Basketball picks the most skillful players among those that are at least 6'2" (with a few exceptions). Football picks the most skillful players out of virtually the entire population. Obviously, skill matters more in the latter case.
though your claim is mostly true. Football also is a sport where if your too slow you wont get picked a lot. You can either play the goalkeeper the center back and a defensive midfielder or maybe even a striker from time to time. If you run 12km/h you wont be in the squad. Professional players run up to 32 to 40 km/h on average sprint. I can say the same for football that its 99% genetics. Of course speed wont be the only factor in football but same goes for basketball. Players like Muggsy Bogues, Spud Webb, The second Isaiah Thomas were all under 6 feet tall Muggsy. Being 5ft 6 inches and all of them are known for how good they were some of them winning the dunk contests like Spud in 1987. Something similar probably has appeared in football so thats why its not okay either to say that its 99% genetics. Team sports need skill and athleticism in some way. Some preferring height ,agility, speed etc. but they still require for you to have game iq.
You can increase your Pace, so it isn't genetics but I do agree that if you are completely fast from natural then its a lot easier to become a professional footballer@@ultranatorx1964
@@ultranatorx1964yeah, depending on your team you use your qualities to create a strategy, for an example the right winger is fast,so they could run up and receive a pass so they could be in a better position to pass or score,giving them an advantage because if positioning and evading being marked (if they are and need a better position) or if the striker has really good shooting ability,you can pass to him when outside area on a certain position for them to score,everyone got their own qualities,but genetics can help too,like Messi,who can go really fast with the ball despite being considered short,or Peter crouch,who is extremely tall and is really good in scoring from a pass in corners
Funny bit is that it's not that that was the first time he played it, he grew up playing soccer. He could've tried boxing at age 35 and became a pro. UA-camrs are pro boxers now. Petr Cech is a pro hockey player at 43. I'm 31 and I could study nfl rules and practice for 4 months sand sign a pro contract bc I'm fast and strong. I've played soccer since 6 and still can't use my weaker foot. There's still things I struggle to do even though I'm usually the best player on the pitch.
@@afckajjansi Dude absolutely shittiest take ever. You are not studying and practicing american football rules for 4 months and sign a pro contract. I gurantee you wouldn't even be able to be apart of a varsity team (they are high schoolers). Don't use you being a shit soccer player as a reason to somehow say you'll be a good american football player 💀💀
A professional goalkeeper (legend) in futbol/soccer had to retired because his conditions were not fit for professional soccer anymore… now he is a professional hockey player.
Technically a pro. It's not like he's super good and played a bunch as a kid . There's alot of multi sport hockey players. Many of us played soccer as kids to keep In shape . Soccer is by far much easier sport where I'm from and it's not even close .
Dricus Du Plessis started kick boxing at 19 and today he's world champion. Try playing soccer for the first time at 19 and see if you get anywhere near ametuer level.
I think football is quite difficult on a professional level compared to other sports, in sports like basketball or hockey you use your legs entirely just for movement and use your hands for other things like passing or shooting but in football you have to do all of that with just your feet. Dribbling, shooting, passing and movement. Not to mention players have a strong or a dominant foot and a weak foot which forces them to be more calculative with their movements and decision making.
I live in Sweden, hockey and football are the two most popular sports. I played football match for the first time as a gk after 6 weeks. 6 months into hockey and I still haven’t started training with my age group, only the people 1 year younger than me
@@terrainahead9558tbh I think you’re just aren’t as good at hockey + I assume you aren’t playing at a professional level. To compare for a professional level, Petr Cech, a footballer who is 41, is currently playing professional ice hockey for the Belfast giants, a 6 time EIHL championship winner and the current holders of the EIHL. Now can you tell me one 41 year old ice hockey player who is able to play football at the top league?
What's make football the most difficult sport, is not that you need to put the ball in the back of the net. It's that you have to do it better than everyone else. And it's a fact that football is the most played sport on the planet. Aside of the technical specificity of each sport, football is by far the most competitve sport if you want to be a pro
Yes. It's not difficult at all to pass the ball around for 90 minutes. Anyone can play football regardless of their athletic history because all you have to do is run around a lot while touching the ball a few times. But because it's such an easy sport you're competing with so many people. It's not hard to go pro because it requires a lot of skill. It requires a lot of skill because it's hard to go pro. Think about what that means for a moment.
@@theemotionalremix Yeah i agree with you. Originally, football is the most played sport because it's a popular game, that anyone can play like you said. And also cause it's a really cheap sport, you only need to have a ball and a little bit of space (mainly when you are a kid) S
Hitting a baseball has been called the most difficult skill to do in all of sports. Think about it. In Major League Baseball, you've got a pitcher throwing fastballs in excess of 100mph. Not only does he throw a fastball, but he can throw this fast ball high, low, inside high, inside low, outside high, outside low. Now, on top of that, he can throw a curveball, a change up, a slider, a knuckleball.... You've got two guys - the pitcher and catcher trying to do EVERYTHING in their power to prevent you from even hitting the ball. You're trying to hit these fastballs, sliders, curveballs using a bat who's diameter is not much larger than the diameter of the ball that's coming at you at 100mph. Now, if you SOMEHOW manage to hit the ball, now you've got nine defensive players doing everything in their power to prevent you from getting on base by either catching the ball that you hit or throwing you out. So, when it comes to pure skill and difficulty, baseball is BY FAR the most difficult sport out of all of the major U.S. sports.
@@TheBeautifulGameandBeyond-m6v yes. Football is not easy. There's no such thing as an easy sport, that's why footballers are the best conditioned athletes on the planet. But most of the time is spent passing the ball around and running after it. There's not much skill being shown there, apart from endurance.
I think that lots of people forget that sports like basketball, hockey, baseball, and american football are all sports that are dominated by the US. Even though hockey is dominated in canada and america, or how basketball is dominated in america and parts of africa, you have to remember that litereally 90% of the countries on earth are mainly sports where soccer is the primary sport. So even if hockey might be really hard to play in general, soccer is a sport that litereally every country on earth plays so its extremely hard to get to an elite level while playing soccer.
Sure, but the issue is most countries just don't produce that many elite athletes due to genetics, and interest in another sport reduces the pool for competition. So countries primarily interested in sports like athletics, martial arts, and hockey like Russia do not produce millions of athletes to compete with soccer. Also a more interesting confounder to the general increase in selectivity in sport is demographics. As the world has gotten richer, it can afford more athletes and they aren't as nutritionally deprived, yet more aged countries who might have an advantage in certain sports don't have the numbers of young people they might have in the past
@@TheThreatenedSwan I know where your coming from, over half the world plays soccer as their main sport. If you look up a demographic of most popular sport soccer easily dominates in about 75% or more of all the world countries, like germany, brazil, russia, and argentina. Because of this, the amount of people playing soccer is insanely high which means that it is much harder to be good enough to play for a pro club, which is why so many people play semi pro, because it's extremely hard to go pro when over half the world is also competing for the same position as you
Specify Ice hockey. Because in field hockey neither the Americans nor the Canadians have the strongest teams. It's Belgium, Germany, Australia, India are the countries which dominate field hockey. USA Canada both comes way lower in the world rankings.
In football the cameras dont actually accurately potray how fast the game ussualy is. Like ussualy you only have a few seconds to think before making a decision
A few seconds is an over exaggeration itself. Under pressure, even at high school levels you need to make decisions in under a second or risk losing possession and opportunities
Think about this: 1% of high school soccer players will go on to play in D1, D2, and D3. 1% of those players will go on to play pro, likely in MLS. MLS isn’t even top ten in the world. Now imagine the competition in the epl💀
the size of the goal compared to the size of the ball is actually a lot closer to hockey than it might seem. Yeah the goal is the size of the goalie in hockey, but thats cause their "ball" is a tiny little disc going like 3 or 4 times as fast as a soccer ball
@@aDSdl_l Straight up faster, the fastest football/soccer shot ever recorded was 210 Kmh while the fastest hockey shot was 177.5 Kmh. Idk what that would be in mph but I can look it up real quick.
Football is (almost) the only sport where you cant use your hands. Dana White's point proves the opposite of what he thinks it does. In basketball, the hoop is only slightly bigger than the ball and teams score 50 times each in many games. Try playing basketball with your feet and almost every game will be 0-0.
exactly . beside all the tactics, running 12-15 km, fisical contact that includes kicks etc., football or soccer (for north american people) is played with your feet, you have to be a moron to not understand that playing a ball with your feet is much more difficult then playing with your hands, that includes holding a stick or a bat
@@M86KIA It seems you missed my point. I was saying that despite the hoop only being slightly bigger than the ball, both teams can score 50 times in a game. I was making a point about how much easier it is to be accurate with your hands than with your feet. Football is almost the only sport where you cannot use your hands and one of the most difficult sports to master. The goal can fit 363 footballs in it side by side yet many games end 0-0. The hoop cannot fit two basket balls side by side yet many games end with over 100 points for each side.
