A large field, a fast moving ball, and rare substitutions mean soccer players can expect to log some heavy mileage over 90-plus minutes.
When it comes to running in sports, some have it worse than others. Players in soccer’s World Cup, for example, run an estimated seven miles per game. Here’s how that compares to athletes in other sports.
This is a rather generous estimate that translates into approximately 198 feet per game, taken from the 2015 statistics of thefrom the Los Angeles Angels. The distance between each base is 90 feet. Adding all of the total bases and stolen bases that Mike Trout logged during the 2015 regular season, the total distance run comes to just more under six miles. Those not as successful at the plate log even less mileage—or more accurately, feet.
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