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Originally posted by DCA6767:
I deffinately agree that soccer is more "physical" in 1A and 2A soccer simple because you have a large number of football players that know how to hit people football style. In the 3A and 4A games that I've seen I've noticed that the players know how to make hard tackles legally without hacking.
It has been my experience..that the more serious injuries (torn ligaments, broken bones, concusions) occur in "skilled play" because players are more aggressive in 50/50 situations and just in general play.

Against football players..sure..there is a lot of ankle swiping, and blatant "tackles" ..but..it's just my general impression that the velocity of skilled play is much more dangerous.

Then again..I didn't played many of the purely "we play soccer to condition for football in the off season" teams..