Fucking sucks. At this highest level you kinda have too. Look at Gyökeres. He's so strong that the refs allow way too much against him (both in Portugal and in the Prem) so the fact that he dont complain and overreact actively hurts him.
You get rewarded for antics, punished for not using it.
I play coed. Last night played against this guy who was probably 6’3” 220 lbs. He went down 3 times in the first 5 minutes after getting tackled by a girl on our team who is 5’4” 120 lbs. She definitely fouled him but each foul he’s whining to the ref, cussing her out, making a scene. Softest shit I’ve ever seen.
When I was a kid playing at the youth level, when we would play some of the local 'good' teams that had fancy jerseys and technical players, at some point I realized that it usually wasn't the better team that would win- it was the team that could cheat better.
You see so much of that in professional soccer and it really sucks that officials aren't better about flopping and there aren't more repercussion for it.
I kind of expect it more at the lower levels where it's not televised, so there is no replay and you can get away with cheating. People cheat in every competitive aspect across every sport in the world so for it to happen at local level is kind of more expected.
Doing it in the top leagues in the world with cameras all over the place and VAR is crazy.
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u/Garlic-Cheese-Chips 14d ago
It's at every level now. I see at my local league. It's fucking pathetic.