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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you are a 7 year old girl soccer is not a sport [/quote]

I know. Real sports are those where incredibly obese men dress up in tights and smash into one another, stop every 30 seconds to reset (because they cannot play a solid, continuous game), run 100+ commercials per game, and half the team cannot run 50 yards without passing out. [/quote]

I get what you’re saying. But act the same time, as a PP suggested:

- Mark Andrew’s
- Travis Kelce
- Christian McCaffrey
- Aaron Donald
- Khalil Mack

All of them are superior athlete to every single soccer player in the world. That’s not a dig on soccer, it’s just the fact that some football positions require more complex aspects of fitness than soccer, based simply off the nature of the game.[/quote]

I probably left out the best example: Saquon Barkley.

He could keep up with them for 90 minutes on the field. But also probably beat them in the 40 yard dash. And still squat over 600 lbs.

I know it pains you guys to hear this but: the best athlete in the world play American football[/quote]

No. You really do not know what you are posting about.

Total Soccer Players
275,000,000	
Pro Soccer Players 
128,983

Total American tackle football
5,800,000
Pro player
1,696

Eric Haaland is 6’4” and has a recorded speed of 36km/h which is about a 4.24 in the forty. He very strong. There is just a much bigger pool of players to draw from for soccer. So averages speed, quickness and strength with be higher.

Adama Traore is 38km/h
Alphonso Davies, Mbappe, Phil Foden, Aaron Wan Bissaka all are above 37km/h. Which is faster vs the fastest time ever recorded in the NFL combined. There are freakish athletes playing soccer and there are a lot of them vs football.

Now in the US the best athletes play basketball not football or soccer. [/quote]

I am really laughing that you think posting the number of pro soccer players vs pro football players disproves PP's point about all-around conditioning.  And that one soccer player being very fast is a sign that "average speed, quickness, and strength" is higher across the board for soccer players. This is not logic, friend.  It's nonsense.  By your own argument track stars are better athletes than soccer players - there are more of them and the fastest one will be faster than any soccer player.  Beyond that, soccer players are not stronger than football players, individually or on the whole.  They likely have better footwork and are more agile as a group, but strength? [/quote]

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