Turns out that playing real-life soccer as you would a videogame leads to hilarity
Soccer is a popular sport—by some measures, the World Cup is the most watched sporting event in the world. Soccer videogames, particularly the FIFA franchise, are also quite popular. In all likelihood, the Venn diagram for fans of the sport and fans of the videogame resembles a circle more closely than two tomatoes on a vine. One might therefore assume that the gameplay of soccer and its related videogames could be merged into one super-game to rule them all: NKOTBSB, but for soccer. Golden Goal, Norway’s mischievous sports talkshow, put this hypothesis to the test, and the results weren’t pretty.…
