Hilarious dives in football

Number 4

This is a recent one, taken from Brazil’s semi-final game against Uruguay in the Confederations Cup. Who else but new Barcelona recruit Neymar stole the show for the ‘dive of the game’! Walter Gargano just shrugs Neymar off, and what does he do? He’s taken aback, realizes he’s on his way down and decides to clutch his face. Perhaps this is just a warm-up routine for his introduction to European football.

So this is it, we’re in the top three. Let’s just ‘dive’ right in shall we?

Number 3

Peekaboo, I see you!

Sergio Busquets goes down clutching his face, and how better to round it up by having the audacity to take a peek at what course of action the referee’s going to take?! He was able to deceive the referee, but not this wily cameraman. All this needs is some nice video editing skills to make it look like a scene from some woods where Sergio acts dead to evade a brown Bear. Well done Busquets, your father must be very proud of you.