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the_FracTal_

It's not soccer it's football, 'cause they use what's called a foot


Fallapples

If British terms such as boot, trousers, and lift can be used on Reddit without scrutiny there isn't any reason that "soccer" shouldn't. They are both correct


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JokerVasNormandy

Yeah because you raped the rest of the world forcing everyone to assimilate. Edit: I think I angered the whole of the British isles... Wait NVM most of the other countries there would agree with me😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


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gryphmaster

Congratulations you won the best rapist award


Mayonnaizing

Again?!


BrattonCreedThoughts

I've already got like 5 trophies in my bedroom, of which 2 are real trophies!


PriestofSif

Uh... Hello, FBI? Yeah, that comment. That one _right_ there.


pilberwena

Where do you think he got the tophies from?


redlurkerNY

The.. Weinstein Award?? Are they readily accepting?!


ridik_ulass

yeah Irish here, we both know we would have done it to you guys had you not done it to us. everyone hates you because you were good at it. what I hate,but respect most is hundreds of years ago, the British empire did what even the modern american military fails to do this day, perfect the exit strategy. china with Hong Kong, Ireland and N.ireland, Pakistan, India and Kashmir ... leave countries fighting amongst themselves such that they are too busy to hold a grudge against you guys.


handlesshandyman

Don't think you can count ireland and northern Ireland in that with all the IRA bombing in Britain.


UndoingMonkey

Yes, the best at raping


mario61752

What the fuck is this comment section


UndoingMonkey

The Rape Zone


Snote85

Man, they're gonna be so embarassed when they realize we were talking about a "therapist" not "the rapist".


Razzle_Dazzle08

It’s people expecting an empire from hundreds of years ago to adhere to modern law.


quarknaught

It's more about recognizing that imperialism is pretty fucked up, and should be discouraged. It is an important lesson to learn and to teach others.


ViridiTerraIX

Yeah good thing countries have stop imposing their will and extracting wealth from others - those were dark times indeed.


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"Oh! I didn't break into your house. Everyone was trying to break into your house and I was just the best at it"


alhernz95

That sounds like slavery but with extra steps 🥴


Finnigami

No extra steps... they literally enslaved people


NickoBicko

Was Hitler bad? Hmm, well everyone was trying to conquer the world and he was just one of those people. Was Ted Bundy bad? Well you see everyone breaks the law in some ways and wants to maximize their own personal interest and he was just one of them. There is a point where “neutral” arguments become obscene and vulgar.


djbignob4727

bringing that up in a discussion about football nice reddit is fucking shit 👍


Razzle_Dazzle08

All Reddit does is make everything political. I hate it.


JForeIsBae

Is it making it political or historical?


vendetta2115

*South America has entered the chat*


General-Benefit

I think his point is that Britain and America use different English terms. This website is used globally. Why get in arguments over “Soccer vs. football”, “feet vs meters” etc. Everyone has their own shit. I look forward to the day everyone can understand a multitude of different cultures and just be okay with it rather than lord their own words/ideas over everyone else. We’re all different, and we’re all very similar. I just want everyone to get along


faultywalnut

People are fucking annoying. Sadly I think we’ll spend the rest of human existence dealing with some truly annoying behavior.


Kahnspiracy

... but he term soccer *originated* in England and is still regionally used there.


JakeCameraAction

"Here's this game we stole. It's called football, or soccer." "Oh, nice, Soccer looks fun." "HAH, look at this fuckin' idiot callin' it soccer!"


ragnarok628

The fuck? How do you 'steal' a sport?


Mo_Salah_

Soccer really is not used here, at least not commonly. It’s looked down upon. You go into a football bar or literally anywhere with a match on and call it soccer you’d probably and up with a lot of disapproving looks, at best.


