Most Americans don’t like soccer, mostly because it’s a game entirely comprised of people falling over as soon as someone else touches them. We already have a televised diversion in which the participants pretend to get hit a lot harder than they really did. It’s called pro wrestling, and wrestlers are a billion times better at it than soccer players, because they have to do it while actually getting some of the crap knocked out of them.

So there. But the World Cup final between France and Italy had a moment where the French team captain headbutted an Italian player, and you could almost believe for a second that the guy genuinely took a hard enough hit to fall down, and this inspired a couple of uncredited gamers to create the following GIFs:

Personally, I think even Rey Mysterio would have “no-sell”ed that.

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