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Originally Posted by Slava
To me that embellishment and diving is more a part of certain cultures that play soccer. It's rampant in the Copa because in South America it's part of the game. Watching the Euros is a contrast though as there just isn't as much of that ridiculousness.
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Totally, though I feel like it still happens in the European brand a fair bit too. It's one of the big reasons I chose England as my Euro soccer nation to pull for back in the day (which has cost me it seems), they didn't seem as prone to that stuff.
Maybe it was more just the nation's rosters at the time when I first got into it in the early 2000s, but I feel national teams like the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal were quite prone to melodramatic flopping.