Love this video. Calling football easy is disrespectful to the professional players. The truth is, every sport is hard especially to become pro. I do think sports like Australian Rules Football (AFL) is harder and so is Ice Hockey
@@dinodinho I would kindly disagree. Tactics like the “flood” and the “3,12,3” are master tactics. I have played both sports aswell (not at a professional level but I did play AFL in a top academy for 2 years in wa before I got a bad concussion)
@@OezgeSebisteri It's kicking a ball well that's the problem. Even knowing how to control a ball passed on to you is hard. A ball being more than 1 foot from your legs reach is considered having no ball control and that's the most basic of basics
I played soccer and ice hockey and we had way more injuries in our soccer league than in our hockey league. We also couldn't last an entire 90 min running. Luckily our league worked like hockey where you could sub in and out as needed.
@@CR7guy5268 no mr ignorant, the sub cannot go back to the field, its a one way sub, and you have a limit of 5 players to sub, which 4 or 5 years aggo was just 3
From my personal experience I've played all these sports and the hardest by far to be elite enough to dominate is soccer you have to master so many things and constantly be thinking about passing defending moving talking. But that's why we play the beautiful game it's a great challenge
@@Jacxk_ he is not that clever with numbers, let him live in his 'delusion' Americans dont even play proper basketball, thats entrtainement ball, and thats why the best players in their leagues are europeans, because the sports of americans is about the entertainement, not about the mastery of that sport, they are clowns xD, look at thyem, thei national teams never succeed in international events, they are just not even eligible to give sports opinions
Soccer is the most difficult, and the most accessible, you can be 5' 8" and skinny and be able to play soccer at the professional level, that's not possible in any other sport.
I'm a huge fan of volleyball and basket but those absolutely are genetic based sport. You have to be ridiculously talented and hardworking to succeed as a short person in these.
I don't get how people say football is easy. When someone plays football for the first time, you can clearly tell because of how bad they are whereas in something like American Football or even Basketball, as long as your taller, stronger and faster than everyone else, you can still look okay
@@afckajjansi Not it isn't. If you are "tall" that means absolutely nothing. If you are fast but cant catch the ball in American Football, you're worthless. If you are a running back and you can't hold onto the ball and your vision is terrible, you are absolutely worthless.
@@Isorepsbasketball maybe, but American football false. I’m 6’1, 16 years old. I’ve played 3 of the sport. Currently on my team Varsity (Running Back) and a PG in Jv Basketball. I played both of the sport in just 2 years. While soccer I struggle to get a D1/D2 offer while starting in Varsity for the past 3 years since freshman years. Height and speed help me a lot in Basketball and Football.
imo technically football is the hardest ball the amount of foot eye cordination is insane I also agree that american football is VERY dependent on physicality two sports that you cant really compare
@@gbone1619 im a football fan however its just like there is a corner taker and there is a free kick taker. its just that some people are suited to something else more
It is easier for a talented player to make it to the NFL than for a talented soccer player to reach La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, or especially the Premier League. It is almost impossible, and yet even more improbable to make the starting lineup.
The bigger the competition, the harder the sport. Now imagine how many people around the world are playing, how many people and countries are good at ... THIS . SINGLE . ONE . SPORT.
@@drakonlegend4452 Probably more. I think 1.5 billion is just ticket sales and video streams, however at least 5+ people were at each video stream. I'd estimate around 3 to 4 billion.
na easy to get into in the us. hard in the rest of the world. soccer is seen as a girl or kid sport here. but in the rest of the world, that shit is their life
@@mafioso5004Ultimately with the US it's always been a skill issue. You can make all the excuses you want but if you got good we all know you would jump on the band wagon.
"girl or kid sport". Kids can be both girls and boys, so why are your boy kids bad? Bc it requires immaculate IQ which most of you think sport doesn't. I can tell you I've watched american football and never thought wow, what a genius!! not even the QB. @@mafioso5004
A lot of the other sports mentioned use rolling subs, full team changes between plays and dedicated players who have one job like kickers. Football has limited subs which makes endurance a massive factor.
Football is the most skillful sport of all time hear me out. football probably has the lowest success rate for someone going into the sport professionally. you would be lucky to even get into an academy as a child. being a goalkeeper is way harder in football than any other sport. as with football there is so many ways that an attack could happen and when you're an attacker it's not just kicking the ball at the net it's composure skill Finesse and maybe even some flair if you're Brazilian. and dribbling isn't just kicking the ball around rainbow flicking elastico even a simple body faint could be hard to pull off. obviously it's easy by yourself but with a defender it is very hard to pull off and get past the Defender. and football is also the biggest sport in the world it may not be the biggest sport in America but America isn't the whole world is it now. and because it's the most popular sport there is a lot more pressure and eyes on you which could cause ballers to become worse than Harry Maguire in 2022. and football is also the most unpredictable Sport so anything can happen you could do the most perfect shot of all time and it could hit the crossbar. you also have to be very tactically strong as a player. and you got to have team chemistry. sure even a simple touch of a ball needs so many things you need composure you need to predict where the ball is going and where it is going to go once it's hit your foot and you have to make sure that it would still be close to you. and football also has way higher chance of injury as football has the least protection causing you to be able to pull a hamstring at any time. some people have got an injured from power shooting a ball it's crazy out here. and don't even get me started on defending you need to time a tackle, when to stick your leg out and you need to know how strict the referee is. upon many other things that I don't care to name. and I don't even play in the defense so I couldn't even tell you the actual in real life experience. And also as you said a game could be dominated by one team but lost by the same team a game where no goals are scored could still be entertaining that's the best thing about football. And I also care more about technical ability than physical ability as you could be the strongest lad perfect athlete that shouldn't make you good at Sports.
American Football has the lowest success rate out of any sport in a developed country, only 1,696 players make it pro out of a population of 330 million people. But in England, there are 5,582 professional soccer players out of a population of 55 million people,
. You’ve said x many AF players go into the sport (assumedly per year) and then just stated the number of pro players in England- these numbers are clearly not comparable. Even if I am wrong there and you’ve just worded it wrong, the fact is that “soccer” has more pros in England because of how developed the league system is. Imported pros make up over half the Prem and there are numerous leagues below that, whilst they wouldnt compete with top clubs, have pro players that rely on the sport for income. You have to alter your idea of Pro when you look at football.
@@Milo-vz2grthis would probably be because England has more than just 1 or 2 leagues. I believe they have 6 or 7. Another thing you have to take into account is most players in England’s top leagues are foreign, not English, while most American football players are American
I think a very good indicator as to which sport is the most difficult is the competition - esentially, how many people compete Worldwide. The bigger the competition, the more difficult it is to reach the top!
As an American who’s casually (this means I haven’t played on a team) played Baseball, Basketball, Football and American football, I will say the hardest sports out of those 4 is probably football, then baseball, then basketball and then american football being the easiest, never played hockey but Ive heard it’s one of the hardest sports to play which by the looks of it I can agree with that
Hockey is most likely the most difficult. You have to start skating before 10 usually kids have to start as early as 5. It is also one of most power demanding sport. Ice hockey, speed skating and velodrome cycling demand most power output from human. Football, race to be pro is really hard but much more fair than in ice hockey. In ice hockey it can be impossible to play at 12 years old if coach do not like you. In football you can still find a club and even practice by yourself.
@@miikkaorte1577 I think football is harder to go pro because there are so many kids playing and trying to get on a pro academy. Hockey skill set is arguably harder, I tried to skate once but I couldn't stay up😂
8:44 I can agree because when you watch football it seems really easy and simple but from experience it took me 2 months and 16 days to score my first freekick
@@moleedaboi I just checked, footballer have the fastest sprint. But it's also because they don't wear ultramarine suit. I have no stats for that but I do think that the fastest American football player have a faster straight line without armor but can't turn as well as the fastest football player. Adam Traoré is a good example. Built like an American football and he's very very fast but he moves like a truck. 💀 Mbappe is explosive, he goes from 0 to 35km/h in like 3 step.
Football(soccer) is the most elegant and skilful sport there is, it is the best sport that combines using your body and mind in full flow. It is the only sport that elevates the mind above the physical. What other sport could produce maradona and messi as two of the greatest ever, even whilst competing against people over twice their size almost every game and their technique triumps the brute force other sports value, football values the magic, the guile, the creativity, the ability not the physicality that destroys.
THe fact that it's the only sport that uses legs or entirely requires you to not use your hands is good enough reason to win the argument. We don't even need to bring up other reasons. Humans are hardwired to use their hands to grab, etc and never use their legs to do anything else besides walking/running. So, to move a ball with your legs is 10x harder than it is with your hands but idiots will convince a QB is a genius and Messi is a pussy HAHAHHAHA
I think another key aspect would be talent pool. If there is 500k professionals football players and 2k professional MMA fighters that would have an incredible impact on the level at the top
Even at a lower level you won’t play if you don’t have technique. My friend got played off the Pitch by a 15 year old in the academy because technical skill is that important
@@afckajjansi soccer is really easy to pick up when you start as it is fundamentally just kicking a ball around. But the skill ceiling for the sport is higher then most sports on the planet so as you get higher level you have to drastically increase your technical ability and game knowledge at a extremely fast rate and it only gets faster as you go. You also have to do all this while getting your stamina to the point you can run up to 8-10 miles per can at the highest level and 4-6 at the intermediate-semipro level and make runs at a sprinting pace around every 3 minutes at the highest level and every 6 minutes at intermediate, oh you can run 6 miles per game and make speints every 5 minuted? Nice your now a twig so now you need to get physically fast and strong enough to run AT LEAST 20 mph while sprinting and be strong enough to not get bodied and be able to win 50/50’s and physically overpower your opponent. Oh but don’t get to big becuase now your stamina is down🤦♂️. It goes from kicking a ball to one of the hardest sports real quick.
