fastest soccer player on earth

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ok this may or may not have been brought up already but i figured i would give another shot at it.

Here is how i see it, the following are the fastest from their respective teams ok brace yourself there are alot of names

England
cristiano ronaldo- man u
samir nasri- arsenal
david bentley-tottenham
aaron lennon-tottenham
aghbonlahor- aresenal
obi martins- newcastle
andrew johnson (fulham) the name is decieving he is actually white
fernando torres- liverpool
wright-phillips- man city
jermain defoe- tottenham
carlos tevez- man u
craig bellamy- man city
quaresma- chelsea

Italy
pablo daniel osvaldo- bologna
giampaolo pazzini- fiorentina
andrea gasbarroni and rafael palladino- genova
ivan ramiro cordoba- inter milan
zlatan- inter milan
iaquinta- juventus
giovinco- juventus
cristian molinaro- juventus
pasquale foggia- lazio
cristian ledesma- lazio
kaka- ac milan
pato- ac milan
ezequiel lavezzi- ssc napoli
fabrizio miccoli- palermo
jeremy menez- roma
allesandro rosina- torino
antonio di natale- udinese

spain
simao- athletico madrid
sergio aguero- athletico madrid
sinama pongolle- athletico madrid
lionel messi- barcelona
thierry herny- barcelona
eto- barcelona
bojan krkic- barcelona
gai assulin- barcelona
duda- malaga
munitis- racing club
andres guardado- rc deportivo
tamudo- rcd espanyol
arjen robben- real madrid
sergio ramos- real madrid
saviola- real madrid
jesus navas- sevilla fc
diego capel- sevilla
david villa- valencia
david silva- valencia
joaquin- valencia
nihat- villareal
giuseppe rossi- villareal

united states ( i realize not as technically gifted as the other prominent leagues but there are many great athletes in the MLS)

chris rolfe- chicago
marco papa- chicago
jonathan bornstein- chivas
maykel galindo- chivas
omar cummings- colorado
colin clark- colorado
frankie hejduk- columbus crew
robbie rojers- columbus crew
luciano emilio- dc united
jeff cunningham- fc dallas
eddie robinson- houston dynamo
stuart holden- houston dynamo
landon donovan- la galaxy
davy arnaud- kansas city
khano smith- new york
dane richards- new york
dominic oduro- new york
hall- new york
alfredo pacheco- new york
macoumba kandji- new york
matthew mbutu- new york
robbie findley- salt lake
clint mathis- salt lake
yuri movsisyan- salt lake
robbie russell- salt lake
freddy montero-seattle
freddie ljungberg- seattle
syanie nyassi- new england
darren huckerby- san jose
rohan ricketts- toronto fc

honorable mention
frank ribery- bayern munich
lukas pudolski- bayern munich
tranquillo barnetta- leverkusen
diego ribas- werder bremen
markus rosenberg- werder bremen
karim benzema- lyon
sidney govou- lyon
bakari kone- marseille
matthew valbuena- marseille
giuly- psg

What do i realize from this list? The overwhelming majority are white, and i tried to make this list as honest as possible. Who do i think are the fastest ten?
in no particular order

Ronaldo
Martins
ribery
donovan
giovinco
robbie rojers
dominic oduro
andrew johnson
torres
lionel messi


anyone else want to share their thoughts?
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oh and lavezzi from napoli is definitely in my top ten as well
 

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this already has been brought up but doesn;t mather.the fastest of this list I don't know.the fastest player of the European championchips was a player from Croatia.one of the fastest player was Marc Overmars he is white.soccer sprints are idealsprints for whites.it is nearly only acceleration in which whites are at least as great as blacks

here the video were Overmars with a knee injurie outrunned(he retired because of this after this match)Cristiano Ronaldo easily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAIKOnVjqGM
 

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yea i've seen that video, but wasn't overmars a sub and ronaldo on the field the whole game and so was tired?
 

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waterbed said:
it is nearly only acceleration in which whites are at least as great as blacks

Extremely false. Speed endurance is training, so no race is best at that. Starts or first 50 meters are dominated by whites, and blacks have a slightly higher top speed (maybe). When all of this is combined the races are equal, especially because top speed is only attainable for 2 seconds at most. In a sport that involves quickness like soccer whites should own. I can see how black people culturally get good at it though considering few actually try to get real jobs.
 

