Zelda cut them. Their mom's werent hot enough.
SMF...You are entitled to your opinion, as am I. That being said, I disagree with you 100%. I am will to bet you that very few professional soccer players could complete a marathon. An elite marathon runner is running for at least 2 consecutive hours at a speed that most professional soccer players couldn't maintain for more then a mile. The average marathon runner is doing the same pace, at a slightly slower level. for probably at least 4 consecutive hours, no way is Ronaldo, Messi or any other professional soccer players going to do that. I just watched the Argentina-Ecuador soccer game on Saturday and during the last 20 minutes of the game I saw most of the players, on both teams, just standing still for most of the remaining time.
OK, just so we are clear, you believe Ronaldo couldn't beat your 45 year old coworker who is a recreational marathoner and runs 4 hour marathons?
I highly doubt Ronaldo or Messi could qualify for Boston without training. I do know I would never have soccer players do the most important marathon workout - the long run. So no, they aren’t in marathon shape, or close to it. As for endurance, they really aren’t any better than hockey players, lacrosse players or basketball players, football players, etc. All need lots of brief powerful bursts over about 120 elapsed minutes. And, all could beat Oprah’s time without training. Very few are rolling out of bed and running a BQ time. Maine are close to world class.
Yeah. Look SMF is a soccer junkie. He feeds in intravenously like it is the best thing since sliced bread. The soccer player is the world's greatest athlete. He can run a marathon then right after win the 110 high hurdles and high jump. Put on skates, then skate past Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid, grab a driver and out drive DJ and DeChambeau, put on a pair of converse and outshoot Stef Curry and then win a dunk contest over Zion, then throw a football farther than Josh Allen. That's the soccer player SMF knows, the greatest athlete in the world.
Did I say they'd qualify for Boston? I said ANY of them can outrun your 45 year old coworker without training for it. They are in THAT kind of shape. Their bodies are built for endurance, similar in composition to real marathon runners. A football, basketball, or hockey player, or 45 year old accountants cannot compete with them in an endurance race.
If you are asking me if I believe that "Ronaldo couldn't beat a 45 year old" person who is a trained/or in training Marathoner runner...my answer is I do not believe that he could do so.
Well, qualifying for Boston isn’t THAT hard. Given a lot of work a pretty high percentage of people can do it. If a soccer player can’t do it, they sure as heck aren’t in anywhere near their peak fitness for the event. And no, their bodies aren’t built for endurance, they simply need way too much speed, power and strength.
Ronaldo is one of the greatest pure athletes to ever live. Had he grown up in Ohio, he would have been a HOF football player. Had he grown up in the Bronx, and NBA player. If he grew up in the Dominican, a HOF Baseball player. He is that type of dude.
If she was a former HS/college distance runner and runs multiple distance races per year, even at 47, she isn't a recreational runner. I am saying he can beat the overweight accountant sitting in the next cube who is running 4, 4.5, even 5 hour marathon.
I think you are underestimating the conditioning of elite soccer players. A few years ago my son played d 1 soccer. At that time he could run a 10 k race in the low 30’s with no training. Their coach entered their team in a marathon during their spring season. Most of the team finished in under 4 hours.
Oh Christ...here we go again. Like SMF predicting Terrelle Pryor was the next Mike Jordan. Stop it Andrew, stop it.
And its why I am smarter than most of you. There are elite athletes in every sport that had they grown up elsewhere or chosen a different sport early on, they'd be world-class at that sport.
Entering a marathon during the season was dumb, IMO - that said, at least they went slow. The times strongly suggest, they were no where near marathon shape. 10k times are in the range of the woman’s Olympic trial qualifying time of 32:25. For a marathon, they would need to run 2:45 to meet the women’s qualifying time. For the 10k, the men could qualify as a women, for the marathon not even close.
What makes you think either Kobe or LeBron could hit major league pitching?
Messi is 5'7 so uhh...no.
How many of these guys could play a different position at the highest level, much less make HOF in a different sport? If it were that easy, they would all play golf.
Keep telling yourself that all sports require the same things and that loving one means one will love others.
Terrelle Pryor never played WR in his life, switched to WR in his late 20s and had a 1000 yard season. Why? World-class athlete. Had he played WR and only WR from HS on, he'd be HOF.
It kinda goes without saying that certain sports, certain positions have a size requirement. I'm talking about athleticism, not size.
Well, size is part of athleticism. As is speed, power, endurance, vision, timing, etc. if these thing translated so easily, we wouldn’t have needed to wait 100 years to see someone hit and pitch at the major league level.
Size has nothing to do with athleticism. Size is size. Speed, power, endurance, vision, timing is part of athleticism. Great size can help a great athlete but they aren't related. You can have great size and be a terrible athlete. You can have great athleticism but terrible size.
It was the spring season. Games did not count. I never stated they would qualify for the olympics. They did zero training for a marathon, but still could run one. I only was stating that their conditioning was being underestimated by most of you.
That makes more sense. Also, please don’t take my comments to mean I think their conditioning is lacking in any way. I consider a 400/ 800m runner to be of the same fitness level as a marathoner - they just have different strengths. My stance is that any marathon performance resulting from soccer training won’t come close to what they could do if they were actually in shape to run one and that repetitive sprints are way more valuable to a soccer player than sustained running.
Sure, but there is a huge difference between super good and top league starter. Huge difference between top league starter and HOF. If were that easy, we would see way more pitchers/ position player combos. We don’t because it isn’t.
