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Thread: are soccer players the best athletes in the world?

post 1578441511 04-19-2019, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted By isingmodel⏩
It takes an order of magnitude more skill and technicality to do what Messi does with a ball at his feet than what any top NFL player does. NFL players are obviously the more freakish athletes (though soccer players stamina is god tier, they run greater distances than any other sport), but imagine actually thinking NFL is more skillful. LMFAO.
Although soccer/ football is my favourite sport to watch now, I disagree with your claim about stamina and distance. This claim belongs to:





You telling me soccer players need to run harder than this?



These guys can jump like Lebron



They also don't magically get knocks and only have eyes on the ball



But there is good sportsmanship



Kicks and position need to be on point too. It's a fluid game and outside of Australia and Ireland, is largely unknown.
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Originally Posted By HaiMeesk⏩
Best athletes in the world yet they play the game at 50% physical effort. Trot. Dribble. Pass...Trot. Dribble. Pass...Trot. Dribble. Pass...FLOP.

Hockey players, boxers, football players go 100% effort. Even baseball players get reemed out if they fail to hustle out a ground ball. Maybe it's more of the American mentality of competing, but that's the mentality what wins USA gold at the end.
Baseball!

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Originally Posted By MakeABanana⏩
Baseball!

Hahahah, you almost had me there.

Still hustling at 100% like a real man. Imagine if soccer bunnies put forth that type of effort, rather than prancing about like a bunch of limp wristed little field fairies.
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From a physical beast mode perspective I'd say the most impressive chit I've seen is on an NFL field with people like BO Jackson. When it comes to level of skill ... I'd say golf is at the top of the list. Most people I've met don't really understand how insanely good some of the top pros are at golf. Nor do they understand that some of those ultra low scores they put up happen to be on some of the hardest courses in the world. Then... you have to keep in mind that its not like a soccer/football/basketball/baseball field where the dimensions are all the same. Every dang course is different and the conditions each day are different.

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Mmm those south korean girls who golf. I watch women golf just to get the names of those girls so that I can track them down and ask them out on a date.
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Lol at soccer, such a poverty sport. Running around, flopping everywhere, the most boring game to watch, poverty countries, etc. etc.

Basketball and football, that's it
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Originally Posted By DrWilliam⏩
Lol at soccer, such a poverty sport. Running around, flopping everywhere, the most boring game to watch, poverty countries, etc. etc.

Basketball and football, that's it
Basketball. LOL. Thanks for the laughs. Trust me, Stephen Curry or Lebron James isn't someone that I would be physically intimidated by.
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Originally Posted By JoeyCentral⏩
Basketball. LOL. Thanks for the laughs. Trust me, Stephen Curry or Lebron James isn't someone that I would be physically intimidated by.
Lebron James would rip your arms off from your shoulders and beat every single member of your family to death with them you little ******* ****
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Originally Posted By DrWilliam⏩
Lebron James would rip your arms off from your shoulders and beat every single member of your family to death with them you little ******* ****
LOL yeah right. The dude who got carted off the field for a little fall. I would ****ing murder him with ease. I have over 7 years of martial arts training designed to kill with my bare hands. That is what I trained for. He trained to dribble a ball. You do the math, genius.
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Originally Posted By JoeyCentral⏩
LOL yeah right. The dude who got carted off the field for a little fall. I would ****ing murder him with ease. I have over 7 years of martial arts training designed to kill with my bare hands. That is what I trained for. He trained to dribble a ball. You do the math, genius.
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Although football is meant to be my nations primary sport, and also the biggest money maker, I have never had much respect for it. I admit that at top level you see some serious skill and athleticism, but I have always preferred rugby. You need to be a straight up powerhouse to play at pro level. Even 6ft is short for certain positions, as you have charging giants of 6'6" with the muscle to go with it coming at you. No room for theatrics or pantomime in that sport.

Also I would say pro-level boxing and UFC takes training and endurance that even elite football players would wind at real quick and run home crying to Mommy. If you read Chuck Liddell's biography, particularly about the training he went through daily in preparation for his title fights. Sounds like hell.
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Originally Posted By lolXlol⏩
these men are warriors, show me another sport where absolute brutality like his happens? protip: you can't
ice hockey? People have had their throats cut open on the ice before
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But they don’t even lift lol

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Brb need to train legs (who trains legs lol)

Brb trying to run losing gains

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Originally Posted By FFailed⏩
Just lol your own article you are quoting from disproves what you're saying about his 40m time

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34884849
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LMMFAO!! Mogged by his own article, that's fantastic.
so according to the article i quoted
When Usain Bolt broke the world record, he hit a top speed of 44.72 km/h," says David Eccles from ChyronHego, a company which has been providing player tracking data for Premier League clubs for the past three years
meanwhile...
Mbappe’s speed on that goal was recorded at 44.7 kph(27.78 mph). Throughout the entire match, his average speed was 36 kph (22.37 mph). In comparison, Usain Bolt’s average speed over the course of the 100 meters sprint at the 2009 World Championships was 37.58 kph (23.35 mph). His top speed was recorded at 44.72 kph (27.8 mph).
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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩
I'm pretty sure the guys who get stuck playing soccer at the high school level are just manlets ortoo uncoordinatedto play a real sport like baseball, basketball, football, hockey, or lacrosse.
what? soccer is the single most difficult skill based sport in the world owing to the fact they have to play with their feet

basketball is literally askilllesssport, every single all time great in basketball is over 6'5 which means the game is based on nothing more than your height

show me an example of more coordination than in this gif, protip: you can't... you literally can't

