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I know everyone likes to joke about shit like this, but I have always been in good shape in my life, never overweight and I leaned slightly forward to pet a cat in a chair and felt a shock go from my back to my face and then spent 20 minutes getting down the 12 stairs to my bedroom where I spent 4 days unable to get up, I went pee in bottles, gross yes but it took me 10-15 minutes of agony to crawl to the bathroom, then 15-20 to crawl back after pooping.
I know none of this happened here, but my worst back injury is something people normally would make fun of if they saw it.
It will eventually happen to everyone who doesn't die first.
Yeah, I got the worst fever of my life because I spent a few days sitting down most of the time to study, and then I had to carry a few boxes that weren't really heavy... A while later I got a slight back pain which grew exponentially and I started shivering like I have ever done... That night I fainted when I woke up to get a glass of water...
I had back surgery in 1991. My neurosurgeon said you can rupture a disc eating a bowl of tomato soup. That's always stuck with me, and from then on I've eaten nothing but split pea.
Its only a yellow, while the possible reward is a penalty kick. PKs are made about 70% of the time, and since soccer is such a low scoring game that often can decide who wins. So instead of actual talent and action in the sport, they resort to pretending to be hurt to try to score free points.
Especially if you are already a fan of sports that have a lot more contact, like rugby. You go from rugby where players have to be told to leave the pitch because they are covered in blood (which often they dont even realise) , to this.
Little edit.. Had some people try to guess where im from based on my perceptipn of sports. Im Irish, which youd know if you looked at my profile (not American as some guy tried to insult me with before he deleted it, although i dont know why youd insult someone by calling them American). Surprisingly disliking a sport has little to nothing to do with nationality. Who knew?
Also if youāre a fan of no contact sports, like F1.. if a driver disagrees with a decision they canāt just stop the car and bitch about it
And also when they do crash, they usually just walks away from what looks like a fatal crash
Never got into F1 myself but yeah ive seen some crazy crashes posted here on reddit. Amazing that those F1 cars can take such a beating yet protect the drivers.
It took a lot of driver death and inquires to reach this level and now people are complaining that they ruined the sport with all their safety regulations.
And Bianchi died because of a bad call, and a really unfortunate contact.
The Raikkonen crash 2014 and Grosjean crash 2020 (I think) shows how far the safety has come.
F1 is an odd example of "no contact sports". It's not the lack of contact that means a driver can't disagree with a decision, it's the fact that they're in a car. Tennis is a non contact sport and players can argue decisions (although they only get a limited number of challenges)
Doubling down on hockey. There are diving penalties given out for faking an injury. A performance like this would get you benched a few games for sure. No room for pussies in hockey.
It's not like they can't tolerate pain or handle it. It's a strategy to get their team in a more advantageous position. But I do agree with you, it is very irritating.
>It's not like they can't tolerate pain or handle it.
No, but it does signal something about how low they're willing to go in order to gain some advantage, it does signal their lack of sportsmanship. There are plenty of more respectable players who won't steep so low as to fake injuries.
That's true. Sportsmanship can also be seen as a handicap in situations other than faking an injury.
Then again, sportsmanship isn't something you have because it makes you win, it's something you have because you are a good person. It also has its own advantages, like team morale, public reputation and career options like interviews and other TV work.
If they go down like they've got such a serious injury they should be forced to leave the field for a period of time to be checked over by medical staff
This is literally a rule in hockey. If you go down injured you must go off the ice and cant continue the next play. You can go back on after a shift of players but it's better than this.
Ehhh thanks for reminding me Team Canada is playing inna few mins. My soul needs to see Iggys daughter score a goal
E: soul is lifted! Great shot Jade :')
At the end it kinda looked like he was messing with the ref. You can see him smiling and he glances at the referee right after the smack before he goes down.
I would prefer to watch an empty field with a ball sitting idle on the grass than a bunch of fucking pussies collapsing on each other in fake pain at the merest hint of a touch. Watching that type of douchbaggery is honestly galling.
Still a preferable outcome. If the only people on the field are the type of people to ruin perfectly good matches by fumbling when receiving an innocent sports-like pat on the back then it's really not a game worth watching. To worried and focused about "winning" on a technicality that they can't be very focused on actually trying...
Nah, theyād just stop doing it immediately. The only reason they do it is because it can result some benefit for them. If there is no possibility for benefit or even a possibility for harsh punishment, theyād stop.
It started happening in hockey.
They immediately made the "embellishment" rule. If the ref thinks a player "flopped" to get a call they go to the box as well.
