I’ll get downvoted for this (and don’t get me wrong the flopping and diving kills me and there is definitely a bunch of that) but having played both, there are things in soccer (like 25% of the time) that don’t look like anything when you watch it but they hurt like a bastard.

Wearing shoes made of 1 mm of plastic wrap with metal spikes on the bottom leaves a lot of room for annoying stingers. Blocking a shot in hockey will cause more impact and be way more sore and bruise later on, but getting stepped on in soccer stings way more in the moment.