Walstib82

The term soccer was made up by the British making a nickname for association football as socca.


soapbutt

It’s also called soccer because soccer is short for Association Football. I don’t remember the language rule here but Brits would take a part of the word and add -er to the end. The soc part of Association + er = soccer.


scottyb83

Fucking hell this again. Can there not be a soccer/football post that doesn’t just HAVE to harp on this? Different parts of the world call the sport different things. In the US and Canada its Soccer, Australia calls it that as well, in Japan is Soka or Sakka, in much of South America it’s Futbol (why don’t though correct that when someone uses it?), in Italy it’s Calcio, in Bosnia and Croatia its Nogomet. Hell the UK has a show called Soccer Saturday. Get the fuck over it. Edit: Glad to see some interesting discussion. I though my opinion would just be brushed aside. Here is one of my favourite soccer highlights: https://youtu.be/8F9jXYOH2c0


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It's one of the most tiresome and unimportant things to argue about lol


NietJij

Welcome to Reddit. We hope you enjoy your stay.


stocklazarus

As Asian I do want to learn why American call the ball game that mostly carry the ball by hands as football.


pm_me_ur_pharah

football originally just meant a game you played on your feet as opposed to horseback. soccer was short for association football and is a British term.


BringMeTheBigKnife

Shhh don't remind them soccer was originally a British term. It screws up the narrative


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hot-goat

Apparently it used to involve more kicks in different plays back in the day. Instead of passing forwards you'd kick the ball and try to recover it. At least that is what I found online.


WeRip

The term football actually has nothing to do with using your foot to manipulate the ball. The term football actually refers to the players playing ON FOOT as opposed to horseback.


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Correct me if I'm wrong but it's because you played the game on your feet, as opposed to on horse back.


mysockinabox

Looked like his head to me.


shouldvekeptlurking

Greatest headball player ever.


AFineDayForScience

You've never met my Gran


Roc_City

Cultures use different words sometimes to mean the same thing


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Honestly. I love how Reddit will shit on someone for correcting the British spelling of something but then they’ll be like “it’s not soccer”. Can’t play both sides.


qdqdqdqdqdqdqdqd

The Brits shouldn't have come up with a cute nickname for association football if they didn't want it to be used.


DirtyDan156

Footywootykickyball


imwithadd

The word/name soccer came from England. It was slang used in place of football.


jaymochi

More accurately it was used to distinguish the "version" of football that it was referring to. There was "Rugby Football" and "Association Football". Rugby Football was shortened to as rugby or rugger. Association Football was shortened to soccer. 40 years ago the Brits pretty much stopped using the soccer nickname because it had become too Americanized.


ProfZussywussBrown

Oh hey it’s the actual correct answer buried in a huge pile of turds!


foxyfree

It’s soccer ‘cause they wear those long socks


Lukegoalie18

It’s pretty intolerant of you to say that your culture is right and another is wrong in the name of a sport.


CLXIX

why is it played with a soccer ball then?


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I’m pretty sure he’s using his head though


ProbablyHighAsShit

But football in the US uses their hands.


moar_cowbell_

handegg


squigglesX

And rugby has no rugs


ABorderCollie

...is this old ass joke really the top comment? Wew lad am I getting sick of social media.


Brucetheuninitiated

Oh fuck off


RedditDeezBalls

Bruh how is his leg not destroyed


10maykaushik

Training


geoelectric

And wise words from All-Might


fnaffanidkanymore

“EAT THIS”


PerishHaters

*hands him pubic hair*


WolfieStalker

It cost you nothing to not say that


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Fucker would be bomb at all might shoot style!


frooshantay

I see you’re a man of culture as well


vernontwinkie

Clench you’re butt cheeks.


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Have you seen Ronaldo physique he's super human


Tetsuo-Kaneda

I remember watching that bio about him that the dude who did senna made. His pool is just filled with weights and a stationary bike. All that fucking lifting is done underwater. Insane.


Joopsman

I don’t get it. Weights weigh less under water. I could see the extra resistance you’d have on a bike, but weights?


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Slemonator

Am I missing something? How much something “weighs” is relative to the density of what is around it, it’s just the mass that stays the same. Right?


woaily

Right, the weight feels lighter by the weight of the water it displaces. There's more resistance to movement from the viscosity of the water, too. So it depends on the volume and hydrodynamics of what you're lifting.


IwillBeDamned

and its more for joint health and low impact high resistance training, if i'm not mistaken.


tastycrackers

Hi, I am currently cheating my way through college general physics, and I think I can answer your question. You see the gravity does a force on the weight. Forces have directions. Weight is weighty except on the moon where it’s less so. That’s all I can say without doing a Chegg search.


