Faster... Soccer players or football players?

[australiasbrain]

Who is faster?
If you took the fastest soccer player and the fastest football players who would win in a 40 yard dash race?

Why would it be a 40 yard dash???
Why only 40 yards???


40 yards is only like 36 meters...thats nothing. Soccer players run much longer lengths than that.


If you are going to continue to be biased and use both US metrics and lengths that US players train for than you are a *******.

[Vhagar]

I hate when people call it American Football.

It's football

Soccer is not football. It's soccer. ****gy time works too

[Larfleeze]

I hate when people call it American Football.

It's football

Soccer is not football. It's soccer. ****gy time works too

[Vhagar]

****gy time

[LaCosaNostra90]

Cristiano Ronaldo ran a 4.34 40 yard dash. He is likely faster than most NFL players but overall NFL players are faster

[danplashkes]

Cristiano Ronaldo ran a 4.34 40 yard dash. He is likely faster than most NFL players but overall NFL players are faster

He's not even close to being the fastest soccer player though.

[LaCosaNostra90]

He's not even close to being the fastest soccer player though.

Yes he is. Bale might be faster

[bigdaddy933]

not sure if srs

[bigdaddy933]

Ronaldo is top 5 fastest in soccer

[Archangel_Lost]

well, for sprints, obviously american footballers. That's half the sport. Soccer is more general athleticism and american football is all about a bunch of special sports specific things.

[australiasbrain]

can anyone give me the over under for game time spent with ball under control of hand as opposed to foot...hence football for both NFL and say EPL?

how can a game be called football when the ball hardly touches your feet?

[Nathan17]

sprint - football
stamina - soccer

this

[danplashkes]

Yes he is. Bale might be faster

No he isn't. There are plenty of African and Caribean players that are faster. For example, Seydou Doumbia.

[Nathan17]

I hate when people call it American Football.

It's football

Soccer is not football. It's soccer. ****gy time works too

negged, I hate when people hate things about sports and they don't even play them

[eastcoastATL]

The top 5 players in soccer this season are as followed in no order
Bale
Walcott
Samuel eto'o
Ryo myachi
Aaron Lennon.
All of those players have 100m dashes of under 11seconds. But the thing that sets aside soccer players from football players it that soccer players have far superior 15yard times(if they were measured). And they can do it. Stop take no break, and record the Same time 5 times in a row. They have to sprint at top speed, all while have a ball at your feet and defenders throwing their feet at your stride and battling physically from defenders. In a zig-zag race, soccer players would record times better than football players. The 10th fastest soccer player will beat the fastest ever football player in a zig zag race. Then beat the second fastest, without any break. I currently play high school football( 5'11 185, 4.7 40yd and 37 inch vertical) and high school soccer. Both sports are difficult. In a straight sprint for 40yds a football player would win. Hands down. But could he win the second time?

[joemama6943]

Thats not fast.

hahaha prolly faster than you while weighing 100 lbs more and obviously faster than ronaldo, one of your sports best players judging by the video earlier ITT

[joemama6943]

Ronaldo is top 5 fastest in soccer

If you guys are saying ronaldo is one of the fastest soccer players you are discrediting your own point lol, he ran a 3.6 over 25m 3 point ****ing 6, that is horrible. then he took a vertical jump test with a 2 step run up and barely jumped 30 inches I personally can jump 4 inches higher than that as a regular citizen who barely trains. lets just admit football players are way faster and more explosive, its pretty obvious

[alir7]

[QUOTE=GrecoRoman;765516483]Football has the better/faster pure athletes. Wes Welker would rival Messi with his lateral speed and agility and Welker isn't even a top 20 fastest player. BRB trying to mark Calvin Johnson in the box.

dumb ass!
theres a BIG difference between agility with a soccer ball and agility with a "foot"ball

i bet messi is more agile than him without any type of ball and plus messi may be second best or the best player right now but that doesnt mean he's the fastest soccer player DUMB ASS, i dont even think messi is in the top 20 either!

for real football(soccer) you need more than speed!

[alir7]

I hate when people call it American Football.

It's football

Soccer is not football. It's soccer. ****gy time works too

"soccer" was invented first ! and its called FOOTball for a reason !

i hate when dumbasses like you breath, you take up too much oxygen and you're a waste of time, space, and money

"football" is not football, its ****

[Reach_Yeah]

true, their job is to be a wall and prevent the defender from getting past them, or to block a hole for the runner.

for teh lulz,



also to the sprinting debate, Jeff Demps, a mediocre college player, ran a 10.01 in the Olympic trials while still in high school. 99% of football players dont care about track outside of practice for football

Adam Gemili was a decent young "soccer" player in West Ham's development squad. He went to a local athletics club to improve his sprinting technique, and within 15 months had become the fastest 100m sprinter in World Junior history!

Usain Bolt played cricket and wanted to go pro but realised he had a better future in sprinting. Jus sayin.

Usuan Bolt is also desperate to play for Man Utd. When he does I think "soccer" will have the winrar!

[rhyfelwr]

Over the 40 most Footballers definitely. Over longer distances probably the Soccer Players.

[mbland02]

you soccer players need to quit being so but hurt football players are faster in the 40 times hands down that is what the op asked for not who has more stamina and I would probably win a lot of.money if I said I am sure that most football players could keep up with soccer players in stamina as well. it is a fallacy to say that soccer players never stop running because they do I saw it recently. guarentee Adrian Peterson would be able to keep up stamina wise with the best soccer players and that dude has 220 lbs on him but I digress that was not the Ops question.

football>soccer 40 times

[DEVBRUH]

I hate when people call it American Football.

It's football

Soccer is not football. It's soccer. ****gy time works too

Lol makes total sense you fukking retard. Disregard the meaning of words, acquire ignorance.

[aces8]

The top 5 players in soccer this season are as followed in no order
Bale
Walcott
Samuel eto'o
Ryo myachi
Aaron Lennon.
All of those players have 100m dashes of under 11seconds. But the thing that sets aside soccer players from football players it that soccer players have far superior 15yard times(if they were measured). And they can do it. Stop take no break, and record the Same time 5 times in a row. They have to sprint at top speed, all while have a ball at your feet and defenders throwing their feet at your stride and battling physically from defenders. In a zig-zag race, soccer players would record times better than football players. The 10th fastest soccer player will beat the fastest ever football player in a zig zag race. Then beat the second fastest, without any break. I currently play high school football( 5'11 185, 4.7 40yd and 37 inch vertical) and high school soccer. Both sports are difficult. In a straight sprint for 40yds a football player would win. Hands down. But could he win the second time?

lol

[wisdommaster1]

my favorite part of the this thread is everyone e-statting their 40yd and 100m run times.... and also the guy that claimed a kid ran an 8s 100m

[SensationWhite]

[RealAesthetic]

some young soccer player beat Walcott, and did it in 8seconds...forgot his name though.

dumbass

[hurstville]

What about rugby... all pretty legit times..

100m sprint.

Result:
1 Lachie Turner (NSW Waratahs) 11.10
2 John Grant (Eastwood) 11.15
3 Jarryd Hayne (Parammata Eels) 11.20
4 Josh Morris (Canterbury Bulldogs)11.44
5 Ben Barba (Canterbury Bulldogs) 11.45
6 Nathan Gardner (Cronulla Sharks) 11.77
7 Matt Lewis (Central Coast Mariners) 11.99