You'll Never See An Athlete With More Heart Than This Tigres Player Who Survived A Vicious Attack On The Pitch, Laid His Body On The Line For The Club

You see that right there! That's heart. That's balls. That back injury is a long away from the heart! You don't keep (double check who the hell plays for Tigres) Diego Lainez on the ground. You can't just sneak attack him with a light tickle and get away with it. Not when there are cameras all over the place and everything going on social media. It's 2026. You shouldn't be able to get away with a play like this and not get a red card. I say that as an MLS guy too. That guy from the Sounders (honestly, a sweet name. I think Seattle Sounders plays) is lucky to not be fined a million dollars. 

Oh and I know what you non-soccer fans are going to say. You'll call Diego Lainez a pussy. You'll say this is flopping. You'll say that soccer players are soft and would never survive a real sport like coming across the middle and having a free safety lay you out. And to that I say, you're 100% right. Hard to not call this guy a pussy and even more hard to argue with this take from Napoli's owner: 

Luckily for us this is Tigres. It's a World Cup year. We can call everyone else pussies and I'll say we better not be seeing this out of Chris Richards, Pulisic, McKennie or any of our boys. We're men, we play soccer the right way.