I started learning the sport at 37 years old and it is HARD; I’ve gotten a lot better at it (I take lessons with a coach once a week and play in a rec league) but it’s incredible how uncoordinated I initially was when trying to kick and “handle” the ball. People who don’t know the sport don’t think about how seldom we use our feet in any kind of “dexterous” way.
The fact is that football has the largest amount of professional players. To really be outstanding you have to outperform thousands of professional players.
The more I think about basketball, the more I realize that the sport is discriminatory. To be successful in this sport you have to be tall at least 99.9% of the time. In any other sport you can work on your skills to become the greatest, but in basketball it (= potential) is decided at birth with your genes. You can work on speed, technique, balance and muscle mass, but you can't work on size.
Coming from being a former player for 14 years, here’s how I’ll explain it. I think it’s one of the easiest sports to start out playing and training in, but it’s one of the hardest to become really good at and go professional in. The fitness you need in order to play at high levels is extremely hard to obtain for a consistent amount of time, you still need to have a good build so you don’t get bodied and thrown off of the ball everywhere, and of course there’s the mental game that comes with every sport too. Still the best sport in the world Imo.
When it comes to basketball, i'd always point at shaq. Shaq gets to be one of the greatest in the sport just for being shaq while also being known to possess the worst work ethic on a professional level. A Ronaldinho would be the equivalent to that yet his work ethic already wouldn't get him far nowadays and even he had an insane amount of technical skill that he accumalated throughout almost his entire life to be where he was.
This is the equivalent of saying the piano is the easiest instrument because is the easiest to get into, all you have to do is just press black and white keys
Being athletic isn't a skill, it's a talent so I suppose you can say that football isn't as talented as other sports but that's actually what makes it better than other sports. You dont have to be a 6'6 Olympic sprinter with biceps the size of watermelons to excel. It truly is the peoples game because anybody can make something of it it they work on thier skills. Skills should be valued more than god-given talent because it actually takes effort to obtain skills
Ngonou the former ufc heavyweight champion was told by his boxing coach let’s do mma it’s far easier to become champion. Soccer is played by billions of people try getting noticed without be skilled
Top 5 sports ranked by difficulty 1.) Hockey, honestly no debate. Being able to control the puck standing still on skates is too hard for most. Let alone going over 15 miles an hour at times. 2.) football, hardest endurance sports, and in my opinion, you have to master 5 skills for everything you do. Maybe I’m biased but it’s still very hard 3.) basketball, second most enduring sport and a lot of back and forth. I don’t watch it but I know a lot of people do because of how fast pace it is. 4.) baseball, there are two skills involved. 1 of which has no variables. Obviously meaning it’s just rinse and repeat. The other is definitely the hardest thing to do *consistently* in sports which keeps baseball out of last. 5.) American football, just not my vision of a difficult sport. “Haha I’m bigger than you.” Plus with there being in 1 position where there is skills to master. I’m definitely going to get violated in the replies but I don’t really care.
Nice analysis - you should look up Usain Bolt's (pretty dismal) football career. Great athlete, but didn't get anywhere near making it as a footballer.
There is a saying where i live that says: “When the fox can’t reach the grape, he says it’s unrip”. When people are not good at something they try to discredit other people. I know not all americans are dumb like these… They don’t know how different it’s in here. what you call “soccer” it’s probably the hardest game to be a pro at. Not the most difficult sport, the most difficult to be a Pro at. Pro “soccer” players are literally Olympic athletes, they run constantly for 1h30 and they are expected to give their full from 1st to 90th minute. Giving that this is the basics you have also to be more skilled than millions of other people like you and be tactically intelligent enough to not be a burden to your team. Remember that the whole team could be playing good, but you need only one mistake and you loose a game. You can never loose focus. This enough should express how much of a selection the teams do. Try playing “soccer” yourself and tell me if it’s easy to go pro in Europe. Also the argument of that dude contradicts itself. Like how you think a game is that easy and your country is not even top 15 in the world.🤣🙏🏼
In my country there is a story that in a well there was a frog that lived there for a long time. The frog bullies the snails and crabs. Because at the bottom of the well, looking up, he could only see a small patch of sky, so he thought the sky was only as big as a plate. One day it rained so heavily that the water in the well filled up and caused him to go outside the mouth of the well. Different from what he imagined, the sky was really vast but he did not believe his eyes and continued to show off his power. However, no one paid attention or saw him, so he was trampled to death by a cow
Crazy that Dana is calling football the easiest sport considering he's the president of the easiest sport to be champion in, at least according to former ufc champion Demetrious Johnson, who is like Maradona in MMA. Why? Because you can be ufc champion if you're above average at one aspect, striking or grappling. Brock Lesnar and Francis Ngannou are UFC champions for christ sake.
Non-American football still takes a lot of physical ability to it has more physical contact than most sports slide tackles, standing tackles, contesting for aerial and ground duels,headers corner kicks while sports like baseball and basketball don’t have as many situations where you need as much physical ability
Almost all american sports rely on good hand eye coordination which is easier to be elite in than foot eye coordination, there is a reason why you can through a ball before you can walk
Francis Ngannou started training MMA/Boxe at 20+, possible even 25+ At 36 he was UFC champ Similar things happened with Cyril Gane, Poatan, and several others fighters You could argue that it makes fighting the easiest sport on the world.... No one will become elite player on football starting at 20+
In my opinion it goes 1-ice hockey 2-football 3-baseball 4-basketball 5-american football But this is just my raking and I think every sport is difficult and I have respect to everyone who plays them
Let's see, at first glance football seems to be an easy sport, since anyone "can kick a ball." But that would be for the common person, also at first glance anyone would say that MMA is an easy sport since anyone can throw a punch. There is much more to football than just hitting the ball. I love watching football because of the individual performances and what strategies the teams will use. That's why it's the most beautiful sport in the world.
In regards to American Fooball, Field goal kickers are technical too but that damn field goal is pretty freakin huge and there is no goalie in front of that thing.also, many of the professional football kickers were college soccer players who probably weren’t good enough soccer players to play professionally.
first of all football is a sport that is easy to play all you need is a ball you can use anything as a goal, thanks to that the level of skills and technique developed over the years is maddening you may think it is easy to win but you are vastly underestimating defenders and keepers the work they put in to keep the ball out is no joke
In lower levels for example I played football district level in India The skill level is really low and virtually no tactics and purely based on individual skills like who can get the pass out to whom and if they can score or defend But in professional level it is way different different tactics different formations different positions and more positions in the position
I like to think about it like this and tell this to my friends who think football or basketball is better or more difficult, I just tell them using your hands anyone could honestly make 3pt shot or throw a football and catch it with good technique and form, but with soccer it’s the same but you can’t use your hands at all unless ur goalie and to play the sport u need some sort of technique to even control and pass the ball and like you said the average person would absolutely get mixed up because their brain would move way faster than your feet so you will end up loosing the ball plus there is a defender who has to know what the offense is going to do with the ball so yea that’s why there is low scoring games because the goalie saves and the defense plays good defense and should get rewarded for so
Another variable is how all sports have a break or pauses. If football baseball basketball or others were expected to play continuously it would be much different. Soccer you don’t have the luxury to stop or call a time out. Or lea the defense to help you with time to recover physically.
My arguement (i will call it soccer for now because this video is about American sports): The most physically "talented" sport is obviously basketball because height is not trainable, but skill wise we can break it down to spatial awareness and coordination. for spatial awareness I would say soccer because there are the most players on the field, you could pass in any direction and with or without curve. In football there are also 22 players, but only one person passes the ball, and the others follow the play or react, when a player is running with the ball 99% of the time they always want to go forward and they only pay attention to a fraction of the opposition. For coordination it might be hockey, but there is less competition to go pro. Throwing in baseball and football should come fairly natural since our anatomy is designed to let us throw. So you could go basketball because its hard to make shots, or soccer because goalkeepers need elite reaction time and it's difficult to keep the ball at your feet, since you can't hold on to it. Or hockey for the same reason.
basketball is not physically the hardest because players who play in the NBA require a certain height? the fouls in basketball are very mild and players do not play the whole game and rotate in the bench throughout the game. American Football i would say is a lot more physically demanding
fotballsceptics, the only thing you have to do is grab a ball and take them to a field, then let them try to score goals on a moving ball when you put them constantly under pressure. 5 min in they'l understand how easy this sport is
I like more balanced sports that have a mix of general athleticism, so not just height or running economy, and intellectual ability. F1 is also like this where the athletic ability is almost completely generic yet at the elite level while intellectual ability is extremely important
wdym by cringe ones? I’ve tried adding music before but I just don’t like how it turns out so I’ve been against doing it. I will attempt it again for the fiture
I agree with most of everything you said, except for once thing, catching in baseball in any position, is also a very unique skill. That being said in baseball, if they master the skill of pitching or hitting, they can play professionally into their late years.
