The Best/Worst Dives in Football

By: Daryl | July 2nd, 2009

If you’re in the crowd that considers diving the biggest evil in world football, then the video above collects some of the worst offenders ever seen and will probably make you want to put a fist through your computer screen.

But if you’re in the crowd that finds blatant – and blatantly unconvincing -dives to be first rate physical comedy, then the above video showcases soccer’s best slapstick moments and should give you a nice little chuckle.

I’m in the latter camp, especially when the playacting is set to a parody of a James Blunt song.

My particular favourites are Rivaldo’s “the thigh bone’s connected to the face bone” routine (0:55 in the video) and the infamous double dive between Duisburg coach Norbert Meier and FC Köln midfielder Albert Streit (1:27 in the video).

If you’ve got vid of any other chuckle-worthy dives, please share it with the rest of the class in the comments.

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Tags: Albert Streit, dives, Norbert Meier, Rivaldo, World Football, World Soccer

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• Al |  July 2nd, 2009 at 6:26 am

  
  
  

  This video does not work

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• Matteo |  July 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 am

  
  
  

  Great find!
  Gilla and Ibra, some of the usual suspects. But the goalie ‘dives’ are inexcusable.

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• Laurie |  July 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 am

  
  
  

  Weird. I couldn’t get this to work from the main page, but it works fine from this page.

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• Safari |  July 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 am

  
  
  

  The double head butt is amazing.. who can dive first?

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• Bob |  July 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm

  
  
  

  hahaha … Sean Davis is quality.

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