Just watched the "dive" on USSoccer - "all access video" or something like that - see second half highlights (time for pet peave declaration [Mad] - why wasn't this game on TV? [Confused] - now back to the topic). The "dive" IMHO should have been a no call. If the defender doesn't jump up and get in Adu's face it probably would have been. It didn't appear that Freddy was trying to milk the contact, complaining of a broken foot or something - he just went down, no 2-1/2 flops on the ground, no raised arms asking the ref for the call. It's a no call. I believe the Ref was Mexican, not implying anything except I've seen a lot worse dives made in their pro league that resulted in no calls. The same is true of the European Leagues.

I'm not advocating diving, it doesn't belong in the game, neither does shirt pulling or pushing. But they're there.