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2014 FIFA World Cup |OT2| Germany Müllers Portugal

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What's with that hat? Isn't Odessa in Ukraine?
 
Hello soccer GAF. I'm not really a fan of the sport or watch very much of it,
i watched Italy / England on Saturday and it was your typical back and forth with someone flopping to the ground every two minutes acting like they need their leg amputated. and I watched the second half of Mexico / Brazil today and it was like a totally different sport!

Mexico plays very hard! they were sliding into people, grabbing and throwing people on the ground and even jumping right on top of people, the best part was NO FLOPPING! players on both sides were getting knocked down and jumping right back up. it was great to see people really playing instead of trying to draw fouls every chance they got.

is the flopping more of a European thing? where north/south American teams play rougher?
what do the Asian teams play like?

i'm definitely going to be watching more matches during the world cup.

South American teams tend to dive much more than the English national squad (Italy is different, though they are much better than in previous years IMO). But you are right that today's game was a lot better than Italy vs England.
 
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