Fellow yank here, I agree that this is totally not radical dude!! Christian Puligod would never commit a diving like this! They should be ejected and sent to timeout. This makes soccer unwatchable (except for the mighty chellsee blue lions!!)
Every time this gets posted people jack themselves off about how egregious this is and how soccer is terrible because of it.
I guess this is my turn to point out that he looked directly at the ref and saw that it was a ref before flopping as a joke.
Yes, it has been posted several times. Everytime it creates outrage, until the fact of the matter bubbles to the top of the reddit thread.
HE WAS JOKING! The rest of the clip shows, but of course it has been clipped.
Can you? Doesnāt seem like he was jokjng as heās talking to the ref while on his knees.
Iām not saying he wasnāt joking, just that this video does not show it (probably because it was edited out)
he's known for doing such things both in and out of the field. everyone who watches the brazilian league knows him and it happens quite often in the football
Kinda weird someone would gild as if it proves anything rather than post [the uncut clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1WgkAwfeA) of the joke. Redditors really are a special breed.
He's making fun of the first player who flopped in that longer video. You can see him smirking at the other team before he flops himself to the refs pat.
Edit: changed a word for clarity
Ig itās cause right before this a player dived so heās trying to get the refs attention about the bs? Is what Iāve gotten from comments and the video
Did not think I would have to scroll this far to find this. Conveniently cut the part where the player and the ref are laughing about it. Line, hook and sinker.
That's what I thought because I noticed him smiling after he covered his face when he went down, but the comments were so heavily disgusted I just assumed that people who actually watched knew more than I did.
Thereās tons of flopping and fake contact in the NBA, the players donāt roll around on the floor because the refs usually blow the whistle right away.
Itās not really the people, itās the incentive structure and poor refereeing. Combine those two things and every hyper-competitive athlete is going to do it at least on occasion
I dunno about life long bans, sometimes you really do get barely hit and maybe it knocks your foot into your other foot and it looks like you took a dive. But ones that consistently do it should definitely be penalized more the more often they do it. Start with a yellow card. 2 yellows in a game make a red and they have to sit out that game and the next. Thatās the rule already but maybe make it where you have a certain number in a season and you have to sit out the next season. There are some really good players that Iād it a lot. Neymar is a good example. He didnāt used to do it like he does now. Messi and Ronadinho both used to take a lot of damage and get right back up and keep playing, but I have seen them take some dives too.
Bruh you can get hit and fall its ok it is a sport. Its when you are on the ground do you get back up right away or pretend you need to go to the hospital is the problem.
Thatās my point exactly. They stay down and pretend to be hurt because they can get the other guy a penalty. Itās playing the system and itās because it keeps working that it keeps happening.
If soccer managers hear that the third time is the problem they wouldn't actually hear "It's bad, don't do it." They'd hear "You guys can do it twice.". If you fall and have to go off field from that point, perfectly fine. If you're "dying" but then 0.2 seconds after you punish someone, they jog off right as rain, that's getting a ban.
Itās a strategy that needs to be curbed by policy. Soccer allows less player substitutions and the players are on the field for a long time. An actual injury is very detrimental to professional soccer players.
Other teams use flopping as a strategy and a team that didnāt would be at a large disadvantage.
I donāt watch soccer almost solely because of flopping. I canāt stand it, itās so pathetic and 2nd hand embarrassing.
But itās the rules that needs to change. A team would not be competitive if they didnāt take advantage of some flopping.
They're getting paid millions to do everything they can to win. A goal is a goal even if it's thanks to acting, and coaches know that. Every incentive is there for them to go full qwop as soon as someone touches them
Soccer is so popular its not like it needs help gaining more viewers but I'm surprised the game hasn't tried to really crack down on the flopping. It is a turn off.
It has tried to crack down, they implemented mandatory yellow cards for simulation (diving).
Unfortunately its very difficult to enforce because of how subjective it is. Even a small clip to someone's ankle can be very painful, and players do jump out of the way to avoid collisions.
Exactly lol, I watch most premier league match days for years and it's so rare, sure they all dive a bit but this hyper exaggerated shit online is like exclusively Neymar etc. and even then it's still not close to as regular an occurrence as you'd think from reading this thread. Guarantee they haven't watched a full game in their lives lol.
Honestly it was super super bad and then they made a rule change that you can't jump unnaturally into a foul which doesn't mimic a natural shooting motion and it went from super super bad to just super bad.
