Which version of football is more physical, American football, soccer or rugby?
Now that the World Cup is over the great debate on which version of football is more physical returns. There were lots of injury time outs in the World Cup showing that association football (soccer) is quite physical, but does it compare to its counterparts. So which is it, American football, association football (soccer), or rugby football?
Anyone who has EVER played ALL of those sports would tell you that football is the more physically demanding sport (in ALL respects) than rugby or soccer.
Rugby requires one to be physically conditioned, mentally tough and able to deliver, as well as absorb, a blow from one or more opposing players, while playing both ways (offense and defense).
Soccer requires one to be physically fit above ALL else.
While they must be be mentally tough and be able to withstand a great deal of running and contact with opponents for position, as well as do unbelievable things with a ball and their feet, their ability to give/take hits is NOWHERE near the level it is in rugby. (as the ridiculous display that soccer players portray ANY time someone BARELY touches them proves)
Football is a controlled crash, every play, with most if not all players on both sides of the ball. With injuries being an EVERY play hazard, the career of a professional football player is a VERY short endeavor.
Anyone who has EVER played organized football will tell you that the level of physical fitness rivals that of either soccer or rugby.
The level of giving/absorbing hits is rivaled only by rugby in the respect that it is an EVERY play thing, but with the weight and strength that a pro FB player has, it is easily more violent than rugby.
The mental toughness that a FB player has cannot be measured rationally.
The plays, formations, audibles, coverages, blocks, techniques, game-plans and knowledge that every opposing player is trying to knock you out is a demanding task for anyone.
I have watched many soccer games and more than a few rugby games (at ALL levels) and I can honestly say that football players (as a whole) work harder than ANY professional athlete.
There are ALWAYS exceptions to that rule, (Lance Armstrong works pretty hard, as does Andy Roddick and Phil Mickelson) but as a group, football players out-work any other group of professional athletes, hands down.
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