| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/18/2008 10:38:51 PM | Lol, in my last 5 years of hockey I have had:
1 Major concussion from being hit from behind into the boards
2 Minors from being run over wile on open ice
Just last week I blocked a puck and thought I broke my ankle... ended up only with some slight nerve damage
re broken my nose and or cut my face from getting hit in the face with a glove/stick/shoulder.. etc etc
My friend who played soccor all his life has seen... a strained ACL... thats it! Also never seen an injury of any major type | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/19/2008 8:46:02 PM | | Soccer: jogging around a field for a while. Then when you are tired roll around on the field like somone shot you.. When all they did was bump you.. Please in Hockey you are bumped and knocked down all the time and get right back up | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/22/2008 9:27:48 AM | Playing soccer for most of my life I have to agree that Hockey is the tougher sport physically. However, soccer over a long career.. causes more havoc on the knees than hockey because of the constant motion, the sprints, the cutting and the jumping on sometimes surfaces that are terrible. Even on great surfaces, some soccer players play all year round and that constant grinding on the knees takes a toll.
So other than the the effect that soccer has on the knees over a career, hockey players take a greater pounding because of the physicality and contact as well as the size of some of these players who can really throw their weight. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/27/2008 7:33:17 AM | | I would have to disagree that American sports are more boring than soccer, but I agree that comparing hockey to soccer is a poor comparison. Soccer is a sport that requires top shape, but isn't a contact sport like hockey. Of course hockey is tougher on the body. A better example would be comparing hockey to football(NFL), which I would say football is tougher. Soccer's toughness on the body should be compared with another non contact sport like basketball or baseball. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/27/2008 9:53:50 AM | "Most American sports are more boring than soccer."
Well, if you count watching paint dry on a wall as a sport, I guess you have a point there.
But any sport that counts MISSED SHOTS as a statistic, well... | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/27/2008 12:02:10 PM | "surely if north americans got rid of those ridiculous TV commercials, stoppages and cheerleaders on the pitch, their sports would be better."
OK mark this down in history. A comment by Pedro that I don't totally disagree with. Yes, watching commercial-free television is better than watching TV with a bunch of ads.
(of course, the other two-thirds of his comment make no sense at all. but hey... baby steps, right?) | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:35:06 PM | | If they cut a soccer game down to 60 minutes like hockey, maybe the players would jog less, run around a little harder and spend less time rolling around on the "pitch" faking injuries. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/27/2008 5:43:20 PM | They can’t cut a soccer game down to 60 minutes. Imagine how many scoreless games there would be then? After all, it's extremely hard to kick a round ball into an eight-foot by 24-foot target.
Maybe they shoud onsider making the nets larger to increase scoring  | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 2/27/2008 6:41:26 PM | Or make the Soccer Goalies gloves smaller.. ..
They are right though about North american sports being boring.. For pure adrenaline excitement nothing like watching a 5 day cricket match  | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 3/2/2008 4:14:47 PM |
Sure the ice skating part isnt as high impact as running, but how much of the game is a soccer player running.
Typically the distance covered depends on the role of the player, although from recent matches Ive watched and checked the stats I would estimate about a Kilometer every 10 mins.
Which is essentially one length of the pitch every minute.
What doesnt happen in soccer, is a line change giving the players chance to rest up.
So I would argue that soccer players have to sustain the effort longer.
Penalties are a factor too, Whilst in Hockey a player is boxed for a short time, therefore increasing the pressure on his team, he does return to the ice.
Soccer players guilty of serious fouls are sent off, and therefore subject their team to increased pressure for the remainder of the match.
One other argument, Hockey has more players over the age of lets say, 33 able to play at the highest level.
Soccer, it is typical for players reaching that age to seek employment in lower leagues, some world class players are able to last the pace, but again it depends on the position they play. Defenders have a longer life span.
Id say with that in mind, Soccer has a higher toll on the body. | |
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