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Deco + his diving

  • 22-06-2004 12:57pm
    #1
    ALLGOOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭


    Watching this **** thru the champs league with Porto and now in Euro 2004 with Portugal is pretty terrible viewing. Everytime someone goes next or near him he falls to the ground like hes been shot and the terrible thing is he get free kicks every time. Its actually so bad its putting me off the game of soccer, so bad I hope that England beat Portugal, just so Diveo Dec will be out of the competition ! Its that bad :O !!!

    Now I know that hes not the only diver out there but he takes it to new unacceptable levels - even for internationals !


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  • #2
    naitkris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭naitkris


    while i have watched him play against Spain and seen him in a previous match, i do not think all the times of him going down was diving, maybe 10% or 20% of the times he went down were diving, i don't know. the man is small and not near as big or strong as some of the other Euro 2004 players, so when they come charging at him, all it takes is a small touch or two to the guy and he's on the ground simply because he's not as big or strong as most other players who use much stronger force to get the ball.

    that's my view on the matter anyhow...


  • #3
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Damien Duff is just as bad and he won't stop any time soon now that Mourinho is his coach.


  • #4
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,894 ✭✭✭SteM


    There's been quite a bit of diving in Euro 2004 but Deco seems to be doing it all the time, it was very noticable in last seasons CL too. He does the card brandishing bit too much as well, really annoys me that does.

    Be interesting to see if he continues to do it if/when he joins Chelsea next season.


  • #5
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Deco does dive a bit but what he does an awful lot is invite contact then go down relatively easily. A lot of the time they are free kicks even if they they are soft ones he won deliberately.

    I don't particularly like it but he's very good at it. The funny thing that he'd probably be better served by passing the ball to someone a lot of the time.


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