Italian "soccer"

Thanks.

Now that you've got that out of your system Pep, any plans for the second leg?

Sometimes I actually hate barca's style. They often seem to be content with keeping the ball without really trying to score, as they did wednesday night. Moreover they're a bunch of cheater, too. Don't you remember Busquets theatrical faking an injury in the return leg of CL's semifinals two years ago against Inter and getting Motta sent off? Or are you jus a bit envious of italian wins, even if they came without entertaining playing style?

Sergio Busquets, bro

Ho! Vaffanculo! Atsa matta for you, you no like the catenaccio? We have won La Coppa del Mondo 4 times, how many do you got?

If you really want to hurt Italian soccer then absolutely do not watch any soccer games involving Italian teams. If most soccer fans did the same then in very short order you would see TV revenues drying up and Italian clubs going bankrupt. Italian soccer would be terminated and you would be free of having to put up with watching any Italian teams.

Actually they're not the biggest cheaters in the world. The South Americans are worse, far worse. Uruguayans and Argentines have everybody beaten at the cheating game.

formidable doer of the nasty wrote:

Actually they're not the biggest cheaters in the world. The South Americans are worse, far worse. Uruguayans and Argentines have everybody beaten at the cheating game.

Italians are not even the worst cheaters in Europe. That title belongs to Portugal.

Suffice to say many countries cheat, but I believe italians to be the worst. Portugal isn't as bad, I think ronaldo's theatrics have given them a worse name than they deserve. Italians are the worst because they combine diving with terrible, red card worthy, fouls against their opponents while south american and other Mediterranean countries simply dive and roll excessively.

A few youtube clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzWYGuAuf8A

Typical Mexes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXHCbIBEhc0

Against the USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ACVKUV_z_8

Screwed scotland out of the WC with this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vRb43oNW6g

this one just dives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5yLSynG2g

Oh simply googling italian football cheats reveals this interesting article from the Telegraph (a UK paper) which sheds light on a study that most people from around 300 different countries think italy is are the biggest cheaters in soccer. PLease read it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/world-cup-2010/7822112/World-Cup-2010-Italy-Argentina-and-Portugal-most-likely-to-cheat-says-academic-research.html

Exasperatedandmad wrote:

A few youtube clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzWYGuAuf8A

Typical Mexes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXHCbIBEhc0

Against the USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ACVKUV_z_8

Screwed scotland out of the WC with this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vRb43oNW6g

this one just dives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5yLSynG2g

First Mexes is French and spent his the first half of his career in France. 2nd clip, how is that Italy's fault? Crap call by the ref. Third clip, that happens every week with 50/50 headers in all leagues. Doesn't always result in blood, but I see elbows thrown every week. The Italy-Roos clip was a PK. No doubt about it. Materazzi is a douche. Enough said.

La Liga is almost like a swim meet compared to Serie A.

I guess you haven't spent much time watching the A League. Greg Louganis would have done well in Australian soccer, more swan dives than the old Wild World of Sports cliff diving coverage.

Man, you must loathe the Real-Barca games. Pepe makes Mexes (who is French BTW) look like Jane Fonda

This is why I never watch this stupid sport.

Of course then there's the betting and udnerworld influences since the Italians are still game-fixing, even after the scandal that almost shut down their league back in 2006:

http://www.socceramerica.com/article/46205/italian-own-goal-scorer-arrested-for-game-fixing.html

The reason they are good at diving is because they practice it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ4vJ0BDhZU

Cheating is part of the game these days.

American announcers frequently compliment players on "selling a dive".

Baseball is as bad. How many times do you see a catcher framing a pitch?

I've always found Greece and Portugal to be worse than Italy. Spain too, but not as bad as those two.

Italy has a bad name because they cheat and they have a history of being incredibly dull.

At least Spain and Portugal have some exciting cheats.

You're right about the soccer, but Italy is like the 6th largest economy in the world. They are an EU powerhouse. WTF are you talking about? Portugal, Spain and Greece are dragging you down, not Italy.