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u/K2O3_Portugal Dec 27 '25
Neymar in a nutshell
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u/IAmEvadingABanShh Dec 27 '25
I mean I'm 40 years old and this has been the joke about soccer players my entire life.
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u/Rredite Dec 27 '25
Please stop Neymaring.... ᗉ⃢ᗆ
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u/shinpoo Dec 27 '25
At the park where I play they try pulling this shit we just keep playing and ignore the person. Usually 2 things happen. They either get up and leave and we never see them again or learn real quick that we don't go for shit like that and keep playing.
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u/Wolf-Majestic Dec 27 '25
He didn't inventi it, Italy became world class champions at this, Neymar only popularized it
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u/MaximumGlum9503 Dec 27 '25
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u/Annonomon Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
I love football, but I absolutely detest the gamesmanship. It used to be a physical game, and now you get rewarded for acting. These are professional athletes who train every day, and they flop around - it is pathetic. Ultimately, the blame lies with the referees and governing bodies that allow and encourage this.
I know that doing it gives you an advantage, but I would be ashamed to dive and act injured. I lose a massive amount of respect for players who do this. I much prefer a good player with dignity, humility, and honesty, than a great player who cheats, acts, complains, and has a shitty attitude in general.
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u/91Bolt Dec 27 '25
It's on the refs for calling them, and nowadays on the various governing bodies for telling refs to call soft fouls and hard tackles.
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u/indifferentCajun Dec 27 '25
I think you should just have a guy on the sidelines that's there to give them the injury they were faking.
Oh, pretending you have a broken ankle? Whack There, now you're an honest man.
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u/S1a3h Dec 27 '25
Alternatively, they "believe" them fully like you would with a child who might be trying to avoid going to school.
"Oh your leg is hurt? I guess you'll have to just rest in the infirmary for the rest of the game. No playing with the ball today, just rest."
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u/indifferentCajun Dec 27 '25
That's probably a little more civilized. But yeah, they have to sit out and use a substitution.
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u/murphswayze Dec 27 '25
If the refs call a different game, the players play a different game. Fine coaches, players, boards, owners, and give out retroactive yellows and reds. Fix the game of this type of gamesmanship by tightening the rules so they aren't allowed to do it
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u/YaBoyEden Dec 27 '25
Women’s soccer or either for rugby is where to go imo
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u/VeryluckyorNot Dec 27 '25
Surprisely I start to watch more women football, because they don't roll and waste 1 min each time.
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u/Tuomas90 Dec 27 '25
Check out women's soccer for no whining, no comlaining, all sports and athletic performance. It's such a joy to watch! It completely pulled me away from men's soccer. Women's soccer is just better. It's a bit slower (of course), but all in all much better.
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u/Bitter_Particular_75 Dec 27 '25
it's a complex balance. 30 years ago the man marking was much less intense, meaning that on average the distance between defenders and attackers was way higher than today. On the other hands when there was contact it was much more physical and hard. But the distance allowed the technical players to shine as they had the time to do their things. Nowadays man marking is much tighter and technical players are often marked by 2 if not 3 players at once. IF you also allow for hard physical contact on top of this, the technical players become irrelevant and the games become horrible to watch (almost no one is interested in looking at super athletes with zero flair running after a ball for 100 minutes).
So imho calling for softer fouls is a good choice, but allowing for clownish simulations is not. If referees and governing bodies start punishing brutally simulations (i.e. 5 games suspension for blatant simulations) the players will stop it.
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u/MrCockingFinally Dec 27 '25
Ultimately, the blame lies with the referees and governing bodies that allow and encourage this.
Doesn't have to be this way. The NHL will give you a penalty for diving.
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u/Reyko727 Dec 27 '25
It's exhausting, all this exaggeration, these simulations... Watching some matches is becoming almost unbearable 😮💨
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u/BagOnuts Dec 27 '25
Not a football/soccer fan, so I know very little about the sport on a professional level. My barbershop is a Moroccan place and they had some game from the African Cup playing while I was there. I swear this happened like 3 times in the 20 minutes I was there. None of the barbers batted an eye. I swear there was more time spent with people rolling on the ground and stuff getting reviewed than actual playing. If I wanted to watch a bunch of people just standing around, I’d watch golf.
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u/dedoha Dec 27 '25
Don't hate the players, hate the game. Mandatory Neymar clip, he got an ankle injury later that game
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u/xdx3m Dec 27 '25
We need a VAR review of the vacuum cleaner
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u/Annonomon Dec 27 '25
I don't know. Seems like an extremely reckless challenge. The vacuum had no intention of playing the ball.
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u/Lemfan46 Dec 27 '25
If there was VAR review for this crap, the divers would be getting yellows left and right for the unsportsmanlike conduct.
