Just how good are soccer players at running?

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3 years ago 11/25/2020 3:36pm EST

re: Chelsea

Chelsea wrote:
Supposedly Denis Wise used to do a 25 minute 5 mile tempo on the grass in London every week during the summer to keep fit for the long premiership season?

2 years after he retired Dennis did Superstars. For a retired footballer not noted for his speed 12.75 100m was pretty good. Even more impressive was his his 800m 2:08

A lot of soccer players would make good runners especially middle distance as they have good speed but cannot be just s sprinter as they are playing for 90 mins.

http://www.thesuperstars.org/athletes/wise.html

3 years ago 11/25/2020 4:47pm EST

re: want to settle this debate

1996 Kid from VT, who only played soccer in HS, realizes he can not get on the field at Southern CT. State university, because all players are foreign and very good. So, he goes out for XC. Broke 27 in the XC 5 miles at the end of his 1st year. By his senior year, he beat all the colleges in the state at the CT college meet. That includes Yale and Uconn. At nationals , makes All American for D2

3 years ago 11/26/2020 1:40pm EST

re: ukathleticscoach

ukathleticscoach wrote:
Chelsea wrote:
Supposedly Denis Wise used to do a 25 minute 5 mile tempo on the grass in London every week during the summer to keep fit for the long premiership season?
2 years after he retired Dennis did Superstars. For a retired footballer not noted for his speed 12.75 100m was pretty good. Even more impressive was his his 800m 2:08
A lot of soccer players would make good runners especially middle distance as they have good speed but cannot be just s sprinter as they are playing for 90 mins.
http://www.thesuperstars.org/athletes/wise.html

Agreed. I think you could see a lot of them do well in the 800, 1500, 3000, and 5000.

3 years ago 11/26/2020 8:38pm EST

re: Nigel_Bikes

Soccer is like a long series of 10 to 40m repeats with walk/jog recovery of 10 seconds to 2 minutes. That's not a good way to train for running events, even if done for 90 total minutes. All its good for training wise is soccer.

Viewers vastly overestimate the amount of time any particular soccer player is running fast. Often someone is running fast, but not always the same player.

If they were making the same effort as a basketball or hockey player, they'd have to rotate out every few minutes.

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