So 4 FIFA players just died...
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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.
There's major league soccer teams in dozens of cities across the United States, not to mention minor leagues or indoor leagues. You'd think if it was soccer specifically that was exacerbating these issues and causing deaths, there'd also be deaths in the active soccer leagues we have in the US.
Just playing devil's advocate
Have we been hearing about track athletes dropping? I figure if it's intense cardio that's the problem, there's probably a lot of runners having heart attacks as well..
Also, what about non-competitive fitness personalities?
If this is true, there should be some overlap there as well... =/
I'm not trying to antagonize, btw, just trying to get the view from the high ground...
Don't disagree with you there, I would expect that too. I haven't paid attention to if HS/college track athletes are overepresented, but I'll start now that you mention it.
Quick look at the NYC marathon had 33k entrants this year vs 50k in 2019. There could be something there with your everyday runner experiencing issues and not training for it, but it also could just be less people wanting to travel post scamdemic so that doesn't tell me much.
I would also guess that with sports/fitness that aren't really in a structured league there would be less of the forced vax. If you're a weight lifter for instance a compeition may want a negative test day of, so Id guess you have a lesser percentage vaxxed outside of major sports.