Originally posted by Real
Hey, dont act like soccer players dont have paddding. Shin guards, ankle guards, hip padding and for goalies, extra hip padding and gloves with finger protectors.
hmmmm, I feel that could just be in America because I know for a fact that in the English game you are only allowed to wear shin pads, nothing more, nothing less, but they hardly help if you get kicked in the back of the leg (as I'm sure Henrik Larsson or Djibril Cisse will tell you
) Goal keepers ofcourse have the fingersave stuff in the gloves but that's it, no more than the outfield players wear. When I play football I swap between playing up front and playing in goal, I wear no shin pads or any of this "hip pads" rubbish you're talking about
and when I go in goal I just pull the gloves on, mine do not have fingersave however, but they just make it so it doesn't sting like hell when you save the ball heh heh. When you dive to the floor in goal when you're saving a shot or whatever, sure it hurts for a seconds, but .... so
it's a sport, get on with it. I do actually think that all the padding you are talking about, is just in the MLS or American soccer in general, because in the 70's, the MLS actually tried to introduce helmets for the players
[lol][lol], I can't believe how much I laughed when I first heard about that hahaha.
I don't believe wearing padding is smart actually, not only (from my point of view), is it extra money that I need not spend to just have some fun playing footy, but also, the more padding and jipe you wear, the more of a hinderence there will be to your actual ability to play the game. I'm sure American Footballers would be able to run a hell of a lot faster without all the (IMO) needless crap strapped to them. And I honestly do think it is needless crap, rugby is a more violent game and they wear no more than "soccer" players in terms of padding, except for the gumshield.
My point about all that padding and stuff, is not actually so much that it makes the people wearing it, girls, it's more that it's pointless I think. With the whole "girls" thing, I was trying to come down to the level of American football, which I believe is entirely about bravado and not much else, which is definitly NOT what I think sports should be about.