A World Cup Inquiry

[Fun For All]

The final game was the first soccer game I've watched from start to finish...I don't know much about it.

Does the faking of injuries to the amount that occurred in the final the standard or was it just because it was a big game?

The slightest contact and a player would be on the ground holding a part of his body grimacing in pain, no one came out to attend to the 'injury', most times a penalty wasn't called, they'd get up and join the play...NFL and NHL players don't behave that way.

Is this the standard of World Cup soccer?

 

[Conil]

The final game was the first soccer game I've watched from start to finish...I don't know much about it.

Does the faking of injuries to the amount that occurred in the final the standard or was it just because it was a big game?

The slightest contact and a player would be on the ground holding a part of his body grimacing in pain, no one came out to attend to the 'injury', most times a penalty wasn't called, they'd get up and join the play...NFL and NHL players don't behave that way.

Is this the standard of World Cup soccer?

Depends on the teams and players. Some players do it more than others, Theo Fernandez (France) is notorious for it and he also accumulates yellow and red cards for dirty play.

 

[Fun For All]

Depends on the teams and players. Some players do it more than others, Theo Fernandez (France) is notorious for it and he also accumulates yellow and red cards for dirty play.

So he’s the Claude Lemieux of soccer?

 

[Ref]

The final game was the first soccer game I've watched from start to finish...I don't know much about it.

Does the faking of injuries to the amount that occurred in the final the standard or was it just because it was a big game?

The slightest contact and a player would be on the ground holding a part of his body grimacing in pain, no one came out to attend to the 'injury', most times a penalty wasn't called, they'd get up and join the play...NFL and NHL players don't behave that way.

Is this the standard of World Cup soccer?

All sports have opportunities when a player hams it up to the officials. Even in hockey when players have a stick that grazes their face, they are trying to find any sign of blood to gain more power play time.

Football (soccer here) is a tough sport. Lot's of physical play, eye/foot coordination, no real protection/padding and you cannot coast wearing running shoes. Those players are in excellent physical health, especially endurance wise.

This World Cup produced a lot of entertaining and high paced games.

Many people who do not follow the game assume it is low scoring and boring. The 2022 World Cup had a record 172 goals or an average of 2.68 goals per game. Last season in the NHL the average goals per game was 3.14. Not much of a difference.

 

[Fun For All]

All sports have opportunities when a player hams it up to the officials. Even in hockey when players have a stick that grazes their face, they are trying to find any sign of blood to gain more power play time.

Football (soccer here) is a tough sport. Lot's of physical play, eye/foot coordination, no real protection/padding and you cannot coast wearing running shoes. Those players are in excellent physical health, especially endurance wise.

This World Cup produced a lot of entertaining and high paced games.

Many people who do not follow the game assume it is low scoring and boring. The 2022 World Cup had a record 172 goals or an average of 2.68 goals per game. Last season in the NHL the average goals per game was 3.14. Not much of a difference.

Of course it happens in all sports but not at the level of the World Cup final I saw Sunday.

 

[Insidious Von]

I don't think Theo is that dirty, The Great Zlatanissimo has mad skills and is also the Ryan Reaves of football. He would have won a World Cup, unfortunately he plays for Sweden not Italy.

 

[Fun For All]

I don't think Theo is that dirty, The Great Zlatanissimo has mad skills and is also the Ryan Reaves of football. He would have won a World Cup, unfortunately he plays for Sweden not Italy.

Can he skate?

 

[shack]

Of course it happens in all sports but not at the level of the World Cup final I saw Sunday.

It is standard operating procedure in soccer, in general. I think it is worst in Europe and South America is next.

In hockey and football and even baseball, when a player gets hurt, he goes down and stays, usually pretty motionless except for maybe grasping the injured area.

Only in soccer, do the players routinely roll around back and forth and back and forth writhing in pain. They grab their shin, or their ankle in twisting and turning in histrionics. And when they finally get up they are running and sprinting with no limp whatsoever. It's a fucking joke.

It's embarrassing to watch and they should be embarrassed but they seem to have no shame.

 

[jalimon]

The final game was the first soccer game I've watched from start to finish...I don't know much about it.

Does the faking of injuries to the amount that occurred in the final the standard or was it just because it was a big game?

The slightest contact and a player would be on the ground holding a part of his body grimacing in pain, no one came out to attend to the 'injury', most times a penalty wasn't called, they'd get up and join the play...NFL and NHL players don't behave that way.

Is this the standard of World Cup soccer?

I played for about 12 years. You do get hurt. When someone step on your foot it fucking hurts like hell while no one saw it (until they put the replay on the broadcast but by then many doubt...). So yes you go down and it takes a minute or 2 for the pain to pass. Same when hit on a leg, body or the head.

That said there is also many fakes. That's a shame but it's the way it is. The south-american players are the worst by far. Except Messi that guy is a beast even tho he's 5'6''.

In Europe it's it happens in Italy, france and spain. But not in England. If a player fakes too much in the premier league at some point a player will make sure he goes down and this time it won't be fake

Soccer is really a physical sports that will get to your head as you compete so much just to just control your first touch to keep the ball... Let alone then passing it... And you lose it often. All at a very fast pace. Things get heated.

Also, you see player go down easily at the end of game to recuperate and/or slow down the tempo. Some say it's to lose time but no as the referee will add that time. It's also a shame they do that but it's again just human.

 

[Insidious Von]

Perhaps the greatest Swan Lake (dive) of all time. Rivaldo was a superstar.