pads to complete the ensemble. It felt like being part of something, so while I wasn’t ever very good, having a part to play in a team was exciting enough.
The excitement in Football’s culture is changing, but not quickly enough to change the love of football in a fair game.
Football is love and we all must make the game fair for it to be enjoyable.
I've been trying to digest the draws in the Nuesa tournaments, but it's not quite going down well because of the way G&C department was carried to the semifinals due to the fact that they are defending champions in another tournament without playing in the group stage to enjoy the fun like others.
Football is love and we must adapt to make the game fair and enjoyable.
Way forward
Yes,a 7 team draw is possible. All it takes is pure mathematics, and it has been done many times in the world of soccer.
Fixture of 7 teams in league tournament in cyclic method
number of matches = n(n-1)/2
n = no. of teams = 7(7-1)/2
= 7x6/2
= 42/2 = 21 matches
Total no. of rounds = 7
About the Author
Sinach
A les Avocat, living with the It Begins With Me Mantra and determined to dot all i's and cross all t's for a better Nigeria.