Originally Posted By ilesss⏩
ice hockey? People have had their throats cut open on the ice before
a soccer player would laugh at getting their throats cut open and carry on with the game like warriors, be like a paper cut for them
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amateur wrestlers, boxers and gymnasts. /thread
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Originally Posted By lolXlol⏩
a soccer player would laugh at getting their throats cut open and carry on with the game like warriors, be like a paper cut for them
lol i don't think so, they would die in a few minutes...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR-wA4SmbO4
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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩
No, any idiot can play soccer at a high level. 99.9 percent of the population could never play center in the NBA because one of the prerequisites is to be seven feet tall.

So yes, if you are seven feet tall you can play in the NBA starting from a late age, but to do so your genetic makeup has to include an extremely rare disorder known as gigantism. Then you can stand under the basket and just block everyone's shots and grab all the rebounds. No, you won't need much athletic ability to do that, you just need to be born a god among men to qualify.
Possibly the dumbest statement of the year. Top level soccer players are some of the highest paid athletes in the world (higher than the top level NFL and NBA players), so if any idiot can master the sport to a professional level then why the hell wouldn't they.

For equivalence your statement is of the level of retardation of saying "Anyone over 6'10 can easily make it into the NBA as long as they have decent cardio", since 90% of basketball is running across the pitch, and then they're so tall shooting is probably easy for them.
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Originally Posted By ilesss⏩
lol i don't think so, they would die in a few minutes...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR-wA4SmbO4
ok, it was pretty brutal, you can have that one but nothing else in hockey can compare to soccer in terms of speed, endurance, athleticism, high iq, spatial awareness, tactical depth, the list goes on...

although i have to say you're basically showing off about how hockey players are better at dying, i don't see how that's a positive in any part of life let alone sport lol
Originally Posted By kingmanaverage⏩
Possibly the dumbest statement of the year. Top level soccer players are some of the highest paid athletes in the world (higher than the top level NFL and NBL players), so if any idiot can master the sport to a professional level then why the hell wouldn't they.

For equivalence your statement is of the level of retardation of saying "Anyone over 6'10 can easily make it into the NBL as long as they have decent cardio", since 90% of basketball is running across the pitch, and then they're so tall shooting is probably easy for them.
that's the thing

usain bolt couldn't even make the roster for some no name soccer franchise in australia but every single nfl team would take him in a heart beat and he'd probably be a starter after a months training as reciever
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Rugby a far more physical sport than soccer or the NFL. Getting run into at high speed by 18 stone of muscle for 80 minutes without endless breaks. Guys are animals

Go google strongest rugby players in world . Some of these guys would be elite powerlifters yet can run around for 80 minutes
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Wouldnt even be in the top 10

You do have to be fit but even still there multiple sports where there are fitter athletes anyway. Really can't think off another trait other than the actual skill of kicking the ball.

No toughness or courage needed which is the glaring thing missing
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All depends on what you consider athletic. I would say some American football players are top of the list, then maybe some NBA players. Top level soccer players are definitely up there in terms of athleticism, they cover 10km a match, yes some jogging/walking but a lot of sprints too. Ronaldo can sprint at blistering pace after 90 mins no problems and to me thats impressive

If anyone in here is saying Baseball just LOL absolutely not!!!! Also golf NOPE. Worlds best players are usually tiny and probably couldn't bench 145 or run a mile.
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Originally Posted By LaCosaNostra90⏩
All depends on what you consider athletic. I would say some American football players are top of the list, then maybe some NBA players. Top level soccer players are definitely up there in terms of athleticism, they cover 10km a match, yes some jogging/walking but a lot of sprints too. Ronaldo can sprint at blistering pace after 90 mins no problems and to me thats impressive

If anyone in here is saying Baseball just LOL absolutely not!!!!Also golf NOPE. Worlds best players are usually tiny and probably couldn't bench 145 or run a mile.
Where do you people come up with this stuff. 3 of the top 5 golfers...

Brooks Koepka (6'0 & 185lbs)



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Tiger Woods (6'1 & 185lbs)

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The best athletes in the world are probably decathletes or triathlon competitors.
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Originally Posted By GordonXXX⏩
MMA Fighters are the best athletes in the world.
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Basketball players dude ...
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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩
I'm pretty sure the guys who get stuck playing soccer at the high school level are just manlets or too uncoordinated to play a real sport like baseball, basketball, football, hockey, or lacrosse.
Man said lacrosse lol
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Lmao
Yeah. MMA fanboys are too much sometimes. People who go into MMA got picked on by the jocks in hs and have been trying to make up for it ever since.
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