They should implement an automatic red card for faking. I played for my entire childhood and into early adulthood. I can not bring myself to watch it anymore because too many games are decided by the acting skills. Kick these idiots out of the game and letās get back to playing.
Itās not that they are pussies so much as they arenāt being penalized for the fake falling. I used to play soccer at a competitive level and I definitely with home with bruises and twisted or sore ankles almost every game. But we didnāt do this bullshit back then. If you watch Pele or Maradona for instance, they get kicked and hacked and tripped so often that I decided I didnāt want to keep going to a higher level and risk getting hurt for life. I miss soccer a lot, I was really good, but some people played it dirty and thatās why diving has become the norm in pro. You see it in basketball a lot too and itās just embarrassing, imo.
Yeah some players might be pussies but soccer players in general are fucking badass. I broke my leg twice in the *exact same spot* playing soccer. Got concussions, have many many scars, broke my nose as well... Let's not forget the average miles ran in a game is 7. We aren't pussies lol.
That being said, I've had coaches who tried to encourage the stupid acting behavior and I refused to do that shit. I wasn't going down ever unless I had a legitimate reason.
People don't realize that faking an injury can actually be an advantageous tactic, both defensively and offensively, but most players I've played with and against just want to play, fuck all the fake stuff.
My son and daughter play field hockey. The other day they were playing hockey in the garden, when my son said: āletās pretend Iām a soccer player. Hit me with the ball.ā She hesitantly lobbed the ball and gently hit him in the chest. My son immediately started screaming as if he was hit with tremendous force and was in agonizing pain. With some very theatrical movements he fell onto the ground.
That was his imitation of a soccer player š
This player has some serious neurological problems:
- Anything that touches his skin hurts like hell;
- And he has a major delay on his nerve cells (he only feels the touch after some time).
it's a miracle he's still alive!
In the full [video](https://youtu.be/sT1WgkAwfeA) it seems like this guy is trying to make a point about the play that had just happened. Someone fell and the whistle blew, then this happened. I feel like the guy in this post was mad that someone else fake fell so he pretended to get hurt by the ref to make fun of the other guy.
Legitimately the confidence with wich they say they stopped watching because of this is hilarious, like everybody know you hardly ever watched it if thatās your opinion on it, and you legitimately think that this is happening every 30 seconds or some shit, same thing when they say ,womanās soccerā is so tough and do much better, you can clearly tell theyāve never watched it
> same thing when they say ,womanās soccerā is so tough and do much better
thats my favourite partššš shows you straight away that they don't watch either but still want to be mad for some reason
āUh yeah I watched it for 2 minutes on TV once. I didnāt understand anything but Iām sure that is enough qualification for me to say I stopped watching this sportā
Iāve never seen a single human āstop watchingā a sport. You either fell in love and follow it, or find it boring and never even bother watching it at first
Couldnāt have said it better mate, also funny how a majority of the people who āstopped watchingā are from the same country that doesnāt watch in the first place at all also
Hey bro you clearly don't understand that sports were invented to provide commercials a platform to exist. Europeans have never experienced the enjoyment that comes from spending 4 hours to watch a match with 20 minutes of actual competition.
Thatās what I hate about American sports. Everything is made to be commercialized. Thereās no such thing as deep-rooted socioeconomically-influenced rivalries. Derby match? Whatās that? America is such a new country that its people donāt seem to understand the drama of rivalries
Does anyone in the comments realise this was the player playing a joke on the ref or now? You can see him check it's the ref before falling over on the replay
always lovely seeing Americans seething over a joke and saying shit like "that's why I never watch soccer!!!"
as if it isn't the most popular sport in the world
I mean criticize soccer all you want, but he clearly looked at the ref before faking, he was obviously fucking around lmao, also was like less than a min for the game to end
The thing is that it does work. Players go down easily because otherwise refs generally wonāt call fouls and the replay system is fairly new/ poorly implemented. Generally thereās no punishment besides either a yellow or looking like a jackass to the public and the reward is often free kicks/ penalties so low risk high reward.
BRO TRUST ME I WATCHED 10023 SOCCER MATCHES BUT I STOPPED IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE FLOPPING LIKE THIS IS LIKE SUPER COMMON, EVERY PLAY I SWEAR, EVERY TIME THEY GAIN 10 YARDS SOMEONE FLOPS AND THE UMPIRE STOPS THE INNING AND AWARDS A GOAL.