Its easy to understand and all you need is a ball and thats it but getting to a pro level is ofc hard since then you have to really expand you skill level to little details like foot position,vision,Shooting,Techinque,Fitness
Akinfenwa's highest achievement was to play one season in the Championship which is the 2nd league in England and only scored once during that season so if far from elite. Adama Traore has played for top clubs for sure so he is playing at the elite level but he isn't elite because decent wingers score usually 15 goals a season on average whereas his best season was when he scored 6 times and assisted 9 times so if he did that regularly he could be considered elite but since he has on average 5 goal contributions a season he is at best a decent substitute.
@@Barbariansdaggerif they played against a local team or even a semi pro team they would still dominate so they are elite but just not in the same sense as messi or ronaldo
I would honestly admit that baseball and golf are probably the most difficult technically wise. Basketball the most physically difficult. Football is the most balanced between both technically and athletically, which arguably makes it the most difficult at the professional level.
Dana or people who say that should try to play at least 20 minutes of football or as these goofballs call it 'soccer' but they should play against average pro footballers like some bottom of the league in any top 5 leagues and then talk. I bet people like Dana wouldn't touch the ball against Almeria or Luton Town or some team like that or to be fair to him since he is older he can try to play against retired players. We all saw how goofy and uncoordinated Usain Bolt looked like when he played in a charity match and other athletes from other sports but yeah let's chat shyte about a sport we never even engaged in.
@@dinodinho I am a personal trainer and have an extensive background of different sports like boxing,judo but i also played football in my younger days. Dana and people like that have no idea of the physical demands of football because you twist and turn and change speed and direction constantly while also jogging for 90+ minutes and with all that you have to maintain technique and skills and to do it at the highest level..oh well! His comments are extremely dumb when considering that probably the most athletes in the world are football players since is the most popular sport and the athletes come from all corners of the world. I mean...I wouldn't even bother considering such brain dead comments.
@@callmepin69 Well he speaks from ignorance because he compared hitting a hockey puck which slides on ice if you gently touch it so hitting it hard isn't all that difficult to kicking a ball and disregarded the ratio of a puck to the hockey goal to the ratio between a football and a football goal. In other words he was talking a lot of crap plus he said that footballers must be very non talented because they can't score in some games when the pool of selection is the biggest for football because billions of kids are playing it. In Brazil alone there are over 2 million registered footballers so the pool of selection is crazy and the odds of making it to the top level is very tiny hence this is probably the most competitive sport out there.
Growing up, I never understood why my dad loved this game so much. I dismissed it as boring because there were only a handful of, if any, goals per game. But now that my sons are playing it, I've come to appreciate how demanding it is at the highest level. You need technical ability, awareness, quick decision making, team cohesion, IQ, etc. to play the game well. When all players are at the same level it is a special thing to watch. But when my boys play rec, they need to actually be INDIVIDUALLY even better because those kids are missing most of those attributes and need perfect passes to make an assist for example. But, generally, football is much more of a TEAM sport since all the players need to be at a bar. There are a few freaks that can really impact a game but it's still pretty rare. Either way, I think that soccer is the chess of sports. Easy to understand the rules but hard to master. It requires a lot of analysis and anticipation. And no game is like any seen before. In the US, at least, the scouts are certainly favoring bigger and faster players with the assumption that they can add the technical ability (IQ probably not so much). So it is disappointing that's the trend. But it is to be expected I suppose.
Football is also the most accessible sport in the world. Children in Brazil can play barefoot with empty coke cans. It is the beautiful game and the sport of the people.
I played soccer and it is very easy. I consider it one of the easiest sports ever... and that's why it's difficult, because anyone can play it. Now, it's all about determination and who can play it better than the rest.
@@dinodinhoSoccer requires such a high level of stamina to last the full 90 and then to make quick and good decisions on the fly with the coordination and tactical understanding that it’s all very difficult to master
I mean I said the same when i used to play American football when the teachers took away the soccer ball. If you catch the ball run like hell unless you want to end up getting trucked
There's a reason that it's the most popular sport in the world. It's inclusive in the way that everyone can actually play it. None of that "you're a casual in playing football" like those in F1 or MMA, you just play it and be happy
Every sport is difficult and depends on specific skills. Nowadays all sports require a high athletic preparation at professional level. I enjoy all of them.
I've noticed that (sorry but I'm American) soccer also translates the most to other sports. I've played it my whole life and anytime I've played other sports with my friends be it american football or basketball I always have a natural affinity for it but they act shocked that I'm able to be as good with such little experience. I think soccer just trains your mind so much better than any other team sport and sometimes it really shows
*"Playing football is easy, but mastering it is the hardest thing in the world."*
*- Johan Cruyff*
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I was looking for this.
I think this sums it up, it’s the easiest sport on a surface level but very difficult to master, I wouldn’t say the hardest but it’s up there
it is "Playing Fotball is simple, But playing simple football is the hardest thing there is"
lol
Basketball picks the most skillful players among those that are at least 6'2" (with a few exceptions). Football picks the most skillful players out of virtually the entire population. Obviously, skill matters more in the latter case.
The average height of an nba player is 6'6 so it's 99% genetics
Unfortunately I've been 5'7 since I was 13 and I started practicing for European football at 15 I'm 17 rn. Gave up on my basketball dream 😔
though your claim is mostly true. Football also is a sport where if your too slow you wont get picked a lot. You can either play the goalkeeper the center back and a defensive midfielder or maybe even a striker from time to time. If you run 12km/h you wont be in the squad. Professional players run up to 32 to 40 km/h on average sprint. I can say the same for football that its 99% genetics. Of course speed wont be the only factor in football but same goes for basketball. Players like Muggsy Bogues, Spud Webb, The second Isaiah Thomas were all under 6 feet tall Muggsy. Being 5ft 6 inches and all of them are known for how good they were some of them winning the dunk contests like Spud in 1987. Something similar probably has appeared in football so thats why its not okay either to say that its 99% genetics. Team sports need skill and athleticism in some way. Some preferring height ,agility, speed etc. but they still require for you to have game iq.
You can increase your Pace, so it isn't genetics but I do agree that if you are completely fast from natural then its a lot easier to become a professional footballer@@ultranatorx1964
@@ultranatorx1964yeah, depending on your team you use your qualities to create a strategy, for an example the right winger is fast,so they could run up and receive a pass so they could be in a better position to pass or score,giving them an advantage because if positioning and evading being marked (if they are and need a better position) or if the striker has really good shooting ability,you can pass to him when outside area on a certain position for them to score,everyone got their own qualities,but genetics can help too,like Messi,who can go really fast with the ball despite being considered short,or Peter crouch,who is extremely tall and is really good in scoring from a pass in corners
Pretty sure Usian Bolt attempted football/soccer and we all know how that ended up
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Someone should’ve gave him a through pass
Funny bit is that it's not that that was the first time he played it, he grew up playing soccer. He could've tried boxing at age 35 and became a pro. UA-camrs are pro boxers now. Petr Cech is a pro hockey player at 43. I'm 31 and I could study nfl rules and practice for 4 months sand sign a pro contract bc I'm fast and strong. I've played soccer since 6 and still can't use my weaker foot. There's still things I struggle to do even though I'm usually the best player on the pitch.
@@afckajjansi Dude absolutely shittiest take ever. You are not studying and practicing american football rules for 4 months and sign a pro contract. I gurantee you wouldn't even be able to be apart of a varsity team (they are high schoolers). Don't use you being a shit soccer player as a reason to somehow say you'll be a good american football player 💀💀
Dude was trash. Fastest man in the world, but trash at the game
A professional goalkeeper (legend) in futbol/soccer had to retired because his conditions were not fit for professional soccer anymore… now he is a professional hockey player.
Ah yes Lev Yashin
@@MasonHutch-er7jb 😂😂
@@luigiman2323 he did
Technically a pro. It's not like he's super good and played a bunch as a kid . There's alot of multi sport hockey players. Many of us played soccer as kids to keep In shape . Soccer is by far much easier sport where I'm from and it's not even close .
@@MasonHutch-er7jb bro lev yashin is dead it is petre cech
Dricus Du Plessis started kick boxing at 19 and today he's world champion. Try playing soccer for the first time at 19 and see if you get anywhere near ametuer level.
Olivier Giroud.
Basketball: Rodman, Embiid
There are examples every where
Take your point but presumably he had some kind of relevant training beforehand
@@customch33s32 bro Giroud started playing club football at 7
Valid
@@customch33s32^
“UFC fighters are being knocked out by UA-camrs.” ~ Santan Dave
I love UFC but i'm all for clowning on it if the president hates on Football
Bro the ufc fighters are going into boxing pushing 50💀
I think football is quite difficult on a professional level compared to other sports, in sports like basketball or hockey you use your legs entirely just for movement and use your hands for other things like passing or shooting but in football you have to do all of that with just your feet. Dribbling, shooting, passing and movement. Not to mention players have a strong or a dominant foot and a weak foot which forces them to be more calculative with their movements and decision making.
