Comments on: 2008: Suarez can’t be missed at Ajax

By: Herbert

Herbert — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:13:55 +0000

You dutch people should be grateful for having such a great player like Luis playing in your country.
He is gonna be in Spain very shortly.

By: goose

goose — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:30:43 +0000

ferenc ; diving is just cheating …thats all it shouldnt be in football … i always wished that footballers could be more like rugby players…

i once read:

football is a game for gentlemen played by animals

rugby is a game for animals played by gentlemen

By: ferenc

ferenc — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:23:12 +0000

i don’t like diving neither ,but it belongs to some football culture, part of the spectacle especially in latin countries – less in spain (guti is probably the only one “great” diver,btw i really hate this guy) than in italy or portugal. remember the portuguese national team: almost everybody is excellent diver. rivaldo’s gest was surprising – i followed his career,and he was a honest player,at barca i had never seen him diving.
but not only latin players dive: robben is very good in it. certainly some teams have ethical code and they don’t accept the fact that their players dive. i would say for ex. dany alves did a lot of diving in sevilla but since he’s been playing for barca he’s changed. i’m sure there are other examples as well.

By: goose

goose — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:51:18 +0000

Players who dive should be banned … i really hate diving

the Rivaldo thing was one of the most disgusting things i have ever seen in football

By: tiju

tiju — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:10:35 +0000

@MO
in latin players diving is common Saviola is expert in this method.
Euorpe players are comaparitivly better(except cristiano,roban etc)

By: finnster01

finnster01 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:23:03 +0000

@Jan: LOL, Excellent

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:17:05 +0000

Well, I think football is an opportunistic sports. Van Basten “doesn’t like it” but he will have congratulated Suarez on his dive against Prague…

They do work on those things at training and in talks, I think, but you can take the player out of Uruguay, but you can’t take Uruguay…well you know…

By: Michel-Olivier(Slider)

Michel-Olivier(Slider) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:14:52 +0000

and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CQf4zYJ2fY

By: Michel-Olivier(Slider)

Michel-Olivier(Slider) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:14:36 +0000

“In the Latin culture, diving is seen as an acceptable way of changing the outcome of the game.”
especially the italians and the brazilians

remember this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgfRCa71Kmw&feature=related

By: finnster01

finnster01 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:07:54 +0000

Diving is a terrible thing. I am not a big fan of that, even if successfully performed against Feyenoord in overtime and the score being 0-0.

What I have never understood is that more often than not, it is the gifted and technical players that resort to these kind of shenanigans. These are the exact players that would not have to do this in the first place. The big and clumsy lads (Carew, Crouch, Pavluwhateverhisrussiannameis and Kuyt for that matter etc) never do it, and they are the ones that could really benefit.

And it is not just latin players, Gerrard goes down very quickly (and I am a ‘pool man), Drogba for a big man falls like he is shot, VanPersie isn’t exactly looking like he still has the trainer wheels on.

I think the refs atill are to a horrible dogs breakfast in eliminating this from the game. I also think the clubs should fine their own players too for this sorts of behaviour.