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Soccer players have a habit of faking their injuries. Faking injuries is something soccer players have been associated with since time immemorial. But a recent study has found that women soccer players fake less than male soccer players when it comes to injuries caused in the field or stadium. This has been reported by the researchers from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem.
In 2010, Dr. Daryl A. Rosenbaum and others surveyed and went through videos of international men's soccer matches and deduced that there was an average of 11.26 apparent injuries per match. Here, the soccer players were writhing on the ground, grabbing a body part, and screaming. They concluded that only 7.2% of the apparent injuries were actual injuries – meaning, the player got out of the contest within five minutes or blood was apparent. The same kind of survey was done for women soccer players. The researchers went through 47 games from two international women's tournaments. They deduced in "Research in Sports Medicine" that they observed only half as many wounds as they had seen in men's games, an average of 5.74 per game and that 13.7% of those apparent injuries were actual injuries, twice the injuries as was seen in men's soccer.
According to Dr. Daryl A. Rosenbaum- assistant professor of family and community medicine at Wake Forest- injuries among women soccer players are also on the rise in the international level. Faking soccer injuries are also increasing slowly. Researchers are citing reasons: the men's game may have bigger force of physical contact as it involves bigger and stronger players.
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