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Speed isn't everything in soccer. Zidane said Gerrard is the best player in the world and Gerrard isn't the fastest. Lampard isn't super fast, but he is still a great player.Ballack is a great player and he isn't the fastest.Having said that, I still wish they had 40 times so we could compare a little. It's still fun to do_Owen was super fast. Bergkamp was a great player, but was he super fast?Giggs in his prime was unbelievable. I 've seen some incredible video of him running full speed with the ball.

You didn't have Walcott listed, but I would bet he is faster than Nasri and Tevez to name a few.

I still don't think Messi in a pure race would beat the fastest players, but with the ball at his feet, which is what counts, he could be the fastest. He could be the quickest dribbling in a 20-30 yard distance with excellent ball control. I think Walcott would beat him in a 40 yard dash, but Walcott isn't as good a dribbler as Messi. Very rarely do you just run straight for 30 yards in soccer. What counts is what you can do in a 15-20 yard distance when you beat your defender and then pass or shoot.

I think Justin Mapp of the Fire is very fast. Faster than Rolfe. He could be the fastest player in the league.
 

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I think Rooney will win World Player of the Year during his career. He is also a great passer. He had a great back flick pass against Porto. He has great touch and control. He can beat people off the dribble also.
 

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StarWars said:
waterbed said:
it is nearly only acceleration in which whites are at least as great as blacks

Extremely false. Speed endurance is training, so no race is best at that. Starts or first 50 meters are dominated by whites, and blacks have a slightly higher top speed (maybe). When all of this is combined the races are equal, especially because top speed is only attainable for 2 seconds at most. In a sport that involves quickness like soccer whites should own. I can see how black people culturally get good at it though considering few actually try to get real jobs.


top speed only attainable for a couple of seconds yes but in the deceleration pace 70-80 meters to 100 when you decelerate the same as a guy with lower top speed you still get the same slower.so your topspeed still determain your end speed.from splits I have seen elite sprinters decelerate nearly nothing from a topseed of 0.83 to like 0.85 10 meters on the last 10 meter of a 100 meter.I often hear at a 100 meter when somebody goes fast on the last meters he nearly doesn't decelerate but in fact it is that he comes from a high top speed.whites do not decellerate more you can see on 200 meters were the differnce is only 0.42 seconds.(starwars sorry for my English)
 

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i left out rooney because i don't believe he is in the elite class of speedsters in soccer, justin mapp may be one of the fastest players in the mls but he is not consistent enough and so i never got a good look at him playing. I thought i put walcott in but i guess i missed him, there are a lot of names up there so missing one or two isn't that big of a deal. I never said speed was everything many great players were not elite sprinters, but i was trying to prove a point that white speedsters dominate THE most athletic sport in the world. Also if you could find that video of giggs, europe, that would be great. "I can see how black people culturally get good at it though considering few actually try to get real jobs" ha very good point europe.
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my favorite player of all time is del piero europe, and while he was very quick, he definetly was not a "sprinter". With that said he could shoot, pass, take free kicks like no one else, great leader, hardly ever injured, great sportsman, and technically gifted, he had the total package i believe a similar player in the modern day game would have to be rooney, if rooney can manage to keep his cool more, get better at free kicks, and remain at man u for the duration of his career like del piero did with juve that he will be nothing short of legendary
 

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Here are some videos of Giggs. The one that shows his pure speed I saw on a DVD of the best goals of the EPL's first ten years which I don't have now, but here is a good sampling. Look at Del Piero's quote that some poster attributed to him on the first video. You may have seen this already.

Also, I put a great goal from Messi as the last one.

FA cup

prime

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v=xtUp0kxqCzI&feature=related">more</a>

Must see Messi Goal
 

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waterbed said:
StarWars said:
waterbed said:
it is nearly only acceleration in which whites are at least as great as blacks

Extremely false. Speed endurance is training, so no race is best at that. Starts or first 50 meters are dominated by whites, and blacks have a slightly higher top speed (maybe). When all of this is combined the races are equal, especially because top speed is only attainable for 2 seconds at most. In a sport that involves quickness like soccer whites should own. I can see how black people culturally get good at it though considering few actually try to get real jobs.


top speed only attainable for a couple of seconds yes but in the deceleration pace 70-80 meters to 100 when you decelerate the same as a guy with lower top speed you still get the same slower.so your topspeed still determain your end speed.from splits I have seen elite sprinters decelerate nearly nothing from a topseed of 0.83 to like 0.85 10 meters on the last 10 meter of a 100 meter.I often hear at a 100 meter when somebody goes fast on the last meters he nearly doesn't decelerate but in fact it is that he comes from a high top speed.whites do not decellerate more you can see on 200 meters were the differnce is only 0.42 seconds.(starwars sorry for my English)

