http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pnpjc2Xkkc

When I played, if anyone took a dive, our coach would sit the player for the rest of the half. As a sweeper, when an opposing forward took a dive I usually got pretty nasty that player off the ball later on in the match.

Funny commercial, but divers should be drawn and quartered.

whats soccer?

kidding....funny stuff

sadly, it's a HUGE part of american soccer. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in the epl, but it's definitely not as frequent or as obvious.

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sadly, it's a HUGE part of american soccer. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in the epl, but it's definitely not as frequent or as obvious.

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Actually it really isn't that big of a part of American soccer. Diving is big in the Latin countries as well as most of Europe.

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sadly, it's a HUGE part of american soccer. I'm not saying it doesn't happen in the epl, but it's definitely not as frequent or as obvious.

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You're kidding, right? English players may not be known for diving but since about 1/4 of the players in the EPL are in fact English, that doesn't mean much. I'd say it's at least as prevalent in the EPL if not more so.

i tend to see it a lot more with the Italian clubs.

The South Americans are the worst divers, followed closely by all of the rest of the Latin American teams. Not as prevalent amongst English players, but it certainly happens a lot in the EPL. It used to be very rare for an American player to take a dive, but I've seen it happening more often in the past five years.

Michel Owen is a big time diver.

How can you give that a thumbs down???

It doesn't happen much in MLS, but about 90% that does occur can attributed to Carlos Ruiz.

Kinda hard to root for him (I'm a FCD fan) sometimes.

You'd think the man in these habitual divers would force them to act like they're not hurt and to quit screaming in pain like a girl. But, I guess you gotta do what you can to win. The ONLY part of the sport that I hate.

pretty funny, but Ive seen better

Sweet!

Frisco Aggie:

Did you used to post in The Jungle smack page?

you would think some of the players would have second careers in acting once their playing days were done

'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'

Mexican League has the worst diving in my opinion. Closely followed by South America in general.

Carlos Ruiz is just awful about diving.