Soccer has funny "simulation" thing that professional players often do. It was funny until I realized from short article on it, that players have to do that when sports game turns into potentially harmful attacks. Lots of them simulate too much of course, but if they'd never do that, injuries were unavoidable. It looks like non-maleworthy clowning, but actually it saves them from partial life-long disabilities way before these happen. Expression is there only to get an attention. It has nothing to do with cheating when done at the right times.
Amateur soccer is mostly played without a referee -so it usually doesn't punish aggressive players-, and there are no paramedics next to the field to immediately treat any injury/pain, plus little to no aftercare for the muscles/ligaments. So what I mean is that professional and amateur are a lot different, at least in football soccer.
But of course as you get old your body is gonna break more easily, that's what aging after 25 means: decay.
And then there are amateur and amateur games: ones where people take it too seriously (and get hurt) and the ones where everybody is just to enjoy. Do a rough play in the last one and your punishment is to never be invited again by the same people.