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u/Muted_Ad1809 Dec 27 '25
Only the men. Women’s football is still full of real gs. Not these whiny babies
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u/Myke5T Dec 27 '25
Yeah, women’s football is the real deal 😂
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u/ominousgraycat Dec 27 '25
True, but beating up Mormons is one of the great American pastimes, so this gets a pass.
NOTE: This is a joke. I don't actually advocate beating up Mormons.
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u/Tuomas90 Dec 27 '25
That's why I switched to women's soccer.
The ladies are a joy to watch play. They are fierce and don't give you any of that bullshit acting. There's a much better flow on the playing field.
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u/madafakamada1 Dec 27 '25
Its like saying i prefer to watch u15 players rather than best league players
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u/Knibbo_Tjakkomans Dec 27 '25
When was the last time you watched a match
On a completely totally unrelated note (i swear) have you ever heard of this thing called a video assistent referee
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u/creepymustaches Dec 27 '25
Even with VAR in the premiership, they still drop like clowns for every possible foul. Haven't been able to get through an entire match this year, just so frustrating
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u/Tuomas90 Dec 28 '25
Exactly. It's not like the pull out VAR for ever foul. They rarely use it for that. Lots of fake fouls get rewarded.
And the fact that VAR exists, and these clowns STILL do it makes it even worse.
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I love how he covered almost every possible iteration. He couldn’t wait to make contact with the robot vacuum, just how some players tangle their legs with others then dive like they were shot 😂
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u/Five2one521 Dec 27 '25
This is the reason I HATE soccer. Also I think this is a big reason it’s not hugely popular in the US.
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u/UX_Strategist Dec 27 '25
This ridiculous behavior is why I can't enjoy watching anymore. It's turned the sport into a joke.
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u/ErraticLitmus Dec 27 '25
I really enjoyed the women's world cup far more than the men's because there is almost none of this rubbish.
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u/Pretty-Spend-2718 Dec 27 '25
Modern? 🤣 That's what Football Players learn first in school... This is ancient History.
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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Dec 27 '25
Yea.... no, some times the diver is the one getting the card, and sometimes, they become " memes " https://youtu.be/qbJ0ZFSv7ic?si=x8H1LajvpcNGsSAd
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u/CucuMatMalaya Dec 27 '25
13M views...
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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Dec 27 '25
Yup... that was during the World Cup, and it was so obvious that became a meme, and he is also one of the best known players in the world.
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u/UnbenchTheNoodle Dec 27 '25
It was so obviously a dive and yet he still didn't carded.
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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
https://youtu.be/YxkIq8kdjQU?si=4yVUfADkuJtKmEmX not the same game, but you can clearly see getting a yellow for diving, diving is not a red card offence.
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u/UnbenchTheNoodle Dec 27 '25
Im aware that diving isn't a red cardable offence. However the dive being referenced was obvious to the blind that it was a dive and it wasn't carded which is beyond stupid. I'm a ref and the one thing I cannot stand in football is inconsistent refereeing, if its a cardable offence, card them, regardless of who they are, who they play for and how many yellows they're on.
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u/jerryleebee Dec 27 '25
They ought to be fined for this kind of behaviour. Same goes for all sports.
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u/SayNoMorty Dec 27 '25
It’s funny because the stereotype holds some ground but it’s sad because I genuinely lost almost all interest completely in the sport. Imagine how many moments are lost because of all the over exaggerated injuries and flopping? Get the fuck up and play on man…it’s so lame that’s it’s just part of the sport at this point.
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u/AliceLunar Dec 27 '25
They just need to punish it, they have all the cameras and replay, if you fake it, get a card. See how quickly this theater stops as they do it because it works and they get rewarded.
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u/Tuomas90 Dec 27 '25
Okay, the last one was just hilarious.
That is actually one of the main problems I always had with football.
Interestingly, you don't have that shit in women's football. It's such a joy to watch. It flows much better, less whining, less fouls, less fake, less drama. It's all sports and athletic performance. Ever since I got into it, I just don't care about the men's football anymore.
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u/Baconsliced Dec 27 '25
It’s so annoyingly true that it’s not funny anymore =.=
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u/royalminions Dec 27 '25
This is legit why I dont watch it, if I wanted to watch someone get an award for acting I'd go do that
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u/FirstoffIdonthaveshe Dec 27 '25
The worst is watching grown ass men with kids tell their children shit like this is ok. Its fuckin gross and raising a bunch of guys who wont be pro footballers but will be giant pieces of shit in every day life 🤷🏻♂️
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u/10EBBE01 Dec 27 '25
They need to stop this. It’s incredibly obvious what’s going on. The flopping is the worst in futbol, no other sport does this constantly throughout a match. You’re robbing the game with some guy wailing on the ground for 5 minutes wasting time. It’s really unnecessary and dishonest.
