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What an idiotic conclusion
Obviously didn't mean that linemen would be good soccer players - but nice stretch!
Who would be, from the NFL or NBA, though? Except maybe the kickers. Soccer is dominated by a lot of guys under 6 feet tall. Bigger guys can do well as goalies, defenders or target strikers, but mostly the best creative players are pretty minute. That's my point, and it's not a stretch.
you got 350 mil people, lots of funding, we do that with 17 mil people, decent funding
And Americans have to use the descendants of African slaves whereas Russia is mostly homogeneous.
<Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo>Yeah, people totally like soccer. If the US cared, we'd dominate it like just about any other sport we show a passing interest in.
Joe is fucking idiot...
many Russian athletes refuse to turn pro in sports because of the principal...many of the best boxers don't even make it to the pro ranks these days
Meanwhile russia and slavics in general are setting world records(regardless of the venue or whether the sport is "amateur or "pro")
In track and field , wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, Olympic lifting, gymnastics, swimming, volleyball, hockey, every winter sport,judo...etc
BTW.....
Russia has LESS THAN HALF THE MALE POPULATION of the United states and they still dominate many international sports
Also Take the Ukraine for example....it has a population of what? 11 million?
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Igor olshanksy is one of those 11 million Ukrainians that happened to immigrate with his family to states....olshanksy never heard of american football before his junior year of high school
From there though he became one of the Oregon ducks best defensive players ever...he also held the school record in the clean and jerk and the squat...
Before the age of 21 he could bench press over 500 pounds
At the NFL combine he ran a 4.9 second 40 yard dash and had a bigger vertical than kevin Durant while weighing nearly 320 pounds at 6'6 tall
He also bench pressed 225 pounds 43 times...that's 9 reps short of the combine record
Olshanksy didn't come to the states cause he knew he would excel at a sport he never heard....he immigrated and realized he was like Kal El away from his home planet and living under 1 sun...that compared to many in the United states , he was bigger, stronger, smarter and more athletic
This, if they tested the NFL like they did UFC fighters there would be no NFLWhat in the actual fuck is he trying to say
Everybody in NFL is juiced to the gills
NFL, NBA all protect their own athletes and most importantly their superstars
I like Joe and i find his podcast very good when he has interesting guests but to say that Russia don't have professional sports or a professional venue is very ignorant.
Instead of spouting total bullshit like this, you could go to Wikipedia and check the GDP lists.It's also a total shit hole, with a GDP smaller than other shit holes like Brazil, despite having the most natural resources of any other country in the world.
Uh duh. Russia ranks behind financial powerhouses like Brazil and Italy.Instead of spouting total bullshit like this, you could go to Wikipedia and check the GDP lists.