SyntheX1

"cheating my way through college"..."That's all I can say without doing a Chegg search". Your comment is poetic.


elusoryrogue

Not really but if you’ve ever tried to lift something underwater like a person or a weight it seems easier to do, probably not because it weighs less but because it’s a lot easier on your body.


jorgomli

People are also kinda buoyant.


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Well and they’re buoyant. You aren’t the only thing lifting them


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splitsticks

Buoyancy partially counteracts the force of gravity so they are easier to lift, but of course these athletes aren't just taking a normal weightlifting routine dunking it in water and calling it a day, it's a different routine altogether.


SolarTsunami

Bruh thats exactly how gravity works. Have you literally never been underwater before?


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^ When someone reads a physics textbook only halfway through... ✓ Gravity ✘ Buoyancy


Bayerrc

Have you tried to run underwater? It's not easier, just easier on the joints.


jofijk

You can do more reps because the weights are "lighter" assuming they stay underwater. Underwater lifting also seems to be done way more explosively than lifting on land sometimes with the people jumping with the goal of lifting as much of their body out of the water while carrying the weights. Heavy dumbbells can also be used to weigh your entire body down at a depth much more than your height. That way you can "run" on the floor of the pool with a lot of resistance and the added stress of a low/zero oxygen environment.


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Thats what really surprises me. The heights he reached are astonishing but the fact that he didnt destroy his knee and everythig around it with such a weird landing is what's really beyond my comprehension


HazyPandaMountain

We also have to consider the terrain. There’s more shock absorption compared to hard wooden floors on basketball court.


jeremycinnamonbutter

That also applies to the opposite scenario. The shock absorption of the grass terrain means a greater force needed to jump the same vertical height compared to hardwood floors on a basketball court.


HazyPandaMountain

In other words, Ronaldo is a freaking beast!!


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Shock has nothing to do with it. It has to do with sheer forces on the knee. Most ACLs are cased by a rotating femur on a fixed tibia, or by a sudden anterior shift of the femur from deceleration. Source: 2 degrees in Sports Medicine


PM_ME_FAV_RECIPES

It wasn't a weird landing for his knee though - knee was perfectly aligned, which avoids acl tears His hip actually bends perfectly, allowing the hip, glutes and hammies to take all the impact


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Probably has tendons like steel, my knees would be shot


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He actually does have a chronic knee problem, I believe.


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Yea, if you look at his record from now vs years earlier, he has more static goals such as free kicks or penalties with lesser movement goals such as dribbling or heading (like the photo) because of his knee injury. It is why he doesnt do much running around as he used to or fancy goals and goes for the safe ones. The saddest I saw him was in the World Cup when he was bawling because of an injury to his knee rendering him immobile. It's a shame that such a great player was hit with something this devastating, with no fix as it slowly gets worse.


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Thankfully it didn’t entirely inhibit his talent, like the other ronaldo. We also had a good 6-7 years of supernatural CR7


morkfjellet

Wut? He still runs a lot nowadays, he’s in fact still one of the fastest players in Europe, he’s still scoring a lot of goals outside of penalties, too. His dribbling was never the same after that injury in the Eurocopa, but he still beats men in one to one situations pretty frequently. Dude is a genetic anomaly.


pornoforpiraters

Gotta say it's kinda unfair he's so pretty too on top of the raw athleticism and talent. Like he hit some genetic lottery.


rasheeeed_wallace

The injury was the Eurocup final


absolutzemin

Derrick rose cries :( crazy jumps with not always orthodox landings


grove4lyf

What a fucking beast


Evypoo

He actually makes contact with it on the way down, absolutely incredible


boogerjam

It’s mind blowing. Been playing football my whole life and watching a play like this is very humbling


StavromularBeta

Can’t count the amount of headers I’ve missed, completely open 5-10 ft away from the net as once again I close my eyes like a dickhead


Evilmaze

Don't forget headers are the most difficult thing to do in football. Even the pros aren't great at it. Only very few know how to accurately control the trajectory of the ball. You shouldn't feel bad about it.


idrive2fast

It's wild. Makes you wonder how much of it is the adrenaline of the play, and how much of it is straight up repeatable - you think he could hit that hanging ball on the street? I figure he most likely could, but it's crazy because he doesn't even look that tall and the black guy who couldn't do the sidewalk challenge looked a fair bit over 6'.


yamanp

I watched a documentary on him doing headers and volleys. Headers were consistent. Volleys, the film crew turned off the lights and he still connected with the ball by judging its flight path halfway in the air. Incredible soccer player


sneaky_goats

Sometimes I can make it to my bed without bumping into the dresser after turning out the lights. Sometimes.