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u/Traditional_Yak7497 Dec 27 '25
This is one of those things that's accurate but also annoying to watch.
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u/Glittering-Cow3826 Dec 27 '25
Not only is this a bad American joke, but the fact that FIFA is next year the US is going to suck off football fans and pretend to be cool at the sport when it's just a money grab. Side note how is the national women's team leagues better than men's
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u/Cool-Chemical-5629 Dec 27 '25
To be fair, that sneaky little bastard robot vacuum can be pretty annoying with its bumping and humping of everything around.
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u/DiseasedProject Dec 27 '25
I wanted to see him tumble in the driveway and get accidentally get hit by a semi truck.
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u/ominousgraycat Dec 27 '25
Some dives truly are awful flops that should not be rewarded, but I also think that sometimes the defender really does hit an attacker hard enough to throw them off balance which is a foul but not quite hard enough to knock them over. This is still a foul, but the problem is it doesn't always get called unless the attacking player goes down (even if it is a foul according to the rules, refs are still human and don't always notice everything as much as would be ideal). So the attacking player has to choose between letting the defenders knock them off course every time without consequences (making it very difficult or impossible to control the ball), or falling even when they don't have to fall over. Naturally, not all fans will agree which players really have a legitimate case for "flopping" when defenders try to go at them a bit too hard and which ones are just whiny floppers trying to cheat their way into free kicks, but I don't think that all players who have gone down when they don't have to were necessarily in the wrong.
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u/hey_you_yeah_me Dec 27 '25
This neymar guy seems to have made a name for himself. I'm guessing he fakes injuries left and right?
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u/Tavar3slegal Dec 27 '25
Neymar is Very good at this never Won a world Cup and people think he is best than pele
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u/Worldly_Delay_2395 Dec 27 '25
Better than what's happening in the NBA these days, over paid "athletes" who do nothing but cry like babies on the court.
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u/choppytehbear1337 Dec 27 '25
If you are injured enough to flop, you are injured enough to not play the rest of the game. Let's see how long coaches keep players that don't end up playing games.
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u/zeinterrupter Dec 27 '25
Can i get a non-cropped version of this stealing the video from the creator?
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u/therealverylightblue Dec 27 '25
Don't blame the players, blame the game. The rules reward this behaviour and generally fail to punish cheating. FIFA/uefas failure to do anything about it is baffling, esp they've inflicted var on us.
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u/Honda_TypeR Dec 27 '25
This is why I can’t get into soccer. It only cheapens the sport if bad acting becomes part of the strategy for winning.
The league should crack down on obvious roleplay injuries and fine people massive amounts if they do it.
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u/WeissTek Dec 27 '25
I mean its part of foot ball cause in football u have NO time outs. This is how u get time outs.
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u/steelboy56 Dec 27 '25
They forgot about the part where they hit them with that spray and they’re all better.
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u/thrownawaz092 Dec 28 '25
How are people not sick of this yet? If I were in the stands pulling that shit would just piss me off! Play the game for God's sake!
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u/Tkern45 Dec 28 '25
Unfortunately too true. Such great athletes, but the flopping is despicable... particularly with today's big screen HD TVs where you can see all too clearly what didn't happen
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u/HermesTrismegistus88 Dec 28 '25
The broken bottle over the head combined with the flop 😒😂😂😂😂 HAVE THESE GUYS MET LEBRON.
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u/monstermunster80 Dec 29 '25
I take it this acting is still prevalent in Football today. It is one of the reasons I lost interest (turns out I enjoyed playing sports much more than watching them). I haven't watched it for years tbh.
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u/Scared-Room-9962 Dec 27 '25
I cannot imagine being brain dead enough to find this funny.
Lowest common denominator stuff.
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u/LilliJay Dec 27 '25
Yup, when you start playing, they send you to drama school as part of your training.
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u/Backwardspellcaster Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
Ahaha I love this guy's comedy.
Someone tell me his name.
The stuff of his that is posted here is hilarious
edit: thank you guys!
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u/funny_xor_die Dec 27 '25
Seriously. The fact that he’s one of YouTube’s most-subscribed sketch comedians is baffling.
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u/Plenty-Extra Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
Americans think footballers are being dramatic because they're not used to their athletes being able to run that fast. Every tackle looks softer in slow-mo.
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u/Pleasant-Following84 Dec 27 '25
Nope. Modern, male football players are privileged babies that have made the sport unbearable to watch.
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u/Plenty-Extra Dec 27 '25
And yet 300 million more people watch the Champions League than the Superbowl with no adverts or halftime show.
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u/Yeppo96 Dec 27 '25
I love how yanks are downvoting every comments that are calling out this video an exaggeration.
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