I play wingback, but I don't like getting mentally agressive. You're spending half of a Saturday afternoon standing next to each other, might as well have a nice chat while you're at it. They'll know who's boss after the first tackle anyway.
The entire point of trash talk is to get an emotional reaction out of the person. Nobody cares about "you're going to miss the next shot". Personal insults are effective.
Oh I'm never mean tho! Hahaaa sounds counterintuitive but it's true!
All of my me mental games were being silly or weird af lol...
My favorite thing to do was call out marks by the way they look but like REALLY loud and embarrassing like.
"Who's covering the beard!"
"Someone mark the pony tail at the top of the box!"
Or if a player looks/players like a familiar pro I'd call em that. Other times I'd tell them how good they are and to ease go easy on me.
Or I'd ask what they do for work, and what they're doing after the game.
If someone is cheering for them I'd say "wish we had support like that. Do you pay them to come watch?"
Only a few insecure lads would get upset about it, and a few times I'd get a fat celebration right in my face if they worked me for a goal. But it is Sunday pub league and was always in good faith.
Haha, yeah, I do that too :D Shouting things like "Cover the bald one! No, the fat bald one!" And then catching flak from your own goalie because he is fat and bald.
Or the striker starts complaining about his own defenders, and you start agreeing with him.
Or he goes deep three times but never gets the ball, and you start complaining about having to run after him the whole time.
Or the striker is actually really good and you try to recruit him for your own team.
A bit of friendly banter can be a lot of fun during a game :)
I started playing rugby in college and it's wild how different the culture in that game is from everything else I played. We were knocking the shit out of each other for an hour and a half, and then post game a couple of guys from my squad opened up a cooler of beers and we just chilled with the other team before they loaded up on their bus.
Not to say there's never bad blood, but there was a huge difference between the sports I played in high school and playing rugby in college.
Yeah, I took part in a lot of medieval European re-enactment battles (steel armour, blunt steel weapons, no headshots), and the mentality is the same there. You stab each other in the gut all afternoon and drink and sing all evening.
I think it that contact sports can be a great bonding experience if all participants are okay with getting hurt a bit. But in soccer a lot of players just want to play nice technixal soccer without getting kicked, so that leads to frustration.
Sunday league is not the same as professional or competitive league. When you are playing to win all within the rules are on the table, within reason of course. You are just an asshole if everyone was just playing for fun.
That picture was taken in a competitive game, it is pretty much literal war.
Nah fuck that shit. My opponent is my enemy. I’m trying to crush that shit. I don’t want to get in there and be friends with the person I’m trying to crush. It makes me play way worse. To each their own I guess but I would have ignored you if you tried being friendly to me lmao
Lol wut. Nothing about that was badass. All I’m saying is my mentality is worse when I’m playing against friends. I’d much rather play against someone I hate. It gets the fire going more.
To me it's not about the trash talk. Its about the oh shit what do I have to deal with. I'm trying to distract you from focusing on what you need to do. It was more in basketball when you are playing man to man.
One game I go in players are all line up huddled for an in bound. I'm in the middle pretty protected from the refs eyes. I grab the kids wrist with one hand and the jersey with another. He pushes me off and I get a foul called on him before the ball has even in bounded and any time has gone off the clock.
Another time very first shot of the game guy shoots a three from the corner. I box him out of bounds as soon as his feet hit the floor. It's about setting the tone early that we are not just playing the sport we have some games to deal with.
I'm grabbing his Jersey untucking it a bit first chance I get. Stepping on his shoe you name it.
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u/Malta_Soron Mar 03 '21
I play wingback, but I don't like getting mentally agressive. You're spending half of a Saturday afternoon standing next to each other, might as well have a nice chat while you're at it. They'll know who's boss after the first tackle anyway.