Dutch Soccer Player Pretends to Faint After Receiving a Red Card

[furie]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1778584-dutch-soccer-player-pretends-to-feint-after-receiving-a-red-card

 

this is why soccer has a hard time getting credibility in the US. When acting is itself a skill.

[The Analog Grownup]

Then don't watch Italian or Spanish soccer, they are more busy looking good and will fake injuries all the time. Now, the English people are a tough bunch!

 

But soccer is one of the reasons I like to watch hockey. They take a pummeling and 5 minutes later they're stitched up and on the ice again :)

[Lerxster]

I don't know. He was kneed in the head, then he got up quick. It's not obvious to me he was faking.

[Lerxster]

Then don't watch Italian or Spanish soccer, they are more busy looking good and will fake injuries all the time. Now, the English people are a tough bunch!

 

But soccer is one of the reasons I like to watch hockey. They take a pummeling and 5 minutes later they're stitched up and on the ice again :)

I believe hockey players are the toughest, of the major team sports.

[furie]

I don't know. He was kneed in the head, then he got up quick. It's not obvious to me he was faking.

 

then go back and watch it. it gets up walks around. is alert, displays his disbelief, then lays down (Thats not in the video, it's in the article. Not drop down unconscious,

Edited September 23, 2013 by furie