Soccer Players Don't Try Hard Enough

Kevster · 24-08-2008 11:06pm #1

Having watched the olympics, I have realised that - when watching soccer - it is clear to me that the majority of soccer players don't try hard enough (at least, nowhere near as much as their olympian counterparts). Has anyone else come to this realisation?

leninbenjamin · 24-08-2008 11:12pm

Kevster wrote: »

Having watched the olympics, I have realised that - when watching soccer - it is clear to me that the majority of soccer players don't try hard enough (at least, nowhere near as much as their olympian counterparts). Has anyone else come to this realisation?

Olympians compete once every four years. Soccer players play every week at least. can't compare really.

(well that's an exaggeration, but the point is the same. they don't compete near as frequently and have much more time to prepare for each event/meet.)

Kevster · 24-08-2008 11:16pm

Ah, but the olympians are inevitably training each week on their own accord, whilst also working full-time jobs.

Mr Alan · 24-08-2008 11:21pm

Kevster wrote: »

Ah, but the olympians are inevitably training each week on their own accord, whilst also working full-time jobs.

yea i'm sure Bolt is flipping Burgers in McDonalds up until this month :rolleyes:;)

Guy:Incognito · 24-08-2008 11:22pm

Kevster wrote: »

Ah, but the olympians are inevitably training each week on their own accord, whilst also working full-time jobs.

Yep Usain Bolt was packing my bag in Tesco tonight.

Mr Alan · 24-08-2008 11:22pm

beat ya to it ste

great minds

Kevster · 24-08-2008 11:26pm

Hmm, Bolt must be super-human to work in both Tesco and McDonald's. Maybe it's the grease that gets splashed onto his face while flipping burgers that makes him super-slick on the running track; and perhaps it's those quality own-brand Tesco products that fuels his super-human running ability.

Made-up examples aside, does it not bother ye that soccer players are lazy ****s? Hell, even Roy Keane was alluding to this point two or three days ago (regarding Sunderland's fringe players).

bohsman · 24-08-2008 11:29pm

That Ronaldinho fella is some olympian all right.

K4t · 24-08-2008 11:36pm

bohsman wrote: »

That Ronaldinho fella is some olympian all right.

The quality of football was very poor tbh. Most of the players looked like they wanted to be elsewhere. Nobody really cares who wins it. It's just a distraction from the serious business of the domestic leagues.

Kevster · 24-08-2008 11:37pm

Now, of course, when I said "olympian counterparts", I was referring to those olympians involved in sports other than olympic soccer.

damnyanks · 24-08-2008 11:38pm

The public in brazil were not happy with their team. The prime minister swore them off

Mr Alan · 24-08-2008 11:40pm

south americans take the olympic soccer very seriously.

the strenght of teams Brazil and South America send proves that.

Think i read somewhere something along the lines of they view it as near as important as the World Cup as it was the first world wide event where different countries were able to play against each other, pre-dating the world cup

bohsman · 24-08-2008 11:43pm

And Bolt clearly wasnt trying very hard in the 100m, did just enough and then sat back on his lead.

Mitch Connor · 24-08-2008 11:44pm

Mr Alan wrote: »

south americans take the olympic soccer very seriously.

the strenght of teams Brazil and South America send proves that.

Think i read somewhere something along the lines of they view it as near as important as the World Cup as it was the first world wide event where different countries were able to play against each other, pre-dating the world cup

Phil McNulty blog on the BBC prior to the tournament

~Rebel~ · 25-08-2008 12:27am

To be fair though, it is true. Even when you just hear them talking about their training regimes, it often eclipses what footballers do. Now i know its different, as footballs simply couldn't take those regimes and still compete at that high a level at least once, and often twice a week. This is where it comes from i think, all these other athlete's are competeing in moments, big life changing moments. Make or break moments where if they fuk up or excell it WILL change the course of their life. They have their regular meets during the year which are essentially training excercises themselves, but the big ones, the world championships, the olympics, club footballers just dont have an equivilent. Athletes live for these few oppertunities they get, while footballers go through hundreds of games. Footballers go out, and win or lose they still have a job, still get pretty much the same money. No major hassle. Being in the world cup is the only real equivilent, and its also where we often DO see playerss step up. Even a champions league final, as a rule the players next season will be largely the same whether they win or lose.

Soccer Players Don't Try Hard Enough

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