Women Players Much Less Likely To Fake Injuries Than Men – By Dan Peterson, TeamSnap’s Sports Science Expert.
With the 2016 FA WSL season in full swing, we have plenty of great soccer to watch, along with an extra bonus: less drama than those excitable men. That’s right. Despite our misperceptions of women athletes being more emotional, it’s the men who actually whine more, celebrate more and fake injuries a whole lot more than their female counterparts. Two recent studies, one from Germany and one from the U.S., describe how men are the real prima donnas.
Despite the running clock in soccer, the game can be stopped for up as much as 40% of the 90 minutes with some gameplay stopped as much as 53% of the total time for both men and women. However, researchers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) found that women players get back to the game much faster than men.
After reviewing 56 international level games (28 for each gender), TUM Professor Martin Lames recorded the time, location and duration of every interruption of play. He found the delays are significantly longer for the men.
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