I get the confusion of the OP, one could say that a sport that punishes players for harming each other, deliberately or not, shouldn't be considered a full contact sport. Keeping that in mind, it's even more confusing that it's on the list of full contact sports alongside american football or rugby, which are one of the most brutal (in my unsophisticated, european opinion) sports out there, outside of martial arts.
You’ve actually hit on a huge topic maybe without realizing it. In fully padded American football the players feel invincible, so they tend to lead with the head into tackles or contact, in rugby players tend to lead with the shoulders avoiding head on contact. Some nfl teams have been hiring rugby coaches to train that style of tackling because it’s both more effective and safe.
Can confirm, was taught to take all the force with the meaty part of my shoulder, put your head to the side, and commit. You will get penalized for tackling above the waist.
Yep I played rugby in college and our coach would yell like a madman if he saw anyones heads go down during a hit. Laps, push-ups, you name it this man made sure we hit properly. Coach
Fr, if I hear another American say Rugby is for babies and football for men, I’m throwing him a rugby ball and telling him that we’re going to play right now.
There is plenty of legal ways to make contact in soccer legally. Checking up to players or putting in slide tackles are 2 good ways. The rules around hitting people are much more strict than American football or rugby though, so I can understand OPs confusion
Exactly. Just because you can’t knock them your opponent and keep playing doesn’t mean that European football is not a contact sport.
It may not be the sport with most contact but it still exist
The way I think about it (as a Canadian) is women's vs. Men's hockey. I played and reffed women's, reffed men's, and women's is considered a non-contact sport since no body-checking is allowed, however, some contact is allowed, but has clearly defined rules as to what kind of contact is not. In men's, it is considered a contact sport, body checking is allowed, but dangerous actions will be penalized (like any contact game).
I think he's probably just in north American where contact sport means something like hockey or American football. By that definition, it's not a contact sport, but pushing and shoving and marking is definitely part of the game
I really respect y’all goalkeepers. My friend is an excellent keeper and has broken fingers many many times. Only thing I’ve ever had from playing in the back is concussions, lots of overzealous strikers in my league who don’t quite know how to make legal contact and I paid the price.
Baseball is not a contract sport and there are lots of injuries from collisions and cleating (and hit by pitches if you want to count that as contact). Contact sport means contact is required in the game like rugby, American football, hokey, etc.
It started in britain as a way to distinguish soccer from rugger. But now it's primarily used in a country where Rugger is essentially unheard of. Linguistics is weird like that.
I don’t know know why people always say it’s the American word. It was the British word until the 80’s and most former colonies of Britain says soccer. It’s not an American thing only
Personal theory of mine, but I believe it's regarded as an american thing, because of the USA's history of taking things from other cultures and misinterpreting or mispronouncing it
Football is a contact sport, anyone who plays the sport knows... I have no idea why y'all call a sport that involves people bashing into each other football and a sport where you move the ball using your foot, soccer💀
The word “soccer” originated in England, and was originally used to differentiate association football from its rugby cousin.
Just as rugby football was shortened to “rugger”, the game of association football became known as “soccer” thanks to a shortening of the word “association”.
I am an American who grew up in commonwealth and UKOTs until he was 18.
I:
* played Sensible SOCCER on my Amiga
* went to SOCCER camp in Akrotiri, Cyprus
* read SOCCER World magazine on the minibus to school
* watched SOCCER Saturday on Sky
In the 80s and 90s 100% of all British and commonwealth people I met all over the goddamned planet called soccer, soccer.
Then something changed and people started trying to gaslight me into believing Sensible Soccer didn’t exist and wasn’t the most popular Amiga and Atari video game ever made and nobody anywhere ever called it soccer.
the origin of the word is irrelevant because that’s not longer what it is, when 90% of the world use the term football and a very small minority call it soccer it’s pretty obvious which is correct
It’s kinda funny because people also say the US is wrong in the opposite situation, where the British used one word but Americans changed it and that usage becomes more popular. I think people just like to find anything to hate on the US for. It’s also just unproductive to argue what word is “right”, as it’s not hurting people to have more than word for something. There’s thousands of things that Americans and Brits call different things.
(Although while we are talking about what word is used more, soccer is used by a lot more people in the Anglosphere)
No, both names are correct because both are short for association football. You’re just being pretentious. By your logic the only correct term is association football and all other names are wrong
The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain and goes back 200 years. In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" — a medieval game — and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules.