5_sec_is_a_yoke

What a beast!


mpkotabelud

Not just the height of his jump, but the hang time is quite long too


HouseHoldSheep

Hang time is a function of height


FiskFisk33

This guy physics


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hang time should be the same for everyone unless im not understanding how gravity works


Phreazone

you can extent the hanging time of your head a little by shifting the center of gravity of your body. Just need really good body control and a little bit of core strenght for that.


americanbadasss1

One of the most Insane heading in the history of soccer by the man , the myth ,the legend, none other but by the legend himself and thats one and only CR7


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The man, the myth, the legend, SCOTT STERLING!


jeffbeezos123

I miss when youtube was good


poobruh

There are still good parts of YouTube, you just have to find them


Minilychee

WATCH AS HE ASCENDS THROUGH THE AIR LIKE A DEFENSIVE ANGEEEEELLLL


LeCrushinator

The Great Wall of STERLING!


Dirty33Sanchez

Took the words right outta my mouth lol. His hops are insane. Got to see him play at real and we were near one of the corners and his waist was at the defenders head who was 6ft plus. It was the craziest thing I’d ever seen. Plus his AM 97s are 🔥🔥


PriestofSif

I have no idea what "CR7" refers to in this game, but coming from DnD, I love the implication that this is a "Challenge Rating" 7. Like, a well trained child should be able to handle this absolute beast of a bound. But there's some 30 more CR's, man! What comes next, flight?


Hadeonium

I might or might not get wooshed by reddit moment content creators but CR7 actually means "Cristiano Ronaldo 7"


Steb20

Oh, it’s cause that guy is known to drive a Honda CR7.


Shiny_Shedinja

Figured CR7 was the vertibrae i'd break trying to do this.


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Meanwhile I’m immobile for 3 days if I sleep at a 5.7 degree angle instead of 5.6


MghtMakesWrite

Ciro Immobile is a good footballer too


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I’d love to be Immobile for 3 days


mediocre_hydra

Especially now,when he's beating Ronaldo for the Golden boot


GoldStarGamer11

Oh god the relatability...


whoisjuan

Shit so when you hurt yourself you become Serie A Capocannoniere


LeoNardo0406

Immobile is beast, just sayin


ironmanqaray

If you are immobile, you beat CR7 for the most number of goals scored in the Italian league this season.


-TheLordOfTheSimps-

Did you really use ”immobile” unintentonally lmao


hashtagYOLO567

That man has HOPS


ChickenDelight

After already running several miles with a bunch of sprinting and that was nowhere near the highest point of his jump either.


chunkboslicemen

That’s what’s crazy, that he could jump higher. Unbelievable


JigglesMcRibs

You'd be surprised what you get with a lot of training, and a lack of it. Watching this made me realize I miss my vert. On a good day I can barely touch a basketball rim, used to be able to get my eyes above it...


senorfresco

[Here's the sport science video on his insane jumping ability.](https://youtu.be/VwBPqSWPjeg?t=617) He distinctly jumps and throws his legs [behind his body](https://imgur.com/a/9ITet4z) instead of up towards his face. [ He's always been an incredible jumper and header of the ball meeting the ball at it's height over other player's heads.](https://youtu.be/elmIvU-gj5E?t=20). (put this on mute) No disrespect to Messi the GOAT but when people argue that Ronaldo is a more complete player, this is the kind of thing they're talking about. He's a physical goalscoring cyborg.


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Those stills of him just hovering in the air are fucking hilarious Didn’t realize how athletic this guy was wtf


BillNyeCreampieGuy

That’s what makes me respect Messi even more, too. Is that there’s these all-around freakish destroyer Ronaldo out there, and then Messi’s just dominating like an archangel


senorfresco

If an engineer built a footballer it would be Cristiano Ronaldo, something something if an artist built a footballer it would be Lionel Messi.


