5 Fittest Football Players In The World

They may not be like Hulk with six-packs. They may not have the Batista ‘V’ that makes you marvel at their bodies. But boy, these men are fitter than the proverbial fiddle. Here are the top fivet fittest football players in the world.

5. Dani Alves

f a full-back completes more passes than any other player in the Champions League group stages, it can mean one of two things:

1) He is an excuse for a full-back, and is a full-back only in title, not discharging his primary duty of defending. In other words, he is a fail-back, not a full-back, for he does not fall back.

2) He is an extraordinarily-endowed full-back with unending reserves of stamina who discharges his defensive duties so well that he even has time to venture into the opposition half. In other words, he is a fuel-back.

Which brings us to Dani Alves. Sonic The Hedgehog, as goes his moniker, completed 276 passes in the Champions League a couple of years ago, the highest in the competition and a whopping 1604 passes in the La Liga last season, making him the league’s 10th highest.

4. Dirk Kuyt

Mr. Duracell Bunny can never stop running. Dirk Kuyt, the second oldest player at Brazil for the World Cup, averaged 11.78 kilometres (Thomas Mueller, leading the list averaged 12 kilometres) an appearance despite coming off the bench on two occasions

3. Paul Pogba

The Golden Boy of European football is invincible and infallible. He is yet to succumb to injury in his (not-so-long) illustrious career. Considering the fact that he ran more distance (11.5 kilometres per game in the Champions League) than any other player representing Italy or the Serie A in European competitions, this is no mean feat. But what makes it truly remarkable is the fact that Paul Pogba has played more minutes than any other player below the age of 25 in all of Europe over the last 15 months, and has not sustained the slightest scratch.

2.Cesar Azpilicueta

Looks sure can be deceptive, as ‘Dave’ (and this sentence) demonstrates. Scrawny and unassuming, Cesar Azpilicueta is one of the fittest players to grace football. He probably doesn’t put in the hours at the bench-press, and he certainly isn’t Chelsea’s poster-boy, but the Spaniard’s appearance is decieving, just like the pronunciation of his name. For, despite being right-footed, Azpilicueta has tucked into the left-back position with minimal fuss and maximum efficacy. This speaks volumes of his training commitment, work rate, and ultimately, his fitness.

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

While there may be split opinion on whether Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the world right now, no one can deny that he is the fittest player in the world at the moment. Even his detractors would have to be completely bonkers to dispute this, for if there ever was a reincarnation of Hercules, son of Zeus, it would have to be Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro.

Ronaldo, now pushing 32, is relatively new to every football player’s ineluctable nightmare  injury. Last season, he suffered only his fourth bout of injury hiatus in his 12-year long career, averaging one bout every three years. Simply put, Ronaldo averages over a thousand days (or 145 matches) of high-octane football betweeen his injury bouts. That’s inhuman!