You make a good point. Decelleration is very dependent on top speed, and black people are slightly better ONLY at top speed ON AVERAGE. So maybe for soccer players black people are faster, because after all they are sprinters or super athletes. But white sprinters are just as fast at top end speed. And soccer is more about short bursts, like virtually all sports, so therefore whites should make up fpr it there in those sports. But in track and at the skill postion in football and basketball blacks are overrepresented, and are not better athletes. Top speed for whites in track should be acheived at an elite level because there are mmore whites and a greater chance for an outlier and because we have a higher genertic varition. Whites should outnumber blacks in all sports not culturally their like basketball.
 

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thanks for the vids europe
 

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this is a video of robbie rogers who in my opinion is the quickest player in the mls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNkdvl2oVMc

this is from a year a go and he is still only 20 so he has many more highlights now.
 

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this is a video of dane richards who plays for my local team red bull new york. He is very fast but is funny how much different he is than rojers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLuPoqFpptA.

It's pretty obvious how fast he is but if u watch more videos of him or watch him in the game constantly lose the ball you will see he isn't much of a soccer player, just really fast. Possibly becuase like u and starwars said his speed isn't really suited for soccer, he can't retain his speed and ball control at the same time like a messi or ronaldo would.
 

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I saw the 4:44 min video which I think is the correct one. He also had another good goal in a shorter video. he is fast. I hope he gets more PT on the national team.
Why does someone is the comments have to say he's my boy. Why does everything have to be black lingo.
 

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haha, i don't know i guess because whites aren't cool anymore we r just inferior in every way imaginable. Another young player in the mls very similar to him is stuart holden he should have a big season, it is amazing how like every other major sport league in this country the mls are trying to go more black, yet the whites continue to come up big, and provide the game changing moments. haha when will they learn i just don't understand their thinking.
 

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as u can tell from the list above, my local team new york red bull are stacked from head to toe with speed and "black talent" they purposely set out this season to achieve that, yet if u watch on tv they are absolutely horrendous they can't complete two passes it makes me so mad because i've supported this team from day one and they always find new ways to disappoint.
 

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Everybody has to get the black player it seems. That's why the coach of Air Force's football team said we need more black players. He got in trouble for saying it because that would be discrimination against whites. Which, of course, is happening, but they can't admit it. They always say we need more urban players to get around that. I am tired of the MLS bringing in all the black players from Africa also. I would allow only a min of 2 foreign starters and I am being generous with that. Europe is getting to be a joke wiht all the Africans and South Americans.

Have the Redbulls opened their new stadium yet?
 

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i don't see why the MLS can't go after some lower league players from italy, spain, france (well not so much france hardly anybody there is french anymore), germany, and england, or even players from eastern european countries. Preki the coach of chivas USA recently signed a player by the name of bojan stepanovic he looks fantastic he scored in the 5th minute of his debut. So many of these african players simply aren't good enough but the coaches try so hard to make it work, and a lot of the central and south american players the ones not from argentina (which is pretty much the europe of south america) and brazil, useaully don't fit in with the physical side of the mls.

Unfortunately red bull arena has not opened but if u type it in on youtube u can take a virtual tour of the stadium http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaITyZ99tbk

here is the web address to the stadium's website there is a webcam up to watch up to date progress of the stadium http://www.redbullarena.us/

There are a lot of good things going on with the red bulls such as the amazing new training facilities being built, the new stadium construction, the success of the academy team, but for some reason we just simply end up cursed. The coach Juan Carlos Osorio is incompetent he can't stay with the same line up for more than 2 games, and he has no idea how to evaluate talent which is why we have so many failure african players.
 

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I really don't want any foreign players here. We should develope are own players. I don't want any Eastern Europeans here. We won the cold war and then they get to come here and take are jobs. They should play in their own leagues.
The English and Italians and Spanish have good leagues. They should be able to play in them and not be displaced by Africans, Polish, Serbs etc..
I believe we have a foreign coach as head of the US under 23's.I think it's Nowak.
I think there is way too much movement between countries. It doesn't help the US citizen or the Western European when Africans move there.
Your right about the French team. Although I'll bet France still has a larger % of white people than the US. I was there and didn't see too many blacks.

There is way too much 3rd world immigration into Europe now.
 
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