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I know y'all non-fans are disgusted by the falling down and fake crying. I am a long-time soccer fan and it is disgusting to me. The sport wasn't played this way when I got in to it 50 years ago. This flopping and crying was introduced by the South Americans about 40 years ago.

Soccer today is a mixture of athletics, and theater. Act like you got hurt to draw a foul. Half the game is players acting like crybabies. It has gotten so bad that I almost gave up on watching.
I must say, the flopping is drastically reduced this World Cup.

By the way soccer is a dangerous sport. I broke my left ankle playing at Ga. Tech, I was in a plaster cast, and on crutches for 7 weeks. A few years later, playing at Ga. College, I tore the medial collateral ligament in the left knee, just missed surgery but had to go on crutches for 8 weeks. Those crutches get old fast, especially bad for stairs.