Faking injury is not allowed and is bad form. If you want to run out the clock, try to pass the ball around the defense or something like that instead.
Diving in order to get a penalty is also cheating.
That said, Ballack did the same thing in the Argentinian box.
Well Ballack tried to do a cheap swan dive and should have been carded.
He wasn't the only German caught going down with no foul let alone contact.
What a bunch of posers.
Argentina had it in their grasp. Losing their keeper kept Mesi off sadly.
Does the referee not keep track of "injury time" and have it added on? I know in American football the clock stops. In the NFL if there is an injury in the final two minutes of the game it is an automatic 10-yard penalty.