Do you think Conor McGregor would've ended up in MMA if he had any real promise as a footballer?

[RandomUser12]

It's well documented that his greatest passion and first love growing up was football.

Even after he had discovered and then fallen out of love with MMA, he was still playing for a team as a young man:

It's difficult to imagine a guy choosing MMA (especially a decade ago) over something he'd been doing and loved for as long as he could remember.

 

[Theproof]

Um......my answers is.......who the fuck knows?

 

[wilKO]

Obviously not. Why risk your physical health and future when you can be a footballer and earn far more money too.

 

[Giovanefugazza]

Since he is Irish it would probably be better for him to stay away from football.

But jokes aside, yeah, if you make it in soccer it is almost guaranteed that you will get better payed and damage your body less than a MMA fighter

 

[Reason]

"And then I realised that it was for girls"

 

[Hoop]

Since he is Irish it would probably be better for him to stay away from football.

But jokes aside, yeah, if you make it in soccer it is almost guaranteed that you will get better payed and damage your body less than a MMA fighter

How dare you. We're going to the Euros this summer to be the whipping boys of our group

 

[Reach4theSky]

Aldo>>>Conor at football.

 

[Z28LS1L98]

Soccer/football is the greatest and biggest sport in the world, the real answer is no one knows.

 

[613]

Probably not. Football/soccer has by far the deepest talent pool in sports

 

[Naos]

Pretty much every lad in Ireland wanted to be a footballer when they were growing up.

Especially around the time he was growing up, USA 94 world cup and all that. Kids were doing the Ray Houghton tumble for months afterwards whenever we scored in our street games.
Hero games as well.

Fluid teams as people would run home to wolf down dinner.
Having to convince the ballowner to let us use the ball when he went.
Jumpers for goal posts.
Score would be 81 - 73, next goal winner no aces.

 

[The Young Wolf]

I wonder when the thread about Aldo not being a good enough soccer player and having to choose mma will come up. I'm going to guess it won't though cause bias

 

[$uicideboy$]

becoming a fighter is always the last resort

 

[PlayTheGame]

I doubt that. Even if we put money and health issues aside, there's still a "fun factor", urge to compete, to perform and to win.

Chael Sonnen wrote in his book something along the lines of "we, as a pro MMA fighters, get to do what we really love (fight), only like 30-40 times through our career". In that case being a pro footballer surely beats MMA as well. If you're good enough to make a first team and stay healthy, you gonna play almost every weekend of the season in front of the roaring audience.

 

[Deleted member 490433]

I feel that if Conor McGregor would have gotten an opportunity to get in on the ground level with either Google or Facebook he would've most definitely been all over that.

 

[Fatal Catro]

Most mma fighters would be competing in other sports if they had the pedigree.

 

[Icolater]

Aldo is crap at soccer, I saw a charity match he played in and he was all over the place, running around like a headless chicken.

 

[P0rkchop]

Of course. Conor bless

 

[GENERAL AZUL]

What's your point? Almost every European kid loves football and dreams of being professional one day. Of course he would be a football player if he had the ability.

 

[CasterMard]

Of course not. Football is more popular and more payed, but competition and talent pool is ridiculously deeper. The same applies for Aldo.
MMA is still a young sport and it's easier to break through, especially if you have better predispositions for martial arts than you have for football. But if you could, you'd be a footballer, it's everyone's dream as a kid (at least in Europe and South America) because it is BY FAR the most popular sport, it's almost like a religion in most countries. Football players are regarded as national heroes and gods, I'm sure Conor would love to be in that role if he could.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

Would Aldo not be a burger salesman had he been able to beat Conor McGregor in a fight?