Having a good side is true and a calculation is needed in virtually every sport because of it
Everybody can learn how to play football, but little people can really play football
I live in Sweden, hockey and football are the two most popular sports. I played football match for the first time as a gk after 6 weeks. 6 months into hockey and I still haven’t started training with my age group, only the people 1 year younger than me
@@terrainahead9558tbh I think you’re just aren’t as good at hockey + I assume you aren’t playing at a professional level. To compare for a professional level, Petr Cech, a footballer who is 41, is currently playing professional ice hockey for the Belfast giants, a 6 time EIHL championship winner and the current holders of the EIHL. Now can you tell me one 41 year old ice hockey player who is able to play football at the top league?
@@terrainahead9558also in Sweden, hockey is a much bigger sport than football. Less footballers = less competition = easier to play for a team
What's make football the most difficult sport, is not that you need to put the ball in the back of the net. It's that you have to do it better than everyone else. And it's a fact that football is the most played sport on the planet. Aside of the technical specificity of each sport, football is by far the most competitve sport if you want to be a pro
Yes. It's not difficult at all to pass the ball around for 90 minutes. Anyone can play football regardless of their athletic history because all you have to do is run around a lot while touching the ball a few times. But because it's such an easy sport you're competing with so many people.
It's not hard to go pro because it requires a lot of skill. It requires a lot of skill because it's hard to go pro. Think about what that means for a moment.
@@theemotionalremix Yeah i agree with you. Originally, football is the most played sport because it's a popular game, that anyone can play like you said. And also cause it's a really cheap sport, you only need to have a ball and a little bit of space (mainly when you are a kid) S
Hitting a baseball has been called the most difficult skill to do in all of sports. Think about it. In Major League Baseball, you've got a pitcher throwing fastballs in excess of 100mph. Not only does he throw a fastball, but he can throw this fast ball high, low, inside high, inside low, outside high, outside low. Now, on top of that, he can throw a curveball, a change up, a slider, a knuckleball....
You've got two guys - the pitcher and catcher trying to do EVERYTHING in their power to prevent you from even hitting the ball. You're trying to hit these fastballs, sliders, curveballs using a bat who's diameter is not much larger than the diameter of the ball that's coming at you at 100mph.
Now, if you SOMEHOW manage to hit the ball, now you've got nine defensive players doing everything in their power to prevent you from getting on base by either catching the ball that you hit or throwing you out.
So, when it comes to pure skill and difficulty, baseball is BY FAR the most difficult sport out of all of the major U.S. sports.
@@theemotionalremix you dont stand still and pass a ball, you have to run and football fields are way larger than basketball fields.
@@TheBeautifulGameandBeyond-m6v yes. Football is not easy. There's no such thing as an easy sport, that's why footballers are the best conditioned athletes on the planet.
But most of the time is spent passing the ball around and running after it. There's not much skill being shown there, apart from endurance.
I think that lots of people forget that sports like basketball, hockey, baseball, and american football are all sports that are dominated by the US. Even though hockey is dominated in canada and america, or how basketball is dominated in america and parts of africa, you have to remember that litereally 90% of the countries on earth are mainly sports where soccer is the primary sport. So even if hockey might be really hard to play in general, soccer is a sport that litereally every country on earth plays so its extremely hard to get to an elite level while playing soccer.
Sure, but the issue is most countries just don't produce that many elite athletes due to genetics, and interest in another sport reduces the pool for competition. So countries primarily interested in sports like athletics, martial arts, and hockey like Russia do not produce millions of athletes to compete with soccer. Also a more interesting confounder to the general increase in selectivity in sport is demographics. As the world has gotten richer, it can afford more athletes and they aren't as nutritionally deprived, yet more aged countries who might have an advantage in certain sports don't have the numbers of young people they might have in the past
@@TheThreatenedSwan I know where your coming from, over half the world plays soccer as their main sport. If you look up a demographic of most popular sport soccer easily dominates in about 75% or more of all the world countries, like germany, brazil, russia, and argentina. Because of this, the amount of people playing soccer is insanely high which means that it is much harder to be good enough to play for a pro club, which is why so many people play semi pro, because it's extremely hard to go pro when over half the world is also competing for the same position as you
Sweden is one of the best hockey coutries in the world and we are not even good at football. Football is like 20 times bigger here
Specify Ice hockey. Because in field hockey neither the Americans nor the Canadians have the strongest teams. It's Belgium, Germany, Australia, India are the countries which dominate field hockey. USA Canada both comes way lower in the world rankings.
Dana White is a clown. Petr Čech retired from football because he wasn’t good enough anymore, then went on to be a hockey player 😂
In football the cameras dont actually accurately potray how fast the game ussualy is. Like ussualy you only have a few seconds to think before making a decision
yeah it’s crazy. That Youri Tielemans body cam video in a pre season match showed how quick the game is, and it’s was a friendly
A few seconds is an over exaggeration itself. Under pressure, even at high school levels you need to make decisions in under a second or risk losing possession and opportunities
split* second
Think about this: 1% of high school soccer players will go on to play in D1, D2, and D3. 1% of those players will go on to play pro, likely in MLS. MLS isn’t even top ten in the world. Now imagine the competition in the epl💀
Mls aint even top 50 itw lmao
That’s a crazy statement my guy, MLS is for sure a top 50 league in the world
The he got the point anyway is like top 30
its literally ranked top 30 goofy@gackled8004
I think about this a lot. I pretty much dedicated my childhood to soccer and I was a mediocre D3 player.
the size of the goal compared to the size of the ball is actually a lot closer to hockey than it might seem. Yeah the goal is the size of the goalie in hockey, but thats cause their "ball" is a tiny little disc going like 3 or 4 times as fast as a soccer ball
Soccer balls are actually kicked harder.
@@kadenbland1333 wait fr? Like faster relative to goal size or just straight up faster?
@@aDSdl_l Straight up faster, the fastest football/soccer shot ever recorded was 210 Kmh while the fastest hockey shot was 177.5 Kmh. Idk what that would be in mph but I can look it up real quick.
@@aDSdl_l the hockey one is 110.2 mph and football is 130.5 mph
@@Robin_Oliver but you should be looking at average not the fastest
Football is (almost) the only sport where you cant use your hands. Dana White's point proves the opposite of what he thinks it does. In basketball, the hoop is only slightly bigger than the ball and teams score 50 times each in many games. Try playing basketball with your feet and almost every game will be 0-0.
exactly . beside all the tactics, running 12-15 km, fisical contact that includes kicks etc., football or soccer (for north american people) is played with your feet, you have to be a moron to not understand that playing a ball with your feet is much more difficult then playing with your hands, that includes holding a stick or a bat
@@M86KIA It seems you missed my point. I was saying that despite the hoop only being slightly bigger than the ball, both teams can score 50 times in a game. I was making a point about how much easier it is to be accurate with your hands than with your feet. Football is almost the only sport where you cannot use your hands and one of the most difficult sports to master.
The goal can fit 363 footballs in it side by side yet many games end 0-0. The hoop cannot fit two basket balls side by side yet many games end with over 100 points for each side.
King deporte is fútbol.
Love this video. Calling football easy is disrespectful to the professional players. The truth is, every sport is hard especially to become pro. I do think sports like Australian Rules Football (AFL) is harder and so is Ice Hockey
AFL is probably harder physically, but not technically.
@@dinodinho I would kindly disagree. Tactics like the “flood” and the “3,12,3” are master tactics. I have played both sports aswell (not at a professional level but I did play AFL in a top academy for 2 years in wa before I got a bad concussion)
Tactics aren’t technical. I’m talking about learning a technical skill. What technical skills exist in AFL? (Genuine question)
@@dinodinho torpedo kick, drop punt, banana kick, snap, emu kick etc
@@dinodinhou should learn more about afl. The good thing for u football fans is it will keep u entertained during offseason
soccer is the easiest sport to get into but it’s one of the hardest sport to go pro in
punching, kicking and grabbing is as easy as kicking a ball.
@@OezgeSebisteri It's kicking a ball well that's the problem. Even knowing how to control a ball passed on to you is hard. A ball being more than 1 foot from your legs reach is considered having no ball control and that's the most basic of basics
@@pineapplekun8769I know, I was referring to Dana Whites claim that football is the easiest sport in the world.
The hardest to go pro in
Indeed
I played soccer and ice hockey and we had way more injuries in our soccer league than in our hockey league. We also couldn't last an entire 90 min running. Luckily our league worked like hockey where you could sub in and out as needed.
same in football
@@CR7guy5268 no, in football you have limit changes
@@torredemilangesa2848 depends on your league and level, most teams don't even play a full 90 Minutes depending on the level of their league
usually you can go on the field anymore more when subbed off , was u9 football lol
@@CR7guy5268 no mr ignorant, the sub cannot go back to the field, its a one way sub, and you have a limit of 5 players to sub, which 4 or 5 years aggo was just 3
From my personal experience I've played all these sports and the hardest by far to be elite enough to dominate is soccer you have to master so many things and constantly be thinking about passing defending moving talking. But that's why we play the beautiful game it's a great challenge
Hockeys harder then soccer search it up
99% of the population could spend every second of the day playing basketball and not go pro
That's still 80 million people
@@Jacxk_ he is not that clever with numbers, let him live in his 'delusion' Americans dont even play proper basketball, thats entrtainement ball, and thats why the best players in their leagues are europeans, because the sports of americans is about the entertainement, not about the mastery of that sport, they are clowns xD, look at thyem, thei national teams never succeed in international events, they are just not even eligible to give sports opinions
@@antiarezzo7630 shit claim
*Football(soccer) requires the most stamina and fitness of all team sports.*
Soccer is the most difficult, and the most accessible, you can be 5' 8" and skinny and be able to play soccer at the professional level, that's not possible in any other sport.