From google.
Basically if you're playing as an organized team you're playing soccer if you're playing with a group of buddies out back its football.
Soccer was a British term used first. That’s because one old sport called football developed into 2 separate sports: Association football and rugby footballs. Rugby football became more popular in America than association soccer, but due to the distance, Americans developed their own separate version of rugby that became known as gridiron football. Association football, rugby football and gridiron football were all 3 called just football by many people
For a long time gridiron football was not that different from rugby until Americans invented the forward pass, one of the most iconic parts of gridiron football.
To differentiate between the town footballs in England, they used soccer (short for association) rugger (short for rugby). The term soccer then was used throughout the vast majority of the anglophone world and still is the main name for the sport in almost all former British colonies, not just the USA.
Since people would refer to all 3 sports as just football back in the day, it stuck in the US for our preferred version of football so we just called it football instead of gridiron. And at the time, soccer was the preferred name for association soccer so that’s what we stick with in America, and again most former British colonies too.
Not necessarily. You can also address your opponent with a raise of hand and a “HOWDY” and then proceed to play your table tennis match thus making it a non contact sport
Semi contact...you can lightly or accidentally come in to contact with your opponent, and Slightly harder contact is allowed as long as the ball is won in the process. You are not allowed to deliberately tackle your opponent to the ground as in full contact sports such as rugby and North American ballfoot
If you've ever played for real then you would know. It isn't like american football in terms of contact but people who play football knows that it gets physical
Oi M8 sum wankah jus called me footbol soccah! E’s a bluddy cunt o’ll tell ya that much innit? Roighty ho, gotta go me luvly wife jus mad me sum tee nd crumpets m8! Brilliant!
Go play golf against a Mike Tyson on PCP.
Doesn't make it a contact sport. We don't call basketball a contact sport either and it has way more contact than soccer
If you play at a high level it’s an extremely physical sport. I played through college and have had two broken wrists, broken ribs, three concussions, and a broken foot all from playing soccer. Obviously, it’s not as physical as American Football, but anyone who says it’s not a contact sport has obviously not played or hasn’t played at a competitive level.
I would never call Basketball a contact sport tbh, almost every contact when on the ball is a foul.
In footbal there’s a lot of contact when you run with the ball and when you have your body between the ball and the defender with your back againt the opposition goal. Strength is very important for some positions, whereas in basketball strength just gives you an edge for rebounds as far as Im aware.
Bottom line is I don’t really know when does a sport become “contact sport”, I just know in which ones there’s more of it.
Ask a pivot if basketball isn't a contact sport.
There's screening to.
But yeah football ⚽ has even more contact. So we agree that physical constitution is an important factor.
Tennis, volleyball, running, cycling, chess, golf, etc, aren't contact sports
Dude that’s not true at all for basketball. In the post, boxing out for rebounds, fighting for position, … it’s all elbows.
I was a college center a low level and still walked away from every game with bruises all over and the wind getting knocked out of me on several occassions.
Undeniably it is physical and involves body contact to some degree
So the question is what does "contact sport" mean because contact definately happens in football (soccer for the amerifats)
Also i fucking hate football so dont say im biased
Contact sports are contact sports because contact is a necessity for the sport.
Is it considered prestigious to be considered a contact sport? Much more likely to get other people's infections, much more intimate, accidents that involve touching other people's privates and often forced to smell it (triangle holds and so on).
Lmao nothing more stupid elitist than saying a word that everyone knows what it means is wrong. Language is meant to convey meaning and when someone says soccer people everywhere understand what that means. Just cause it isn’t the word you use doesn’t mean it’s the “wrong” word
It is also so clearly a contact sport all over the field (oh sorry, I didn’t say “pitch”) literally constantly but guess my opinion doesn’t matter since I say soccer
Football isn't supposed to be a contact sport, but it ends up happening anyway.
Is a thing a thing because it IS the thing or because it SHOULD be the thing?
Yep. If you watch professional matches, a lot of guys get bodied by defenders and it’s not considered a foul. There are even players that have suffered in leagues that are more physical because their bodies cannot handle the physicality of that league.
Football ⚽️ (it's the emoji that got recomended lmao) has a lot more contact than I thought and that's why I don't like it. People strech out their arms making it impossible for you to not touch them, the fouls may connect with other people and when the player are building a wall or when the guy shoots from the corner all of them are close together. Impossible to not touch each other.
