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THFCSPURS19

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I've just seen this and I'm wondering what people think about it. It's late in the Copa Del Rey final and Neymar tries this 5* FIFA-esque skill to lift the ball over the Bilbao player, and then the Bilbao team get really pissed off and it gets all feisty.

I know Neymar is a bit of a **** with his diving and shit, but I'm not sure why an outrageous bit of skill could provoke such a reaction. Can anyone enlighten me?

The video is here:

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...k-in-barcelonas-copa-del-rey-win-sparks-anger
 
Lufti

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I don't get it either. I don't like him, but I don't see why this was so outrageous. He was at least doing it to try and get past the opposition and get into the box. If he had been doing kick ups or going away from goal then maybe I could understand it, but I don't see why people are so outraged at ths
 
jonathanhotspur

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/7009897.stm
Tim Vickery column

But if you want to start a war on a Brazilian pitch, a touch of ball juggling in the closing stages of a game your team is winning will quickly light the touch paper.


This will be seen as unpardonable provocation - and that is an explosive quantity on a Brazilian football field.

The noted Brazilian anthropologist Roberto da Matta has written that unlike European football, the game in his country "is a source of individual expression much more than an instrument of collectivisation".

He continued that it was a battle of "individual wills who seek to escape from the cycle of defeat and poverty".

In a very hierarchical society, the player who comes up with a new trick is a pawn who has turned the tables and become a king.

It perhaps helps explain why Brazilian football has come up with so many moments of individual genius - and also why those on the receiving end of the move feel especially humiliated.

Their personal defeat is being publicly rubbed into their nose.

Kerlon's problem is that his seal dribble is being viewed as a provocation.

Even if he unleashes it - as he usually does - on the way towards goal, with the objective of rounding the defence and getting in a shot - the defender feels that the whole thing has been done with the sole aim of making him look foolish.

It is for this reason that many in the game are of the view that he should never try the move when his team are winning.

But there are others, especially in the media, who are arguing that while the sport continues to come up with such moments of individual flair, the game of football is winning.

 
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tottenmal

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I get how it can be seen as disrespectful, but how is it any different to attempting a couple of step-overs and putting the ball through the opposing players legs?
 
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etchedchaos

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Talk about an overreaction, those Bilbao players were acting like giant babies. You'd have thought neymar had broken someone's leg with a reaction like that.
 
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LexingtonSpurs

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:shrug:

When Messi dribbled through half the team to score - that was disrespectful.

This was just a bit ambitious in terms of trying to get in the box. In the end it worked because he got the foul, so shame on the Athletic player who shoved Neymar. Otherwise, it would not have worked,
 
slartibartfast

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Thought he fked it up personally.
I'm an old fart and can flick it up and over better than that lol.
Was a tad cu#$ish though imo.
Anyone whos played at any level and been losing wouldn't like it.
It's like when you're getting thumped and the opp let the goal keeper up to take a pen just for a laugh.
Arrogant and unsportsman like.
That said I don't think this example is that big a deal.
 
LexingtonSpurs

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Seems Lamela's Rabona was a bit of showboating, yet it was rewarded as the Europa League goal of the year...
 
theShiznit

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To me it's bull shit. A player that does step overs or body feignts is tricking the opponent so why doesn't that get everyone riled up? Just because they can't do it themselves.

If they feel humiliated that's their problem not Neymar's.

The look the other way pass makes me laugh though as it's so shit.
 
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