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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Invincible on October 16, 2009, 01:12:51 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNsWVuv_oxs&hl=en
Both his goals from the Champions League last year. It was great watching Arsenal go down that day.
8) 8) 8)
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best player in the world
although that goal against Porto broke my heart :'(
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I was devastated
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Haha, just upset both of you in this thread, it wasn't my intention. But you both can't deny the awesomeness of both goals.
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pretty sick.
i watched some thing today, i think it was younger people though & let me tell you, there is not that much of a need for super stamina/athleticism lol.
there is A LOT of jogging & just walking around.
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pretty sick.
i watched some thing today, i think it was younger people though & let me tell you, there is not that much of a need for super stamina/athleticism lol.
there is A LOT of jogging & just walking around.
Just to clear things up, you are joking aren't you?
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Haha, just upset both of you in this thread, it wasn't my intention. But you both can't deny the awesomeness of both goals.
LOL, no worries. C'mon, I'm Portuguese, Ronaldo is like my favorite player ever ;D
That goal was jaw dropping against Porto; that's exactly what I did when he scored it. If the "best player in the world" doesn't have a "best player in the world moment", my boys stun Man Utd and advance to the semi's :-[
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pretty sick.
i watched some thing today, i think it was younger people though & let me tell you, there is not that much of a need for super stamina/athleticism lol.
there is A LOT of jogging & just walking around.
Just to clear things up, you are joking aren't you?
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pretty sick.
i watched some thing today, i think it was younger people though & let me tell you, there is not that much of a need for super stamina/athleticism lol.
there is A LOT of jogging & just walking around.
Just to clear things up, you are joking aren't you?
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lol, no i'm not.
sure, you have to be athletic.
but i mean, it isn't as much running as it is made out to be.
you sprint for the ball occasionally, you dribble the ball for a brief moment & then when you don't have the ball you're standing still at times lol.
plenty of breaks to play a full 90 minutes, without much of a problem.
you without a doubt, no questions asked run A LOT more in Basketball, with the time you get when you sit on the bench than playing Soccer.
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lol, no i'm not.
sure, you have to be athletic.
but i mean, it isn't as much running as it is made out to be.
you sprint for the ball occasionally, you dribble the ball for a brief moment & then when you don't have the ball you're standing still at times lol.
plenty of breaks to play a full 90 minutes, without much of a problem.
you without a doubt, no questions asked run A LOT more in Basketball, with the time you get when you sit on the bench than playing Soccer.
Are you telling me it's constant sprinting in basketball too? Their playing field is tiny compared to a football pitch and when a team is attacking or defening, there is alot of standing around as there isn't much room to move around as the court is so small. On top of that, you get time outs, footballers don't. They have to continue running around for the whole 45 minutes till they can have a rest. And, as I just said, footballers don't have 4 quarters, they have halves, so only the 1 chance to have a proper rest. Then sometimes on top of that, they have to play half an hours extra time. I'm willing to bet that you have never played a game of football in your life, so you have no idea how much hard work it is. I struggle to play a 6 minute half of a 5 a side match.
Manchester United had to play I think about 67 games last season, with internationals in between. 2 games a week pretty much the whole season. You have to be fit as fuck to be able to do that and be successful. Midfielders have to cover so much ground on a football pitch its unreal, helping out defending and attacking. I could go on ranting but I won't. Actually watch or play a match and find out.
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lol, no i'm not.
sure, you have to be athletic.
but i mean, it isn't as much running as it is made out to be.
you sprint for the ball occasionally, you dribble the ball for a brief moment & then when you don't have the ball you're standing still at times lol.
plenty of breaks to play a full 90 minutes, without much of a problem.
you without a doubt, no questions asked run A LOT more in Basketball, with the time you get when you sit on the bench than playing Soccer.
I'm sorry man, but two options...either you just don't know a lot about football/soccer....or you are just playing ignorant....and this is not a diss, but c'mon man...
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And to go with it football is far better to watch when goals like these can occur:
http://www.youtube.com/v/y2KeX7nhZRY&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/v/3Gz91h_Cz7k&hl=en
ROONEY!!!!!!! :laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/v/dctkTXlu2d8&hl=en
Ignore the music on this 1 :D
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again, i watched a game yesterday & you run at times, but when the balls not near you, you basically stand still.
when the ball is on the other side of the field, the defenders & goalie can go play duck, duck, GOOSE for like 10 minutes, lmao.
then when the ball comes back & everybody follows the whole defense is just standing around the goal, with the exception of a few who are guarding people.
i'm not trying to knock Soccer, as like fat, out of shape people can play, but the whole "it's constant running thing" is just not true.
i can understand the heavy defense for your sport, but these are just observations.
