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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
Actually hilarious that this is considered minimal. You're right, I guess, it's all relative.
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Originally Posted by Troubamaker
I cannot imagine what regular amounts of diving would look like. Wow.
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Week to week it can get pretty bad mostly because the referees are inexperienced and fall for it. The Brazillian league for example everything is a foul so naturally players will just fall over.
In the World Cup the matches are too important and the referees are the best in the world. If you dive you could get yellow carded or even worse lose the ball in a vulnerable position leading to a counterattack as the ref laughs at you.
The only dive that has duped the ref was Fred. Although that's not even a dive he was off-balanced, couldn't get the ball, felt the hand on his shoulder and fell on his ass. It's not like he was rolling around in pain.
This Swiss-Ecuador game has been clean, there's hardly been a foul.