10 Fastest Footballers in the world

I remember on Saint and Greavesie they had a race withe the players in full kit. I seem to remember Stan Collymore won when he was playing for Palace. Doestrogen anyone remember that or is it a figment of my imagination, like the Centenary Cup!

Does anyone! Stupid telephone.

lad who played for Swansea was quick back in the day - went on to be a postie.

Gary Speed

Rooney faster than Arjen Robben - fack off

Malcolm Macdonald was 10.x for the 100m

Rooney couldn't outrun a milk float!

Wayne Faraday was the quickest ever I think.

For a very solid bloke SuperMac doing times like 10.5 on Superstars 25 years ago was some going. That was when footballers weren't even really considered athletes. Someone like Ronaldo would break 10 seconds I would have thought with not much difficulty.

Denis Rommedahl is currently the Danish record holder over 100 metres. 10.02 I think.

robben is pretty bloody fast for a fat old baldy bloke.

Ronaldo breaking 10 secs lol

Does that mean Valencia could outsprint Usain Bolt?

Usain bolt best is 27.44 mph.

Valencia is 21.9 mph. Although that is with shin pads on.

Works out at 10.13 100m for Valencia.

10.42 your ronaldo

That is with a dive after 90 metres to the finish line

Worth saying these are with the ball speeds, hence no Walcott.

Dont believe there's 5kph between 1st to 10th.. Improbable..imo.

I did 11.0 drawn in lane 8 on a soggy track and I was a hooker. The winning time was 10.34 by the flying winger and that was decades ago. Quick footballers now would do close to 10 seconds.

I'd need a pair on bino's to see the tape at the end of a 100m track and a calendar would be more appropriate as a timimg mechanism. Perhaps my peak is ahead of me and not behind and I'm a late developer

11 seconds my backside lol. And no way would Ronaldo do 10 seconds. Some international races aren't even done in that!

10.5 would be a reasonable bet for the top 10 quickest players IMO.

Gareth Bale ?

Alex Kiwomya at Chelsea was doing 10.9 in the under 15s. I think he remained unbeaten during that season. I would imagine he has to be near the top

Frank Lampard (he's very clever, they say), Wayne Rooney (world class footballer, they say) and erm ... sorry I misread title ... thought it said 10 fattest footballers in the world.

Former international athlete here, there's a lot of rubbish being talked on here & in that list.

Big difference between top-speed, acceleration & 100 metre time.

Top speed - The fastest speed you can reach at any time
Acceleration - how quickly you reach your top speed
100 metere time - self-explanatory

For example, Robben posted the highest top speed figure at the recent World Cup, but wouldn't even have made it to the final if they all raced over 100 metres because he couldn't sustain that speed. The absolute fastest players on earth (think Lennon, Walcott & Bale) would be able to run around 10.7 for 100 metres. There are others who would be even faster off the mark over say 30 yards. Cristiano Ronaldo wouldn't even break 11 seconds for 100 metres. I remember watching a documentary about him where he run 30 or 40 metres timed vs a Spanish lad (think he'd run around 10.2/10.3 for 100 metres). He was miles off him.

Glad to see Wayne Fereday getting a mention in this thread.

He was v. quick.

there's a few who can shift surprisingly quickly if you dangle a pay packet in front of them...

thats some list when you consider ilori is faster than ronaldo and he isnt even on the list

Who was that guy ('The Fastest Postman?') who played for Coventry?

John Someoneorother.

I can't be rsed with The Googles when we've got the Chit Chat Forum Brains Trust on the case

Mick Quinn?

andrei kanchelskis is the one that for some reason i always think of as being fastest

adam gemili was on chelseas books, id guess he was the fastest around
when on their books




malcolm mcdonald  ran in many pro sprints , his father was a pro sprinter too

Steve Highway..............

some related informations
http://www.givemesport.com/347454-world-football-fastest-100m-sprinters

I'm sticking with 10.5 being close to the median for a top 10, maybe 10.6

You are out of your mind.

If you take, for instance, Christophe Lemaitre - whose best is 9.92 and routinely runs around the 10.00 mark in the latter stages of major meets - as your yardstick, you are saying to all intents and purposes that the median top 10 footballer will finish five metres behind him over the 100m.

That is, without being unkind, preposterous.

As Thunder Road explained, it is one thing being quick over the sort of distances that makes a difference to a footballer - maybe 20-30m - but quite another to have the speed endurance to maintain such a speed for 100m. He quotes Aaron Lennon as an example, for me he would be the ultimate demonstration of the point. He is phenomenally quick for a footballer, but I wouldn't back him to beat a half decent club runner over the 100m.

To my eye, the fastest footballer in the Premier League is Kyle Walker, I have never seen anyone beat him in a footrace. If he could break  11.00 for 100m I would be absolutely astonished.

Nedum Onuoha, who plays for QPR, ran 11.09 for the 100m as a 14-year-old, but one could not be sure after the different training techniques he will have employed for football training would weaken his endurance for the 100m these days.

I would think that Marc Overmars would have been among the quickest players of the Premiership era, but again, there's no way he's running 10.5 in a million years.

There's millions of footballers who could quality in this bracket though. It's not ludicrous to think that merely 10 of them would be sub 11 seconds. You're picking a small handful you've heard of.

Just because a footballer is used to short bursts of acceleration and sharp turns of direction, it's not like they're going to be jimmy five bellies when you put them on a 100 metre straight. Sure, some of them might need to work on their running technique to milk a few tenths of a second but they already have many of the attributes of an 'athlete'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2242229/Cristiano-Ronaldo-runs-nearly-fast-Usain-Bolt-100m.html

There are plenty young players who have a choice between football and athletics and choose football.

Albert Ferreri

John Williams The Flying Postman ran 11.49 on grass, not using blocks at Wembley to win a competition.

Off the pace at 50m but his size and power pulled him through.

When I was a kid I always thought Steve Heighway was fast.

Think when rate how fast footballers are you should not be going as far as 100 metres as your never going to have to run that far in a straight line ever in a match. 50 metres would be a better guide and smaller players such a Marc overmars would be faster in my opinion than the likes of Collymore. Just mentioned those two players as they had already been brought up by others on this thread.

sorry, never actually too many of the posts on this thread. Others pretty much have mentioned the same point in raised.

I have no idea of any times of footballers over distances. Just going on a visual impression I would say Marc Overmars would beat Arjen Robben in a sprint over any distances up to 100 metres. Robben just does not look that fast. I am sure he is but his strength seems more than he can run with a ball that seems glued to his feet. Its easy to look fast going past a static player which Robben does a lot because of his dribbling skills.

if a quick footballer trained to run 100m then he would break 11 seconds with ease

but 10.5 is pretty quick

gemili was running these times without 100 % training for athletics

and was even better over 200m, which is even more remarkable, imo

Italian footballers are the quickest in the world there's no doubt about it. And so are their troops.

They only had to hear the bagpipes in East Africa during WW2 and they were off like rats down a sewer.

If you were using a 100 metre distance for testing a footballers speed it would be an exercise which would have little relevance.

I would expect most of the fastest footballers over 100 metres would also be black.

Didier Agathe. End of thread.

Paul Lambertghini

So Slippy's view that Ronaldo could break the 10 sec barrier without much difficulty is wide of the mark?

The two wingers at my school were in the England rugby under 19 squad with me and were breaking 10.50.

Slippy stop talking BS. You sound like a playground child as well as being the worlds fastest hooker!

I highly doubt I was the worlds quickest hooker. I never said as much, please copy and paste where I said that. Sean Fitztgerald would have taken me out I would have thought.