Cultural Differences in Soccer Play

But you know it's true, and the Italians are worse.

The Italians.

Italians have to touch you, they have to feel you, right?

Maybe the,

the Italian is clingy, because in Italy they did this to me and

slapped

my hand, right?

Of course, well, they, Italians want to touch you.

You guys, bam, and they're gone, they go with you.

They don't hold you up. It's over, it's over, you leave.

Right, exactly. Right. I'd go get water, and he'd wait for me to

drink water.

The ball, they were killing each other on the other side

and I'd go get water, and he'd come with me.

As long as the number nine doesn't score, he'd go with the number nine even if,

the,

the number eight comes with the ball under control, he goes with the number nine, he doesn't

care. After all, my— the guy I was marking wasn't even in the game.

That's why, generally, when you touch the, the ball, the German fouls you.

Or the Italian fouls you. But the, the

South American is waiting for you, waiting for you,

waiting for you until he, he

really hits you.

Mainly Uruguayans.

Uruguayans.

Only those. They hit. Hair and beard, hair and

beard, they hit you a...