Diving is so common in the beautiful game now, I know cause my coach tells me "contact in the box, hit the deck" and we have won games because of it. Silly challenges or soft pens!
2006-06-27 22:19:21 · 16 answers · asked by Macka 3 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ FIFA World Cup (TM)
winning is winning(wher are the aussies now) they wont get the cup if italy go on to win!
2006-06-27 22:29:07 · update #1
It's all about sportsman ship Vs winning at all costs. Diving is not allowed and players have been sent off for diving in the penilty box at all levels and should NOT be encouraged. But as we all saw in the Australia Vs Italy game by falling over a player (or diving) you can win a penilty, thats wins the game and puts a nation that is famous for all types of cheating in to the last 8 of the world cup!!!!
As you wrote in your Question Football is Joga Bonito-the beautiful game- tell you coach to :-
SAVE THE DIVING FOR THE SWIMMING POOL and play the beautiful game as it was ment to be played
2006-06-27 22:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 5⤋
At last a ref has had the courage to book a player for diving in this World Cup (Adriano last night). I think that many players (and whatever the hell the Aussies may say about their 'bad luck' against Italy the WORST diver I have EVER seen is Harry 'gout' Kewell) go down easily in the box, but it is then up to the ref to decide if there is foul contact. However I really do wish refs would have the basic guts in the cases where they decide against the penalty and the 'injured' player has clearly gone looking for one to book the attacker. Basically, if it ain't a penalty it's a booking for the forward - if the forward knows he's just going to get a hard stare from the ref rather than his name in the book, then that's when the cheating becomes engrained.....
2006-06-28 05:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by eriverpipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO NO NO NO!!! It's cheating, no doubt about it. The FIFA guidelines say that referees MUST give a yellow card for diving - I personally think that this should be an instant red. It's a sad day when you see people like Thierry Henry diving - he was always against it. Fortunately the referees seem to be at least trying to sort it out at this World Cup.
The problem is do we expect players to keep their feet when roughly challenged or should they 'fly through the air with the greatest of ease'?
2006-06-28 05:33:58 · answer #3 · answered by doucomms 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends - I think there's a big difference between diving and 'winning' a penalty or free-kick.
Faking injury annoys me more - like Henry did against Puyol yesterday or van Bommel's 10second delay before he fell down after Figo nutted him.
I think if there is contact in the box and you go down, that isn't so bad. You've been clever enough to get into a position where you have manipulated a defender into making a rash tackle, so you take advantage of his mistake. Alan Shearer did this for years. It is simply taking advantage of another player's mistake.
What IS wrong is going down under little or no contact. Pires or van Nistelrooy are pretty good examples of this - blatant cheating.
2006-06-28 05:38:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It ruins the game i think because all you here is the whistle because a player is on the floor, i am sorry but you don't really see england diving do you. The england paraguay game the paraguay players were hiting the deck all the time and they were cleary diving because the camera caught them and when it was played back it was obvious. Ecudor were bad for diving aswel, do the teams who dive actually think no one knows that they are diving.
2006-06-28 06:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by YES PASSED THEM ALL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
diving is the worst form of cheating...it makes me so angry see tough games won by teams that dive in the box 2 find the easy way out
who knew that the italian diving team were at the world cup instead of the football team?
2006-06-28 05:57:34 · answer #6 · answered by dc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should be driven out of the game,
can cost (the losing side) a substantial amount of money.
(failed promotion etc coz the opposition dived for a winning penalty etc etc)
But you will find the 'Continentals' will be all for diving.
2006-06-28 05:27:06 · answer #7 · answered by Banderes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
diving is cheating no doubt about it! i like the ideas one of the guys here said, if your team dives three times then your entire team is out of the tournament. bye bye Brazil, Argentina etc.
they shouldn't dive anyway, why, aren't they that good at football then that they have to cheat?!
2006-06-28 07:53:56 · answer #8 · answered by twalpole_2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come on!!! Diving is not part of the game. it is unfair play. unfortunately not many players play fairly in the peanalty area.
WIN WITH YOUR OWN FAIR PLAY!
2006-06-28 06:08:01 · answer #9 · answered by Nerazzurro 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is your coach Italian?
2006-06-28 05:27:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