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GreatSaveEssensa said:
You would be surprised to learn that soccer is the sport with the most concussions I’m sure.
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Yeah I mean I didn’t really define the parameters very well, I was sort of going by the general toughness of the people who play the sport, and it’s definitely very subjective.

Was really just an offhand list. Depending on how you define criteria, you can really move sports around. I didn’t intend to troll with the soccer comment, it was just a joke, though the flopping/drama culture really is absurd.

That aside, agreed soccer generates a lot of injuries and has some hard contact. Especially at amateur/rec levels where people haven’t learned how to head a ball or tackle properly.
 
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Heldig said:
I am curious about stating basketball causes the most injuries?.
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Without checking to see if it’s true, I could believe it because basketball players are so damn tall and spend a lot of time starting, stopping, and starting. A lot more stress on their joints.
 
Heldig said:
Obviously, soccer gets a bad rap because of the ridiculously blatant faking/diving that regularly occurs in the game.

I agree that soccer should rank above baseball. Cant comment on cricket as it is the only sport in the list I did not play.

I chuckled at your examples... Perce and Beckenbauer did not play in this Century (in fairness hockey fans still mention Bobby Baun playing on a broken leg back in the 60's).

I am curious about stating basketball causes the most injuries?

As for the list, is it really that awful? Soccer moves up one tier above baseball and cricket.
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They’re the most obvious example that came to mind, but Schweinsteiger in his last season at Bayern played a whole season with a ankle injury that needed surgery, Beckham who is often used as example how soft those soccer players are, played the World cup with a broken metatarsal. Wilfried Bony finished the game with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Fabregas played almost and scored a penalty with a broken foot etc.

Granted i’m not sure of the stats at the moment, but i know for a fact that basketball caused the second most injuries per player and has the highest absolute number of injuries between 2009-2013 according to NEISS. The sheer size of the player makes them more injury prone.
TS Quint said:
soccer players are soft.
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Miles tougher than you’ll ever be.
 
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For anyone questioning the report of 75 stiches



He suffered that injury and didn't even miss an entire period.
 
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Latartoyl said:
For anyone questioning the report of 75 stiches



He suffered that injury and didn't even miss an entire period.
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geez thought the part next to his eye was just crusted up blood from the first photo, that's a horrific cut and a great surgeon
 
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TS Quint said:
Have you seen soccer players? A flick in the ear hurts them just as much as those injuries.
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Just because it has the highest amount of play acting, and the most amount of acceptance of play acting amongst its fans, doesn’t mean soccer isn’t a tough/rough sport. Countless soccer challenges and tackles in every single game played are a lot more painful and brutal than most of things lots of athletes in some sports mentioned in this as tougher than soccer come close to.
 
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Really amazing story.

Also, on the soccer thing all I will add is that not everyone plays soccer the same.

I also bag(ged) on soccer, due to all the diving and rolling around that I would see in World Cup, especially to my buddy from Manchester. This was happening on one occasion as we were watching a Premiership game at his house. In that game, and also in two others that morning, three guys ended up being either straight KO’d or had their noses broken (it was 2 of the one, and one of the other) around the league. All of them came from attempted headers where everyone went up essentially throwing flying headbutts. There also wasn’t any diving…. Well, like in hockey it’s hard to tell if someone got tripped or dove… however - there wasn’t any faking injury and being a pansy.

So, I had to eat my words that day. He explained that there are leagues that essentially encourage that dramatic crap, ones that let it go, and ones where it is severely frowned on.

For what its worth….
 
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PansCyans said:
Just because it has the highest amount of play acting, and the most amount of acceptance of play acting amongst its fans, doesn’t mean soccer isn’t a tough/rough sport. Countless soccer challenges and tackles in every single game played are a lot more painful and brutal than most of things lots of athletes in some sports mentioned in this as tougher than soccer come close to.
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Like every sport soccer has become "softer" over the decades, mostly because of advances in a variety of fields. Improved medical care and supervision is probably the main one. They just don't allow players to keep playing with serious injuries anymore. Also, as more and more money got involved there was a much bigger incentive for players to look after themselves and not risk career ending complications from an injury by insisting to stay in the game.

No way any team physician today would allow Bert Trautmann to continue playing in the 1956 FA Cup Final when finished the game with several broken vertebrae in his neck.

But I get why soccer has the lable of being soft, especially in North America, where many see it as a Women's sport. The constant embellishment and diving are some of the things that turned me off the game as well, at least at the highest levels. I still like to watch occasional games in the lower leagues.
However, from an athletic standpoint it's not soft. There is still a lot of body contact and like you mentioned the tacklings that happen so many times every game can be very painful.

Honestly the "softest" sport I have seen recently is NBA Basketball. That game has been changed so much over the last 2-3 decades, that they have basically outlawed defense and created an offense only league for the sake of spectacle and entertainment value.
 
