Another thing to consider is that, as in American football, doing a nice acting job if you're hit (like, say, the punter taking a dive) can result in a favorable call, giving you a free kick or even causing the opponent to be carded.
I think of it as tactical acting... |
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I didn't get to see the final, so I just read up a bit. If the Italian did in fact take a dive, it was a brilliant dive, and Zidane was a moron for letting his temper get the best of him. What a twit.
My hat is off to the Italian player who, whether it hurt or not, did the smart thing and let Zidane hose his own team. |
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Cheek got a pass at the foul line, dribbled once, then decided to take a shot. As the pass reached him, I charged him to challenge his shot. Given that Cheek lost his dribble, I charged him aggressively. Absent-mindely, he again dribbled once and my knee hit his mid-upper-thigh. Cheek went down immediately and whithered on the ground for 10 seconds. Then, he got up and said, "Sorry, I traveled." Later, Cheek told me that the way I accidentally hit him with my knee is actually a detainee control technique. You hit the guy with your knee in a certain place and he is down for the count. There are several sensitive points throughout the human body. Cheap Flagrant Fouls in all sports should not be tolerated. PS: I once was on the receiving end of a particularly badly placed elbow to my face in a pickup hockey game. Kind of the "funny bone" of your face. The doctor said it was serious for me to not play sports for 3 months. |
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I really believe that the Italian player that was hit was as surprised as anyone else. I watched it live on ReplayTV and watched it several time replayed back. Zidane just showed his real character. I also watched the frog forward dive of 5:00 many times. The French should never have had a goal in that game at all. For rkzenrage to watch the whole game and see the frog dive goal and then accuse the head-butted italian guy for a dive is a complete travesty and utter ignorance. |
I wouldn't say that, exactly. Different strokes, different opinions. I read opinions going both ways (Fox excerpt was something like "I've seen worse in peewee hockey games").
The point of the game is to *win*. You do what you can do within the rules to accomplish the point. Italy did that masterfully, and France should learn something. |
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France got their bogus goal masterfully thru a forward flop in the box for a penalty kick. So lame. Let's say you are up against Michael Jordan in the NBA finals in Game 7 in Overtime. Do you really expect him to head-butt you and possibly get ejected from the game? When the NHL went from 1 referee to 2, some veterans were caught with their "hand in the cookie jar". I remember Rick Tocchet sucker punching a guy during a faceoff when he thought the ref was not looking at him. Whoooops, the Second Ref rang him up for a 5 Minute Major Penalty for fighting. Whooopps. Zidane was just soooo arragont that he thought he could get away with a hurtful flagrant foul, and you know what, he can't. Fuck him, swine frog. May his dead career never find peace. |
i watched it live and that was real. i play in a soccer league and, while there are some good players, no one is pro material - but the headshots have tremendous force if done correctly. done correctly right into the sternum? that's a dropper.
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Chuck Norris would have killed him. :lol:
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Maybe being on the same planet as Chuck is what took the Frenchman down in the fifth minute.
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Right.
I'm talking about overall and not just that one hit. If you get brushed and fall you are a pussy and don't deserve to play the game. Just because it is "for the team" and about the "rules" is bogus and you know it. There used to be such a thing as honor and the game used to be about teaching kids about being men and women and learning how to act, a microcosm of the world. Watching a bunch of pansies twist the rules to cheat the real reason they are there and throw their honor out the window is a travesty. |
You are right. In basketball, the "taking a charge" defense where you plant your feet a microsecond before the dribbler commits is a farce. 250 lb guys shouldn't be flopping. It's gotten out of hand.
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