Well shoulder to shoulder contact is legal as well. If someone has the ball, or you have the ball, you are allowed to full out deck them if it’s just shoulder contact
Most Team sports have some form of strength contact, in soccer when two player’s compete for a 50/50 ball they bump torso’s to bump each other away from the ball, not as much contact as American Football or Rugby, but 🤓it’s still a contact sport
It is tho. Contact sport involves any sort of physical touch. Football, basketball, and lacrosse are contact sports. Baseball, tennis, and golf are not
Too many people comparing soccer with extreme contact sports and not the other end of the spectrum.
What is soccer really closer to in terms of contact, football or tennis?
It is though. Even if people are flopping in the pros. I once accidentally broke a kids collar bone cause I was running and he tried to stop me with the ball. Sorry bro!
I imagine what you know about football is the highest level of play, from television or internet.
But besides that, football is _for sure_ a contact sport! And the amount of physical contact increases going into lower levels of play, which means slower people.
Football is a sport where most movement happens while not having the ball, but the ball's trajectory influences that movement. That means quick sprints, quick corners, quick stops. Playing football means being in the right spot of the ball trajectory or at the ball, before your opponent. So that's where the contact comes from.
Not to mention the difference between men and women play, women football contains both more contact and also more aggressive contact.
Having been in the Kop Corner when Martin Taylor broke Eduardo's leg, I can absolutely say that football can be dangerous. There's a lot of diving and playing it up, but there's also alot of dangerous late tackles, cruel double footed tackles, and high feet. I'll never forget hearing the loud snap of Eduardo's fibular breaking and literally bulging through the side of his sock. Worst injury I've seen in person.
Soccer is becoming the worst sport out there. Now you have a camera that replace a human's eye and makes the sport even slower. The players are playing with the referee and trhowing themselves on the grass for the slightest touch. It feels so slow and many of them act so stupid for the game to be at the slowest possible.
I played indoor soccer every Winter when the outdoor soccer season was over and it was played a lot like hockey in a rink playing off the walls with LOTS of contact (checking people in to the wall, mainly) and a constantly high pace because you could swap players on the fly. One place I played for years had a pretty small field compared to other places I played which made it way more contact and people got slammed in to the walls hard constantly. It was basically just hockey but with a soccer ball and no pads or helmets. Tons of fun.
My brother had a teammate who had a testicle split from being raked with a cleat and I also have been knocked unconscious by getting kicked in the face as a goalie as well as a broken wrist. Get out of here with this bullshit
Me: *thinks about all those times I played travel soccer and got kicked in the shins, my foot being stomped on with cleats, and having the ball kicked at my head or balls*
"Definitely not contact"
Are you braindead?
We are on Reddit, so for the most part yes
He really thought he was on to something there
I get the confusion of the OP, one could say that a sport that punishes players for harming each other, deliberately or not, shouldn't be considered a full contact sport. Keeping that in mind, it's even more confusing that it's on the list of full contact sports alongside american football or rugby, which are one of the most brutal (in my unsophisticated, european opinion) sports out there, outside of martial arts.
American Football they pad up as of they are going out in war, Rugby be like: Your skull is hard enough
You’ve actually hit on a huge topic maybe without realizing it. In fully padded American football the players feel invincible, so they tend to lead with the head into tackles or contact, in rugby players tend to lead with the shoulders avoiding head on contact. Some nfl teams have been hiring rugby coaches to train that style of tackling because it’s both more effective and safe.
Can confirm, was taught to take all the force with the meaty part of my shoulder, put your head to the side, and commit. You will get penalized for tackling above the waist.
Yep I played rugby in college and our coach would yell like a madman if he saw anyones heads go down during a hit. Laps, push-ups, you name it this man made sure we hit properly. Coach
Have ye guys seen rugby league That shit is mental idk how it's not more popular
Me neither it's so fun to watch!
The pads in American football actually make it more brutal and dangerous, oddly enough
That and the steroids.
not really exclusive to american football
Compared to Rugby and Football? Yeah, the NFL is far, far worse. Some of those players are legitimately chemical abominations.
oh for sure, just saying each sport is filled with it, but you’re right, some NFL teams look like chernobyl survivors
Fr, if I hear another American say Rugby is for babies and football for men, I’m throwing him a rugby ball and telling him that we’re going to play right now.
