Soccer the 10th hardest sport in the world??

[KoreaJjang]

I dunno how the hell Tennis got there...its pretty easy IMO
Basketball is hard?? thats if you really suck
Baseball can be hard but its nothing compared to Soccer where you have to run whole soccer ground...
Soccer should be at least 7th

 

[VanTheMin]

but the best is still soccer!!!

 

[Mutt]

wheres australian rules football ?? .....

 

[monkee]

Re: Soccer the 10th hardest sport in the world??

1. Boxing - definatley should be on the list
2. Ice Hockey - agree. Physical, fast-paced, coordination. It has everything you need to make a sport 'hard'
3. Football - (not real football but football that you play with your hands)... Okay it's a physical sport but it's a 1hr game that takes 3hrs, and you only play for 30mins each (on average), you get to rest so much that it's hardly a test in those terms. Then you have someone telling you what you have to do. All the player needs to remember is patterns, and be able to take a hit (some of which are nasty). The QB needs to be able to throw, the receiver to catch and the defender to block/tackle. Robots could play it, seriously.
4. Basketball - hmmm. Deserves it more than football because players need to be able to do more than 1 thing, but still. Defending is next to redundant for the most part, so it's the team that misses most. It doesn't seem that difficult to score - for the pros... you get loads of breaks too.
5. Wrestling - are we talking about panto wrestling, aka WWE (steroid abusers having a hug whilst acting a part), or classic wrestling (2 guys having quite a vicious hug to see who goes on the bottom). It's bound to be physically tough but should it be on the list, I don't know.
6. Martial Arts - I'd say yes but it's an uneducated yes. I've not seen it performed as a sport much.
7. Tennis - Yes. 5 set matches, 120+mph serves. You get the odd rest but that's for like 1min and you follow the summer around so you could end up running around for 4hrs in 30degree temperatures and still have the whits about you to return a Roddick serve.
8. Gymnastics - yeah, in some respects. These people are fit and they are poised. They compete in more than 1 discipline and have to have nerves of steel. Would you fancy jumping around on the beam? Or swinging around the highbars? Not me. They just look a bit daft in lycra, that's all.
9. Baseball/Softball - are you kidding me? If this is here then so should be cricket. I'm not saying it's easy to hit a 90mph fastball with a rounded bat but harder than cricket, nah.
10. Soccer - I'm biased but it should be higher. Multi-skilled players run around for 2 45min halves and aren't allowed to use their hands. Endurance, yes. Skill, yes. (then there's the emotion, you don't get that in many other sports. Not at the speed it can change in 'soccer'. Almost no other sport can boast to have the possibility of the events that happend in CL final of 1999)

Yep the list is daft. It's difficult to rank them but there's a few on there that are crap. How can you include 'Football' and not rugby (no breaks - no pads)? How can you include baseball/rounders and not cricket?

It's already been said why not cycling? the Tour De France is probably the biggest endurance challenge in sport. What about triathlon? Or rally driving? - if you want reaction and nerve then you aren't going to beat 100mph through a twisting, tree-lined, single track, gravel road with a 100ft drop on you left and 2seconds to make up on the guy you're trying to beat.

 

[Bobby]

Re: Re: Soccer the 10th hardest sport in the world??

Originally posted by monkee

5. Wrestling - are we talking about panto wrestling, aka WWE (steroid abusers having a hug whilst acting a part), or classic wrestling (2 guys having quite a vicious hug to see who goes on the bottom). It's bound to be physically tough but should it be on the list, I don't know.

we're talking about Memphis classic wrestling, the good stuff.

 

[Elder]

Re: Re: Re: Soccer the 10th hardest sport in the world??

Originally posted by Bobby
we're talking about Memphis classic wrestling, the good stuff.

Is that Jerry Lawler stuff there or what?!

 

[Solo Inter]

soccer - nerve - 3.63

Seems to me nerve and mentality are one of the most important things about soccer, nerve should be 7.5

and aparently according to ESPN you don't have to be flexible to play soccer either

ESPN listed all these sports as needing to be more flexible than in soccer

Ice Hockey
Basketball
Wrestling (ok)
Martial Arts (yes)
Tennis
Gymnastics(another yes)
Baseball (4.75 same as soccer WTF????)
Skiing
Water Polo
Rodeo - you tell me those f*ckin cowboys are more flexable WTF ever
Volleyball
Surfing
Fencing


This is just f*ckin stupid!!!!!

