Calling soccer "wussie", that is an opinion. It is not a fact. And if anyone asks, I do like soccer. My team is Seattle Sounders FC.
quite common, destroyed knees are even more common and far far worse as far severity of injury is concerned, but a blown knee isn't as spectacular as a snapped leg on the evening sports video's you must have been playing against girls...I can recall mornings after a tough game and the first thing I did was throw-up, brought on by the waves of pain from my legs when I tried to walk...
Haha, what was even worse was it turned out I was actually quite good at it, and so was press ganged into the school team and made to play it all the (*)(*)(*)(*) time, my teacher being so scary that it was easier just to do as he said.
Nice, my cousin has recently moved to Seattle from Boston and I hope to go over and visit them at some stage, will have to go to a game.
compared to baseball who do what? stand around for entire evening, or NFL types who out of 60 minute game actually only play for 12 minutes, or if possession is even 6 1/2 minutes....
not so much to rest as to take away any momentum the other team may have...if the ref is suspicious he'll allow play to continue and even card the player for the attempt...it happens in every sport...
my cupcake soccer injuries-two rebuilt knees, 4 surgeries, shattered nose, broken cheek bones, concussions, broken toes, numerous torn ankle ligaments, so many stitches and scars my legs look like road maps... and from my best recall among my teammates, snapped legs, broken collar bones, skull fractures, concussions, ruptured stomach, broken fingers, detached retina, broken ankles, broken ribs, broken feet, a leg sliced open to the bone by cleats, lost teeth, broken arms...I could go on and on, our local league kept the ER's busy...
Your "point" was beyond retarded to begin with, you wanted me to take that seriously? American athletics dwarfs that of what the UK produces, if you actually want me to take your comment seriously. I believe the Olympics puts a stamp on that fact every 2 years.
Sounds like a bunch a fragile little Nancy's to me. You cupcakes just running in circles bumping into each other? You realize soccer is not a contact sport, correct?
Even non-contact sports have their moments. I still contend that being a baseball catcher is no walk in the park either... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpb8s_pPFPg"]Catcher Vs. Catcher - Collision at the Plate - YouTube[/ame]
big & dumb... just joking... I say that as a former high school catcher...it's tough on the knees mostly; collisions are rare enough, but the constant squatting takes it's toll. Catchers are the strategists on the field, they need to know each pitchers strengths against a particular hitter and call the right pitch...there's a mental aspect to the position that most casual fans don't think about. It's not Rugby, wrestling or football...I dont pretend to say the level of physicality compares to that.
I've never done it so it's foreign to me. I sometimes wish I had tried to played after wrestling season was over. Probably would have sucked though, I can't throw that fast and always sucked at hitting a baseball.
Ligaments, hamstrings and the like are particularly common injuries in soccer - I would say that no other sport puts as much strain on the legs in terms of stretching them into odd positions (and very vulnerable positions, if another player is going for the ball at the same time). Clashing of heads is a classic one for producing gashes and lots of blood, or worse. Not a contact sport? Kind of, sort of, theoretically, maybe..... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk_fATphz68"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk_fATphz68[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlz5tO1F9JI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlz5tO1F9JI[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_st29mlQwU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_st29mlQwU[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhl_Kv6GLsM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhl_Kv6GLsM[/ame] ....or maybe not!
LOL, claiming soccer is a contact sport doesn't even warrant a serious response. Even entertaining the idea is laughable. You would, would you? Well, you would be wrong. Go take a few BJJ classes. Go watch a few Muay Thai or MMA videos. Go learn what a knee bar, heel hook, and toe hold are.
It is not a 'full contact' sport like rugby, but it is certainly not a 'zero contact' sport either. There is contact, alot of contact, and sometimes very hard contact! It's nonsense to suggest otherwise, and the evidence is easy to see in any game. I was talking about team/ball sports, not martial arts, gymnastics and so on, obviously.
LOL - that is too funny! Say what? LOL Well, you do have a point. A lot more "dirty boxing" goes on than you think. Most of the time it happens away from the ref. I wouldn't go as far as UFC, but it ain't pretty. I think this could quite possibly be the first thing I have ever agreed with you on. Go buy a lotto ticket. Your lucky, at that age I was playing football, baseball, soccer, hockey... I played everything. I didn't discover rugby until senor year of high school. You do realize that "blown knees" or anything of the sort can happen in any sport that requires running and side to side motion. My buddy snapped his Achilles tendon playing me in one on one basketball, he thought that I had kicked him in the leg. If you threw up than you were out of shape, or not in shape enough to run the full 90. NFL is not a continuous sport, it was never meant to be. At that level of contact, if it was than nobody would make it to the end of the game, I don't care how good of shape you are in. Right, let me fake an injury to take away the other teams momentum. Right, and I once split a man in two on the field. Save it bro, I have played soccer. I know the deal. I quite because while it may take skill - it doesn't take heart. Just a bunch of dudes running around kicking the ball who run into each other ever so often and get injured. Look, to each his own. But I am not going to sit around and let people pretend soccer is some combat sport. LOL!
EH, my company has a lot of men that are from Mexico. My boss is a HUGE soccer fanatic. Needless to say, when the world cup came around the games were on none stop, he even set up a projector in the shop so the guys could watch the games. I was stuck for weeks watching that boring game. I didn't see much "contact" at all. I saw a lot of push off's, some leg injuries from slide tackles... things like that, but that's it.
That's my point - it's not a full contact sport, but contact does regularly happen, and can happen heavily and seriously (and can cause serious injury). Or, to put it another way, it is a 'contact sport', but not a 'collision sport': It isn't 'non-contact' like cricket, for example.
Playing soccer? That must be a slight exaggeration. I knew a couple Division I college soccer players back in the 80's, and don't recall them looking like they just went 15 rounds with Mike Tyson. You gotta be kidding me....ruptured stomach?
Is that good? MMA is tough. But it is an activity(it isn't properly a sport) for neanderthals with IQs in the high teens. It is moronic and barbaric, but it is tough.
Soccer does have it's brutality. These kids are on the same team...imagine what they must to do their opponents...
