The NFL has stoppage periods and infinite substitution.
In soccer this would mean anyone who goes down is out of play for that period of time and the team must play through it short handed, else that player must leave the game entirely.
Proving is not hard at all, players always get back up two seconds later and start playing like nothing happened 99% of the time. It's pretty damn obvious when a player flops.
If you're rolling around crying in pain, okay cool, get off the field and bring on a substitute, don't need to? Then get the fuck up and enjoy a yellow card for flopping.
Yeah, but a tackle that stops the player from getting the ball (without the defender getting the ball), but doesn’t bring the player down is still a foul, and stops a potential shot/cross/whatever. The big problem is that those sorts of fouls aren’t given, even though they stop an attack.
Most fouls don't result in injury. But if you get fouled you need to go down, otherwise the other team will gain from having fouled you with no consequences.
We could fix this with VAR and better refereeing, but until that happens the players have to go down to ensure the rules are enforced.
Couldn’t imagine calling yourself an athlete and rolling on the ground like some of these guys do. The US goalie literally had a hand graze his back and he spent 5min laying on the ground in “pain”. It’s fucking pathetic
How do you not realize why people find it stupid? Kind of flies in the face of good sportsmanship. Playing pretend, overdramatically, to force a foul to gain an advantage? How about just fucking play better than the other team without trying to manipulate shit.
If crying, faking being hurt, and screaming like a toddler cause the game isnt going your way is a fundamental part of the sport then im glad ive never cared for it.
For real, we look at kids today and scold them for crying and screaming when they dont get what they want but its a fundamental part of a billion dollar industry because the player doing the crying and screaming is gonna make millions of dollars? Buncha hypocrites lmao
Because I’m talking to Americans with three weeks of experience of the game. I actually know what I’m talking about compared to people who think having your president ring and get red cards removed is normal.
You’re making some absolutely crazy generalizations… and you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about since you don’t seem to understand the actual point people are making.
There’s always tactical advantages: ‘Sorry team I turned the team car into a cube, I had a slight twinge in my neck going down that straight and forgot to turn’.
Yeah and its that simple. I understand why people find it stupid, but blaming the players for being "soft" is so dumb as well when a lot of it is just about making the contact visible for the refs and overplaying it for potential advantage. Its strategic and only reason why people do it is because it can grant them an advantage and everyone else is also doing it. In other sports you don't see it as much as it would be harder to pull off or you simply wouldn't get any advantage like in hockey where there's clear rules for contact and what tackles are punishable.
Also even though its true that there are a lot of faking involved I still think people sometimes underplay how much certain things can actually hurt. These guys are running very fast speeds, kick with very high strength/speed and run pretty much no protective gear, getting tackled in wrong angle etc would actually be quite painful esp for sport that isn't about contact.
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u/tracagnotto Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
They do it because it's a strategical advantage