I'm a huge fan of volleyball and basket but those absolutely are genetic based sport. You have to be ridiculously talented and hardworking to succeed as a short person in these.
does chess counts?
there are lots of sports where you can be 5 8 and skinny as you call it! tennis cricket darts snooker bowling running badminton horse riding etc
A sport is as difficult as how good your opponent is. No sport is easy at a competitive level
I don't get how people say football is easy. When someone plays football for the first time, you can clearly tell because of how bad they are whereas in something like American Football or even Basketball, as long as your taller, stronger and faster than everyone else, you can still look okay
facts!!!
@@afckajjansi Not it isn't. If you are "tall" that means absolutely nothing. If you are fast but cant catch the ball in American Football, you're worthless. If you are a running back and you can't hold onto the ball and your vision is terrible, you are absolutely worthless.
I agree with Football being difficult, however your still gonna look like shit playing football or basketball if u have no skill
@@Isorepsbasketball maybe, but American football false. I’m 6’1, 16 years old. I’ve played 3 of the sport. Currently on my team Varsity (Running Back) and a PG in Jv Basketball. I played both of the sport in just 2 years. While soccer I struggle to get a D1/D2 offer while starting in Varsity for the past 3 years since freshman years. Height and speed help me a lot in Basketball and Football.
imo technically football is the hardest ball the amount of foot eye cordination is insane I also agree that american football is VERY dependent on physicality two sports that you cant really compare
I love football but afl is way harder. Imo football is easy to get good but really hard to get pro
@@footyflamez7455wait until you find out about rugby
In american football theres a position for kicker and one for punter…. The guys cant learn two different kicks???
@@gbone1619 dude the average footballer needs to know hot to pass, dribble,tackle and in most cases shoot
@@gbone1619 im a football fan however its just like there is a corner taker and there is a free kick taker. its just that some people are suited to something else more
It is easier for a talented player to make it to the NFL than for a talented soccer player to reach La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, or especially the Premier League. It is almost impossible, and yet even more improbable to make the starting lineup.
The bigger the competition, the harder the sport.
Now imagine how many people around the world are playing, how many people and countries are good at ... THIS . SINGLE . ONE . SPORT.
1.5 BILLION people stopped everything they were doing to watch the WC final.
@@drakonlegend4452 Probably more. I think 1.5 billion is just ticket sales and video streams, however at least 5+ people were at each video stream. I'd estimate around 3 to 4 billion.
I'd say its easy to get into but hard to master
na easy to get into in the us. hard in the rest of the world. soccer is seen as a girl or kid sport here. but in the rest of the world, that shit is their life
are u saying us football it the best because i have no idea on what ur saying@@mafioso5004
@@mafioso5004Ultimately with the US it's always been a skill issue. You can make all the excuses you want but if you got good we all know you would jump on the band wagon.
True
"girl or kid sport". Kids can be both girls and boys, so why are your boy kids bad? Bc it requires immaculate IQ which most of you think sport doesn't. I can tell you I've watched american football and never thought wow, what a genius!! not even the QB. @@mafioso5004
A lot of the other sports mentioned use rolling subs, full team changes between plays and dedicated players who have one job like kickers. Football has limited subs which makes endurance a massive factor.
Football is the most skillful sport of all time hear me out. football probably has the lowest success rate for someone going into the sport professionally. you would be lucky to even get into an academy as a child. being a goalkeeper is way harder in football than any other sport. as with football there is so many ways that an attack could happen and when you're an attacker it's not just kicking the ball at the net it's composure skill Finesse and maybe even some flair if you're Brazilian. and dribbling isn't just kicking the ball around rainbow flicking elastico even a simple body faint could be hard to pull off. obviously it's easy by yourself but with a defender it is very hard to pull off and get past the Defender. and football is also the biggest sport in the world it may not be the biggest sport in America but America isn't the whole world is it now. and because it's the most popular sport there is a lot more pressure and eyes on you which could cause ballers to become worse than Harry Maguire in 2022. and football is also the most unpredictable Sport so anything can happen you could do the most perfect shot of all time and it could hit the crossbar. you also have to be very tactically strong as a player. and you got to have team chemistry. sure even a simple touch of a ball needs so many things you need composure you need to predict where the ball is going and where it is going to go once it's hit your foot and you have to make sure that it would still be close to you. and football also has way higher chance of injury as football has the least protection causing you to be able to pull a hamstring at any time. some people have got an injured from power shooting a ball it's crazy out here. and don't even get me started on defending you need to time a tackle, when to stick your leg out and you need to know how strict the referee is. upon many other things that I don't care to name. and I don't even play in the defense so I couldn't even tell you the actual in real life experience. And also as you said a game could be dominated by one team but lost by the same team a game where no goals are scored could still be entertaining that's the best thing about football. And I also care more about technical ability than physical ability as you could be the strongest lad perfect athlete that shouldn't make you good at Sports.
Sounds like hockey without the skating or controlling the ball with not a direct body part
American Football has the lowest success rate out of any sport in a developed country, only 1,696 players make it pro out of a population of 330 million people. But in England, there are 5,582 professional soccer players out of a population of 55 million people,
. You’ve said x many AF players go into the sport (assumedly per year) and then just stated the number of pro players in England- these numbers are clearly not comparable. Even if I am wrong there and you’ve just worded it wrong, the fact is that “soccer” has more pros in England because of how developed the league system is. Imported pros make up over half the Prem and there are numerous leagues below that, whilst they wouldnt compete with top clubs, have pro players that rely on the sport for income. You have to alter your idea of Pro when you look at football.
@@Milo-vz2grthis would probably be because England has more than just 1 or 2 leagues. I believe they have 6 or 7. Another thing you have to take into account is most players in England’s top leagues are foreign, not English, while most American football players are American
Theres only like 300 players in the nba there has to be more way more across the top 5 leagues
I think a very good indicator as to which sport is the most difficult is the competition - esentially, how many people compete Worldwide. The bigger the competition, the more difficult it is to reach the top!
As an American who’s casually (this means I haven’t played on a team) played Baseball, Basketball, Football and American football, I will say the hardest sports out of those 4 is probably football, then baseball, then basketball and then american football being the easiest, never played hockey but Ive heard it’s one of the hardest sports to play which by the looks of it I can agree with that
Ustedes los estadounidenses creen que su deporte lo ven todo el mundo. No, el soccer es King del deporte guste o no guste...
interesting he says 3-1 is unimpressive when the raiders vikings game BARELY ended 0-3 😂
Playing Football is indeed super easy, means almost entire world has tried it. Only the top talents shine.
Easiest to hardest:
5. Baseball
4. American football
3. Basketball
2. Hockey
1. Football
baseball should be 2 bruh
Hockey is most likely the most difficult. You have to start skating before 10 usually kids have to start as early as 5. It is also one of most power demanding sport. Ice hockey, speed skating and velodrome cycling demand most power output from human. Football, race to be pro is really hard but much more fair than in ice hockey. In ice hockey it can be impossible to play at 12 years old if coach do not like you. In football you can still find a club and even practice by yourself.
@@miikkaorte1577 I think football is harder to go pro because there are so many kids playing and trying to get on a pro academy. Hockey skill set is arguably harder, I tried to skate once but I couldn't stay up😂
8:44 I can agree because when you watch football it seems really easy and simple but from experience it took me 2 months and 16 days to score my first freekick
When you said “one of the best midfielders of all time is built like a twig” 🤣🤣 so true gotta loves Busquets tho best cdm im history in my opinion
Yup!
If the small scores are not a good indicator of how difficult the sport is then idk what is.
Soccer players run faster and longer than American Football players, so they are more physical in a sense or more
Idk about faster
@@moleedaboi I just checked, footballer have the fastest sprint. But it's also because they don't wear ultramarine suit.
I have no stats for that but I do think that the fastest American football player have a faster straight line without armor but can't turn as well as the fastest football player.
Adam Traoré is a good example. Built like an American football and he's very very fast but he moves like a truck. 💀
Mbappe is explosive, he goes from 0 to 35km/h in like 3 step.
All you said makes sense@@Wellshem
Nope in distance 40 yards, 30 m and 40 m football players without pads are faster soccer counterparts
Learning how to play soccer is difficult, playing it well is the hard part
Football(soccer) is the most elegant and skilful sport there is, it is the best sport that combines using your body and mind in full flow. It is the only sport that elevates the mind above the physical. What other sport could produce maradona and messi as two of the greatest ever, even whilst competing against people over twice their size almost every game and their technique triumps the brute force other sports value, football values the magic, the guile, the creativity, the ability not the physicality that destroys.
THe fact that it's the only sport that uses legs or entirely requires you to not use your hands is good enough reason to win the argument. We don't even need to bring up other reasons. Humans are hardwired to use their hands to grab, etc and never use their legs to do anything else besides walking/running. So, to move a ball with your legs is 10x harder than it is with your hands but idiots will convince a QB is a genius and Messi is a pussy HAHAHHAHA
I think another key aspect would be talent pool. If there is 500k professionals football players and 2k professional MMA fighters that would have an incredible impact on the level at the top
at a lower level? yes. at a higher level? NOO.
