Forget everything you've been told faking it: on the soccer field at least, it's the men who are faking injuries far more often than women. The Los Angeles Times reports on research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in which scientists studied videotapes of international men's and women's soccer matches. In the men's matches, the researchers found an average of 11.26 apparent injuries per match, in which players were writhing or rolling on the ground, grabbing a body part, yelling, having an anguished facial expression or hiding their face. They concluded that only 7.2 percent of the apparent injuries were real, meaning that the "injured" player left the game within five minutes or blood was apparent. In the women's games, the researchers found half as many apparent injuries as the men had, about 5.74 per game, and that women's injuries were twice as likely as men's to be real.
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This is why Ruggers make fun of soccer players