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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]

Fewer people play tackle football because it is more dangerous and requires a more specialized skill set. It also requires more specialized equipment. The reason soccer is so popular is that it is incredibly accessible. You need a ball, a surface, and that's about it. That's why children play soccer all over the world, it's practically an innate skill to chase and kick a ball around.

American style football has barriers to entry, like auto racing, gymnastics, hockey, and other sports that require specialized equipment. If children started playing tackle football in the street, their parents would come pull them apart because it would be terribly dangerous. Of course these sports have fewer overall players because it's harder to play. But professional football players are remarkable athletes. To put them down or argue that pro soccer players are, on average faster or stronger, is silly. Pro soccer players are amazing athletes too. Just don't see the point in comparing them and don't think it's necessary.

I don't get the chip on the shoulder some of the soccer fans in this thread have. It's an enormously popular sport. People all over the world watch it and enjoy it, including MANY people in the US. Who cares that some people don't watch it? Their loss.[/quote]

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