Is Canadian football immune to the Neymar method?

The problem is not always very clear

Greg Vanney, the coach of Toronto FC, says that the assessment of incidents like that of Neymar in Mexico does not help. is not easy despite the bad optics.

"Clearly [Layun] walks on his ankle, but we all know it was not that bad, but how difficult was that?", He asked.

Neymar regularly takes his pieces when opposing players choose to hack him to end an offensive threat.Switzerland has committed 19 fouls in the 1-1 opening match with Brazil, targeting Neymar 10 times.

And at 5 feet 8 and 141 pounds, the 26-year-old is not exactly built like a brick house. [19659004"Thisisaveryclearandveryclearshotofaplayerwhoonlyhasalightweightandiscommittedtoeachmatch"saidHerdman"Thisisthereversedpsychologyofthefootsliders"

Two bookings (yellow cards) in the same game mean an ejection in football.

Herdman remembers the tough attacking am African Abby Wambach seeking Canadian defender Kadeisha Buchanan to start a friendly in Winnipeg to force Buchanan to return to his normal physical game

. He is very smart, "said Herdman.

Bobby Smyrniotis, technical director of the Sigma FC soccer academy, highly respected in the Toronto area, says he does not see such behavior on the part of his players

. – He says that his young people laughed at Neymar's antics – that was not translated on the ground. Smyrniotis says it has a lot to do with the culture of Sigma, which sent players like Canadian international striker Cyle Larin to pro ranks.

"At Sigma, we teach our guys challenges," he said. "But at the same time, we also know that it's sometimes important to know how to make contact in a game, in a situation, and not in a simulation aspect." But the art of making a mistake is also something important – no different from that of basketball.

"But it's very different to say the simulations of Neymar and other guys from the World Cup. I do not really see it with our young guys, to be honest. "

Vanney said Major League Soccer warns its member clubs before each season of the embellishment, with warnings, fines and suspensions used as a deterrent." Cheating the referees and doing this kind of things are not something that we take lightly in our league. "

Toronto players rarely end up without reason even though former midfielder Armando Cooper [19659004] Vanney, a former United States international defender, says the game is not a problem in the ranks of the TFC academy.

"For us, that's not part of the our children 's culture doing things so it' s not a problem for us.And when that 's it, I can think of a particular player, they get a good message that it' s not a problem for us. is not really acceptable. "

Although deVos does not think that the dark side of the game is part of the cultural he wonders will always be like that. He notes that Canadians can watch more top-level world championships on television than in Britain, so that bad behavior does not fail

"With time, the desire to win the # It will override the desire to abide by the laws of the game, but I do not think that Isaac Raymond, our referee chief, will be too happy if I say that, "he said with a laugh. "But you never know.

"But I always found in my experience within the national team that we were totally in agreement with the book, we were honest and honest players who were trying to play the game as it was supposed to be … it would certainly raise everyone's anger when someone who was clearly not broke was floating on the ground as had been shot. "

Perhaps Herdman has the most practical view of Neymar and his theatrical effects

I just hope that someday we will produce a Neymar that will be targeted by D & D Other teams, "said the native Englishman with a chuckle. "It would be the least of my worries, I tell you, it rolls on the ground," he added. "Let's just make a Neymar."