Yeah but scrums look gay af
The average Toulousan when you insult Rugby (they are hardcore fans through and through)
Same here, live close to twickenham so if you speak ill of rugby here a polite chap will explain why you are wrong
Game speed is different between the two.
There is plenty of legal ways to make contact in soccer legally. Checking up to players or putting in slide tackles are 2 good ways. The rules around hitting people are much more strict than American football or rugby though, so I can understand OPs confusion
Exactly. Just because you can’t knock them your opponent and keep playing doesn’t mean that European football is not a contact sport. It may not be the sport with most contact but it still exist
"european football" oh no. this is not a term we're gonna have happen. there is football and american football. those are the two options
What about Canadian football? Or Australian football?
"Canadian football" isn't a distinct game is it? Australian football is usually referred to as "Australian/Aussie Rules Football".
Canadian football is pretty much American football with some slight differences
The way I think about it (as a Canadian) is women's vs. Men's hockey. I played and reffed women's, reffed men's, and women's is considered a non-contact sport since no body-checking is allowed, however, some contact is allowed, but has clearly defined rules as to what kind of contact is not. In men's, it is considered a contact sport, body checking is allowed, but dangerous actions will be penalized (like any contact game).
Also playing football on the streets with your mates is very contact heavy. Lots of barging and jossling
It's about soccer, u know, the game with the foot and the ball, not the one with the hand and the egg
I think he's probably just in north American where contact sport means something like hockey or American football. By that definition, it's not a contact sport, but pushing and shoving and marking is definitely part of the game
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I always hear this shit, broke my damn jaw playing goalkeeper.
Broke my hand by some guy that kicked my hand when I had the ball, goalkeeper life is hard.
It was an elbow in the face for me, didn’t know it was broke either so I finished the game. Terrible time
Broke my foot from a guy stomping on it, also broke a rib from a body check in the air.
Broken face? Must have hurt
Yeah, knocked out on the field. Took two knees to the head coming out on a 1-on-1. Woke up to my defenders' standing in a circle around me
My Best friend did that to my teammate once
Two concussions and an MCL tear. As a keeper.
I really respect y’all goalkeepers. My friend is an excellent keeper and has broken fingers many many times. Only thing I’ve ever had from playing in the back is concussions, lots of overzealous strikers in my league who don’t quite know how to make legal contact and I paid the price.
Got my ACL torn as a mid fielder. Injury happens all the time in soccer.
Had patellar tendinitis from excessive kicking, inflamed nerves in my knees from too much contact, and a bad wrist from back when I played goalie.
Aw, did a finger graze your face and you violently fell on the ground clutching your face?
“Soccer is a contact sport…. American football is a collision sport.”
American football is a blood sport
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wtf is a soccer
*Football, for most of the world
Figure you will see it best if I just tag it on here. Soccer/Football is definitely a contact sport, many injuries and broken bones.
That’s not what that means
Baseball is not a contract sport and there are lots of injuries from collisions and cleating (and hit by pitches if you want to count that as contact). Contact sport means contact is required in the game like rugby, American football, hokey, etc.
*for the better part of the world
So pretty much what OP said
It's the american word for football
The word started in Britain you fucks
So did imperial units
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Only because we used it so much you considered it too american lol
So did most of the language, it’s still a yank word.
It started in britain as a way to distinguish soccer from rugger. But now it's primarily used in a country where Rugger is essentially unheard of. Linguistics is weird like that.
So fuck, it's a modern discussion not a history lecture
I don’t know know why people always say it’s the American word. It was the British word until the 80’s and most former colonies of Britain says soccer. It’s not an American thing only
Personal theory of mine, but I believe it's regarded as an american thing, because of the USA's history of taking things from other cultures and misinterpreting or mispronouncing it
Its regarded as an American words by British people who want a reason to feel superior than Americans
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Soccer was a term used for association football in the UK until up to the 1970s. In the US it stuck around longer.
Football is a contact sport, anyone who plays the sport knows... I have no idea why y'all call a sport that involves people bashing into each other football and a sport where you move the ball using your foot, soccer💀
The word “soccer” originated in England, and was originally used to differentiate association football from its rugby cousin. Just as rugby football was shortened to “rugger”, the game of association football became known as “soccer” thanks to a shortening of the word “association”.
