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Argentina's Least Aggressive Foul

This animated meme uses over-the-top fantastical soccer action footage from a Japanese sports anime, showing an extremely forceful tackle where one player launches an opposing player and the soccer ball flying all the way across a stadium at high speed. The repeated text "ARGENTINA'S LEAST AGGRESIVE FOUL" accompanies the action, serving as a sarcastic joke that exaggerates and mocks the popular reputation of the Argentina national football team for committing frequent, physically aggressive fouls during matches, implying that even their tamest fouls are as absurdly violent as the supernatural, exaggerated plays featured in the anime.
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ARGENTINA'S LEAST AGGRESIVE FOUL

Overview

This animated meme uses over-the-top fantastical soccer action footage from a Japanese sports anime, showing an extremely forceful tackle where one player launches an opposing player and the soccer ball flying all the way across a stadium at high speed. The repeated text "ARGENTINA'S LEAST AGGRESIVE FOUL" accompanies the action, serving as a sarcastic joke that exaggerates and mocks the popular reputation of the Argentina national football team for committing frequent, physically aggressive fouls during matches, implying that even their tamest fouls are as absurdly violent as the supernatural, exaggerated plays featured in the anime.

Origin notes

This meme originates from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit as an RSS-sourced post, with the original submitted title referencing the match dynamic between Spain and the fictional Royal Academy team from the Inazuma Eleven franchise. It repurposes cutscene footage from the game and anime series Inazuma Eleven 2, as indicated by the Japanese text overlayed on the original anime clip, to make a relatable joke for football fans about common discourse surrounding the Argentine national team's physical playing style.

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