Even at a lower level you won’t play if you don’t have technique. My friend got played off the Pitch by a 15 year old in the academy because technical skill is that important
lmao what do you mean? If you're shit, you're shit regardless of levels.
@@afckajjansi soccer is really easy to pick up when you start as it is fundamentally just kicking a ball around. But the skill ceiling for the sport is higher then most sports on the planet so as you get higher level you have to drastically increase your technical ability and game knowledge at a extremely fast rate and it only gets faster as you go. You also have to do all this while getting your stamina to the point you can run up to 8-10 miles per can at the highest level and 4-6 at the intermediate-semipro level and make runs at a sprinting pace around every 3 minutes at the highest level and every 6 minutes at intermediate, oh you can run 6 miles per game and make speints every 5 minuted? Nice your now a twig so now you need to get physically fast and strong enough to run AT LEAST 20 mph while sprinting and be strong enough to not get bodied and be able to win 50/50’s and physically overpower your opponent. Oh but don’t get to big becuase now your stamina is down🤦♂️. It goes from kicking a ball to one of the hardest sports real quick.
@@afckajjansithe worst Sheffield United player would be an absolute Star in College Football.
@DrHarryZhang Nah this friend of mine has played football all his life though. The technical base to be even competent at the sport is too high.
I started learning the sport at 37 years old and it is HARD; I’ve gotten a lot better at it (I take lessons with a coach once a week and play in a rec league) but it’s incredible how uncoordinated I initially was when trying to kick and “handle” the ball. People who don’t know the sport don’t think about how seldom we use our feet in any kind of “dexterous” way.
Easiest until u play on the field
Great video dude. Football is the hardest to master but easier to pick up and play. I also think football is the most fun you can have with friends
Thanks
americans see a score 123-143 in a game where average size of player is 2meters and thinks yep thats talent (entire game only 5 balls were blocked)
The fact is that football has the largest amount of professional players. To really be outstanding you have to outperform thousands of professional players.
Most Footballers could play any sport to a high level, this aint the same for nearly every other sport.
The more I think about basketball, the more I realize that the sport is discriminatory. To be successful in this sport you have to be tall at least 99.9% of the time.
In any other sport you can work on your skills to become the greatest, but in basketball it (= potential) is decided at birth with your genes.
You can work on speed, technique, balance and muscle mass, but you can't work on size.
Dana saying this shit when hes running a slap league is wild to me 😂😂😂
Coming from being a former player for 14 years, here’s how I’ll explain it. I think it’s one of the easiest sports to start out playing and training in, but it’s one of the hardest to become really good at and go professional in. The fitness you need in order to play at high levels is extremely hard to obtain for a consistent amount of time, you still need to have a good build so you don’t get bodied and thrown off of the ball everywhere, and of course there’s the mental game that comes with every sport too. Still the best sport in the world Imo.
When it comes to basketball, i'd always point at shaq.
Shaq gets to be one of the greatest in the sport just for being shaq while also being known to possess the worst work ethic on a professional level.
A Ronaldinho would be the equivalent to that yet his work ethic already wouldn't get him far nowadays and even he had an insane amount of technical skill that he accumalated throughout almost his entire life to be where he was.
This is the equivalent of saying the piano is the easiest instrument because is the easiest to get into, all you have to do is just press black and white keys
Being athletic isn't a skill, it's a talent so I suppose you can say that football isn't as talented as other sports but that's actually what makes it better than other sports. You dont have to be a 6'6 Olympic sprinter with biceps the size of watermelons to excel. It truly is the peoples game because anybody can make something of it it they work on thier skills. Skills should be valued more than god-given talent because it actually takes effort to obtain skills
Ngonou the former ufc heavyweight champion was told by his boxing coach let’s do mma it’s far easier to become champion. Soccer is played by billions of people try getting noticed without be skilled
Top 5 sports ranked by difficulty
1.) Hockey, honestly no debate. Being able to control the puck standing still on skates is too hard for most. Let alone going over 15 miles an hour at times.
2.) football, hardest endurance sports, and in my opinion, you have to master 5 skills for everything you do. Maybe I’m biased but it’s still very hard
3.) basketball, second most enduring sport and a lot of back and forth. I don’t watch it but I know a lot of people do because of how fast pace it is.
4.) baseball, there are two skills involved. 1 of which has no variables. Obviously meaning it’s just rinse and repeat. The other is definitely the hardest thing to do *consistently* in sports which keeps baseball out of last.
5.) American football, just not my vision of a difficult sport. “Haha I’m bigger than you.” Plus with there being in 1 position where there is skills to master.
I’m definitely going to get violated in the replies but I don’t really care.
I agree
What about combat sports
im a football guy, but i agree that hockey is more difficult
Nice analysis - you should look up Usain Bolt's (pretty dismal) football career. Great athlete, but didn't get anywhere near making it as a footballer.
There is a saying where i live that says: “When the fox can’t reach the grape, he says it’s unrip”. When people are not good at something they try to discredit other people. I know not all americans are dumb like these… They don’t know how different it’s in here. what you call “soccer” it’s probably the hardest game to be a pro at. Not the most difficult sport, the most difficult to be a Pro at. Pro “soccer” players are literally Olympic athletes, they run constantly for 1h30 and they are expected to give their full from 1st to 90th minute. Giving that this is the basics you have also to be more skilled than millions of other people like you and be tactically intelligent enough to not be a burden to your team. Remember that the whole team could be playing good, but you need only one mistake and you loose a game. You can never loose focus. This enough should express how much of a selection the teams do. Try playing “soccer” yourself and tell me if it’s easy to go pro in Europe. Also the argument of that dude contradicts itself. Like how you think a game is that easy and your country is not even top 15 in the world.🤣🙏🏼
In my country there is a story that in a well there was a frog that lived there for a long time. The frog bullies the snails and crabs. Because at the bottom of the well, looking up, he could only see a small patch of sky, so he thought the sky was only as big as a plate.
One day it rained so heavily that the water in the well filled up and caused him to go outside the mouth of the well. Different from what he imagined, the sky was really vast but he did not believe his eyes and continued to show off his power. However, no one paid attention or saw him, so he was trampled to death by a cow
to people who actually think soccer is easy, try it yourself...
1.Hockey
2.Association Football
3.Gridiron Football
4.Basketball
5.Baseball
I would probably agree with that
Hockey, MMA, Football, Wrestling, Boxing, Soccer, Baseball
Crazy that Dana is calling football the easiest sport considering he's the president of the easiest sport to be champion in, at least according to former ufc champion Demetrious Johnson, who is like Maradona in MMA.
Why? Because you can be ufc champion if you're above average at one aspect, striking or grappling.
Brock Lesnar and Francis Ngannou are UFC champions for christ sake.
Non-American football still takes a lot of physical ability to it has more physical contact than most sports slide tackles, standing tackles, contesting for aerial and ground duels,headers corner kicks while sports like baseball and basketball don’t have as many situations where you need as much physical ability
football is very difficult physically
tackling people isnt really a talent ,i mean its strentgh but skill based not sure about tht
@@wingedhussar1453 He said physical. As in you get more or less kicked in the leg and then droped to the ground whille gowing full speed.
@@wingedhussar1453 It is very hard to do that without missing the ball. It takes less go to tackle an American football anyway.
@@wingedhussar1453nah it is technical, timing , precision etc
Almost all american sports rely on good hand eye coordination which is easier to be elite in than foot eye coordination, there is a reason why you can through a ball before you can walk
Francis Ngannou started training MMA/Boxe at 20+, possible even 25+
At 36 he was UFC champ
Similar things happened with Cyril Gane, Poatan, and several others fighters
You could argue that it makes fighting the easiest sport on the world....
No one will become elite player on football starting at 20+
In my opinion it goes
1-ice hockey
2-football
3-baseball
4-basketball
5-american football
But this is just my raking and I think every sport is difficult and I have respect to everyone who plays them
Let's see, at first glance football seems to be an easy sport, since anyone "can kick a ball." But that would be for the common person, also at first glance anyone would say that MMA is an easy sport since anyone can throw a punch. There is much more to football than just hitting the ball. I love watching football because of the individual performances and what strategies the teams will use. That's why it's the most beautiful sport in the world.
This is such an underrated channel.
thank you
Dana Pink is clueless
In regards to American Fooball, Field goal kickers are technical too but that damn field goal is pretty freakin huge and there is no goalie in front of that thing.also, many of the professional football kickers were college soccer players who probably weren’t good enough soccer players to play professionally.
Catching a basketball has a larger margin of error and is easy to do with no technique
i wouldn't say its the hardest sport but more like a sport hard to be great at
hey dinodinho could u make a video about what if the last 16 ucl winner compete in a champions league .
probably not
I played soccer for years and no it’s not easy
first of all football is a sport that is easy to play all you need is a ball you can use anything as a goal, thanks to that the level of skills and technique developed over the years is maddening you may think it is easy to win but you are vastly underestimating defenders and keepers the work they put in to keep the ball out is no joke
I’m underestimating them?