 

[Elder]

Originally posted by Solo Inter
soccer - nerve - 3.63

Seems to me nerve and mentality are one of the most important things about soccer, nerve should be 7.5

and aparently according to ESPN you don't have to be flexible to play soccer either

ESPN listed all these sports as needing to be more flexible than in soccer

Ice Hockey
Basketball
Wrestling (ok)
Martial Arts (yes)
Tennis
Gymnastics(another yes)
Baseball (4.75 same as soccer WTF????)
Skiing
Water Polo
Rodeo - you tell me those f*ckin cowboys are more flexable WTF ever
Volleyball
Surfing
Fencing


This is just f*ckin stupid!!!!!

You have to be flexible in all sports really. Rodeo guys are studs, you would be surprised. But i was also wondering about soccer players not being flexible... what a crock. I don't really mind the list so much as the fact that BASEBALL is above soccer. It just doesnt' make sense.

But I do think that if boxing is number 1, then "martial arts" should be right near it. At least the no rules fighting version of martial arts.

 

[Emre_5]

Originally posted by Gerrard 17
1. Boxing - you can spend $50 on a boxing bag, hang it from the ceiling and punch it
You fail. Just give up already. That argument is weak.

Yea Too Bad the Punching bag doesnt punch back. Just cuz u punch a punching bag doesnt mean your a Boxer.....I wanna see you stand in a ring for 12 3 minute rounds and take a beating round after round and still come back....Boxing takes a **** LOAD out of you....My Friends and I used to box and do 3, 2 minute rounds and we would be completely floored. its also tough to be standing next to someone who's 6 inches from u and try to avoid a flury of punches.

 

[Emre_5]

hitting a 100 mph fastball isnt truely the hard part of baseball...its trying the hit the 80 mph changeup that looks exactly like the 100mph fastball or the 85 mph curve ball that looks like its gonna hit u in the head but then drops in for a strike.

 

[Lean]

Boxing is definitely the hardest sport. It can hurt you very bad, you can get blind from it and stuff like that. But, basketball shouldnt be anywhere on that list. It's all due to practicing and positioning. Plus if you're tall and has the least of coordination, you can be a basketball player.

Also, like someone said, you do anything and the ref. calls for a foul. Football (or soccer as you wish) can be the 99th hardest sport in the world, but basketball is not above it.

 

[Walkeranz]

You are all a bunch of idiots arguing over what sport is harder than what. All of these are based on the competitive level by a bunch of **** doctors who have never played any of them. They are all difficult in their on way. Everyone would place each sport in a different order. Everyone has different opinions. Fat people also play Baseball. Ex: John Kruk Philadelphia Phillies

 

[Gerrard 17]

Originally posted by Emre_5
Yea Too Bad the Punching bag doesnt punch back. Just cuz u punch a punching bag doesnt mean your a Boxer.....I wanna see you stand in a ring for 12 3 minute rounds and take a beating round after round and still come back....Boxing takes a **** LOAD out of you....My Friends and I used to box and do 3, 2 minute rounds and we would be completely floored. its also tough to be standing next to someone who's 6 inches from u and try to avoid a flury of punches.

Don't take my **** out of context, read the whole post.

I was making fun of the guy's way of thinking.

Thanks son...

 

[Minus]

Re: Soccer the 10th hardest sport in the world??

Originally posted by Elder
Here is an interesting link to a study done by ESPN. It ranks sports in terms of how hard they are to compete in on a basis of many different atttributes. Here are the top 10.


1. Boxing
2. Ice Hockey
3. Football
4. Basketball
5. Wrestling
6. Martial Arts
7. Tennis
8. Gymnastics
9. Baseball/Softball
10. Soccer

Okay, this list is pretty silly, so go to the link and read the info and feel free to chime in. Baseball number 9? Yeah... I agree with the first 2 though.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

How the f*cc can you say that baseball is harder than football(soccer). I jest dont get it. Any ways I decided to compose my own list seeing as how the one by espn is totally bias.

1. Boxing
2. Ice Hockey
3. Wrestling(Olympic style/not wwf)
4. Footaball
5. Basketball
6. Football(American/NFL)
7. Tennis
8. Martial Arts
9. Gymnastics
10. Baseball

 

[Yossarian]

hitting a 100 mph fastball isnt truely the hard part of baseball...its trying the hit the 80 mph changeup that looks exactly like the 100mph fastball or the 85 mph curve ball that looks like its gonna hit u in the head but then drops in for a strike.


lol, well put, bro.