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again, i watched a game yesterday & you run at times, but when the balls not near you, you basically stand still.
when the ball is on the other side of the field, the defenders & goalie can go play duck, duck, GOOSE for like 10 minutes, lmao.
then when the ball comes back & everybody follows the whole defense is just standing around the goal, with the exception of a few who are guarding people.
i'm not trying to knock Soccer, as like fat, out of shape people can play, but the whole "it's constant running thing" is just not true.
i can understand the heavy defense for your sport, but these are just observations.
Well they are poor observations, you were watching a young players match where techically they are not as good as payed professionals so the quality is not gonna be that high. Watch an English Premier league match and see what I am talking about.
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again, i watched a game yesterday & you run at times, but when the balls not near you, you basically stand still.
when the ball is on the other side of the field, the defenders & goalie can go play duck, duck, GOOSE for like 10 minutes, lmao.
then when the ball comes back & everybody follows the whole defense is just standing around the goal, with the exception of a few who are guarding people.
i'm not trying to knock Soccer, as like fat, out of shape people can play, but the whole "it's constant running thing" is just not true.
i can understand the heavy defense for your sport, but these are just observations.
Well they are poor observations, you wrer watching a young players match where techically they are not as good as payed professionals so the quality is not gonna be that high. Watch an English Premier league match and see what I am talking about.
if it ever airs on American television, i will watch.
but i would think, logically, younger players from Brazil & Africa would be running much more.
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again, i watched a game yesterday & you run at times, but when the balls not near you, you basically stand still.
when the ball is on the other side of the field, the defenders & goalie can go play duck, duck, GOOSE for like 10 minutes, lmao.
then when the ball comes back & everybody follows the whole defense is just standing around the goal, with the exception of a few who are guarding people.
i'm not trying to knock Soccer, as like fat, out of shape people can play, but the whole "it's constant running thing" is just not true.
i can understand the heavy defense for your sport, but these are just observations.
Well they are poor observations, you wrer watching a young players match where techically they are not as good as payed professionals so the quality is not gonna be that high. Watch an English Premier league match and see what I am talking about.
if it ever airs on American television, i will watch.
but i would think, logically, younger players from Brazil & Africa would be running much more.
Should be on ESPN.
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lol, no i'm not.
sure, you have to be athletic.
but i mean, it isn't as much running as it is made out to be.
you sprint for the ball occasionally, you dribble the ball for a brief moment & then when you don't have the ball you're standing still at times lol.
plenty of breaks to play a full 90 minutes, without much of a problem.
you without a doubt, no questions asked run A LOT more in Basketball, with the time you get when you sit on the bench than playing Soccer.
:eh:
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again, i watched a game yesterday & you run at times, but when the balls not near you, you basically stand still.
when the ball is on the other side of the field, the defenders & goalie can go play duck, duck, GOOSE for like 10 minutes, lmao.
then when the ball comes back & everybody follows the whole defense is just standing around the goal, with the exception of a few who are guarding people.
i'm not trying to knock Soccer, as like fat, out of shape people can play, but the whole "it's constant running thing" is just not true.
i can understand the heavy defense for your sport, but these are just observations.
Well they are poor observations, you wrer watching a young players match where techically they are not as good as payed professionals so the quality is not gonna be that high. Watch an English Premier league match and see what I am talking about.
if it ever airs on American television, i will watch.
but i would think, logically, younger players from Brazil & Africa would be running much more.
keep watching baseball :-X
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Sorry Chamillitary u the homie but u are showing u really don't know shit about soccer and are makin yaself look dumb :-\
what are u saying is the same as if a European came in and said something like "i dont understand why ppl like basketball; all u have to do is put that very big ball in a large basket, how hard can it be?" you'd be like WTF?
