2026 Rokslide World Cup Thread

[Pharmseller]

Soccer does pay more on a global scale.
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Ain’t talking globally. Talking about the U.S.

 

[Buzzb19]

USA

 

[butcherboy]

If soccer paid more than football or basketball, and carried the same social clout as football or basketball, you’d see much better athletes playing soccer instead of football or basketball.

The U.S. would win the World Cup with boring regularity.

I disagree with you again about football and basketball players being better athletes. Now you are saying soccer athletes would be better if they were paid more or the sport would draw better athletes if they were paid more? Most pro athletes in any sport are great athletes. They all have different skills according to their respective sport.

 

[Pharmseller]

I disagree with you again about football and basketball players being better athletes. Now you are saying soccer athletes would be better if they were paid more or the sport would draw better athletes if they were paid more? Most pro athletes in any sport are great athletes. They all have different skills according to their respective sport.

Soccer players are tremendously skilled athletes. I’m convinced that most pro football players in the skill positions, if raised in the soccer tradition, would smoke existing soccer athletes. How fast are wide receivers? How strong are corners and safeties? What kind of hand/eye coordination do they have? Teach an athlete like LeBron James to play goalie and nothing gets by him.
Bigger/faster/stronger.

Won’t happen because football/basketball gets all the attention and the money.

Attention and money draws better athletes.

 

[ozyclint]

Soccer players are tremendously skilled athletes. I’m convinced that most pro football players in the skill positions, if raised in the soccer tradition, would smoke existing soccer athletes. How fast are wide receivers? How strong are corners and safeties? What kind of hand/eye coordination do they have? Teach an athlete like LeBron James to play goalie and nothing gets by him.
Bigger/faster/stronger.

Won’t happen because football/basketball gets all the attention and the money.

Attention and money draws better athletes.

You know Erling Haaland gets over £500k per week in the EPL right?
What lack of money are you talking about?

Meh, NFL and basketball people are famous in USA. Imagine if an NFL attacking player had to defend? But they don't, they stop the game and swap attack for defence when possession is turned over. They only have to be good at one skill.
Football players are household names world wide. That's global attention.