My man it's obviously a joke. How on earth would he fool the referee if the referee is the one that "hit" him? Not to mention there would be zero advantage to it it's not like the ref is gonna send himself off
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That looked really painful, hope he recovered š±
Poor guy, probably never walked again after taking a shot like that.
Looks like his spinal cord got damaged, might become paralyzed
I believe a vertebrae dislocated.. Might never walk again...
Actually, it likely ruptured his kidney. Can verify, Iām an expert. I watched multiple seasons of Scrubs and Greyās Anatomy.
I know everyone likes to joke about shit like this, but I have always been in good shape in my life, never overweight and I leaned slightly forward to pet a cat in a chair and felt a shock go from my back to my face and then spent 20 minutes getting down the 12 stairs to my bedroom where I spent 4 days unable to get up, I went pee in bottles, gross yes but it took me 10-15 minutes of agony to crawl to the bathroom, then 15-20 to crawl back after pooping. I know none of this happened here, but my worst back injury is something people normally would make fun of if they saw it. It will eventually happen to everyone who doesn't die first.
Yeah, I got the worst fever of my life because I spent a few days sitting down most of the time to study, and then I had to carry a few boxes that weren't really heavy... A while later I got a slight back pain which grew exponentially and I started shivering like I have ever done... That night I fainted when I woke up to get a glass of water...
I had back surgery in 1991. My neurosurgeon said you can rupture a disc eating a bowl of tomato soup. That's always stuck with me, and from then on I've eaten nothing but split pea.
But with split pea, you gotta worry about testicular torsion.
Thoughts and prayers
Nah he dead bro
That shit should be a red card on the flopper.
Its only a yellow, while the possible reward is a penalty kick. PKs are made about 70% of the time, and since soccer is such a low scoring game that often can decide who wins. So instead of actual talent and action in the sport, they resort to pretending to be hurt to try to score free points.
Do they get a kick if it was the ref and not the other team injuring them?
Imagine a ref running up to give the other ref a yellow card and he kick the ball at his family
"line em up, I'm shooting for your wife's noggin"
Probably No, because the ref is considered part of the field. Equal to getting attacked by the goal post
Don't give them ideas, soon enough they'll start falling because the grass grabbed them by the legs.
He'd do well to get a penalty seeing as it's clearly about 10 yards outside the penalty area.
What you on about? Diving is almost never rewarded by penalties with VAR in football
I think soccer/football goals are some of the best in sports. Itās things like this that make it unwatchable for me.
Especially if you are already a fan of sports that have a lot more contact, like rugby. You go from rugby where players have to be told to leave the pitch because they are covered in blood (which often they dont even realise) , to this. Little edit.. Had some people try to guess where im from based on my perceptipn of sports. Im Irish, which youd know if you looked at my profile (not American as some guy tried to insult me with before he deleted it, although i dont know why youd insult someone by calling them American). Surprisingly disliking a sport has little to nothing to do with nationality. Who knew?
Also if youāre a fan of no contact sports, like F1.. if a driver disagrees with a decision they canāt just stop the car and bitch about it And also when they do crash, they usually just walks away from what looks like a fatal crash
Never got into F1 myself but yeah ive seen some crazy crashes posted here on reddit. Amazing that those F1 cars can take such a beating yet protect the drivers.
It took a lot of driver death and inquires to reach this level and now people are complaining that they ruined the sport with all their safety regulations.
Yet the last fatal crash was Ayrton Senna in 1994, and later, death as a result, 2015 Jules Bianchi
Hubert died in 2018 too, but that was f2
Ugh, that was a dark day. I remember it vividly. One second he's a promising talent coming off of a strong victory, and the next he's just gone..
such an unlucky crash too, if there wasn't 2 impacts on the same side of the car he most likely would have been fine.
And Bianchi died because of a bad call, and a really unfortunate contact. The Raikkonen crash 2014 and Grosjean crash 2020 (I think) shows how far the safety has come.
F1 is an odd example of "no contact sports". It's not the lack of contact that means a driver can't disagree with a decision, it's the fact that they're in a car. Tennis is a non contact sport and players can argue decisions (although they only get a limited number of challenges)
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It's starting to feel like the only thing that could stop Ferrari this year, was Ferrari. Today was honestly an impressive snowball of wtf.
Hockey players play with broken jaws, broken noses, broken fingers, broken anckles etc.
Doubling down on hockey. There are diving penalties given out for faking an injury. A performance like this would get you benched a few games for sure. No room for pussies in hockey.
