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JakeTheTall wrote:

zdecker wrote:

Arsenal2006 wrote:

It is also a fact that a soccer player could go play any other sport and be good at it but  those players of other sports couldn't play soccer.  It is one of those sports that takes a lifetime to learn how to play.

I guarantee you that if you take a tennis player and have him play soccer for the first time, that he will be much better at soccer than a soccer player forced to play tennis for the first time. 

You may have a somewhat valid point on soccer players being more fit than many athletes.  The skill/learning curve for soccer, however, is unarguably less than many other sports. 

There is a reason soccer is so popular around the world.  There is a reason so many children play soccer. 
It is an easy sport to pick up.  --Difficult to master perhaps, but certainly very easy to learn.

Pound-for-pound, I think hockey players are among the toughest blokes out there.

They totally need to set up a Thunderdome style match-up between elite level athletes from various sports.  We could set up a march madness style bracket so everyone could place bets on who the toughest athlete is.

Personally I'd put my money on Alexander Karelin (I know he's retired, but I think without a jersey to get pulled over his head any hockey player would be at a loss).

Last edited by menglish (2005-05-24 12:23 am)

zdecker wrote:

mackerm wrote:

zdecker wrote:

There is a reason soccer is so popular around the world.  There is a reason so many children play soccer. 
It is an easy sport to pick up.  --Difficult to master perhaps, but certainly very easy to learn.

I've read that it's popular in schools because it's cheap to set up. No mats, mitts, bats, rackets, pads, hoops, helmets, or pucks. Just a ball and a few sticks to mark the goals, and you're pretty much set.

There's probably quite a bit of truth to that too!

I think also the fewest rules of any of the major sports.

Robert B. wrote:

Do you have an English pub near you?

Nah, used to have one in old C-Bus Ohio, but now I live in the Hoosier State.  If you don't talk  about john Mellencamp, Basketball, or robbing trains, then you are definitely considered queer (especially when soccer is the subject).  Well, I guess that Chicago is only 45 min. from here.  Maybe I should find a pub there.