which player has the fastest sprint on the field without the ball, messi, walcott, bellamy, ronaldo, hines, henry or someone else. i have no idea, these are my guesses only.
This was proven a few years ago when Kaka stripped Messi of the ball outside Brazil box, and left him for dead to score a great goal.I heard a story about Walcott in his early days at Arsenal, they were running 40-yard sprints at training and each player was timed for 6 repetitions over the distance. Walcott's slowest time (i.e., his 6th run) was faster than the next best players fastest run.
Johan makes a good point above, Messi is faster in tight spaces but Kaka would almost definitely beat him in a straight sprint over a longer distance.
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Normally those posts would have been really unfunny, but for some reason today they were, especially the Emerson one.emerson. sorry last few posts confused me.