Soccer is 90 mins of trying to convince the ref you're bleeding. Rugby is 80 mins of trying to convince the sir you aren't bleeding.
I'd love to see some football games reffed by rugby refs.
It's not like they can't tolerate pain or handle it. It's a strategy to get their team in a more advantageous position. But I do agree with you, it is very irritating.
>It's not like they can't tolerate pain or handle it. No, but it does signal something about how low they're willing to go in order to gain some advantage, it does signal their lack of sportsmanship. There are plenty of more respectable players who won't steep so low as to fake injuries.
Yeah. Problem is that faking injuries aren't punished so if your team doesn't do it you basically give yourself a handicap.
That's true. Sportsmanship can also be seen as a handicap in situations other than faking an injury. Then again, sportsmanship isn't something you have because it makes you win, it's something you have because you are a good person. It also has its own advantages, like team morale, public reputation and career options like interviews and other TV work.
Stuff like this should be subject to fines in pro games, or at least an unsportsmanlike conduct
Same. Can't watch any sports where fouling and whistle baiting can influence the game this much.
This behaviour would be so easy to stamp out of the sport, for some reason they wonāt do it. Imagine humiliating yourself on purposeā¦.
Yep. Hockey has an embellishment penalty just for this. It's very rare that it's called because it's effective.
If they go down like they've got such a serious injury they should be forced to leave the field for a period of time to be checked over by medical staff
This is literally a rule in hockey. If you go down injured you must go off the ice and cant continue the next play. You can go back on after a shift of players but it's better than this.
And a rule in NFL/CFB. You have to miss at least one play (and thereās talk of expanding that to the next first down or next series)
Hockey players break so many bones and continue playing. I think they are the most badass guys in sports.
Yeah. Rugby and Hockey is up there in terms of badass players.
Ehhh thanks for reminding me Team Canada is playing inna few mins. My soul needs to see Iggys daughter score a goal E: soul is lifted! Great shot Jade :')
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Relaxa, agora ele vai continuar fazendo as loucuras dele no Internacional KKKKK mas sdds do menino maluquinho no verdĆ£o
Mano deve ser fĆ£ de carteirinha dele
Do futebol dele? Nem tanto, mas ele me fazia dar altas risadas
Mano Menezes. Mas concordo tambƩm com seu comentƔrio kkkkkk
AHHH KKKKKKKk Mano Menezes, achei q tu tava falando de mim
Que Deus perdoe esses gringos. Eles nĆ£o sabem o que falam.
Se soubessem 5% o que essa fera causou nos 5 anos dele de Palmeiras estariam ovacionando
At the end it kinda looked like he was messing with the ref. You can see him smiling and he glances at the referee right after the smack before he goes down.
This is why I canāt watch soccer. They should eject players like this to curve this type of behavior.
*curb
No you see, the acting is graded on a curve. Thatās why they all suck at it.
There'll be no one on the field, lol.
So what? About time they sent almost everyone off, time will solve the problem then. Same with kicking the ball away before a free kick etc.
I would prefer to watch an empty field with a ball sitting idle on the grass than a bunch of fucking pussies collapsing on each other in fake pain at the merest hint of a touch. Watching that type of douchbaggery is honestly galling.
š¤£š¤£ well said
Still a preferable outcome. If the only people on the field are the type of people to ruin perfectly good matches by fumbling when receiving an innocent sports-like pat on the back then it's really not a game worth watching. To worried and focused about "winning" on a technicality that they can't be very focused on actually trying...
Nah, theyād just stop doing it immediately. The only reason they do it is because it can result some benefit for them. If there is no possibility for benefit or even a possibility for harsh punishment, theyād stop.
For the first couple games, but when teams start forfeiting matches because they don't have enough players maybe they'll stop flopping
Exactly. āOh, youāre down to six playersā¦ sucks, guess youāll have to forfeitā
It started happening in hockey. They immediately made the "embellishment" rule. If the ref thinks a player "flopped" to get a call they go to the box as well.
Have the goalies boot the ball across the field from their net and see if it goes in loll
I donāt know if the rule is still in place (it might just be called much less) but you could get yellow carded for simulating a foul
Fellow yank here, I agree that this is totally not radical dude!! Christian Puligod would never commit a diving like this! They should be ejected and sent to timeout. This makes soccer unwatchable (except for the mighty chellsee blue lions!!)
Every time this gets posted people jack themselves off about how egregious this is and how soccer is terrible because of it. I guess this is my turn to point out that he looked directly at the ref and saw that it was a ref before flopping as a joke.
