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Subject: [Leica] How "diving" works (Was: Italy Wins!)
From: rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Wed Jul 5 08:47:53 2006
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I have a more visual explanation what "diving" means in football/soccer:
http://screengang.com/deed/diving.gif
It's become an systematic strategy for most teams, btw.
;-)
Didier
>Diving=acting, i.e. going down on purpose to get a freekick or pretending
>to be injured to waste time or to elicit a yellow or red card for the
>opponent. The Portuguese have done more of this than any other team in the
>World Cup.
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