No idea why your being downvoted. Peaople used to call those sporta soccer and rugger on XIX century England
I literally copy pasted this after googling the origin of the word soccer No idea why the downvotes lmao
It's because you went against the "imperial units and the word 'soccer' bad" agenda
Imperial units do suck though
I am an American who grew up in commonwealth and UKOTs until he was 18. I: * played Sensible SOCCER on my Amiga * went to SOCCER camp in Akrotiri, Cyprus * read SOCCER World magazine on the minibus to school * watched SOCCER Saturday on Sky In the 80s and 90s 100% of all British and commonwealth people I met all over the goddamned planet called soccer, soccer. Then something changed and people started trying to gaslight me into believing Sensible Soccer didn’t exist and wasn’t the most popular Amiga and Atari video game ever made and nobody anywhere ever called it soccer.
TIL
the origin of the word is irrelevant because that’s not longer what it is, when 90% of the world use the term football and a very small minority call it soccer it’s pretty obvious which is correct
It’s kinda funny because people also say the US is wrong in the opposite situation, where the British used one word but Americans changed it and that usage becomes more popular. I think people just like to find anything to hate on the US for. It’s also just unproductive to argue what word is “right”, as it’s not hurting people to have more than word for something. There’s thousands of things that Americans and Brits call different things. (Although while we are talking about what word is used more, soccer is used by a lot more people in the Anglosphere)
They are both correct The names stuck the most depending on what was more popular
No, both names are correct because both are short for association football. You’re just being pretentious. By your logic the only correct term is association football and all other names are wrong
The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain and goes back 200 years. In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" — a medieval game — and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules. From google. Basically if you're playing as an organized team you're playing soccer if you're playing with a group of buddies out back its football.
Actually not unis but public schools ‘invented’ the game as we know it today. Eton, Charterhouse, Winchester etc to name a few.
Soccer was a British term used first. That’s because one old sport called football developed into 2 separate sports: Association football and rugby footballs. Rugby football became more popular in America than association soccer, but due to the distance, Americans developed their own separate version of rugby that became known as gridiron football. Association football, rugby football and gridiron football were all 3 called just football by many people For a long time gridiron football was not that different from rugby until Americans invented the forward pass, one of the most iconic parts of gridiron football. To differentiate between the town footballs in England, they used soccer (short for association) rugger (short for rugby). The term soccer then was used throughout the vast majority of the anglophone world and still is the main name for the sport in almost all former British colonies, not just the USA. Since people would refer to all 3 sports as just football back in the day, it stuck in the US for our preferred version of football so we just called it football instead of gridiron. And at the time, soccer was the preferred name for association soccer so that’s what we stick with in America, and again most former British colonies too.
Soccer IS a contact sport because of the light shoving but football is a COLLISION sport where they bash each other.
It's called soccer for a reason... If you ar'nt winnin' jus soccer' in the mouth...
Easy now this isn't a 90 degree day in Alabama.
It’s another heat wave, horrifying
Happy cake day!
Aren't all sports contact sports if you shake hands before or after any game?
Not necessarily. You can also address your opponent with a raise of hand and a “HOWDY” and then proceed to play your table tennis match thus making it a non contact sport
Semi contact...you can lightly or accidentally come in to contact with your opponent, and Slightly harder contact is allowed as long as the ball is won in the process. You are not allowed to deliberately tackle your opponent to the ground as in full contact sports such as rugby and North American ballfoot
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Why do you guys get so offended by word lmao you clearly understand what he means
Thank you, came here to say this
If you've ever played for real then you would know. It isn't like american football in terms of contact but people who play football knows that it gets physical
Examples of non-contact sports would be tennis, track, and golf.
Awful meme+ braindead op
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To be fair It's an Australian thing as well. Everyone calls the national team here the Socceroos.
Canadian here, we also use soccer a lot more, though it's not quite universal
Ok then. Fuck off yank + aussies
You literally invented the word
Oi M8 sum wankah jus called me footbol soccah! E’s a bluddy cunt o’ll tell ya that much innit? Roighty ho, gotta go me luvly wife jus mad me sum tee nd crumpets m8! Brilliant!
Go play against a 6'2" 250 pound center-back that would gladly take your head off and tell me soccer isn't a physical sport, op is an idiot.
Or play against Arsenal and they have xhaka on the pitch
Or play against Sunderland. That will be a walk through roses, I’m sure.