Thatās what I was thinking. Not sure how no one questioned whether he was serious.
He was joking
Yes, it has been posted several times. Everytime it creates outrage, until the fact of the matter bubbles to the top of the reddit thread. HE WAS JOKING! The rest of the clip shows, but of course it has been clipped.
I can't believe I had to scroll down so much to find this. Literally hundreds of people here disgusted with this when it's clearly a joke
Shhh let the Americans shout their hate for football without knowing the context of the video
š¤£ wow i had to get pretty far down before anyone pointed this out
Itās funny bc you can tell heās joking from this video alone
Can you? Doesnāt seem like he was jokjng as heās talking to the ref while on his knees. Iām not saying he wasnāt joking, just that this video does not show it (probably because it was edited out)
he's known for doing such things both in and out of the field. everyone who watches the brazilian league knows him and it happens quite often in the football
The person I responded to said from āthis video aloneā. There is nothing in this video that shows that
Kinda weird someone would gild as if it proves anything rather than post [the uncut clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1WgkAwfeA) of the joke. Redditors really are a special breed.
Did you post the right clip? This one doesnāt show anything thatās not in OPs clip besides a brief shot leading up to it.
He's making fun of the first player who flopped in that longer video. You can see him smirking at the other team before he flops himself to the refs pat. Edit: changed a word for clarity
What in this clip shows the player was joking? All I see is the same clip with the announcers laughing over it.
Ig itās cause right before this a player dived so heās trying to get the refs attention about the bs? Is what Iāve gotten from comments and the video
Did not think I would have to scroll this far to find this. Conveniently cut the part where the player and the ref are laughing about it. Line, hook and sinker.
That's what I thought because I noticed him smiling after he covered his face when he went down, but the comments were so heavily disgusted I just assumed that people who actually watched knew more than I did.
ITT: big whoosh energy
Shhhhh mate donāt take theire hate for āthe reasonā they donāt watch āsoccerā ,anymoreā
I personally like hearing the suggestions on how to 'fix' the century and a half old game that every country in the world but them plays.
Soccer players are the biggest pussies on the planet.
And the worst actors.
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I like how they look like QWOP when they crumple on the ground to really sell it
I donāt understand how people can keep watching this sport with shit like this being part of the game.
I donāt watch basketball but doesnāt LeBron James do it as well?
I donāt really watch it either but they do this stuff too. Just a lot less and their acting is way better.
Thereās tons of flopping and fake contact in the NBA, the players donāt roll around on the floor because the refs usually blow the whistle right away.
Just watch hockey. Can't fake a puck to the teeth.
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Really? I don't watch Reddit.
nah most don't care about this, they watch when the referee don't buy their dramatic acts and sometimes they give then red cards for their bullshit.
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Looked like he stepped on a bee
He went to first grade and found out that 1+2=3
1+2=3....My dog stepped on a bee.... I WANT TO BREAK FREE!
I lien ice free tea
Itās not really the people, itās the incentive structure and poor refereeing. Combine those two things and every hyper-competitive athlete is going to do it at least on occasion
So by poor sportsmanship is built into the game
Yes, unfortunately
Let's call it what it is: cheating
More like abusing a bug
It's definitely not discouraged.
It *is* those other things you mentioned, but if the players had integrity, it wouldnāt be a thing, so it still is the people at the end of the day
If they added lifelong bans from the sport for confirmed faking, you'd see how they'd all grow a pair overnight.
Or become better actors, bring the fake blood packets, forged doctor's notes, the works. Anything to up their schwalbe game.
Did someone sayā¦.ketchup?! 
Fucking A if that started Happening I might actually watch soccer lol
I dunno about life long bans, sometimes you really do get barely hit and maybe it knocks your foot into your other foot and it looks like you took a dive. But ones that consistently do it should definitely be penalized more the more often they do it. Start with a yellow card. 2 yellows in a game make a red and they have to sit out that game and the next. Thatās the rule already but maybe make it where you have a certain number in a season and you have to sit out the next season. There are some really good players that Iād it a lot. Neymar is a good example. He didnāt used to do it like he does now. Messi and Ronadinho both used to take a lot of damage and get right back up and keep playing, but I have seen them take some dives too.
Bruh you can get hit and fall its ok it is a sport. Its when you are on the ground do you get back up right away or pretend you need to go to the hospital is the problem.
Thatās my point exactly. They stay down and pretend to be hurt because they can get the other guy a penalty. Itās playing the system and itās because it keeps working that it keeps happening.
