yea, i do think its fine, i've been thrown out of games because of people going to the ground "like a little pansy"...it's employed in most every team sport there is, or atleast different variations of it. it happens in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, hurling, cricket, rugby, a foul is a foul, but if your smart enough, you can make that foul into something bigger which helps your team out. of course skill is important, i never said it wasn't. but it is a skill to fool the ref. not everyone can do it, but it is a skill employed in almost every sport there is. it takes tremendous skill to play a professional sport. tons of hard work, practice, conditioning, game prep...so taking advantage of a foul is fair game in any sport. it doesn't make them a pussy, a pansy...it makes them a smart player. sure, some players try to do it too often, the refs pay attention and catch on more now. they won't get the call. but a well played act on a foul can be the difference in winning or losing for your country...
no, nothing wrong with it. but he's calling them pussies and theres no basis for it. taking advantage of a foul is a smart play, its good strategy when you actually UNDERSTAND what they are doing.
like i said before... thats bullshit and a pussy way to play a sport. And Ive seen it in one game of soccer more than I have ever seen it in any other sport. "Fooling the ref is a skill"... haha anyone can go down and cry about it.. Its certanly nothing to be proud of. And if thats the only way you can win is by pointing fingers because you fell after someone tapped you - then yes, you have been labled a pussy
lol sirtokesalot do i sense jealousy? is your chubby ass dissapointed that you didn't make the soccer team? and what's with that posed ass picture in your profile? couldn't light up that doobie because mommy and daddy were home, but still wanted to feel badass? lol... on topic though...i played football (american) for five years, and had to give it up because of injuries, but in hgih school there is always that rivalry between the soccer and football teams and it doesnt make sense to me. yes football is rougher, yes you have to be able to take a hit that many people can't, but soccer requires a lot of agility and muscle control that football doesn't....there differnt games it's a stupid comparison... and yea i don't really agree with dramatizing an injury to sway a call, but hey sometimes that's what you have to do...
i second that. so what does that make basketball players? ultra-pussys if you even touch their hand it's a foul\ come back and talk to me when you broken(well fracture) your foot playing soccer like i have. oh i guess what i kept play too ass-wipe!
Your hilarious. You gotta attack someone before you get your point across to make a stronger impact? Your a waste of my time.. A) Basketball players (most of the time) arent crying after they get their hand touched to increase the penalty of the other player are they? B) All of the soccer players Ive seen go down in these games Ive been watching arent getting their foot fractured or anything, otherwise I wouldnt be posting this. Thats a different story. They fall - they cry.. thats what Im bitching about.
For the record.. since people are turning this thread around and pointing it at me.. I'll add that I have played soccer, for a couple years... and I currently play travel hockey (goalie).. so dont try and make it sound like I dont know what its like to get hurt playing a sport.
lol you talk like i sat here strategically planning my post to have maximum "impact" on you. and when you see an obviously posed picture of a kid with an unlit joint in this mouth it raises an eyebrow... but seriously man, i don't understand the point of the post in the first place....if soccer isn't your thing just let it be that...
your just stupid, soccer takes a shit load of skill, also smarts which is why they stay on the ground to make there injurys look more severe so Refs may hand out yellow/red cards. I hate it when people dont even think b4 posting
Off topic threads are allowed here... shut the fuck up. And anyways.. I'm not gonna bother arguing with you
All I have to say is.........Ronaldinho........ "Despite being blessed with breathtaking skill and almost supernatural ball control, the endearingly-modest Ronaldinho Gaucho still blushes when he is mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Zico or Pele. He may not pursue the kind of legendary status afforded to Brazilian greats Garrincha, Didi or Vava, but with each passing game the feeling grows that Ronaldinho could become one of the finest players the world has ever seen." © 2001 - 2006 FIFA I don't care if he isn't american.....this guy is fucking unreal!
Are you fuckin serious?! I just read this... and it completely pissed me off. soccer players are in so much better shape than american football players, who just have to eat a shitload of food to be good! soccer takes SKILL not just being a fatass american
not trying to be generalizing at all but... your an american... its hardly a sport you guys kinda understand like the rest of the world is it? i mean, have you been playing it on the street since you could walk?