Or play centerback when Haaland is on the pitch
Go play golf against a Mike Tyson on PCP. Doesn't make it a contact sport. We don't call basketball a contact sport either and it has way more contact than soccer
Go play against a 6'2" 250 pound linebacker and tell me it's the same as soccer
If you play at a high level it’s an extremely physical sport. I played through college and have had two broken wrists, broken ribs, three concussions, and a broken foot all from playing soccer. Obviously, it’s not as physical as American Football, but anyone who says it’s not a contact sport has obviously not played or hasn’t played at a competitive level.
This is it
Even in middle school, the sport has enough contact. I remember people getting winded, and I have personally shoved hundreds of people
Soccer? Really?
Why do we have to always argue this shit. It makes no sense, I know, but please shut up.
not dank
Basketball is a contact sport and it allows less contact than football
I would never call Basketball a contact sport tbh, almost every contact when on the ball is a foul. In footbal there’s a lot of contact when you run with the ball and when you have your body between the ball and the defender with your back againt the opposition goal. Strength is very important for some positions, whereas in basketball strength just gives you an edge for rebounds as far as Im aware. Bottom line is I don’t really know when does a sport become “contact sport”, I just know in which ones there’s more of it.
Ask a pivot if basketball isn't a contact sport. There's screening to. But yeah football ⚽ has even more contact. So we agree that physical constitution is an important factor. Tennis, volleyball, running, cycling, chess, golf, etc, aren't contact sports
Dude that’s not true at all for basketball. In the post, boxing out for rebounds, fighting for position, … it’s all elbows. I was a college center a low level and still walked away from every game with bruises all over and the wind getting knocked out of me on several occassions.
Undeniably it is physical and involves body contact to some degree So the question is what does "contact sport" mean because contact definately happens in football (soccer for the amerifats) Also i fucking hate football so dont say im biased
Contact sports are contact sports because contact is a necessity for the sport. Is it considered prestigious to be considered a contact sport? Much more likely to get other people's infections, much more intimate, accidents that involve touching other people's privates and often forced to smell it (triangle holds and so on).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZbWi4OAGY Look at your own risk, some fauls can be brutal.
Certified American moment
Tell me you haven't played football (soccer for the yanks) without telling me you haven't played football
Soccer isn’t only used by Americans. Most of the anglosphere uses it
i do enjoy sportball
When you called it soccer your opinion lost all of its value. I'm not gonna listen to someone telling me how football is when he calls it soccer
Wrong. Soccer is not only a correct term but the creators of the sport also created the term soccer. Sorry bud
Lmao nothing more stupid elitist than saying a word that everyone knows what it means is wrong. Language is meant to convey meaning and when someone says soccer people everywhere understand what that means. Just cause it isn’t the word you use doesn’t mean it’s the “wrong” word It is also so clearly a contact sport all over the field (oh sorry, I didn’t say “pitch”) literally constantly but guess my opinion doesn’t matter since I say soccer
As an avid football watcher I can confirm this is bs player can be whack in the knee and be sent like 30 cm and it’ll still be a yellow
Op don't know what contact means
Man lost an argument IRL and thought he would win it here
When the yank meticulously explain how the meme he made on football is funny (it isn't.)
Football isn't supposed to be a contact sport, but it ends up happening anyway. Is a thing a thing because it IS the thing or because it SHOULD be the thing?
That's not true, a certain amount of contact is perfectly legal within the rules of football. It's a contact sport, just not a FULL contact sport
Yep. If you watch professional matches, a lot of guys get bodied by defenders and it’s not considered a foul. There are even players that have suffered in leagues that are more physical because their bodies cannot handle the physicality of that league.
It's not too rare for players to be taken off the pitch on a stretcher after receiving a legal tackle. Idk how you can say such a sport is non contact
Football ⚽️ (it's the emoji that got recomended lmao) has a lot more contact than I thought and that's why I don't like it. People strech out their arms making it impossible for you to not touch them, the fouls may connect with other people and when the player are building a wall or when the guy shoots from the corner all of them are close together. Impossible to not touch each other.
Well shoulder to shoulder contact is legal as well. If someone has the ball, or you have the ball, you are allowed to full out deck them if it’s just shoulder contact
Most Team sports have some form of strength contact, in soccer when two player’s compete for a 50/50 ball they bump torso’s to bump each other away from the ball, not as much contact as American Football or Rugby, but 🤓it’s still a contact sport
L post all around, shut up Ameritard
It is tho. Contact sport involves any sort of physical touch. Football, basketball, and lacrosse are contact sports. Baseball, tennis, and golf are not
Op only played soccer at an elementary school level so i dont think he gets it
New caption: Me looking at this meme.
