So 4 FIFA players just died...
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What I don’t understand is why is not hitting the major sports here as much. Like NFL or NBA. I mean sure a lot are testing positive, which means nothing, but nobody is dripping in the playing fields.
That is strange. Different poison maybe? Soccer is relentless at times whereas Hockey players are on and off and American football is intense only for moments. Maybe it's the prolonged high heart rate that burns them out faster combined with the Russian Roulette of which poison they got? Baseball and Golf athletes may only break a sweat if it's hot out while playing their circus's.
This plus like u/BejewelledBadger said, numbers.
Soccer is 45 minute halves without commercial breaks, timeouts, change of possession, etc. And you're jogging the entire time with bursts of sprints. Normal for pros to run 25+ miles a match, so definitely a more prolonged cardio workout. Then add that it's the most played sport in the world.
Edit: 25 is an overstatement, see below
You overdid it a bit with 25+ miles a match. I think it's more like 10-12km a match at the top level, probably less as you go down the leagues.
EDIT: here's some source: https://blog.mapmyrun.com/distance-run-per-game-in-various-sports/ . Not sure how accurate it is, but sounds right. They run much more than NBA, while NFL barely runs... a bit surprising to me, I'm not familiar with the sport but I assumed they were doing some running there.
Fair enough. Not sure why 25 mi was in my head. I know I used to run around 5 in high school so I guess 5x didnt seem outrageous, but then again theres not really anywhere to pick up that much distance when your running nonstop already so I should have realized that was a stretch.
yeah, but what about basketball?
also, keep in mind that even in football or hockey,pretty good odds coaches are probably gonna drill the hell out of their players at every practice, not to mention personal training time. Even in baseball you wanna be able to run the bases in a decent amount of time.
Substitutions, fouls, free throws, out of bounds, 2 additional period intermissions, the total game length is half, players don't play the entire game, tv time outs, and there's actually 14 team timeouts in basketball. Soccer match might have 10 throw-ins and 4 corners but the game doesn't stop and you might actually use more energy getting into position for that set piece than had there not been one.
Obviously everyone trains, but it's pretty clear than soccer is more of a prolonged cardio workout than other major sports. And if you're training for a cardio intense sport you're probably going to have more cardio based training than those other sports.
I wonder how many NFL players faked their vax cards...
NFL actually published that they suspended 3-4 players for faking their vax proof. Ddg it and you'll find it, I think they were in Tampa Bay.
Numbers. There's just so many professional football (soccer) players compared to NBA or NFL.
If it's about the huge numbers of FIFA players vs NBA and NFL combined, wouldn't that support the idea that such effects are actually pretty rare? These 4 deaths were all from different countries around the world.
I feel like the NFL is seeing tons of injuries. I've been participating in Fantasy Football for years and I've never had so much trouble keeping a full roster of players. Some of it is stupid testing policies of asymptomatic players, but there is also a lot of players going down with injuries. I'm guessing the players are healthy enough to shrug off most of the ill effects of the vaccines, but some of them are being sidelined with nagging injuries.
Soccer is endurance intensive, they run for 90 minutes non stop for at least 10 miles.