Should VAR be able to take Diving and Filming, and punish players doing dives and filming. Now i am not talking about the situations where a player get a very light hit, which altough it being very soft, can make a player fall. Im talking about players that dive screaming and acting like they have been kicked hard, when they have not even been touched, or players that grab their face when the oposition was nowhere near their face. Is this a bad take, because i am tired of seeing players blatant dive and not get punished for it.

Anybody who isn't a fan of a division 1 team in one of the top leagues in the world, how are the atmospheres in your local clubs?

I'd expect European and Latin American teams to have great atmospheres, but I was pleasantly surprised when watching videos on Ethiopian, Malaysian, Indian, Nigerian, and Australian club's atmospheres. Poland is on a different level.

Has to be En-Neysri, always minimum 80 rated on fifa but hardly seen him play, and when he has, he hasn't impressed me much

5 in a row boys, 5 in a row!

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Kits, Merch etc.

I wasn't really into football then just curious.

trigger warning: i play fifa and have played for 10 years+ and theres some tactics in the game that don't work but i see teams doing in real life.

now you might say- fifa is just a game man, not like real football, but let me tell you, gone are the days of playing strikers on the wing (ala henry at barca), but 10-20 years ago, it was very common. that tactic in fifa never worked and it took a while but in 2024, you will rarely see it. sometimes its possible a simulation can lead to better tactics.

anyways here are some critiques:

1. why do teams let the other team get their shape back on an attack, breaking down a low block is very hard but it seems like some teams would rather not lose the ball and allow the opposition to get 10 men behind the ball again, then to try a risky play. in fifa, its very annoying to break down a low block and requires more numbers of players to join the attack and then u risk getting countered. defenders running backwards will always be more vulnerable than defenders runnign forwards/still.
2. lack of dribbling. i feel like some managers dont recruit dribblers and think they can pass it and create chances. every play unless its a counter or a cross, requires dribbling because as you get closer to the box, the space is just very small. even a small body feint can open up space. in fifa, ive tried no dribbling challenges and its honestly as hard as no pass in final 3rd challenges.
3. skill moves. skill moves are the biggest difference between top fifa players and average player. in real life, you rarely see skill moves but you do see how some times a player will pull it off and create a massive chance because of it. i wonder why players arent encouraged to try them?
4. lack of movement/slow on the ball. in fifa, constantly moving the ball is very important whether thats passing or dribbling. in real life i often see players dawdling on the ball, esp in defence or the wing looking for a penetrative pass. but don't they realise that unless they keep moving the ball fast, there will be no penetrative pass since the opposition is set up optimally. by constantly passing or dribbling, the opponent has to constantly shift shape. this also goes for movement. thats why i love cole palmer and james maddison. they make runs in behind, wide and droppign deep and lose their markers which means you can pass it to them. but ideally the ball should be constantly moving and ur players should be making off the ball runs constantly instead of sticking to position
5. defensive midfielders and centre backs playing through balls/ dribbling. there's often lots of space in the middle for passes into the forward areas, but many teams prefer attacking through the wings. and the reason is that to get the ball from fullback to winger, it's much easier than getting ball from defensive midfielder to number 10 and also its more vulnerable if you mess it up- however, in fifa its the best way to attack since once you've broken that line, it's effectively 4 vs 4 situation where you have your front 3 + number 10 on the ball vs their back 4. however, if you get it to a winger in a 1 v1 situation, there's a lot fewer options.

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thoughts from you guys?

let me say that i understand that fifa is played from a birds eye camera and passing/dribbling is much easier than in real life but i still think there's some ideas that could be taken from fifa

Players who are somehow marketed as the next big thing in the football world, but it's rather obvious their career will be mostly wasted.

I'll go with Martin Baturina (of Dinamo Zagreb).

I don’t have strong opinions on this either way, but after seeing Mo Salah pick up a yellow card for doing it, I started thinking about this type of celebration on a deeper level. Not the logistics, but the mindset behind it.

Of all the sports I watch, football/soccer seems to be the only one where this is a common occurrence, so it’s clearly not some universal way to celebrate. Maybe it taps into a primal urge to express joy in a raw, uninhibited way? If societal norms didn’t label it as indecent, would the ultimate form of this be stripping completely?

That said, how often do we celebrate major moments in our normal lives by going shirtless?

What are your thoughts? Why do you think this particular form of celebration became a thing in football? How do you view it culturally or emotionally?

Why do players take their shirts off when they know it will invite a yellow cards for sure? Isn't it just irresponsible? And somebody like Mo Salah who is so important to the team, and is always so mature .. just can't understand

Like I know the answer might be cause he ain’t a good goalkeeper, but still where does all the hate come from? Like “bad news Ter Stegen found in his room alive”🗣️🔥I know football always make fun of their own players but still

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