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It’s Official: The Brazil National Team Is Flopping The Most At The World Cup

It’s Official: The Brazil National Team Is Flopping The Most At The World Cup
It’s been fun taking everything the World Cup has to offer for the past couple of weeks.
That, few can deny. But if there’s one thing that has been painful to watch, it’s the flopping.
Yes, flopping occurs in other sports, too — basketball is the other, main culprit — but soccer takes the cake when it comes to players not just selling contact, but feigning injuries.
No, athletes playing dead is not the most exciting thing to watch, but it’s something you learn to look past.
It’s like that one great friend who talks a lot of BS or says a lot of dumb things.
You know you should interject, but you just let him continue, avoiding conflict so you can continue with your harmonious relationship.
Sooner or later, you learn to accept certain things about the people, or stuff, that you don’t like. That’s what it’s like with soccer and flopping.
So, rather than spend a whole bunch of time, criticizing and bemoaning the acting that players engage in on the field, we’ll agree to just acknowledge it, laugh and move on. Deal?
Great. Now that you’re on board, you’ll be totally not-shocked to know that Brazil is the number one country/nation/team when it comes to flopping.
Yes, the squad that most embodies everything great about the sport has fully taken on its negative qualities, too.
According to the Wall Street Journal, who did research on the amount of times players went down with “injuries” that didn’t cause them to miss any game time (i.e. not real injuries), Brazil led the way with 17 of those occurrences. There were three minutes and 18 seconds of “writhing time” accumulated between them.
The country that saw players on the floor the least was Bosnia and Herzegovina, which only featured two non-serious injuries that accumulated just 24 seconds of writhing time.
Another interesting fact about the list is that the top 10 only features one European team, France, at number nine, which means something, we’re sure.
USA comes in at the number seven spot, but we’ll just attribute that to good ol’ American toughness, and a willingness to bounce back from injuries that should keep our players off the field, but haven’t.
Check out the graphic to see who the top floppers are at the World Cup:
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Photo Courtesy: Imgur, Top Photo Credit: Getty Images 

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