FIFA ratings are thoroughly accurate
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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.
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.
What she trained her entire life for I can achieve in 2 months of training, and I haven't touched a football in 14 years, and haven't played a sport in 10.
Luckily I have never been overweight since I stopped sports, or let my self go.
That's not true. You guys have no idea what you're talking about and it shows. You would simultaneously have to develop stamina, learn positioning and tactics and anticipation, learn techniques for shooting and passing (there are many different types), improve your first touch from Bambi levels to something decent, learn how to use your hips properly to run and turn with the ball, gain the experience to not get baited into overcommitting to tackles or feint runs, learn actual basic moves (body feint, v-cut, cruyff turn, etc.), learn to not watch the ball and your feet while you dribble, gain shooting accuracy and power, among many other things. That's not achievable in two months. You genuinely have no idea what you're talking about. First touch alone is something that takes years. Can you even keep up/juggle a ball more than three or four times in a row right now?
As someone who's played against dozens of varsity university and college women, they're very good. The world's best woman is a whole other thing entirely.
She's never going to read this and she's not gonna fuck you.
I played football and multiple other ball sports my entire childhood. I think you are severely overestimating the woman's skill.
Women are beaten on the regular by U15's and I am more physically mature and in control of my body than I was at that age.
Whatever you're on it must be strong
I am 100% sure of that. As for the rest, I'll take your word for it.
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.