Soccer is a more demanding exercise than football

Thank you for the compliment, being that this is my first debate I cannot return it but I wish you good luck in the voting. I do, however, beleive I have some clarification to do as well. When I said the part about 26 /5 miles and 6 3/4 miles I was not exaggerating, I purposely exaggerated when I mentioned soccer's lack of physical contact. 26 1/5 is the length of a marathon, which was my benchmark for this EXAMPLE, 6 3/4 is an extremely close approximation to one quarter of that. As I explained earlier, according to the statistics on running distance your gave (which are yet to be confirmed) in combination with other statistics which I provided with links, football payers experience 1/4 the running in equal playing time to soccer players. However, this is done with both 16 lbs of pads, as you mentioned, but also with incredibly large men all around trying to knock each other to the ground. While running a marathon is difficult, running a quarter marathon while carrying a 16 pound backpack and being tackled by 300 pound men only to stand up and be tackled again, would be far more difficult. Voters, please forgive me for the following semantic argument, but I feel I must give in to the temptation in order to respond to Pro's fourth round argument. You say that "We are comparing the game of soccer vs the game of football. Therefore, the total amount of time played in an actual soccer game should be counted for." I am afraid this is incorrect, unfortunately you yourself admitted that, " Sorry for the typo, the debate will be on what it says on the title" The title asks for the more demanding EXERCISE I have pointed out previously, that this means are not to ind which is more difficult to finish a game of, but which is more difficult do in general, for a period of time. I am afraid also, that you misunderstood the definitions in the Oxford dictionary, the first points to football, as it requires more effort, and the second I do no think you interpreted correctly. "Making others work hard or meet high standards. " this can be easily seen as pertaining to hard work Finally, in conclusion of my semantics, I must point out hat a casual observer of your question would interpret mere work, not skill, and, as you did not specify, my definition from Google should be deferred to Speaking of skill, i must challenge your assumption that the lack of hands is me sort of formula that equates to more skillful. While I do admit water polo requires more skill than treading water, That is because treading water is a monotonous task,while water polo takes in a number of different situations and the4 ability to meet them all is necessary. While soccer does, use hands, it does not require an ability to take in as many possible situations as football. Passing, running, punting, a kicking are all options for the offense, while the defense can blitz, stay deep back, use man coverage, or any combination of these and more strategies. Soccer has strategies as well, but all soccer strategies refer to position and number, but cannot include actual differences in play. The ability to keep up with all of these possibilities makes football players need MORE skill, and the inclusion of this aspect to the debate actually hurts your case. Thank you for the opportunity to debate Pro, and I wish you good luck.