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Certainl US sports are much more geared to athletism than sports that are popular over here, especially nfl. I don’t k ow too much about US footie but I assume in certain positions if you are a fckin unit and fast as greased shite, you can be a top player? Even the forwards in rugby Union have to have decent to good balling handling skills. There seems to be a bit more emphasis on athleticism in popular US sports, as opposed to our popular sports. That’s my take on it anyway
Regards football, I think Ronaldo is an exceptional athlete. He pretty much stands above other top players in this regard when he was in his prime
i dont think its even a US thing tbh. Rugby (both league and union) are highly athleticism based sports, much more so than baseball, hockey or even basketball. Not saying you can just throw any athletic guy in there and have him dominate, but its a sport that has very high speed/strength/size/durability requirements to play at a decent level. Then American football goes to an even greater extreme because of how stop/start the game is, so theres a massive premium put on "this guy can move x amount of yards in x amount of seconds while being this big" etc etc, hence the combine.
Football (soccer) does require some athleticism but its not to such an exceptional extent. You dont have to be abnormally big, strong or fast to play. You need to be physically fit with okay speed. The rest is skills specific to the sport.