Why do soccer players fake getting hurt all the time?

[irishScott]

It's called diving, and IMO it should be a red-cardable offense.

For the unenlightened, a red card means the player must leave the field and cannot be replaced.

 

[palswim]

Refs should still card it as they see fit, but the governing body of the league/tournament should review dives and hand out suspensions as well.

 

[CraKaJaX]

People fake being hurt in every god damn sport. They lay there for 5 minutes, wait until people are worried, then get up so it makes them look good. Not too tricky. As a matter of fact, brilliant!

 

[Merithynos]

In defense of *some* of the rolling around you see, if you've ever been spiked or kicked hard in the lower leg or ankle you would know that it hurts like a son of a bitch until the adrenaline kicks in (and it takes a few seconds for your body to decide whether all of your bones are actually intact). Sometimes the collisions you see don't look like much (watch the VIDEO of Steven Hunt colliding with Petr Cech, and realize that relatively innocuous-looking play resulted in a near-fatal depressed skull fracture), but actually end up doing a lot of damage. It's not always easy to tell at full speed from the angles games are filed at. And again, adrenaline really is the best painkiller.

Still, I used to play keeper competitively (local clubs and one try-out offer with a professional team), and still play 3-4 days a week, and I've been known occasionally to overact a bit to give myself time to pull it together...or because I know the a--hole that just cracked me did it on purpose and deserves a card. Sometimes you need to overreact a bit to clue the ref in to what really happened - they're just as prone to miss things at full-speed.

That said, European (and particularly) South American players are entirely too flamboyant with their acting and faking. It's less of an issue with American players, but it's still annoying as all hell when you have a guy go down in the box not because he was fouled, but because you dispossessed him. I really wish the refs were a little freer with their cautions for diving.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: frostedflakes

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
The same reason why people in other sports try to get the refs/umps to call fouls in their favor.

This

And because they are sissies, like the American Football players who need huge layers of protective material before daring to play Rugby.

If you've never played football have the common sense to shut the hell up. Football is 10 times more violent that rugby BECAUSE of the pads. In your next life aspire to be something more than the waterboy, then you'll understand these things.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: NSFW
Are they trained to do this?

Yes - especially the young Europeans. I hate it it's killing the game.

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Who cares? No man watches soccer.

Except for almost all Non American men on the face of this earth who own a TV or live near a ground.

added quantifier to your statement.


as to diving, I think video should be added in, and if a player is caught diving, I don't think they should get carded. Instead, they have to put on a 20kg vest. That would slow them down and really hurt their game.

South-Americans are no longer Americans? 😛

 

[0roo0roo]

unmanly sport.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: NSFW
Are they trained to do this?

Yes - especially the young Europeans. I hate it it's killing the game.

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Who cares? No man watches soccer.

Except for almost all Non American men on the face of this earth who own a TV or live near a ground.

added quantifier to your statement.


as to diving, I think video should be added in, and if a player is caught diving, I don't think they should get carded. Instead, they have to put on a 20kg vest. That would slow them down and really hurt their game.

South-Americans are no longer Americans? 😛

I am pretty sure only citizens of USA refer to themselves as Americans. In fact, USA citizens are referred to as "norteamericanos"
in South America. At least in the Spanish speaking parts. Not sure about Brazil.

<--- Lived in Buenos Aires for 7 years.

 

[recoil80]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: sleepmachine
they fake injuries because it works. the refs are idiots. they need to have some sort of replay system for fakers/divers, especially on penalties. also, review the game tapes afterwards and if they're deemed to have faked injury for an advantage, suspend them.

I think soccer has been trying to fight this. I also believe refs can give a yellow card for taking a dive.

They give a yellow card if you're taking a dive in order to have a penalty or a free kick. Otherwise, if you just want to waste time, they don't do anything.
In soccer we have extra time but usually is only 3 or 4 minutes while some fake injuries can waste more than that!

Sometimes players fake injuries so the opposite team kick the ball out of the field and interrupts the game. This happens when the opposite team is close to the goal. Bastards...

 

[palswim]

Haha, a quote from the ESPN Gamecast of Chelsea v Juventus:

Drogba falls over in the box but it isn't a penalty. Now he pretends he is the most injured player in the history of football... as he usually does.

SPOILER: Oh my, and now Drogba just scored a minute after I wrote this.