Who is the Fastest Footballer in the World?

By: The Offside | August 18th, 2009
   

Did everyone enjoy Usain Bolt taking the previous world record out back and doing it Old Yeller style over the weekend? (In case you missed it, that’s him above sans final stretch boasting.)

Given the important parallel between sprinting and football (that whole running thing), this leads to an important question: who is the fastest of them all? Just who is the fastest footballer on planet Earth?

Ive got one hint before we get started: it’s not Cristiano Ronaldo. And chances are they aren’t very good at football, but rather a superb athlete who bypassed track and field on their way to the pitch.

But there are some big name footballers deserving a mention (still not Ronaldo). Gabby Agbonlahor and Aaron Lennon come to mind, and Nike were nice enough to mount a competition to find a winner for us.

Well, not really, as that drill doesn’t include a straight line.

Theo Walcott comes to mind, but if I’m picking a pacy winger off the top of my head it’s Bari’s Edgar Alvarez, who has mythical pace and nothing else. There’s also Vladimir Bystrov of legendary status in Russia, while Chelsea fans will enjoy the blur that is his comrade Yuri Zhirkov a few times this year.

Though if we’re honest these days, it’s probably a Jamaican. But I’m fresh out of names.

Now there must be someone down in the dungeons who runs around with sound following in his wake, but everyone keeps darting by in my mind such that I can’t read the name on the back of the shirt, so suggestions are needed.


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  • Sean

    Theo Walcott is a Extremly quick player, he just leave's people for dead. But Lennon is quite fast, same as Wright Philips, Cliche, Kaka, Pato, Evra, Agbolanhor,
    there's a few people who you could pick and say is the fastest, but until they all happen to actually run a 100 metre no one will know.

  • Topz

    Osaze Odemwingie(lokomotive Moscow),also very pacy. Just that he plays in Russia.
    Gabby Agbolanhor
    Onuoah
    Anelka
    Patrice Evra
    Glen Johnson

    NOT IN ANY ORDER THOUGH

  • Lew

    Oba Martins is insanely quick when fit, watching him for the last 3 years was great. But I think it's Aaron Lennon. No-one can get near to him.

  • Finnegan

    I'd have to go with Kaka as well. I've seen him outrun Messi while dribbling the ball. I don't think we've ever actually seen him sprint as hard as he can, which means I think his true speed is unknown.

    Also, DaMarcus Beasley used to be WAY fast before his injury. Like, in world cup 2002 he was a lightning bolt out there on the wing.

  • Nick

    Kaka has got to be the fastest with the ball. Wasn't Agbonlahor on track to be an olympic sprinter before his football career took off?

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