I personally think that the obvious answer is that "yes" these professional athletes have picked up on the fact that soccer, while requiring great endurance and pretty damned good reflexes and coordination, is certainly not as difficult as "non-athletes" (i.e. fans) seem to think it is, so there is a global conspiracy by soccer players to absolutely NOT score too many goals, for fear of no longer being thought of as "Gods" by mere spectators
I take it you have never played football* yourself? Take 22 guys in from the street in a nation where football* is played, and let them at it at a field for two times 45 minutes
Sure you'll probably see more gals than in a world cup game, but, nt much more than 2 or 3 times. It is actually quite hard to score in a football game!
*You americans might call it soccer
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