Soccer Dudes
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  • 98 points SpoofExcel

    That first touch is always the last thing to go.

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    55 points Many_Sea7586

    I used to play against some retired pro players. They were like 50-60 and would just destroy you with their first touch. Somehow they'd barely move, and you'd be going the wrong direction.

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    42 points SpoofExcel

    I got to play against a former League 2 striker, and he was about 15 years retired, and still battered everyone around him. Its almost impossible to perceive how much further ahead the elite level guys are

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    46 points thegroovemonkey

    “I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me”

    -Former worst player in the NBA Brian Scalabrine who has a Scallenge where he beats anybody 1 on 1.

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    3 points ZedsDeadZD

    I recently learned the fact that in 79 years of the NBA existing, only 4.800 players were listed in it.

    Now imagine how many hundreds of million americans lived in these 79years. Even if you take out women, elderly, babies etc.ots insane how smal of a percentage these 4.800 players are. They are so elite, even the worst one will trash everyone below him.

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    3 points Bloody_Ozran

    That applies to all sports honestly. Even e-sports. 

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    0 points EnterByTheNarrowGate

    E-sports is not a sport. It's fat dudes playing fake sports on a console. No physical exertion required.

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    1 points No_Variety_647

    I’ve always found it’s the first thing to go. Whenever I’ve picked it up again after a year or two I have an absolute trampoline foot.

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  • 49 points Any-Profile483

    From now on, I will do 3 push ups every time I fall

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    4 points frogbxneZ

    dam, you still fall? feel like I haven't fell in 15 yrs

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    11 points Any-Profile483

    I do, and looking forward to the next one

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    2 points MyNameMeansLILJOHN

    That just means you're not trying to go past your comfort zone, homie

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  • 34 points noobgaijin11

    i can't even dribble a ball.

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    59 points rintzscar

    It's okay. These football coaches were previously some of the best football players on the planet. They're not random old people in suits.

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    2 points PlzSendDunes

    Similar situation with many coaches in other places. It was weird when I tried to Google some of my teachers and to find that my PE teacher was a professional athlete in his youth. Similar situation was with many other PE teachers and people who are running sport activity related organisations. I found a few who were exercise instructors in the military and police force and found quite a lot of athletes. Which was mindboggling to me because the vast majority of them were overweight when I was doing my googling searches so at the time I didn't believe it.

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    0 points rintzscar

    What do you mean "similar situation"? How many of the coaches you saw in the video were overweight? What you're describing is an American phenomenon.

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    1 points Mysterious_Brush7020

    Do it on it, it's a little easier.

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  • 24 points skornd713

    In suits.....that's classy lol.

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    2 points _a_brother_seamus_

    Like Mr peanut

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  • 45 points Tr35on

    *Football Dudes

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    2 points Far-Fly9562

    YES!

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    10 points DirtyRoller

    Then why are they playing soccer?

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    15 points Mowteng

    They are playing foot+ball, not hand+egg

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    4 points How_that_convo_went

    Oh we’re doing that joke? Maybe your sport should be called flopjog then. 

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    7 points Mowteng

    Yes, we are doing that joke lol!

    It never fails to elicit a strong reaction from the handegg crowd

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    6 points FuraidoChickem

    They all have CTE. Be nice now

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    0 points markkaschak

    What kind of reaction does it elicit to remind the flopjoggers that they're the ones who came up with the term "soccer"?

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    2 points Mowteng

    Flopjoggers or Europeans if you will came up with fahrenheit too, but we've moved on from our savage ways since then, and now only backwater and 3rd world countries uses those terms and units.

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    6 points Tr35on

    Football describes what they are doing pretty well - just like handegg describes that weird thing americans do.

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    0 points DirtyRoller

    Just like so many of history's atrocities, you can blame the British for influencing how we named our sports in the US.

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    3 points Rainfall_Serenade

    Soccer was a term invented by the British.

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    1 points Tr35on

    Sure. It still makes more sense to call it football, than calling handegg football.

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    -3 points RumbleSteelskin

    “American” football is called Gridiron Football to differentiate from Association Football (soccer) and Rugby Football. All fall under the umbrella of football because they are all played on foot.

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    1 points Tr35on

    By that metric handball is a kind of indoor football as it's played on foot (and the goalkeeper is allowed to touch it with their foot)

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    1 points RumbleSteelskin

    Sure, I wouldn’t argue against calling handball a form of football. There are all kinds of football played around the world with different rules.

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  • 49 points justmeonthenet

    Sorry to tell you, but this is football, real football.

    Thank you very much!

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    11 points Embarrassed_Jury664

    Funny enough everyone blames the Americans for the term but it was actually the English! u/guitarguy1685 has a good explanation below.

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    9 points ForeverSJC

    What's the deal with calling football.... Soccer ? You play with your foot, not with your...... Soc

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    6 points Warburton379

    Soccer is short for Association Football which is the full name. The same way Rugby is actually Rugby Football and there are various other football games with their own rules.

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    6 points ForeverSJC

    Soccer is short for Association Football

    Assoc ?

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    8 points guitarguy1685

    It's called "soccer" because it's a slang abbreviation of "association football," a term used in 19th-century England to distinguish the game from "rugby football" (or "rugger"). Oxford University students popularized shortening words by adding "-er," so "association" became "assoc," then "assoccer," and finally "soccer" (and "rugby" became "rugger"). 

    Edit  I also want to add that Football was generically called anything not played on foot. American football is really called Gridiron Football. There is also Canadian Football, and Australian Football 

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    -1 points koolbeanz117

    What’s the deal with calling soccer football?

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    2 points RumbleSteelskin

    Football is an umbrella term that captures multiple sports because they are played on foot.

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  • 9 points Glum_Suggestion_8677

    Class is permanent

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  • 4 points Ajjos-history

    https://i.redd.it/l5vc6mbmhk7g1.gif

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    1 points fazeflak

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  • 3 points [deleted]

    Very nonchalant.

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  • 3 points Bowsers_JuiceFactory

    I like the double cheek stop the best

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  • 2 points jhibner281

    Class is permanent

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  • 1 points Embarrassed_Jury664

    You know most managers were professional players at one point, many of them top class; like Xabi Alonso.

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  • 1 points 270ForTheWinchester

    Like riding a bike, these guy never forget how it's done.

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  • 1 points MightyPenguinRoars

    Freaking Ange in a three piece suit, one hand in his pocket and straight killing it

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  • 1 points Decent_Confidence_76

    So chill

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  • 1 points VergilsDeadWeight

    Completely unrelated, but is this that song the girl sings when she locks herself inside a glass table??

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  • 1 points avrilmmm

    Didn't like football until I watched Ted Lasso. Highly recommended!

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  • 1 points Rebeux

    Shut up captain America.

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  • 1 points WholeAcanthisitta267

    https://youtu.be/HT-CNpZ1ydY?si=FNNrtK6vNpp4lIpd

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    19 points weskun

    What does that even mean

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    12 points ColumbianPrison

    It’s like your comment, 50% confusion, 40% deep thought, 100% love and compassion

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    1 points Facts_pls

    5% love 50% pain

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    1 points Warburton379

    10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain, and 100% reason to remember the name

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    1 points Royal_Acanthaceae693

    It's a bot

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    0 points GodBearWasTaken

    Remember the name - fort minor

    Just a reference to it I guess.

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    0 points Far-Fly9562

    0% soccer, 90% football, 10% chaos, 100% friendship.

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  • 0 points Gwilikers6

    My turn to post this tomorrow

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