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Honestly, there have been a fair share of dives and flops this tournament, but women also tend to make rougher contact that is more disruptive. In general, the reason you don't see as many flops from the women is based upon the style of play with their bodies. Men initiate contact with their shoulders. Contact that high is away from their center of gravity so they have more of an ability to fight through it. Instead though, they flop and make it look more violent than the contact was. Women though typically initiate contact around the hips, where their center of gravity is. If you get thrown off there, you often are going down and it is easily called a foul. I say this as a referee of 10 years who has officiated everything from little kids to high school and adults. No matter the age, the style stays the same.
For once, can we just blow these guys out? I'd like to be able to relax in the 3rd and 4th when playing ECU... just once. This series is just so bad for my health lately
USA! USA! USA!
I'm so glad those two guys named Terry Williams will be gone. They could really get after ya!
This could not be more spot on.... Those teams from CONMEBOL and non-North America CONCACAF (that is, not the US, Mexico, or Canada) really take diving to a new level and make it a major part of the game. My only hope is that with this massive shakeup of FIFA underway, whoever takes over and with the new leadership board, they take a hard-line effort to eradicate it from the game. Unfortunately, with some of the named being tossed around to replace Blatter being primarily from South America, I am not getting my hopes up.
that is a scary looking woman!
In any conference, that type of consistency over 10 seasons is hard. It's very hard.
You can see how hard it is by the lack of teams that do it, regardless of conference.
We even upgraded a conference while doing so.
We dominated the ACC for a few years after joining as well as a NC appearance.
This is a great accomplishment.
It wasn't perfect but that does not diminish what was achieved.
Enjoy that.
Living in Latin America
that's exactly your problem. South America is the absolute worst for bitchy-dive-happy soccer. I hate all of the teams from South America because they all give soccer the bad rap for diving and flopping.
you obviously didn't watch the Columbia game
You lose all credibility as soon as you let everyone know that the match up is more important to you than the fact that we are playing.
Well the problem is, if we actually field a really good team one year and we have this kind of schedule, we're basically robbing ourselves of a shot at the national title. If you have an OC schedule like Alabama, Auburn, OSU, and Oregon every year, it's kind of hard to get into the national title game unless you get lucky and avoid two losses. If Ohio State had a similar OC schedule, I doubt that they would've made it into the playoffs this year.
My goal is to be entertained and at the same time hopefully see Virginia Tech win a national championship. Your goal is only to be entertained, regardless of any consequences.
AKA uva's football programs entire existence
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other side should be Bud shooting lasers out of his eyes, with Sam Rogers and Bruce Smith flanking him. Just sayin'.
Should also have a picture of just Bucky's legs up there too...he will eventually outgrow the building.
Watched the whole match, loved it so much more than the Chile vs Peru men's match last night where the MVP was the d-bag Chilean who flopped to the ground and got a red card on Peru's best defender after barely being touched in the back by the guy's foot on a follow thru. Men's soccer is so fake, it's worse than WWE (no offense to you wrestling fans out there) Living in Latin America, we are inundated with soccer, and I really appreciate the talent and skills, but the whining and the fake injuries ruin the beautiful game for me.
Watching the women's teams tonight was a breath of fresh air, that is what soccer should look like, not a bunch of overpaid crybabies, bellyaching to get a undeserved call out of the refs when they ought to be toughening up and playing the game like true competitors. Rant over, Go USA!!
Ugh. Once again this list is far more agonizing than joyous.
here ya go
Has always been true. Women's soccer and other "contact" sports are phucking brutal.
USA!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
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I think it has to do with the women playing with a chip on their shoulder because they've been told for so long that their game is inferior because they're women. In reality, it's causing their game to be far more tough than what you see with the men with the flopping and embellishing only happening at a minimum. Watching these women fight through tackles and keep plays going is a sight to see.
I don't care what you think about women's sports... that right there was one heck of a good soccer game.
They seem to be peaking at the right time.
Seconded. I think almost everyone would agree that flopping and unnecessary complaining is the worst part of soccer. And the women's matches seem to have so much less of it
females have always been tougher than men. they are evil.....
when i was younger my dad/coach would tell us to go out there and play like girls. he thought we were too soft at times and had us scrimmage all girls teams that were a year or 2 older than us. it worked
If the "weakness of the conference" were the sole reason for the 10-win seasons, one would see more 10-win streaks from the Sun Belt and MAC. But alas...
We blew them out in 2010, so not long ago. IIRC it was close at the half but we pulled way out ahead in the 3rd quarter after halftime adjustments.