Sports You Play?

by **Weiron** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:27 pm

I've been playing handball for 18 years now.
Otherwise I'm mostly into hobbies you can combine with drinking beer

by **messi** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:58 pm

I've been playing football for 7 years, actually I was goalkepper. But I stopped playing it due to injury problems, asthma and my father forbid me to train it, with excuse, I won't have enough time to learn. That's it, even today I regret for not playing football anymore.

I don't want to be cocky or boastful, but even today a lot of coaches who are still in the club I used to play for, tell me I should come back. I was great goalkeeper. Maybe I'll return into one 3rd divison team.
Wish me luck :lol:

by **Bardh** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:32 pm

Maybe sometime when we make a FCBes get-together for a football match, you will take care of goalie worries.

by **MediocreBadGuy** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:29 pm

I play foootball (although not very well, just started playing a few years ago)

Also... American football, basketball, baseball, tennis, volleyball and swim

The reason being is a teach Physical Education

by **Dino** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:49 pm

You are a teacher?
I used to play volleyball in high school, injured my fingers too often though. Hit the block couple of times badly

by **MediocreBadGuy** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:27 am

Dino wrote:You are a teacher?

I used to play volleyball in high school, injured my fingers too often though. Hit the block couple of times badly

Definitely see a lot broken fingers in volleyball...did you go to High School in the States Dino?

by **Dino** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:36 am

Croatia. Like the US system where kids train and learn sports through high-schools and college. It covers the large quantity of population but I still think that European model where youths are more linked and train with sport clubs works better here. It just concentrates more quality. For example you don`t have to move states to move to a college where they have the good football programme.

by **Dino** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:04 am

It`s because the whole sport system works different there as few things I already mentioned such as the whole thing of training goes through schools instead of sport clubs as in Europe or rest of the World.
Besides when i talk to people in US they often tell me they are fed up with the pro`s and like to watch college sports instead.
MediocreBadGuy, jump in any time.

by **MediocreBadGuy** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:11 pm

Well lets see how I can comment on this without writing a small novel...

College athletics is the gateway to the Pro's in the US, so there is an abundance of talented players at that level. Therefore, game attendance and TV ratings are high. Also as an alum of San Diego State University, nothing was more fun than going to watch our basketball or football (American) teams play a game. On the other side of the token, playing for a University allows the student athlete to get a college degree incase their sports career ends after school. Which is the case about 99% of the time.

All in all, I think it is a good system and I enjoy watching both college and professional sporting events equally. I don't know nearly enough about how other countries' systems work so I cannot comment on how things are done elsewhere.

by **markh1182** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:57 am

Football - mostly 5-a-side these days at work.
Pool

by **FCB** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:51 am

I'm playing baseball as you all know.

by **maniaFCB** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:01 am

Champion basketballer of the forum...

All we do where i grew up is play basketball, and everyone can play well.

To address what was discussed earlier with high school and college sports in the US... I think there is a general disfavor of young children working with professional sport clubs at young ages here. Parents do not send their kids away to boarding schools (except an extremely wealthy majority) and the kids stay in the parents' homes until they leave for college. High school sports are some of the most intensely supported sports we have here. The teams are representers of entire towns and areas of the country. College sport system is basically like the lower divisions of european competition (probably higher in quality though as the kids are just younger). College sports is big business as we fill stadiums of over 100,000 folks for american football. THe kids don't get paid though, they get an education instead...
It has its faults but I prefer college sports in many ways as well. Our professional sports are heavily commercialized by greedy sponsors and owners, and you have to grit your teeth through the BS to enjoy the substance of the professional play...

by **flashbarca** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:21 am

for the thread: i play rugby league, touch football, soccer...or anytime i see a game of any sport, i play :)

for the youth sports thing: an interesting piece of info....My uni lecturer was saying most elite sports people are more likely to become elite, only if they started playing seriously in there late teens (16-17)...this means the college sports/sports clubs should probably wait a little longer before training there youth teams in specific methods. Apparently this is due to burn out and no longer being interested.....

fyi - around 70 percent of "elite" soccer players were born in Sept-Oct-November which is an amazing stat in itself

Not sure if that all made complete sense but i thought it was interesting.

peace

by **FCBNOF** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:58 pm

oh well:

FOOTBALL: since i was born! i believe i can make it in barca athletic (yea right) but im good for a 17 yr old

always competition's top goalscorer and best player in the U.S. and 3 year running champions but maybe because the oppisition really stunk

basketball

running? houston 2007 marathon

i did a bit of surfing in hawaii :wink:

i pretty much tried everything

by **maniaFCB** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:43 pm

FCBNOF wrote:oh well:

FOOTBALL: since i was born! i believe i can make it in barca athletic (yea right) but im good for a 17 yr old

always competition's top goalscorer and best player in the U.S. and 3 year running champions but maybe because the oppisition really stunk

basketball

running? houston 2007 marathon

i did a bit of surfing in hawaii

i pretty much tried everything

Where and when? What level? Was this high school or one of the select club systems?

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