Soccer Theatrics

Well thank heavens soccer-focused countries haven't brought that flopping mentality to the basketball courts. LOL. Now we know where Manu Ginobili gets it.

 

I didn't realize John Stockton and Karl Malone were from soccer-focused countries. Not to mention, flopping is very prevalent in the NBA.

At least in soccer, they sometimes penalize you for flopping.

 

Yeah, I posted this in the other thread.


58% of Players Treated on Pitch during World Cup were not actually injured

Bob | Posted on: October 24th, 2006


If it seemed to you like a lot of players were faking injuries at the 2006 World Cup your intuition was correct. FIFA’s chief medical officer, Professor Jiri Dvorak, presented a report today that detailed the extent of actual injuries versus the fake kind.

“Fifty-eight per cent of the players who were treated on the pitch during the 2006 World Cup eventually turned out not to be injured,” confirmed FIFA in a statement.

Only 58%? I would have thought it would have been higher.

The number of injuries fell from 2.7 per match in 2002 to 2.3 per match in 2006. That means there was a total of 145 injuries in the 64 matches a decline that some attribute to better officiating.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said: “I am very satisfied with the referees’ performances at the 2006 World Cup. They achieved more than their counterparts in Korea/Japan in 2002.”

If blowing calls, handing out cards like a drug dealer on a street corner and affecting the outcomes of games is a measurement of success, than His Seppness is entirely correct.

http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-c...ring-world-cup-were-not-actually-injured.html

 

Including at least two of the players in that video.

 

About 100% of NBAers who scream when they get "hit" aren't injured either.

 

Flopping is part of the game, it is what fighting is to hockey.

 

That's why Americans will never go for it.

 

And why they're going for the NBA less and less.

 

They don't get carried off in stretchers.

 

damn meowgi, you have three posts in this thread already. you are such a closet soccer fan.

 

I am not as enamored with the "up-tempo" game as I was with the physical style of the '80s etc.

 

Were does that article say stretchers?

 

It is the one thing I don't like about soccer, and honestly, I wish the opposing team would not stop play and just play on.......

But out of good sportsmanship they always kick the ball out of bounds to stop play.......

However, most people are not injured, and that is not good sportsmanship on its own..

Just play on, and make the opposing team get the ball back........

See how many FAKE injuries there are then when it starts costing their teams goals.

DD

 

You have to admit that faking injuries while getting carried of in a stretcher is completely ridiculous.

 

Again, where does it say stretcher? It says they were treated on the pitch.

 

I believe that would also include players carried off to the side of the pitch on a stretcher.

DD

 

The Premiership adopted this rule last year. The match continues until the ref blows the whistle. The players no longer kick it out as soon as someone goes down.

 

I watch soccer all the time, and very rarely does anyone ever go off on a stretcher, and that is almost always on serious injuries. Those who fake usually roll around for a few seconds, the trainer runs out, then the player limbs off the pitch. At the next stop of play they run back on.

 

pretty freaking comical. when flopping and then faking injury is deeply engrained in a sport, you know you have problems. I hope to god the nba doesnt let itself get as bad as soccer.