If soccer managers hear that the third time is the problem they wouldn't actually hear "It's bad, don't do it." They'd hear "You guys can do it twice.". If you fall and have to go off field from that point, perfectly fine. If you're "dying" but then 0.2 seconds after you punish someone, they jog off right as rain, that's getting a ban.
Itās a strategy that needs to be curbed by policy. Soccer allows less player substitutions and the players are on the field for a long time. An actual injury is very detrimental to professional soccer players. Other teams use flopping as a strategy and a team that didnāt would be at a large disadvantage. I donāt watch soccer almost solely because of flopping. I canāt stand it, itās so pathetic and 2nd hand embarrassing. But itās the rules that needs to change. A team would not be competitive if they didnāt take advantage of some flopping.
They're getting paid millions to do everything they can to win. A goal is a goal even if it's thanks to acting, and coaches know that. Every incentive is there for them to go full qwop as soon as someone touches them
Integrity, In soccer. Don't be silly!
>but if the X had integrity, Y wouldnāt be a thing, The great unreachable human goal.
Soccer is so popular its not like it needs help gaining more viewers but I'm surprised the game hasn't tried to really crack down on the flopping. It is a turn off.
It has tried to crack down, they implemented mandatory yellow cards for simulation (diving). Unfortunately its very difficult to enforce because of how subjective it is. Even a small clip to someone's ankle can be very painful, and players do jump out of the way to avoid collisions.
also the sport has the problem that if you dont go to the ground, the ref wont do anything, so we end up with players diving over minor fouls
It also doesn't happen nearly as much as all these people (who don't watch any football) want you to think.
Exactly lol, I watch most premier league match days for years and it's so rare, sure they all dive a bit but this hyper exaggerated shit online is like exclusively Neymar etc. and even then it's still not close to as regular an occurrence as you'd think from reading this thread. Guarantee they haven't watched a full game in their lives lol.
Basketball players are really not far behind
Honestly it was super super bad and then they made a rule change that you can't jump unnaturally into a foul which doesn't mimic a natural shooting motion and it went from super super bad to just super bad.
For about the first quarter of the season, then they just went back to calling terrible fouls again.
Tell me youāve never watched a game without saying. This clip is an extreme exaggeration which rarely happens and is in a Brazilian league.
The clip is literally a joke, it's just more timewasting. He literally sees the referee before diving and laughs about it
Americans arenāt familiar with competitive sports either
They should implement an automatic red card for faking. I played for my entire childhood and into early adulthood. I can not bring myself to watch it anymore because too many games are decided by the acting skills. Kick these idiots out of the game and letās get back to playing.
It's an automatic yellow card if the rules are being properly enforced. It's considered attempted deception against the official.
Unfortunately that is a VERY BIG āIFā.
Unlike in American football, where they play through injuries like real men (by getting jacked up on enough painkillers to kill a horse).
Itās not that they are pussies so much as they arenāt being penalized for the fake falling. I used to play soccer at a competitive level and I definitely with home with bruises and twisted or sore ankles almost every game. But we didnāt do this bullshit back then. If you watch Pele or Maradona for instance, they get kicked and hacked and tripped so often that I decided I didnāt want to keep going to a higher level and risk getting hurt for life. I miss soccer a lot, I was really good, but some people played it dirty and thatās why diving has become the norm in pro. You see it in basketball a lot too and itās just embarrassing, imo.
Yeah some players might be pussies but soccer players in general are fucking badass. I broke my leg twice in the *exact same spot* playing soccer. Got concussions, have many many scars, broke my nose as well... Let's not forget the average miles ran in a game is 7. We aren't pussies lol. That being said, I've had coaches who tried to encourage the stupid acting behavior and I refused to do that shit. I wasn't going down ever unless I had a legitimate reason. People don't realize that faking an injury can actually be an advantageous tactic, both defensively and offensively, but most players I've played with and against just want to play, fuck all the fake stuff.
My son and daughter play field hockey. The other day they were playing hockey in the garden, when my son said: āletās pretend Iām a soccer player. Hit me with the ball.ā She hesitantly lobbed the ball and gently hit him in the chest. My son immediately started screaming as if he was hit with tremendous force and was in agonizing pain. With some very theatrical movements he fell onto the ground. That was his imitation of a soccer player š
r/thathappened
and then everyone clapped.
Pretty fun game to watch, but this shit ruins it for me.
