While acting up is a problem in professional football, anyone who actually believes these players fall like flies at the smallest hint of contact have so obviously never seen a match up close, much less played football at even the junior level. Football can be a pretty brutal contact sport.
There are very well defined rules for how you can tackle someone, but those rules allow that 90 kg player can basically mow you down at 25 km/h as long as they do it right. If you've ever looked closely at how these players fight for the ball (or played at a decent junior level or higher), you'll notice that most adults would quite simply be knocked to the pitch and more or less kept there if they ever tried beating a high level player to the ball.
I guess it's just when they suddenly pull themselves away from the pearly gates once the referee decides that he's not having it, and God decides to personally intervene and restore their souls back to them.
The whiplash from the sudden recovery can be jarring
Thinking about it, adrenaline is probably a biiiig factor at play. People can show the same behaviour after car crashes just due to FOF instincts + adrenaline overflow
Not saying theatre doesn't happen, but it's probably mucg more nuanced than it seems, almost everything is after all
No. It’s that you’re rewarded for playing it up. If there’s a higher chance of getting a call, and no way to really stop it from happening, why would you not overplay every minor event? Especially at the higher tiers where skill gaps aren’t so noticeable.
As an athlete, not at a super high level, you function on such adrenaline so consistently, you know exactly what you’re doing. Especially if it isn’t a muscle memory response. Even during a trauma response when I broke my arm in multiple places.
Sure, some “flopping” might be trying to regain balance, but, I promise elite athletes know exactly what they’re doing.
Maybe the helmet isn't too heavy, but it did hit his foot with the edge of the helmet. He should probably double check that he didn't leave any severed toes back there.
On a less silly note, he dropped the helmet on his own foot, so there's no point to taking a dive. It's strange, but sometimes, a player will cry and feign injury when an opponent simply comes close to them, but then later, they'll play through an actual injury that they caused themselves, as if it didn't matter.
but then later, they'll play through an actual injury that they caused themselves, as if it didn't matter.
Because the intent is the best outcome for them and their team. If they can pull a foul and get an advantage, that betters the team's chances. And if they think they're better off on the field instead of on the bench, they'll play through.
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I see this with my 5-6 yo kids. They're more interested in replaying their heroes' lawn theatre than actually playing football.
Isn't that the age where everyone chases the ball? a bunch of kids running in a group as the ball boes back and forth.
No positions just chaos.
Yes, that too. I cannot explain to them the concept of teamwork in football, but then I'm also not a coach, just watching over kids in general.
Magnet ball
While acting up is a problem in professional football, anyone who actually believes these players fall like flies at the smallest hint of contact have so obviously never seen a match up close, much less played football at even the junior level. Football can be a pretty brutal contact sport.
There are very well defined rules for how you can tackle someone, but those rules allow that 90 kg player can basically mow you down at 25 km/h as long as they do it right. If you've ever looked closely at how these players fight for the ball (or played at a decent junior level or higher), you'll notice that most adults would quite simply be knocked to the pitch and more or less kept there if they ever tried beating a high level player to the ball.
I guess it's just when they suddenly pull themselves away from the pearly gates once the referee decides that he's not having it, and God decides to personally intervene and restore their souls back to them.
The whiplash from the sudden recovery can be jarring
Thinking about it, adrenaline is probably a biiiig factor at play. People can show the same behaviour after car crashes just due to FOF instincts + adrenaline overflow
Not saying theatre doesn't happen, but it's probably mucg more nuanced than it seems, almost everything is after all
No. It’s that you’re rewarded for playing it up. If there’s a higher chance of getting a call, and no way to really stop it from happening, why would you not overplay every minor event? Especially at the higher tiers where skill gaps aren’t so noticeable.
It happens in every sport.
Here’s a compilation of American manly men being manly in our superior masculine sport
Again, not saying it doesn't happen, i would juat imagine some of the behaviour could be accounted for by adrenaline response, it's a crazy drug man
As an athlete, not at a super high level, you function on such adrenaline so consistently, you know exactly what you’re doing. Especially if it isn’t a muscle memory response. Even during a trauma response when I broke my arm in multiple places.
Sure, some “flopping” might be trying to regain balance, but, I promise elite athletes know exactly what they’re doing.
That makes sense, i jog regularly but would never call myself an athlete. Apreciate the perspective 🌸
Maybe the helmet isn't too heavy, but it did hit his foot with the edge of the helmet. He should probably double check that he didn't leave any severed toes back there.
On a less silly note, he dropped the helmet on his own foot, so there's no point to taking a dive. It's strange, but sometimes, a player will cry and feign injury when an opponent simply comes close to them, but then later, they'll play through an actual injury that they caused themselves, as if it didn't matter.
Because the intent is the best outcome for them and their team. If they can pull a foul and get an advantage, that betters the team's chances. And if they think they're better off on the field instead of on the bench, they'll play through.
neymar if he had worked a single day on his life...
I think you misspelled 'soccer.'
What's that? 😉
One can of Coca-Cola contains approximately 10 soccer cubes
It’s a game european women invented to keep themselves busy while their husbands do the cooking.
Gave me a chuckle. I feel the same about just about all sports ball games though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame
The ball was made of solid natural rubber and weighed as much as 9 pounds (4.1 kg)
In the most common theory of the game, the players struck the ball with their hips, although some versions allowed the use of forearms.
combined competitions with human sacrifice.
Wouldn't that just be "sports"??
A name the British came up with for association football.
I know haha I was being playful
I think you misspelled American Hand-egg