Your American to the bone bro, Soccer ain't your thing lol
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^i'm not questioning why people play Soccer or that it's "easy" in any way.
i just feel there is a lot of down time during the 90 mintues; the man with the ball & the guy gaurding him are running & guys on offense are jogging into position & the defenders are following.
i don't expect any Soccer fan to admit to this, because why make a poor sport look any worse? :D
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Ronaldo is a crazy bastard :o
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^i'm not questioning why people play Soccer or that it's "easy" in any way.
i just feel there is a lot of down time during the 90 mintues; the man with the ball & the guy gaurding him are running & guys on offense are jogging into position & the defenders are following.
i don't expect any Soccer fan to admit to this, because why make a poor sport look any worse? :D
lol at a poor sport. C'mon Chamill. It's not my #1 sport (top 3)..But it's the most popular sport in the world and whatever excuse u can come up with for that, it doesn't make it not a FACT.
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^i'm not questioning why people play Soccer or that it's "easy" in any way.
i just feel there is a lot of down time during the 90 mintues; the man with the ball & the guy gaurding him are running & guys on offense are jogging into position & the defenders are following.
i don't expect any Soccer fan to admit to this, because why make a poor sport look any worse? :D
I don't understand why you keep talking about, cause you obviously don't know shit about the sport.
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^i'm not questioning why people play Soccer or that it's "easy" in any way.
i just feel there is a lot of down time during the 90 mintues; the man with the ball & the guy gaurding him are running & guys on offense are jogging into position & the defenders are following.
i don't expect any Soccer fan to admit to this, because why make a poor sport look any worse? :D
I don't understand why you keep talking about, cause you obviously don't know shit about the sport.
because everybody's response is like "ummm, no, you're lying!" lol.
when i don't see how i am wrong; i've seen the "fast breaks" or "breakaways" of the sport & that is where the running comes at the most & that's usually just a few people, not the whole field.
^i'm not questioning why people play Soccer or that it's "easy" in any way.
i just feel there is a lot of down time during the 90 mintues; the man with the ball & the guy gaurding him are running & guys on offense are jogging into position & the defenders are following.
i don't expect any Soccer fan to admit to this, because why make a poor sport look any worse? :D
lol at a poor sport. C'mon Chamill. It's not my #1 sport (top 3)..But it's the most popular sport in the world and whatever excuse u can come up with for that, it doesn't make it not a FACT.
because the rest of the world can't play any of the sports in America lol.
where is the Brazilian & French baseball teams?
but i would say Baseball is a bigger sport in Asia than Soccer.
if you did a survey of all the billions of people in Asia, Baseball would win as "their favorite".
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^lol "because the rest off the world can't play any sports in America" LOL, another very ignorant American statement bro. Sorry, I got no problem with u, I'm just keeping it real.
Baseball: Japan > America. U can also argue Cuba, South Korea & Venezuela > America
Hockey: Canada > Russia > USA
Basketball - USA doesn't dominate like they used to anymore. Argentina, Italy & Spain really compete with them.
Football is the only sport Americans straight up dominate of the sports that are played in America.
& if U want to bring up Tennis, Nadal (Spanish) & Federer (Swizz) run shit.
So I don't see how that statement holds up at all.
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Baseball: Japan > America. U can also argue Cuba, South Korea & Venezuela > America
Hockey: Canada > Russia > USA
Basketball - USA doesn't dominate like they used to anymore. Argentina, Italy & Spain really compete with them.
agreed, minus basketball; Olyimpic Gold counts for something.
but Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, Cuba, South Korea & Venezuela, moreso than Soccer.
& Hockey is the biggest sport in Canada & Russia, moreso than Soccer.
i don't know if i can explain that into a way for you to understand, but the way i have it in my head, it makes sense lol.
like Brazil or Ireland for example, both of their biggest sports is Soccer, but you won't see them playing in any of the sports you named above, whereas Baseball is more played in Japan or Cuba than Soccer so the fact that they are better than us in Baseball doesn't really bother me.
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A survey of the premier league in 05-06 showed that...
...midfielders were measured as the Premiership’s hardest-working players, with right midfielders, such as Gerrard, the most energetic of all. The average ground covered by those in this position, 11.49km per game (7 miles) was not too far short of the figures for Gerrard. Centre-backs did the least running but even they averaged a fraction under 10km per match. Right midfielders also did the most fast running, an average of 147 heart-thumping “high intensity” bursts per match and covering 310m flat out.
