FIFA ratings are thoroughly accurate
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For anyone who doesn't know, Zlatan Ibrahimovic was an absurdly good striker for most of his career, and one of the top 5 strikers of the last 15 years (in my opinion). He has some of the most phenomenal goals I've ever seen, was extremely athletic even by top pro standards, has a very complete skill set for a traditional 9, and would completely obliterate Sam Kerr.
I'm just some guy and I'd also completely obliterate Sam Kerr.
Hahaha... sorry to say, but probably not, homie.
For the onslaught of downvoters who know jackshit about this sport, if you genuinely believe the world's best female player would get beaten at soccer/football by any random guy, you're a complete fucking retard. This woman would completely shit all over every single one of you.
Keep downvoting, you're still complete retards who'd get embarrassed by this chick.
Yeah, I would. Men and women are so different athletically that we might as well be a different species.
If you played soccer at some competitive level, like a travel team, then yes. If it's just intramurals, then no.
Picking a semi-endurance event at random, the 10k run:
In 2020, the slowest woman in the 10k run at the Olympics ran it in 33:10.
Running a 10k in 33:33 puts you in the top 1% of men.
Maybe you could get up tomorrow and run a 10k in 33:00, and be the equivalent of an Olympic-level female middle-distance runner. But in that case, you're not "just some guy", you're also faster than 99 men out of 100.
The disparity between men and women is less for endurance events than for something like grip strength, and soccer involves a lot of continuous motion and endurance.
Soccer does not involve one of our two key advantages - grip strength.
It's still an absurd advantage, but less significant than other sports.
No, you wouldn't. She's arguably the best female player in the world. Her technique, change of pace, dribbling, and feints would utterly annihilate you. As just some guy (your words), I'd be surprised if you get 1 goal past her.
I'm not sure if you watch the sport, but I watch and have played for almost two decades. I'm pretty good technique-wise and I'm very athletic. She would probably beat me in a 1v1 match. Elite male players would make her look like a joke, but a random guy would look like a fool against her.
Those U15 teams that beat the US women's team, they're full of phenomenal young male players with boatloads of potential who've trained for a decade. You are not them, I'm afraid. Those kids would make a fool of you too.
The US Women's Soccer Team practices against high school boys and regularly gets schooled.....
High schooled.
The women’s US soccer team was beaten by a bunch of U-15 boys.
um, the US women's national team, when they won the women's world cup... utterly decimated by teenage boys. https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/
the Australian women's soccer team, back when they won... utterly decimated by teenage boys. https://sportsmanor.com/soccer-news-australian-womens-soccer-team-thrashed-7-0/
it's not even fucking close. these aren't even one-offs. this shit is rampant.
when it comes to athleticism, 90% of men are better than 99% of women. and the top 1% of women are still pretty damn terrible. it's biology. before powerlifting orgs started allowing men to compete as women, the top 1000 women in history benched only 230lbs. if you're a guy and you bench 230, you're such a little bitch that people laugh at you when you get it certified. you're not even in the 100k, and 99% of guys won't even bother to get it certified because it's that pathetic.
Maybe that's just soccer...
Well, ok, but it can't be literally every physical activity, right?
You got the downvotes because you're wrong. I know from personal experience.