• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    25·
    3 days ago

    I see this with my 5-6 yo kids. They’re more interested in replaying their heroes’ lawn theatre than actually playing football.

    • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 days ago

      Isn’t that the age where everyone chases the ball? a bunch of kids running in a group as the ball boes back and forth.

      No positions just chaos.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 day ago

      While acting up is a problem in professional football, anyone who actually believes these players fall like flies at the smallest hint of contact have so obviously never seen a match up close, much less played football at even the junior level. Football can be a pretty brutal contact sport.

      There are very well defined rules for how you can tackle someone, but those rules allow that 90 kg player can basically mow you down at 25 km/h as long as they do it right. If you’ve ever looked closely at how these players fight for the ball (or played at a decent junior level or higher), you’ll notice that most adults would quite simply be knocked to the pitch and more or less kept there if they ever tried beating a high level player to the ball.

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        0·
        1 day ago

        I guess it’s just when they suddenly pull themselves away from the pearly gates once the referee decides that he’s not having it, and God decides to personally intervene and restore their souls back to them.

        The whiplash from the sudden recovery can be jarring

        • Techno-rat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          22 hours ago

          Thinking about it, adrenaline is probably a biiiig factor at play. People can show the same behaviour after car crashes just due to FOF instincts + adrenaline overflow

          Not saying theatre doesn’t happen, but it’s probably mucg more nuanced than it seems, almost everything is after all

            • Techno-rat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              1·
              22 hours ago

              Again, not saying it doesn’t happen, i would juat imagine some of the behaviour could be accounted for by adrenaline response, it’s a crazy drug man

              • Hathaway@lemmy.zipEnglish
                0·
                22 hours ago

                As an athlete, not at a super high level, you function on such adrenaline so consistently, you know exactly what you’re doing. Especially if it isn’t a muscle memory response. Even during a trauma response when I broke my arm in multiple places.

                Sure, some “flopping” might be trying to regain balance, but, I promise elite athletes know exactly what they’re doing.

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    Maybe the helmet isn’t too heavy, but it did hit his foot with the edge of the helmet. He should probably double check that he didn’t leave any severed toes back there.

    On a less silly note, he dropped the helmet on his own foot, so there’s no point to taking a dive. It’s strange, but sometimes, a player will cry and feign injury when an opponent simply comes close to them, but then later, they’ll play through an actual injury that they caused themselves, as if it didn’t matter.

    • Ech@lemmy.ca
      8·
      2 days ago

      but then later, they’ll play through an actual injury that they caused themselves, as if it didn’t matter.

      Because the intent is the best outcome for them and their team. If they can pull a foul and get an advantage, that betters the team’s chances. And if they think they’re better off on the field instead of on the bench, they’ll play through.