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OKR said:
What exactly is physical about baseball or Cricket? That they fight once in a blue moon and stand metres away from each other at all times? :laugh:

”Soccer” is atleast a contact sport, you get your ankle stomped on with studs, flying tackles, etc happen every game, concussion is extremely common one. Vincent Kompany for example got a broken nose, a cracked eye socket and mild concussion and still played the whole game. Stuart Perce finished the game with a broken foot, Beckenbauer finished the game with a broken collarbone while wearing a swing the rest of the game etc.

Basketball causes the most injuries of all sports.

I can guarantee if you actually had played any of these sports even once in your life you wouldn’t be making lists this awful lmao
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Line drives to the face, every pitch can hit a person, it takes mental tenacity to focus on an object that is being hurtled toward you at speed, diving catches, running into walls going for a ball, and sliding into bases while someone is trying to tag you.

But fwiw, while I think soccer players dive too much and exaggerate contact, the people who belittle soccer players have never had their foot stomped with spikes and just don't get it.
 
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Latartoyl said:
For anyone questioning the report of 75 stiches



He suffered that injury and didn't even miss an entire period.
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That looks like a pretty solid stitchjob, also Barron was real lucky there, could have been way worse.
 
Shocker said:
That looks like a pretty solid stitchjob, also Barron was real lucky there, could have been way worse.
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I can imagine the future bar pick up lines...."The wars that I've been in.." versus.."No big deal just a friendanenemy assisted fall into some jerk's foot."
 
Maverick41 said:
Honestly the "softest" sport I have seen recently is NBA Basketball. That game has been changed so much over the last 2-3 decades, that they have basically outlawed defense and created an offense only league for the sake of spectacle and entertainment value.
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Same could be said about the current NHL.
 
Ezekial said:
But fwiw, while I think soccer players dive too much and exaggerate contact, the people who belittle soccer players have never had their foot stomped with spikes and just don't get it.
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This. There's the guys who roll around on the ground like they've been shot after getting tackled, and there's the guys who are on the ground for 30 seconds before getting up because its pretty tough to run after getting stepped on or kicked directly in the ankle.
 
Goose said:
Yup. Here’s my hierarchy for team sports:

Tier 1
Hockey/Rugby

Tier2
Football/Lacrosse

Tier 3A
Basketball

Tier 3B
Baseball/Cricket

Tier :laugh:
Soccer
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If you’re going to make a provocative post like that you should set out some guidelines. Like what exactly is the reason hockey players are the toughest vis-a-via the other sports ? Is it injuries, playing through injuries, mental fortitude, some physical attribute? what?

I’ve played hockey, baseball, basketball, and soccer and the most injuries are from basketball and soccer.
 
TS Quint said:
great job destroying those straw men.

soccer players are soft.
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No they aren't, Soccer is quite a physical sport and players get busted up all the time, Higuain got a flying knee to the head at full speed and didn't really miss any time. The issue is some people that watch Hockey are not able to separate the two things because embellishment has a negative connotation in Hockey. In football it's the game within the game and if you can be objective about that difference, Football is not that soft of a sport.
 
kcunac said:
If you’re going to make a provocative post like that you should set out some guidelines. Like what exactly is the reason hockey players are the toughest vis-a-via the other sports ? Is it injuries, playing through injuries, mental fortitude, some physical attribute? what?

I’ve played hockey, baseball, basketball, and soccer and the most injuries are from basketball and soccer.
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Yeah I acknowledge this was poorly defined. It was a sort of general toughness of the players thing but it’s so subjective and so conditional on the league and amateur/pro level you’re playing at that it’s not very helpful.

The soccer thing was a subtle joke (more or less) that apparently some people on here can’t handle very well.
 
PansCyans said:
Just because it has the highest amount of play acting, and the most amount of acceptance of play acting amongst its fans, doesn’t mean soccer isn’t a tough/rough sport. Countless soccer challenges and tackles in every single game played are a lot more painful and brutal than most of things lots of athletes in some sports mentioned in this as tougher than soccer come close to.
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People get hurt. That doesn’t make them tough.

North Cole said:
No they aren't, Soccer is quite a physical sport and players get busted up all the time, Higuain got a flying knee to the head at full speed and didn't really miss any time. The issue is some people that watch Hockey are not able to separate the two things because embellishment has a negative connotation in Hockey. In football it's the game within the game and if you can be objective about that difference, Football is not that soft of a sport.
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So he bumped his head? That doesn’t make him tough.
 
TS Quint said:
People get hurt. That doesn’t make them tough.


So he bumped his head? That doesn’t make him tough.
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People getting hurt in hockey doesn't make them tough either, or is the coming back? Give he did both I'm sure why the definition is apparently different.
 
Hynh said:
I've always hated those goalmouth dogpiles. I wish the NHL would make a rule making it illegal for defencemen to play goalie in the crease
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That would be asinine! If the goalie is out of position, what reason do you deny defensemen from making a great play to deny a goal?
 
A thread on a hockey forum about a hockey player getting 75 stitches in the face and returning to finish the game..

And people are arguing and discussing soccer.
 
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