WORLD CUP 2014 - BRAZIL
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That's a little unfair, there was a number of dangerous fast breaks always with a number of players sprinting up the pitch to crowd the box, but the finishing touches were lacking.
In this end we saw a lot of entertaining matches in this round of 16 (some by the quality of play, some by the drama, few by both), but all the group winners beat the group runner-ups! LAME!
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The majority of great athletes in American football and basketball are successful due to skill AND size. Soccer is much more reliant on overall skill rather than how tall or strong you are. The majority of basketball players would be too tall and football players too big, and thinking with your feet is obviously much different than thinking with your hands, which we do naturally anyway.
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Around 65 the diving starts causing bone fractures.
More seriously, generally around 32-35. Goalkeepers last ~5 years longer. Injuries add up over time, and older players get so much slower at accelerating that they end up losing too many duels.
Errr no...
"This year revenues for the National Football League will be somewhere just north of $9 billion" (42 billion is for the TV rights up to 2019 - 2022.)
How The National Football League Can Reach $25 Billion In Annual Revenues - Forbes
European football alone made over $19 billion in 2008. FIFA isn't run like the NFL, they don't get all the TV money from leagues around the world.
If Sutekh is butthurt it's only because the next 6-7 months of his sporting life are centered on the traveling ape show called the Miami Dolphins. Team USA was his last chance for a while.
Nope. Can't say that. Just an arrogant ideal, and nonsense idea to compare completely different sports. But let's indulge you since you don't relent: NFL & NBA are highly athletic sports. Put it backwards, would Messi ever have hope to have a professional career in this sport? He's what, 5'5 and isn't the quickest. Probably wouldn't get into a high school team for just fun. Not to deny your 2 superstars are probably super talented as well as athletic but it's only proven with a ball in their hands, not their feet.
Seriously, what planet are you on that you simply hope that the skills that allow you to hold a ball & run can just transfer over to a sport that has an incredible amount of technique with your feet.
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Big words coming from the fan of the Washington Racist Dumpster Fires!
Not sure why this is such a hard concept to grasp for you. Our players born and bred to play their respective sports, it's easy to be large and strong. The hard part is being able to properly benefit off your set of skills you get from birth. If our entire country was devoted to creating Soccer stars, they would be born and bred to play Soccer, and just like everything else we're born and bred to do (Save the world from killing themselves, freedom, make money, etc.) we'd be the best at it. Sure you can call it arrogance all you want, but you can't deny that if this country cared as much about Soccer as it did about NFL that we would be a perennial contender.
Not very physically demanding compared to football, equally demanding compared to basketball I'd say, and very demanding compared to baseball. It's not just the running, but cutting, jumping and kicking. Cutting does a number on the knees especially, much more than any other sport. It can be quite physical with body contact too. Two players on the U.S. team were playing with broken noses, which are very common. I broke my nose and ankle playing soccer. If that isn't considered physical than I don't know what is.
I'd say you could still play well into your 40's or even 50's if you're healthy, but no where near the same level obviously. This is why you see a bunch of players in the European leagues jumping to MLS or other 2nd tier leagues in the late 30's.
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yeah, running in a football match and running a marathon are exactly the same. More proof Sutekh is a 400lb human pig who never did any sports after he left mid school
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I'm 215 currently, I would agree running in a marathon is much harder than a soccer match. In a marathon if you're competing you can't just pretend to trip on a pebble and all the runners stop and wait for you or get subbed out if you're tired. Not to mention the distance is much greater.yeah, running in a football match and running a marathon are exactly the same. More proof Sutekh is a 400lb human pig who never did any sports after he left mid school
What do you consider mid school? I played throughout high school and still play basketball at the gym during the week with some friends, some football in the summer.