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Simple way to avoid this, have a tribunal to review matches as they do in Aussie Rules football. If a player is caught deliberately diving, ban them for life.
by megablast 16y ago
Simple way to avoid this, have a tribunal to review matches as they do in Aussie Rules football. If a player is caught deliberately diving, ban them for life.
If everyone is wondering why the USA does not get into soccer, it is because the blatant cheating makes it a joke. It is not a real sport, and never will be, when one dive can win a game for a side, and have a player sent off. Americans have a sense of fair play, that will never accept this.
Of course, this would never get through. South American, Italian, Spanish and Greek clubs have to much sway over FIFA.
- ErrantX 16y agoDon't get me wrong; I disapprove of the diving and misconduct. But I am utterly unconvinced that in-game replays will make a difference. In fact the main problem is the culture of footballers. Go back a few years and things are a whole lot more brighter. Men were men :D and the rules were the law. You are right; strict punishment for cheating would help fix that. Setting limits for player wages and so forth as well would be an important idea.
- lenni 16y agoThese are the countries where football is most popular. Why shouldn't they have the most influence? I don't know if there is such thing as a World American Football Association, but if there was, I'm sure Americans would call the shots.
- megablast 16y agoThere are other countries where soccer is also very popular, England, Germany, France, rest of western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia.
- lenni 16y agoI am German and have lived in England and in neither country I have seen a lot of enthusiasm for video refs or more severe penalties. Generally, people enjoy the unpredictability of the game.
- megablast 16y agoIn german and english leagues the cheating is not so prevalent. However, what you say might still be true, they really do not care about the cheating that affects the game so much. I am just trying to help you understand why soccer will not be big in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
- sanderjd 16y agoIn the NFL there is generally at least one hold on every play that goes uncalled. Far from offending our sense of fair play, we accept it as part of the game. Basketball is actually strategically centered around fouling and drawing fouls, charging players under the hoop and assuming their feet aren't set, which they usually aren't. These are perfectly accepted aspects of the sport. I hate the diving in soccer, but the push and pull of what the referee will allow you to get away with is a large part of every sport.
- philwelch 16y agoOne of the most obnoxious things about basketball is how every close game ends with the losing team deliberately fouling to stop the clock.