As you all know, the World Cup started yesterday with 2 games - Germany proved too much for Costa Rica and Ecuador pulled a surprise on the Poles with a 2-0 win! And at this moment, the English are dominating the Paraguyans with 1-0 lead.
ANYWAY, what really annoys me about this game is this whole business of exaggerating or pretending to be hurt! I mean come on... it's like if I were to flick someone on the forehead and they keel over as if I had hit them with a bat! Like what the heck?
Apparently, it's a strategic move to try and get a penalty or to try and get a yellow/red card on the offending player. Still isn't that just dumb and all together unsportsmanly? Gosh!
I just hope we won't see too much of it during this World Cup cos it's pathetic seeing a 90kg,6 ft tall man roll over a dozen times in "agony" because someone brushed passed him!
To end my quick rant let me share the "best football dive of all time" with you:
Brazil v Chile, World Cup qualifier, 3 September 1989
Overrun and intimidated, Chile needed a way out. The plan: force an abandonment and a replay in a neutral venue. The execution: on 69 minutes, goalkeeper Rojas threw himself into the smoke of a firecracker, which had landed nearby, pulled a razor blade from his glove and stabbed himself in the head. The result: lots of blood, a mass brawl, a walkout, an abandonment - but, after video evidence, no replay. Instead, Brazil were awarded the game, Chile were out of one World Cup and excluded from the next, Rojas was banned for life and the woman who threw the firecracker was signed up by Playboy Brazil. In May 2001, Fifa lifted the ban. 'At 43, I'm unlikely to play again,' said Rojas, now coach at São Paulo, 'but at least this pardon will cleanse my soul.'
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