Iran Has a Sub 10 Seconds 100m Man on Their Soccer Team

The Iranians have a player thats gone under 10 seconds in the 100...yea, and the Holocaust didn't happen.

What else do they want us to believe? I was so happy that they got smoked today.

screw that, sub 10 my ass, high 10s maybe

sgh wrote:

Is it possible to be able to run olympic type times without track training. Maybe due could have run sub 10 if he focused on track not soccer, If he could run sub 10 without track training, just imagine.

I am more inclined to beleive a sub 4 mile from a soccer player than a sub 10 100.

Don't!

Expect no mentionable time on any distance from any soccer player. It requires specific training. Some of the players has remarkable explosional speed over maybe 30 meters, but none of them has the ability to sustain power; notice how they fade!

A sub 4 mile. Ridiculous!

I bet they if the bunch of 'world class athletes' – the players in the world cup – were given a sub17 5K, the number of succeding players would be extremely low. But so what? It's not their sport!

There is no soccer player in the World Cup right now who capeable of running less than 17 mins for 5k. Maybe one or two players at the most could run under 5 mins for a mile.

Soccer is primarily a game of skill. The athletism that is is required is the ability to accelerate quickly over about 10 or 20 metres to get into space or to burst past defenses. In a 90 minute game a player will cover 7 miles. Think about it, 7 miles in 90 minutes. That is not difficult to do at all.

Although I laugh at claims of team sports players especially about their running/boxing/jumping ability, I am 100% sure, that there are at least 10 players on every team that could run sub 17min 5k without any problems.

I had played soccer until I was seventeen and I KNOW what shape I was in. I wasn't pro, but I could run over 4000m in the 12min Cooper test of aerobic fitness on the track. In the men's pro team of my club, there were 4 faster runners than me. I bet that defensemen and midfielders and some forward wings from the best of best players in the World have very good running times and the rest of the team excellent aerobic fitness as well.

No doubt that sub 10s 100m is bull crap, but I am willing to accept cca 10.5s handtimed, that's not that uncommon among soccer players.

while im sure the sub ten thing is bullshit, you guys clearly aren't giving soccer players or other pro athletes enough respect. they are great athletes and speed and endurance are both very big components of their sport.

I'll take a bet of any size that there are far more than a couple players who could break 5 min for the mile in the World Cup. I'd hope more like 50-100 players could. If myself as a scrawny hs freshman could break 5 doing basically nothing but soccer practice and a couple miles 4 or 5 days a week at track practice then many of these players can. I only got to 4:26 in hs by the way so I wasn't some monster talent or anything either. The 17 minute 5K however would be more likely to only have a few players capable of this since running 3+ miles continuously is pretty far from what a soccer game simulates.

Yeah 5 minute barrier isn't really that difficult... 17 minute barrier for 5k however, is much more difficult. That's what, 3.1 5:25 miles?

Iranians claim a lot of things

I would say a 17 would not be so uncommon since lots of teams do distance running, although limited, in training. A lot of dedicated college/amateur players I know run to condition on their own. I'd say the average player has a 19:low minute 5k in him though.

cmt wrote:

I would say a 17 would not be so uncommon since lots of teams do distance running, although limited, in training. A lot of dedicated college/amateur players I know run to condition on their own. I'd say the average player has a 19:low minute 5k in him though.

Oh, c'mon. You are comparing the best of the best players to college ammateurs? Don't be ridiculous. The football (soccer) has changed dramatically over the last decade. it's more athletic, includes lots of running and except for the very few players at the world stage (like fat Ronaldo or fat Rooney), almost anybody can run over 3600m in the 12minute Cooper test (that's 5:20/mile pace, for those of you who are illiterate). I am not claiming any 4min milers (however the talent is definitely there if it was only a question of choosing the right candidates), but I say at the WCH 10 players on EACH team can run sub 17min 5k. BTW, each team has 22-25 players with alternates and reserve.

thierry henry can run a 9.6

Rumour has it hes subbed 17.30 min for 5k at 16. Clearly not great for a runner but good for a football player

I thought the broadcaster said the Iranian could cover "100 yards" in under 10 seconds. Not "100 meters".

Everything changes if it is yards instead of meters.

This article says he has a reported sub-11 time. Very believable. I'm ESPN just displayed typical American incompentence by saying sub-10. Why would they bother to do research anyway?

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/8011_1702316,00160126.htm

And for evidence here he is, in typical sprinter bragging mode, first paragraph:

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/bypa/yptw_profile.html?commonname=500019

'he is one of the planet’s fastest footballers. When asked how fast he could complete the 100-metre dash, he told FIFAworldcup.com proudly, “I think I can do it in under 10 seconds!”'

Not fact, just bragging, like Gaitlin, "I could have run a 9.51", yeah right Justin.

i don't know if i believe that a guy can go sub 10 BUT your statement is more ludicruous... i am runner who used to be a soccer player in college. they do some long distance running in their training. to say there is not 1 who could go sub 17 for 5k...that is just plain stupidin college we had to do the 2 mile in 12 minutes opening day, there were always a couple brushing up against 11 flat and that was on a sub-par college soccer teami would wager there would be quite a few who could go sub 17 in a 5k

football fan wrote:

There is no soccer player in the World Cup right now who capeable of running less than 17 mins for 5k. Maybe one or two players at the most could run under 5 mins for a mile.

Soccer is primarily a game of skill. The athletism that is is required is the ability to accelerate quickly over about 10 or 20 metres to get into space or to burst past defenses. In a 90 minute game a player will cover 7 miles. Think about it, 7 miles in 90 minutes. That is not difficult to do at all.

So you were in about 15 flat 5k shape and you had at least 4 guys that were in sub 15 shape on the pro team? I call b.s. on both counts unless you were a runner first and a soccer player a distant second. I still call bs on the second claim that you knew 4 guys that were, are, or ever have been in sub 15 5k shape on any soccer team in the world.

German David Odonko (youngster... not well known, but in the team) did run a 10,7 for 100 m.... thats believable for a soccerplayer