The average recovery time Premiership midfielders enjoy between “high-intensity activities” in games is 40 seconds
“high-intensity activities” — runs made by players at three-quarters of sprint pace or faster — have increased from 627 per team per match in 2002-03 to 1,209 in 2005-06, and the ground covered by players while sprinting has increased by 40% over four years. A sprint is classed as a run made at quicker than seven metres per second, equivalent to running 100m in a sharp 14 seconds.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article722711.ece
Those are 3/4 years old and i wouldn't be surprised if it was higher now, I don't get how you can seriously say that in football there is not that much of a need for super stamina/athleticism
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^is it pure running though? or just total?
i can walk 10 miles everyday too lol.
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Well Steven Gerrard ran 11.79km per game, with 1.07km of this at at "three-quarters of sprint pace or faster"
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Well Steven Gerrard ran 11.79km per game, with 1.07km of this at at "three-quarters of sprint pace or faster"
that's pretty impressive, but i haven't seen it.
like i said, i said this off an observation of a game on ESPN lol.
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lol yeah i kno im not tryna get at u, all im tryna show is that u cant judge a whole sport off of one youth game lol u should try n watch some games, u might actually like it :D
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Baseball: Japan > America. U can also argue Cuba, South Korea & Venezuela > America
Hockey: Canada > Russia > USA
Basketball - USA doesn't dominate like they used to anymore. Argentina, Italy & Spain really compete with them.
agreed, minus basketball; Olyimpic Gold counts for something.
but Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, Cuba, South Korea & Venezuela, moreso than Soccer.
& Hockey is the biggest sport in Canada & Russia, moreso than Soccer.
i don't know if i can explain that into a way for you to understand, but the way i have it in my head, it makes sense lol.
like Brazil or Ireland for example, both of their biggest sports is Soccer, but you won't see them playing in any of the sports you named above, whereas Baseball is more played in Japan or Cuba than Soccer so the fact that they are better than us in Baseball doesn't really bother me.
Olympic Gold does count but USA doesn't run shit like they used to; Argentina, Italy & Spain certainly compete. Baseball is still predominately known as an "American" sport; so if I was American and other countries are running Baseball like they do, it would bother me lol.
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lol yeah i kno im not tryna get at u, all im tryna show is that u cant judge a whole sport off of one youth game lol u should try n watch some games, u might actually like it :D
if the field was smaller & there were more attempted shots, i would enjoy it.
but i will admit, that shootout at the end of that game the other day, was fucking intense! :o ;D
Baseball: Japan > America. U can also argue Cuba, South Korea & Venezuela > America
Hockey: Canada > Russia > USA
Basketball - USA doesn't dominate like they used to anymore. Argentina, Italy & Spain really compete with them.
agreed, minus basketball; Olyimpic Gold counts for something.
but Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, Cuba, South Korea & Venezuela, moreso than Soccer.
& Hockey is the biggest sport in Canada & Russia, moreso than Soccer.
i don't know if i can explain that into a way for you to understand, but the way i have it in my head, it makes sense lol.
like Brazil or Ireland for example, both of their biggest sports is Soccer, but you won't see them playing in any of the sports you named above, whereas Baseball is more played in Japan or Cuba than Soccer so the fact that they are better than us in Baseball doesn't really bother me.
Olympic Gold does count but USA doesn't run shit like they used to; Argentina, Italy & Spain certainly compete. Baseball is still predominately known as an "American" sport; so if I was American and other countries are running Baseball like they do, it would bother me lol.
ehh the way i look at it, Baseball is derived from Cricket & Football from Rugby.
Basketball is the true American sport lol.
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^but was invented by a Canadian :P lol
just had to throw that in there
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Well Steven Gerrard ran 11.79km per game, with 1.07km of this at at "three-quarters of sprint pace or faster"
that's pretty impressive, but i haven't seen it.
like i said, i said this off an observation of a game on ESPN lol.
To play football at the highest level you have to be ridicously fit. Not just to be able to run but to have the fitness level so that you can technically perform.
I play 6 aside so the pitch is half the size, now i can run all day but when you get tired your touch goes.
It may not appear so on TV but there is a huge amount of movement off the ball. The camera may focus on a defender with the ball, but 60 yards up the pitch the forward is making a run down the wing. Obviously the other teams defender is following him, but you wouldnt see this.
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But you both can't deny the awesomeness of both goals.
That is true.