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CMV: The diving/flopping that occurs in soccer is detrimental to the game and FIFA should do something about it.

I (and many other of my casual soccer fans) have watched a significant portion of the World Cup this year.  In my opinion, the flopping/diving/embellishing that occurs is detrimental to the game and should be punished. 

The way I see it, the World Cup is a potential stage to attract millions of people as fans of the sport, and I’m sure it does a relatively good job at it. HOWEVER, I feel (as I imagine do others) the flopping and acting that goes on is super frustrating especially compared to some other more physical sports. 

On top of that I’ve seen a number of near breakaway opportunities where, at the sniff of contact, the offensive player goes down instead of attempting to play through contact (as well as other similar situations). I think those two examples cheapen the product and FIFA should do something about it.

If players should be punished for embellishing/acting fines would likely be the best means of doing so. Now I understand some teams pay their players more than others so a universal fine number might not work. I’m thinking maybe a small percentage of their compensation from their teams?

Do you see a benefit to flopping (I can’t see any), or are there any better ways to de-incentivize it? CMV!
gpt
Flopping is a natural consequence of a sport that assigns such dramatic power to referee decisions. A single ref has the power to grant a team a highly valuable free kick or penalty shot, or even to eject a player and disadvantage his team for the entire game. 

In one of the Colombia games this World Cup, the ref awarded a penalty shot and red card within the first few minutes. With Colombia down a goal and a player, the game was all but decided before people had reached their seats. 

So if FIFA wants to cut down on flopping, they have to remove the enormous incentive to do so, and they really don't have any reason to. Their sport is the most popular in the world by a wide margin and a license to print money. Why mess with it?