 

[northstar]

I am going to step in here and set some things straight. This was a survey of professors, hence it was not ESPN just making things up. See here and you can see the people are experts http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=degree/bios
People such as this have taught me at university sports science classes.

However they are mostly American based so that will cause some bias. No reason to be a crap head about it though, just keep it in mind. It would be better to see just the scores from the academic people. No one cares what the baseball/NFL player or media people think. Their opinions will not be unbiased.

Football is not the hardest sport in the world. It scored low because of the aspects some sports involve heavily, are not so important in football. No one is ever considering they will get badly hurt like they could in boxing, ice hockey, skiing, etc....Football injuries are relatively minor.

you dont really need much flexibiliy to play football either. If you see the score is similar for ice hockey, and that sport is the closest sport in terms of training. If you saw the training program for pro football and hockey players, they would be quite similar. Only the goalkeepers need great flexibility.

Areas where football was given a low score is hand eye coordination. The other low scores are justified well I think.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Re: Re: Soccer the 10th hardest sport in the world??

Originally posted by monkee
4. Basketball - hmmm. Deserves it more than football because players need to be able to do more than 1 thing, but still. Defending is next to redundant for the most part, so it's the team that misses most. It doesn't seem that difficult to score - for the pros... you get loads of breaks too.
10. Soccer - I'm biased but it should be higher. Multi-skilled players run around for 2 45min halves and aren't allowed to use their hands. Endurance, yes. Skill, yes. (then there's the emotion, you don't get that in many other sports. Not at the speed it can change in 'soccer'. Almost no other sport can boast to have the possibility of the events that happend in CL final of 1999)

It is not easy to score in basketball, if you think it is you obviously either haven't played it, or haven't played against anyone that can defend worth ****. You know why the pros make it look easy to score? Because they're pros; they're the best out there. It is much harder to become an NBA Basketball Player than a Premiership Soccer Player.

Look guys, honestly this is all you need for soccer....endurance, decision making. There really isn't a skill that you need to master in order to play high level soccer. There are plenty of soccer players that make a living by being no nonsense type guys who run the pitch, but don't make a hundred moves every game. When you get the ball, you can either dribble (NOT hard, I could do it well when I was 12) or pass (also not hard, I became DAMN good around 15). It really is all about decision making and endurance. If you make poor decisions (like most wannabes and bad players), you're going to suck, but making decisions isn't hard, it's just learning how to not be a selfish prick. There isn't a skill in soccer that you need to master at all, if you think it's hard to run for 90 minutes then clearly you don't see the countless 50 year old men out for their morning jogs every day who do it. Soccer is NOT THAT HARD.

 

[chatterbox]

Originally posted by Virgo
baseball ahahahah what a joke

Hitting a baseball was voted by ESPN to be the hardest thing to do in professional sports

 

[Ulric_B]

Originally posted by Gerrard 17
They're not talking about wrestling as in WWE or NWO or whatever.

They mean the REAL wrestling, like in the Olympics. Which is not an easy sport.

Agree, I saw a documentary about a World Champion from Sweden (Ara
Abrahamian, yes he is a Swede).
It was only about to take pain, it was the worst practice I ever seen.
Pain, pain & pain.
I cannot understand how a man can take so much of pain, were is the funny part in this sport?

 

[Elder]

ENDURANCE: The ability to continue to perform a skill or action for long periods of time. Example: Lance Armstrong

STRENGTH: The ability to produce force. Example: NFL linebackers.

POWER: The ability to produce strength in the shortest possible time. Example: Barry Bonds.

SPEED: The ability to move quickly. Example: Marion Jones, Maurice Green.

AGILITY: The ability to change direction quickly. Example: Derek Jeter, Mia Hamm.

FLEXIBILITY: The ability to stretch the joints across a large range of motion. Example: Gymnasts, divers.

NERVE: The ability to overcome fear. Example: High-board divers, race-car drivers, ski jumpers.

DURABILITY: The ability to withstand physical punishment over a long period of time. Example: NBA/NHL players.

HAND-EYE COORDINATION: The ability to react quickly to sensory perception. Example: A hitter reacting to a breaking pitch; a drag racer timing acceleration to the green light.

ANALYTIC APTITUDE: The ability to evaluate and react appropriately to strategic situations. Example: Joe Montana reading a defense; basketball point guard on a fast break.



Okay, for those who didn't read it, here is how the list was scored. I;m sorry, but soccer should score high in many of those categories... they mention Mia Hamm for "agility" but not speed or anything...