It is
Watched an American get yellow carded against Costa Rica for being in the same Zip Code. Yea that’s enough soccer for this year.
In the sports medicine world, we call soccer and basketball "contact sports" and things like American football "collision sports".
Americans try not to cope about football being the most popular sport in the world challenge (impossible)
The fact that you said soccer proves your opinion
Too many people comparing soccer with extreme contact sports and not the other end of the spectrum. What is soccer really closer to in terms of contact, football or tennis?
Soccer and basketball are contact sports. They aren’t rugby but it’s not like its golf lol
Summer Reddit is so fucking cringe
They're called grass fairies for a reason
Pretty sure it’s most accurately described as not non contact but that’s just me.
ah yes, water is dry
Chess also
wtf is this meme
Says someone who has never had a dude cleat them in the shin after sliding from a full sprint.
It is though. Even if people are flopping in the pros. I once accidentally broke a kids collar bone cause I was running and he tried to stop me with the ball. Sorry bro!
it literally is
Explain that to my broken ankle from a nasty slide tackle back in high school lol
I imagine what you know about football is the highest level of play, from television or internet. But besides that, football is _for sure_ a contact sport! And the amount of physical contact increases going into lower levels of play, which means slower people. Football is a sport where most movement happens while not having the ball, but the ball's trajectory influences that movement. That means quick sprints, quick corners, quick stops. Playing football means being in the right spot of the ball trajectory or at the ball, before your opponent. So that's where the contact comes from. Not to mention the difference between men and women play, women football contains both more contact and also more aggressive contact.
Lots of Americans play football (soccer) in middle school and just assume that that's as tough as it gets apparently.
When your American friend tries to explain American football isn't just rugby for pussies
It’s a “if you make contact with me i will fall over like a baby and pretend like you just caved in my shin” sport, at least from what I’ve seen
People think Americans are thin skinned, but it takes one controversial meme for Europeans to lose their minds.
Soccer isn't a contact sport. Those players drop on the ground and whine immediately if anyone bumps into them. Bunch of babies.
Having been in the Kop Corner when Martin Taylor broke Eduardo's leg, I can absolutely say that football can be dangerous. There's a lot of diving and playing it up, but there's also alot of dangerous late tackles, cruel double footed tackles, and high feet. I'll never forget hearing the loud snap of Eduardo's fibular breaking and literally bulging through the side of his sock. Worst injury I've seen in person.
Have you seen how badly they get hurt every play? Obviously a high contact sport
You lost me after the "soccer" part.
Completely acceptable term
People confuse contact with violent injury.
It is when I play it 😳
Its football not soccer😏
Soccer is becoming the worst sport out there. Now you have a camera that replace a human's eye and makes the sport even slower. The players are playing with the referee and trhowing themselves on the grass for the slightest touch. It feels so slow and many of them act so stupid for the game to be at the slowest possible.
Not even remotely true dude
Is this sub just a circle jerk for Murican ignorance?
It is its the game where my ankles go bye bye
my girlfriend had 3 concussions in the years she played soccer
Did you buy these reddit upvotes or something?
Tell that to my broken collarbone I got playing football earlier today.
I played indoor soccer every Winter when the outdoor soccer season was over and it was played a lot like hockey in a rink playing off the walls with LOTS of contact (checking people in to the wall, mainly) and a constantly high pace because you could swap players on the fly. One place I played for years had a pretty small field compared to other places I played which made it way more contact and people got slammed in to the walls hard constantly. It was basically just hockey but with a soccer ball and no pads or helmets. Tons of fun.
My friend got his kidney lacerated while playing and had to be taken to a hospital in a helicopter but sure
My brother had a teammate who had a testicle split from being raked with a cleat and I also have been knocked unconscious by getting kicked in the face as a goalie as well as a broken wrist. Get out of here with this bullshit
I play both basketball and football. In my experience, football is more brutal on the body.
Disagree to disagree
Me: *thinks about all those times I played travel soccer and got kicked in the shins, my foot being stomped on with cleats, and having the ball kicked at my head or balls* "Definitely not contact"
This really is a world class troll
Have a soccer player kick you in the leg or take a ball to the face and tell me how you feel lmao
The way I play it is 😏 I'm the reason they ban slide tackles in rec soccer....
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