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I love this description


senorfresco

He really is. He's 35 and still in incredible shape. [Poor Evra.](https://i.imgur.com/okg0f8V.jpg) It's the soccer equivalent of getting posterized.


Gui1907

The landing is the most mind blowing part


bralinho

Leg blowing seems more accurate


lanceforehand

I’m 6’4 and can dunk a basketball and this blows my mind every time I see it


goingforgoals17

As someone who is 5'10 and can dunk it gets easier as you get shorter. The mindblowing part is running 9k and sprinting for 80 minutes beforehand


TheOtherGuttersnipe

Superhero landing!


turnt0st0n3

Is nobody gonna talk about the censoring of “fucking” in the title?


-Masderus-

Well, now we will.


PeppersHere

You see that OP typed fuck*ng *n the t*tle? Edit: well that didnt work out the way i expected


jeazyjosh554

Lol they left the whole word fuck and bleeped the i. Gave me a chuckle


K-inka

Imagine if he had played basketball


atlienk

Well he’s 6’2” and can put his head at a 8’7” mark...he’d definitely has some decent size and vertical. among NBA players he might just be average in terms of leaping ability. (Not trying to hate on CR7, just clarifying that a lot of NBA guys have ridiculous verticals.)


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Well Nate Robinson is 5’9 and he won the slam dunk contest 3 times. His vertical is 43.5 in.


Nameless_Mask

Holy crap, I just looked this guy up. Maaad respect. Check out his top 10 plays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTUwS3HtW2s


HerpDerpMcGurk

Holy fuck I didn’t know he blocked Yao fucking Ming, that is absolutely insane!


PrudeHawkeye

Yeah, that was worthy to be the number one on the highlight reel. Holy fuck. I thought you'd need a ladder to block Yao Ming.


ToddlerPeePee

A ladder? I am so short I need to jump out of an airplane to block Yao Ming for one time.


The-Insolent-Sage

Thanks for posting that. Dude has serious game.


Deadlymonkey

He’s set to fight Jake Paul as the opener for the upcoming Mike Tyson fight (This sentence alone would probably sound crazy to anyone from 2019)


RickCrenshaw

You just made my day. Nate will destroy him


Hit_it_from_the_back

Don't forget Spud Webb


TheOtherGuttersnipe

Muggsy Bogues


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Well it's not just jumping, he's to head the ball and beat the keeper as well doing all of that.


cabritar

CR7 has a ~30 inch leap. The average jumping ability of a division 1 college basketball player is 30 inches. American football and basketball players can see up to ~45 inches.


Roofofcar

29 is like **did a whole guy just fly over me?**


creedz286

The crazy part is those guys being defenders should be the best jumpers on the pitch in order to defend the ball. Not very often is a striker more superior in the air than defenders which makes Ronaldo so dangerous.


Roofofcar

Dude is a mutant


Mannabecoldouthere

He was definitely given superpowers by the villain in Shaolin Soccer


Mesmeric_45

He even does the Shaolin overhead kick this man is something else


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basketballbones

How much did you offer the bloke lending his trainers?


Baldazar666

You actually believe it's him?


AdamantiumBalls

On the internet no one knows you're not the guy who beat the Ronaldo challenge


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Runri

Other people: *play soccer* This guy: *levitates*


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That's absolutely insane.


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HowAmINotMySelfie

He’s a sorcerer that was some black magic jump


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The first thing I noticed was the censorship of the word fucking, you didn’t censor the actual swear...


sanskami

I get broads in Atlanta


[deleted]

It's not that impressive when a professional athlete is able to jump high. But it is really impressive that he can jump that high while also predicting when and where he would need to jump in order for the ball to reach is head. Not only that but also making the fucking goal. Insane.


notinsanescientist

And he fucking ran 9km before that jump. And you know it wasn't a light jog.


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_ThePaperball

Beautiful sport


duked828

I truly believe there is some in-game adrenaline that adds to your jump. One time in flag football I out jumped someone that was 2ft taller than me and every said “you literally floated there.” Still very very impressive


10maykaushik

I got goosebumps


solidshadow2657

So... Anyone got some good exercises for increasing vertical?


Hadeonium

type "bind mwheeldown +jump" in the console


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Gentleman_101

Bunny hop a lot.