Onderwerp: [NT] USA - Hellas

USA

Rank: #35
Best team rating this season: 75.1

VS

Hellas

Rank: #37
Best team rating this season: 76.2

Fans expectations: This match is expected to be a tough and even game by your supporters.

Manager's comment: On first sight it looks like it's going to be a pretty even game with a little advantage in favour of our opponents because of the larger number of users respectively the larger number of good young players.Our yougsters are determined to show what they're made of and that they're ready to play in the big matches so they will give everything they can in order to achieve the victory.

Nice win!

68 minute.
Buno just manages to reach the ball first. Andriolas fouls inside the box. Penalty! Buno was hurt. He`s crying with pain! Buno will face the keeper in penalty kick. Following a moment of concentration he runs up to the ball. Mpoyrmpos makes a tremendous dive, but misses the ball.
GOOOAAAAAAL!!!
Hellas - USA 0:1

Yet Buno has no injuries listed...

Atta boy buno! Way to fake it! I taught him well :)

Who missed cross from Tarley on empty goal? ;)

I think that was Vandermeer, not Buno.But still - those empty goal misses are getting pretty annoying.

'someone was hurt. hes crying with pain' is a phrase used in the report often when there is a foul committed, not just for injuries. look no further than 8th min of that same game

yep, see that all the time, think it's sokker-speak for selling the foul, making a meal out of a lovetap, suffering horribly till the magic sponge arrives to make it all better, or as some say, "pulling an Italian". (sorry Dio)

"pulling an Italian".

that is what we are famous for. but it is more in the culture as most of the foreign players who play in Italy do the same!!!^_^

To be fair a lot of countries have that in their footballing culture, it's mostly in England and to a lesser extent the US where they really look down on play-acting.

The continentals and south americans are more like "if you're not cheating, you're not really trying", lol.
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Oh you mean Luis Suarez who gets hit in the arm and always seems to have an ankle injury

That's funny, this is from the article I was thinking about when I posted that:

Poyet also gave an insight into the pysche of Uruguayan footballers, who he claims are brought up believing that anything is acceptable in the pursuit of victory.

Suarez appears to have that mentality, based on his infamous handball against Ghana at the 2010 World Cup.

Poyet admits he found English football a steep learning curve when he joined Chelsea from Real Zaragoza, where he was in the same team as ex-Spurs midfielder Nayim, in 1997.

“I was the type of player who would do everything on the pitch to win a football game," he explained. “If that mean cheating, I would.

"Uruguayans start playing football when we are very young and we die for the team because we care so much.

“Then I came to England, and Nayim said to me, ‘ Don’t go down, don’t score a goal with your hand.’ I am thinking, 'Where I am going to, another planet?!'

"But I had to start re-adapting to the situation because you know it is not acceptable here.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Liverpool-Luis-Suarez-could-quit-English-football-in-summer-warns-pal-Guy-Poyet-the-Brighton-manager-article877370.html

Must be a culture shock for some of these guys, but I don't care, I hate all the diving and acting, no honor in it. That's one of the reasons I have so much respect for Messi, (outside of the obvious), he doesn't dive or even complain all that much when people are kicking him all the time. Half the time they can't even foul him when they're trying to, he just skips past it and keeps going.