Runnning for 1 hr 30 min is not easy 😂
Try playing rb /lb or CM 😂
In lower levels for example
I played football district level in India
The skill level is really low and virtually no tactics and purely based on individual skills like who can get the pass out to whom and if they can score or defend
But in professional level it is way different different tactics different formations different positions and more positions in the position
I like to think about it like this and tell this to my friends who think football or basketball is better or more difficult, I just tell them using your hands anyone could honestly make 3pt shot or throw a football and catch it with good technique and form, but with soccer it’s the same but you can’t use your hands at all unless ur goalie and to play the sport u need some sort of technique to even control and pass the ball and like you said the average person would absolutely get mixed up because their brain would move way faster than your feet so you will end up loosing the ball plus there is a defender who has to know what the offense is going to do with the ball so yea that’s why there is low scoring games because the goalie saves and the defense plays good defense and should get rewarded for so
Another variable is how all sports have a break or pauses. If football baseball basketball or others were expected to play continuously it would be much different. Soccer you don’t have the luxury to stop or call a time out. Or lea the defense to help you with time to recover physically.
9:45 You did Valbuena dirty there
Yeah tbh hitting ppl gotta be the lowest skill ceiling
My arguement (i will call it soccer for now because this video is about American sports):
The most physically "talented" sport is obviously basketball because height is not trainable, but skill wise we can break it down to spatial awareness and coordination.
for spatial awareness I would say soccer because there are the most players on the field, you could pass in any direction and with or without curve. In football there are also 22 players, but only one person passes the ball, and the others follow the play or react, when a player is running with the ball 99% of the time they always want to go forward and they only pay attention to a fraction of the opposition.
For coordination it might be hockey, but there is less competition to go pro. Throwing in baseball and football should come fairly natural since our anatomy is designed to let us throw. So you could go basketball because its hard to make shots, or soccer because goalkeepers need elite reaction time and it's difficult to keep the ball at your feet, since you can't hold on to it. Or hockey for the same reason.
basketball is not physically the hardest because players who play in the NBA require a certain height? the fouls in basketball are very mild and players do not play the whole game and rotate in the bench throughout the game. American Football i would say is a lot more physically demanding
@@JosephAlegre-c2t I didn't say hardest, I said most talented, meaning you're born good at basketball (tall) or you're not.
fotballsceptics, the only thing you have to do is grab a ball and take them to a field, then let them try to score goals on a moving ball when you put them constantly under pressure.
5 min in they'l understand how easy this sport is
the guy who said that is a goof
I like more balanced sports that have a mix of general athleticism, so not just height or running economy, and intellectual ability. F1 is also like this where the athletic ability is almost completely generic yet at the elite level while intellectual ability is extremely important
You should add background music and Transitions to spice up your videos. Not those cringe ones
wdym by cringe ones? I’ve tried adding music before but I just don’t like how it turns out so I’ve been against doing it. I will attempt it again for the fiture
@@dinodinho Like those PowerPoint Slide ones if that makes sense. Don’t over do it
I agree with most of everything you said, except for once thing, catching in baseball in any position, is also a very unique skill. That being said in baseball, if they master the skill of pitching or hitting, they can play professionally into their late years.
I've seen a 3 year old punch another in the face. MMA and boxing easiest sports confirmed.
Just the endurance required to last 90 mins on a football pitch is way more than any other sport I know of
I think football is easy to getting to know the rule and all. That is why football is the biggest sport in the world
Its easy to understand and all you need is a ball and thats it but getting to a pro level is ofc hard since then you have to really expand you skill level to little details like foot position,vision,Shooting,Techinque,Fitness
Congrats for 1000 subscribers
Thank you
no problem@@dinodinho
I do think Akinfenwa and adama Traore are very good players ESPECIALLY AKINFENWA
Akinfenwa's highest achievement was to play one season in the Championship which is the 2nd league in England and only scored once during that season so if far from elite.
Adama Traore has played for top clubs for sure so he is playing at the elite level but he isn't elite because decent wingers score usually 15 goals a season on average whereas his best season was when he scored 6 times and assisted 9 times so if he did that regularly he could be considered elite but since he has on average 5 goal contributions a season he is at best a decent substitute.
@@Barbariansdaggerif they played against a local team or even a semi pro team they would still dominate so they are elite but just not in the same sense as messi or ronaldo
@@logang8856 You don't understand what elite means.
I would honestly admit that baseball and golf are probably the most difficult technically wise. Basketball the most physically difficult. Football is the most balanced between both technically and athletically, which arguably makes it the most difficult at the professional level.
Nah .. basketball is the one ,everybody tall 😂
If you're not tall your chances are slim to none 😂
@@dipe6376 no messi there ... only one buggsy malones I think ...and nothing similar since
@@lyomon9981 Issah tomas? 😅
very rare that a player is that short. Respect to him for making it. The average height is like 6’5
This demonstrates that even stupid people can become rich and famous
Dana or people who say that should try to play at least 20 minutes of football or as these goofballs call it 'soccer' but they should play against average pro footballers like some bottom of the league in any top 5 leagues and then talk.
I bet people like Dana wouldn't touch the ball against Almeria or Luton Town or some team like that or to be fair to him since he is older he can try to play against retired players.
We all saw how goofy and uncoordinated Usain Bolt looked like when he played in a charity match and other athletes from other sports but yeah let's chat shyte about a sport we never even engaged in.
Dana wouldn’t touch the ball against my u10 team
@@dinodinho Oh snap looool.
@@dinodinho I am a personal trainer and have an extensive background of different sports like boxing,judo but i also played football in my younger days.
Dana and people like that have no idea of the physical demands of football because you twist and turn and change speed and direction constantly while also jogging for 90+ minutes and with all that you have to maintain technique and skills and to do it at the highest level..oh well!
His comments are extremely dumb when considering that probably the most athletes in the world are football players since is the most popular sport and the athletes come from all corners of the world.
I mean...I wouldn't even bother considering such brain dead comments.
Bro my old u12 team can own his ass lmao
@@callmepin69 Well he speaks from ignorance because he compared hitting a hockey puck which slides on ice if you gently touch it so hitting it hard isn't all that difficult to kicking a ball and disregarded the ratio of a puck to the hockey goal to the ratio between a football and a football goal.
In other words he was talking a lot of crap plus he said that footballers must be very non talented because they can't score in some games when the pool of selection is the biggest for football because billions of kids are playing it.
In Brazil alone there are over 2 million registered footballers so the pool of selection is crazy and the odds of making it to the top level is very tiny hence this is probably the most competitive sport out there.
Growing up, I never understood why my dad loved this game so much. I dismissed it as boring because there were only a handful of, if any, goals per game. But now that my sons are playing it, I've come to appreciate how demanding it is at the highest level. You need technical ability, awareness, quick decision making, team cohesion, IQ, etc. to play the game well. When all players are at the same level it is a special thing to watch. But when my boys play rec, they need to actually be INDIVIDUALLY even better because those kids are missing most of those attributes and need perfect passes to make an assist for example. But, generally, football is much more of a TEAM sport since all the players need to be at a bar. There are a few freaks that can really impact a game but it's still pretty rare.
Either way, I think that soccer is the chess of sports. Easy to understand the rules but hard to master. It requires a lot of analysis and anticipation. And no game is like any seen before.
In the US, at least, the scouts are certainly favoring bigger and faster players with the assumption that they can add the technical ability (IQ probably not so much). So it is disappointing that's the trend. But it is to be expected I suppose.
Soccer💀💀💀
Soccer is said one time in the video
O MY GYATT,
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, but I was referring to the people (American who were calling football SOCCER🤐🤐🤐 )@@dinodinho EXCELLENT VIDEO BUT!!!
I do think Akinfenwa and adama Traore are very good players ESPECIALLY AKINFENWA
Sorry😔😒😢😭😥😰
Football is also the most accessible sport in the world. Children in Brazil can play barefoot with empty coke cans. It is the beautiful game and the sport of the people.
I played soccer and it is very easy. I consider it one of the easiest sports ever... and that's why it's difficult, because anyone can play it. Now, it's all about determination and who can play it better than the rest.
I’m talking about the professional level. You were probably terrible if you are saying it is very easy.
@@dinodinhoMy point still stands.
@@bb-double-yuh Literally doesn’t. No one agrees
@@dinodinhoSoccer requires such a high level of stamina to last the full 90 and then to make quick and good decisions on the fly with the coordination and tactical understanding that it’s all very difficult to master
I mean I said the same when i used to play American football when the teachers took away the soccer ball. If you catch the ball run like hell unless you want to end up getting trucked
There's a reason that it's the most popular sport in the world. It's inclusive in the way that everyone can actually play it. None of that "you're a casual in playing football" like those in F1 or MMA, you just play it and be happy
Every sport is difficult and depends on specific skills. Nowadays all sports require a high athletic preparation at professional level. I enjoy all of them.
I've noticed that (sorry but I'm American) soccer also translates the most to other sports. I've played it my whole life and anytime I've played other sports with my friends be it american football or basketball I always have a natural affinity for it but they act shocked that I'm able to be as good with such little experience. I think soccer just trains your mind so much better than any other team sport and sometimes it really shows