Having every game begin with the players walking out holding hands with anonymous children who are aged 6-11 years old and also known as the "player escorts" is creepy as 17.
World Cup.. I don't care what anybody says...
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I really do try to watch it. But the flopping makes it unbearable.
It's done at virtually every soccer game everywhere.
So what I’m hearing is soccer is creepy as 17 everywhere… got it.
it's a long standing tradition in soccer, and not creepy......but I can see why you think that.....if you have not spent much time around soccer
It’s probably creepy if it’s the Afghanistan futbol team…
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I kid, I assume it’s all about honoring the future of the game.
The fact that you find it creepy says more about you than it does about the long standing tradition. Can you imagine how excited a soccer loving kid would be to get to walk out on the field with a player in the World Cup? There really isn’t a boogeyman hiding behind every corner. Some things are just innocent great experiences for children.
innocent like being a Disney television cast member,
You’re looking way too hard for something to be upset about.
What a weird asș thread.
Is this really that different than kids standing with baseball players during the national anthem?
Well, perhaps it’s creepy that you think it is creepy.
I think baseball players grabbing each other’s dicks and slapping each others arses and thrusting their hips into each other to celebrate wins is way more creepy than kids walking out with soccer players before a World Cup game.
Hey man… anything to delay the football conversations…
I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but comments like this remind me of a joke.
what do you call a gay bus driver?
by his name you homophobic prick!
what do you call a gay bus driver?
by his name you homophobic prick!
Regardless of the picture, I will always laugh at a “you made the list” post!
My son - a huge soccer fan and current player in the U13 age bracket - was just commenting last night that these guys are a bunch of p-y's for flopping so much (he didn't use that word, but it's what he meant.) He said he and his teammates make fun of anyone who does that in their games, which I applaud.
Glad they are giving out yellow cards in the WC this year to the obvious fakers.
You'll be happy to hear that they're carding egregious floppers. Heck in the Men's game on Friday, a Paraguayan flopped and our guy got a yellow card, but then the ref got paged to a monitor and a few seconds later, he pulled the yellow from the American and gave it to the Paraguayan.
It was beautiful. The expression on the Paraguayan when he knew he got caught was golden. I don't expect him to flop again in his remaining two games on the world stage.
Flopping happens because it works, just like in the NBA and American football. The new deal making it a VAR reviewable call will help a LOT.
It really is sad that so much of what should be seen as just wholesome and showing an interest in kids is interpreted as being creepy. Lots of young kids, boys in particular, need mentors but it's a hell of a reputational risk to show any interest in kids that aren't your own relatives.
Disney and hollywood in general being full of a bunch of creepers isn't really a reason to assume every profession is full of creepers.
The amount of time they roll around makes it seem bad but the NBA (especially LeBron) might be worse.
If you think that's nasty, wait til you hear about "Wednesday" in Oakland
I doubt the kids think it's creepy. They get to be center stage with their heroes and world's most popular athletes for their sport on a world stage. At worst, it's a core memory for them. At best, it could be life changing for the better.
That said - I would not doubt part of the tradition is so that opposing fans are less likely to pelt the players with God knows what.
That said - I would not doubt part of the tradition is so that opposing fans are less likely to pelt the players with God knows what.
Games are being played in Philly, so there is definitely still a chance theyll all get pelted.
Wait until he moves up to U14. This is where the kids (from watching the pros) start flopping. I can't stand it and sadly the majority of the parents don't recognize or refuse to reckognize it.
I'm still mad about the Ghana player's flop, what 2 (3?) World Cups ago. Dude acted like he'd broken his leg. He was later dancing in celebration.
LMAO..... I played a lot of baseball growing up and nobody grabbed my Richard. Now, arses that's
and a weird tradition so I get your point but I'm thinking there would have been problems with the guys I played with if our Richard's were being grabbed by other teammates. We annoyingly shifted around our own junk and spit too much but no grabbing teammates frontal junk****