"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"

• Michael Scott

Your argument just intimates your lack of knowledge of and lack of experience playing soccer.

Entire teams are taught how to fake an injury and how to dive.

Firstly, this is bull shit. Soccer fans do not enjoy people who flop and flopping can result in a yellow card. 2 yellows in a game and you are ejected, in league play you can sometimes miss multiple matches after the current game.

Secondly, unless you've actually played the sport you have no fucking idea what a flop is. Try running at full sprint and have someone slide in from behind on you and smash your legs out from under you. A small collision from a zoomed out camera sometimes looks like a flop, but many times they got hit... hard.

I've seen shins break through shin guards first hand. I've also seen broken legs, hairline fractures, hundreds of sprains, concussions, full on brawls between teams and this is just in rec and high school leagues.

This is not to say that soccer is a harder hitting sport than football, I personally enjoy both for different reasons, and football definitely has bigger and more frequent impacts.

But if you think soccer isn't a man's sport, try playing it at a competitive level and see how hard it really is. Actually don't, because you'll just trip over yourself or get injured because soccer actually requires skills that need to be developed from a very young age.

Soccer also requires a completely different type of conditioning than football. A person in football shape would keel over after 10 minutes of a competitive soccer match, which is 90 minutes straight of jog, run, sprint, jog, run sprint. Conversely, a soccer player could only really play receiver or corner back because they don't have the mass of any interior football player.

Waterpolo has got to be one of the most strenuous sports you can possibly play, so that's a retarded comparison. It requires full body strength and conditioning. A waterpolo player would probably get tired in a soccer match from all the running, just like a soccer player would get tired trying to fucking swim around.