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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s terrible to watch - and not what Americans like to watch. Soccer is now dominated by grown men pretending to be hurt. Americans like toughness- hockey fights, football tackles, etc. Nothing masculine about pretending to be hurt. I just can’t watch. [/quote]

This is interesting to me because I watched the USA game today (at work, on my second work computer, as I worked). And I was really put off by all of the dramatic falling over/ grabbing one's leg.  Each time they looked so much in pain, so agitated, it was startling. They'd zoom in on them, writhing in pain, and it made me uncomfortable to see.  I was like oh my gosh this man just broke his ankle I can't watch this.   But it happened like once every 60 seconds and it happened to the same players over and over, when then they'd just jump right back up and play again. I was at first upset by how much the plays seemed to hurt them (unlike in football where they seem to pop right back up and act tough, which is its own problem I know). But then I was upset at how dramatic and fake they were clearly being. Like, get up and grow up and play soccer, stop rolling around trying to convince the ref you're dying.  [/quote]

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