Professional Soccer In A Nutshell.

Vicinus · 3 months

fun fact: the name of the player translates to argument

TheAtomicPlayboy · 3 months

Full disclosure, I'm a diehard soccer fan, but diving is a marginal part of the game (not to mention a cardable offense). Having a reputation as a diver taints a player's career and turns the fans against the player. It's classless, the referees know it, his teammates know it, and the fans know it.

Broom_Shaka-laka · 3 months

Baseball, basketball and football: COMMERCIALS, COMMERCIALS, COMMERCIALS.

newb0rn11 · 3 months

These posts always seem to imply that every soccer fan LOVES watching the players dive. Somehow we're stupid because we follow a sport in which some of the players play-act. We don't enjoy it, and the authorities are taking more and more action every year to get rid of the problem. If you don't like soccer, that's cool, I don't care, I've followed it my entire life and I love, but why does it bother you so much?

BaileyMD · 3 months

That gif also represents todays NBA.

strawberryberet · 3 months

You could always try watching professional women's soccer. In the U.S., at least, flopping doesn't seem to be as much of a thing.

IMasturbateToMyself · 3 months

WHY THE FUCK DON'T THEY DO REPLAYS IN SOCCER ALREADY!? IT'S 20 FUCKING 12 FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.

It seriously pisses me off to see soccer players diving. It's so easy to stop people from diving yet they still let it happen.

Wilhelm_Amenbreak · 3 months

Reddit in a nutshell: this gets posted every week

Chazmer87 · 3 months

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand.. here's the other side of the game The problem with soccer the other problem

Laslo_Paniflex · 3 months

This is mens soccer. The womens is actually fairly badass.

laportez · 3 months

I'm Canadian, and I'm sure every Canadian would say the same, but I'm really proud of Hockey in comparison to other sports. We have players that will lose teeth or require stitches and be out the next shift.

atticus_finched · 3 months

So fucking incorrect. Flopping in a nutshell, not professional soccer.

KrazyEyezKilla · 3 months

Oh it's this post again. How many soccer matches have you ever seen OP? None? I thought as much.

Cool_sandwich · 3 months

You havent watch alot of professional fotball have you? This clip is really old and alot of players have toned down on diving, sure enough it still happens but not at all like that.

[deleted] · 3 months

Do they ever get fined for shit like that? The NFL fines it's players for anything, Celebrating too much, Hitting someone the wrong way, talking bad about your coach or other players publicly. If you get in trouble with the law they fine the shit out of you.

SchwettyTaint · 3 months

Messi NEVER dives

chardos · 3 months

I wish I could find it, but there was a great article a few months ago about why professional players dive, and why it won't stop any time soon.

The gist of it was basically that there is too much at stake in bigger leagues for players not to dive if they see an opportunity. If its 1-1 late in the knockout stages of a cup or tournament (Champions League, for example) or a decisive league game then there is potentially millions of dollars teetering on whether or not the referee gives a penalty or threatening free kick.

• Best-case scenario for a diver in that situation would be a penalty given, converted, the team advances and gets tens of millions of dollars in revenue from advertising, ticket sales, UEFA money, etc. Even if the replay clearly showed the player diving, the only people who will hold it against him are the opposing team's fans, who chances are didn't like the player already.

• Worst-case scenario is a yellow card for simulation. Unless its a horrendously blatant dive (as in, no one near you and you flop around like a suffocating salmon) it will probably be forgotten within a few days anyway.

Suddenly_Something · 3 months

Basketball isn't too far from being just like this.

eschybach · 3 months

Professional baseball in a nutshell.

xElmentx · 3 months

I used to play soccer, and one of the team that we had played, the coach actually did a horrific dive such as this. He got thrown out and we won by default lol.

DjangoTrumpet · 3 months

Compare to Professional Hockey in a Nutshell

FuckMyLifeGooner · 3 months

Hardly anybody knows anything about Soccer in here. If you don't know what you're talking about, please don't comment. This isn't Professional Soccer 'in a nutshell at all. Ever been down to a Tuesday night game down at Stoke? I know the title specifically says profession Soccer, but you want to go and play in a Sunday League game and then come back and talk about how it's a pussy sport when you're covered in cuts and bruises from head to toe.

Sir_Berus · 3 months

No it isn't. The majority of matches are played without problem. Dickheadery is present in a lot of sports.

mjb88 · 3 months

Not any worse than professional basketball.

jippe · 3 months

Albert Streit is one of the biggest dickheads. You cannot realy call him a professional football ( soccer for the americans ) his career is a big disaster.

Quasigriz_ · 3 months

Simple solution: I play stops due to a down player, that player must leave the pitch. Currently, they can come back when the ref allows (usually instantly). Change this to a mandatory 5 minutes and this problem goes away.

Refs also need to call contact when players DO NOT fall, which currently they rarely do, hence the diving.

daskamania · 3 months

the easy way to deal with it is to dicipline the offender after the match with fines and match ban then it will end

Skelletonhand · 3 months

goolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

daemon14 · 3 months

I'm both a basketball and soccer fan (bigger fan of the NBA), and basketball needs to follow soccer's lead in giving yellow cards (or technical fouls) to players who dive/flop.

armedwithturtles · 3 months

every soccer/football post on reddit: "IT'S FOOTBALL YOU STUPID AMERICANS"

Keex13 · 3 months

Try watching a game rather than judging a world wide sport based on reddits views

DnWeava · 3 months

of course this turned into a circlejerk against american football....

oonzboonz · 3 months

I'm getting a little tired of this stereotype spread by Americans who know nothing about the sport.

Rukooo · 3 months

AHAHAHAH SO FUNNY WE HAVEN'T SEEN THIS JOKE BEFORE!

LLCoolC · 3 months

http://gifs.gifbin.com/092009/1252074175_brutal-fault.gif

Sengura · 3 months

Professional soccer and professional WWE wrestling have more in common than you think...

lakk · 3 months

well if you want replay implemented for this, might as well keep going and do it for offsides calls as well.

Diving is never okay by anyone, other than the player committing the act. There's another thing that players do, it's called embellishment. This is when a foul is clearly committed, but the player isn't sure the ref got enough of it so they make it look extra dramatic.

As a person who doesn't watch basketball, I could sum up basketball in a nutshell with people standing around shooting free throws. How exciting.

MarcBoudy7 · 3 months

It's true, a lot of soccer players dive, but people fake injuries in every sport, incluuuding your beloved NFL. Also, it hurts like fucking hell when you have a metal stud driven into your ankle bone...doesn't really have to be much contact for that to happen.

aclockworkoranje · 3 months

This is one marginal facet of the game and OP has no idea about soccer if this is all he sees. I never quite understood why American soccer portrayed soccer as a sport for sissies. There is diving and gamesmanship in any other sport, such as diving in basketball or a player trapping a ball in baseball and passing it off as a catch. I think soccer represents one of the most fluid and skillful athletic accomplishments.

OHoulihan57 · 3 months

This shit happens in every sport. NFL players faking injuries to get the timeouts and stop the offenses momentum, NBA players diving backwards to get a bullshit charging foul, batters in baseball leaning into pitches to get on first, etc. There are loopholes to every sport's rules, everywhere, and I think those loopholes piss off fans everywhere. Players will always find ways to give themselves an advantage over the rules and the other team. It doesn't make one sport much better than another, its all a matter of personal preference. In any case, go USA Soccer.

That being said, I fucking love this gif and it gets an upvote because it always makes me laugh.

waydat · 3 months

OMG! Are those guys okay? What a tragedy...

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