I've seen a fair bit of soccer, I just find it less interesting than more intense sports such as hockey, football, I mean even baseball has more action in a given span of time that a bunch of guys firing a ball high and wide over the gaping net. They may player longer stretches at a time, but that doesn't mean they play harder minutes than other sports. They don't play through the same things people in other sports grin and bear on a daily basis. What's going to happen at worst in soccer, you get a cleat in the shin? Big fucking deal compared to a skate slicing your calf open.Thanas wrote:Norade, shut the heck up. I played both football and soccer myself and yes, soccer was on average more exhausting simply due to a thing called the timeout not existing in soccer.Norade wrote:So soccer players are pussies then? Which is harder, jogging a few kilometers and then standing around waiting for a pass, or skating so hard that you're done after a shift that might be less than a minute, how about running flatout and then getting crushed by a massive linebacker? Do soccer players block seventy mile an hour plus pucks of vulcanized rubber? Do they get tackled so hard they can get broken necks? I mean, fuck, aside from baseball they play the one of the pansies major sports around. Even basketball has a higher risk of injury than soccer does.
Yet these precious little twats can't jog a few extra minutes to decide a game.
And lol at the pansy ass comment. You obviously have not seen much of European soccer, or any soccer at all.
Just take your ignorance and go stand in a corner.
Do soccer players sprint for that long on average? Nope, they jog, stand a bit, jog, stand some more, and maybe sprint a little then go back to standing and jogging lightly again. Besides, how many soccer players are moving a huge six foot at least over 200 pound body around at speeds sprinters would look at and say fuck that. Not to mention that top flight defensemen often play above 30 minutes a game, and much long in overtime. They do this while playing hurt for long stretches as well. How many soccer players play through a shoulder that needs surgery for 40+ games?thejester wrote:Dude are you fucking retarded? I love hockey but the reality is the fact they're gassed after three minutes shifts demonstrably shows they don't have the same aerobic capacity as soccer players. That's not a slight on them, it's just a reflection of the fact they play on a small playing where rotations are easy and bulk is more important than endurance. Even gun players are lucky to play more than what, 20 min TOI a game? They might got flat out for that time but they're still only going flat out for TWENTY MINUTES, less than a quarter of the time most football players are on the field.
They all take fitness and skill, but saying that soccer games can't last into overtime because the players can't take it is either BS or shows that they aren't willing to really push for the sport they play. I'm sure that if you asked them to trade spots that many hockey players would do better at soccer, a game hockey players play to warm up, would do better than soccer players would at hockey.Big Phil wrote:You should pay some attention to what professional athletes themselves say about other sports. Hockey players don't spend their time calling soccer players pussies. Soccer players don't spend their time calling American football players fatties. Football players don't rip on tennis players for not being able to take a hit from a 300 lb. lineman.
If you had any fucking sense whatsoever you'd understand that the skills and physical gifts required to be good at each sport are different. American football and hockey players need to be bigger and stronger than soccer players. Basketball players need to be tall and quick, but don't need to run a 4.4 40 yard dash. Tennis players don't need to weight 230 lbs. None of these athletes are pussies... except in the minds of short-dick pussies like you.
Maybe you'll decide to call John McEnroe a pussy... after all, he couldn't take a body check from even Wayne Gretzky. Or maybe sumo wrestlers are pussies because they can't run for two hours without dying.
John McEnroe was also a drug using cheat who should have been tested and tossed from more than a few tournies he won. I'd say cheating alone makes him a bitch.
People also seem to ignore that hockey players jog a fuck ton as well, ever heard of the grouse grind that the Canucks run their players through a few times a year? Yeah, they do that in roughly 45 minutes so they can hang with soccer players that way.xthetenth wrote:Skating is very different from jogging or running. The closest equivalent I can think of is less biking and more doing squats as aerobic exercise. I've played hockey and football (but not O
our whacked out 'football'), and hockey, and they're just very different beasts and both utterly brutal for endurance. Football has tons of running, but most is at least aerobic. Hockey is sprinting all out with few short breaks until your muscles can't push hard enough. You'd better believe you have to be in great muscular and aerobic shape to keep that up a whole game. Short version is that yeah they're done in a minute and a half or so, but it's a much harder activity than even sprinting for that long.
Hockey players can jog 45 minutes up a mountain, can a soccer player skate very fast for even a few seconds?Big Phil wrote:What is your point? Are you agreeing that hockey is different from soccer, or are you trying to argue that soccer players are pussies because they alternate between walking, sprinting and jogging for 90 minutes instead of sprinting for 2-3 minutes and then resting?
