Check that name…and won’t find anything…soccerbullshits…can be…10"1, manula 90 meter…or simply never happened…
To give yuo an idea of soccer…“accuracy”, geoge weah, in a tv interview >I personally heard said: I used to run 10, now I run 11…when i see someone on rugby field with a lecit 10"70 FAT in a race, I have visula imression that he flies…when I see deion…amazing…when I see all of those other guys…no impression at all…However, in rugby, football, being so fast IS a great assett…in soccer, apart from the 12 km per game, (IMPEDING to be so fast…), it’s not so vital…
Living in italy I could go on for hours on soccer speed and strenght bullshit…ROb carlos, from the day he was supposed to join INTER, to the day he arrived, release that declaration (Top sporting newspapere nad national TV): 11"2…11" something…10"8…10"6…mid 10…wow…that’s a Taper!!
Luton Shelton, who is Jamaican (I’m sure that changes your opinion, although I’m not sure why) is real and he plays for relegated Sheffield Utd. and he chewed up (EPL Champion) Manchester United’s defense when they played their last match at the end of this season. Not sure about the figures. But, who cares? Not the point.
No offense but I guarantee the guys blubbering about soccer players not being able to be sprinters don’t watch more than 10 seconds of soccer a year. Why do you think this qualifies you to comment? Because you are a sprinting “guru”? It’s feckless anyway, I’ll admit, but its’s fun. I watch and follow both, and know the “real” answer (hint: there isn’t one). See below.
Here was my point: Cristiano Ronaldo and Theirry were examples of guys who have truly extraordinary speed and are able to apply it dozens of times throughout a professional soccer match, for 90 minutes, covering about 12000 meters each time, with a round ball at their feet, keeping it away from 11 other guys who get paid 7 figures to get it back. I think it was pretty obvious what I was saying.
Maybe they could be world class sprinters, maybe not. It was a frivolous thought experiment, not a scientific point.
Mostly my point was that Ronaldo–the “other” Ronaldo as he’s now known since Cristiano’s emergence–is not that fast anymore and even when he was dubbed fastest man on his new club AC Milan other players who are clearly pacier than he weren’t present. It was silly. Just watch a game. He doesn’t outrun anyone.
So, what you say about guys who are already world-class athletes with crazy speed, you could say about anyone, anywhere, but with much less credibility. It’s just a game we play; it’s not serious.
However, I have a question for you. How come soccer players don’t even BOTHER challenging world class sprinters to play soccer? I’ll let you figure it out…
The sprinters never BOTHER’D to challenge any other sportsperson to a sprint competition. It was the MEDIA who came up with the idea that FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND RUGBY PLAYERS WERE AS FAST. It is the media who lay down the “challenge”, not the sprinters or the football players. So don’t start making out the sprinters asked the footbalers and rugby players for a race, becuase they didn’t. The sprinters never asked other sportsmen for a race, just as the footballers never asked the sprinters for a game of football.
Then substitute “media”. What do I care? Use common sense. Paragraph well spent, though, sport…
Next time, try answering the question, too, Nitpick Nancy…
Sorry if it wasn’t clear to non-soccer fans.
Ronaldo, the man who this topic began about, is a Brazilian, and is 30 years old.
Cristiano Ronaldo is 22, Portuguese international, and regarded as one of the best players on Planet Earth.