FIFA match statistics show Michael Bradley covered 12.2 km, Johnson top speed 32.98 km/h in US v. Portugal game.

Bradley is going to struggle to recover before the Germany game.

stick with eharmony statistic shows soccer is lame and boring.

7.5 miles in 95 minutes. not too bad. Roughly 12:40 pace. And people on this board are actually arguing that they can beat real runners in a race. Ha!

Some idiot female commentator on Fox News said that soccer players all run at least a half marathon during the game. I will give her the benefit of the doubt that she wasn't including the keeper, but even with that she wasn't even close. None of the lame arse other people who were part of the discussion questioned it.

some quick no doubt error prone math has 20 mph equal to a 11.25 second 100m.

and no doubt he only did it for 20 meters or fewer.

ok. Fine.

20.49mph is a 10.92s 100m

Yesz wrote:

20.49mph is a 10.92s 100m

A 10.92 flying 100, that's like a 12.50 100m FAT.

Randy Oldman wrote:

Bradley is going to struggle to recover before the Germany game.

He'll be fine. That extra km or whatever won't make a difference.

How did Howard run 4k+? Almost half the distance of field players? That doesn't pass the smell teset

Somethings fishy here wrote:

How did Howard run 4k+? Almost half the distance of field players? That doesn't pass the smell teset

That's nothing. Beto ran 5.4 km.

Goalkeepers do run and have the ball you know, and they walk when they don't have it. It's almost hard to move less than 4km over 90 minutes.

Le Foot wrote:

Randy Oldman wrote:

Bradley is going to struggle to recover before the Germany game.

He'll be fine. That extra km or whatever won't make a difference.

Define 'fine', please. The guy SUCKED against Portugal.

boomheadshot wrote:

7.5 miles in 95 minutes. not too bad. Roughly 12:40 pace. And people on this board are actually arguing that they can beat real runners in a race. Ha!

This was my observation watching the world cup over the weekend. Soccer is a lot like ultra running. They run from time to time but most of the time they are jogging or walking around.

These soccer guys would lose in a sprint, and they'd get demolished in a distance race. Absolutely demolished, by minutes.

Some of them, might do well at 800 or Mile, as in not lapped.

Bradley's stat is also not a great one because a lot of that was slow jogging, anyone can be out of shape and jog for 15km/10miles in 90 minutes. Bradley also appears to be jogging more and not running fast skewing the stat.

15km isn't even 9 min pace, and everyone gets big breaks on set pieces/halftime.

Being in shape in soccer implies fast breaks that are sprinting which require great fitness, lots of repeats and Vo2max workouts. These types of workouts are essential for mid fielders, not just jogging around for 90 minutes. Soccer is fast running, not jogging.

I know Wejo/Rojo are probably a bit defensive of the guy given who his father is. But defending his play yesterday or so far this World Cup is ridiculous.

RacistX wrote:

Le Foot wrote:

He'll be fine. That extra km or whatever won't make a difference.

Define 'fine', please. The guy SUCKED against Portugal.

He will be fine fitness- and energy-wise, at least relative to everyone else.

No, he did not have a good game.

Being that people like Adam Gemili and Andrew Wheating are mediocre futbol players with some world class futbol players having much greater talent, I predict that if you trained the most talented players to their specific strength, they would have times of 9.6 o 9.7 in 100 meters, 19.0-19.5 in 200 meters, 43 in 400 meters, 1:38 n 800 meters, about 3:25 in 1500 meters, and 7:20 in 3,000. They would crush existing times below 5,000 meters.

Somethings fishy here wrote:

How did Howard run 4k+? Almost half the distance of field players? That doesn't pass the smell teset

EXACTLY.

Obese people can move 2-3k in 90 minutes during Black friday at walmart.

what would be a more impressive stat for a midfielder is fast breaks WON, aka a mini race to the ball with another opposing player. I have yet to see Bradley run someone down this WC and he usually doesn't.

Jogging is not running, and whoever is training Bradley is training him to jog not RUN.

jacked wrote:

Being that people like Adam Gemili and Andrew Wheating are mediocre futbol players with some world class futbol players having much greater talent, I predict that if you trained the most talented players to their specific strength, they would have times of 9.6 o 9.7 in 100 meters, 19.0-19.5 in 200 meters, 43 in 400 meters, 1:38 n 800 meters, about 3:25 in 1500 meters, and 7:20 in 3,000. They would crush existing times below 5,000 meters.

The reason some guys are going to be better at futbol is because of natural muscle strength in the quads, while some better at track are going to have greater strength in the hamstrings/hip flexors.

Your understanding of both track and futbol isn't very good if you think that one equals the other.

boomheadshot wrote:

7.5 miles in 95 minutes. not too bad. Roughly 12:40 pace.

Oh snap! That time would crush stuck - no wonder he hates soccer and can't buy a date.