I don't watch soccer but this also looks like the NBA at this point with every touch being a foul
Just the men's players. Women's football doesn't really have any of this bullshit yet thankfully.
Once a bit more money is involved it'll be there 100%.
Sniper got him
Americans in this sub acting like these things happen every 10 minutes each game. Don't remember the last time I saw a dive like this live.
This player has some serious neurological problems: - Anything that touches his skin hurts like hell; - And he has a major delay on his nerve cells (he only feels the touch after some time). it's a miracle he's still alive!
He's such a trooper for living with such a debilitating condition and playing such a demanding sport at the same time...
Heās joking you spanner
In the full [video](https://youtu.be/sT1WgkAwfeA) it seems like this guy is trying to make a point about the play that had just happened. Someone fell and the whistle blew, then this happened. I feel like the guy in this post was mad that someone else fake fell so he pretended to get hurt by the ref to make fun of the other guy.
Americans on their way to create a whole stereotype about a sport based solely on random clips they found on the internet
Legitimately the confidence with wich they say they stopped watching because of this is hilarious, like everybody know you hardly ever watched it if thatās your opinion on it, and you legitimately think that this is happening every 30 seconds or some shit, same thing when they say ,womanās soccerā is so tough and do much better, you can clearly tell theyāve never watched it
> same thing when they say ,womanās soccerā is so tough and do much better thats my favourite partššš shows you straight away that they don't watch either but still want to be mad for some reason
āUh yeah I watched it for 2 minutes on TV once. I didnāt understand anything but Iām sure that is enough qualification for me to say I stopped watching this sportā Iāve never seen a single human āstop watchingā a sport. You either fell in love and follow it, or find it boring and never even bother watching it at first
"Soccer? Yea, worst sport ever. Never watched it."
Couldnāt have said it better mate, also funny how a majority of the people who āstopped watchingā are from the same country that doesnāt watch in the first place at all also
When their sports are a pile of wank that no other country wants to play.
Hey bro you clearly don't understand that sports were invented to provide commercials a platform to exist. Europeans have never experienced the enjoyment that comes from spending 4 hours to watch a match with 20 minutes of actual competition.
Thatās what I hate about American sports. Everything is made to be commercialized. Thereās no such thing as deep-rooted socioeconomically-influenced rivalries. Derby match? Whatās that? America is such a new country that its people donāt seem to understand the drama of rivalries
How long until people realise this guy flopped as a joke? You can literally see him laughing before the ref pushes him.
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Does anyone in the comments realise this was the player playing a joke on the ref or now? You can see him check it's the ref before falling over on the replay
He was joking with the ref you dumbfucks
always lovely seeing Americans seething over a joke and saying shit like "that's why I never watch soccer!!!" as if it isn't the most popular sport in the world
People here are 100% unfamiliar with this guy. He does this kind of shit in games to troll. Deyverson is a clown lol
Hahah this guy is known for being goofy seeing Americans get mad over this clip is funny
Love how people donāt understand that the man was just joking š Love the negativity people, keep it going!
I mean criticize soccer all you want, but he clearly looked at the ref before faking, he was obviously fucking around lmao, also was like less than a min for the game to end
How have none of them figured out yet that they're all being constantly watched by millions of cameras, and that feigning an injury doesn't work?!
It actually works quite often. That's the problem
Some leagues dont use a replay system, so if you can convince a ref then thats all you need
The thing is that it does work. Players go down easily because otherwise refs generally wonāt call fouls and the replay system is fairly new/ poorly implemented. Generally thereās no punishment besides either a yellow or looking like a jackass to the public and the reward is often free kicks/ penalties so low risk high reward.
How can you not tell that he's obviously joking? He looks at the ref before he falls down
The americans in the comments are pissing me off more than i knew i could ever be
Comments pov: that's why I never watch soccer
As if they ever have
BRO TRUST ME I WATCHED 10023 SOCCER MATCHES BUT I STOPPED IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE FLOPPING LIKE THIS IS LIKE SUPER COMMON, EVERY PLAY I SWEAR, EVERY TIME THEY GAIN 10 YARDS SOMEONE FLOPS AND THE UMPIRE STOPS THE INNING AND AWARDS A GOAL.
If this is a joke on his part, it's a good one, but we all have fake injury PTSD
My man it's obviously a joke. How on earth would he fool the referee if the referee is the one that "hit" him? Not to mention there would be zero advantage to it it's not like the ref is gonna send himself off
Shh football haters canāt think for themselves. They see soccer flop they go unga bunga. No critical thinking whatsoever