“Which team do you buy for the World Cup tonight?”

It’s time for the World Cup again. It’s a miracle if there are people around you who don’t usually watch football or don’t understand football, but can seamlessly switch to topics such as gambling and guessing. However, it shows how crazy the Chinese people are about the World Cup. Whether you like it or not, this month, you cannot do without the excitement of the World Cup in Qatar.

Today, let’s chat about football and cycling, two sports that depend on feet for food. What kind of wonderful connection and cold knowledge do they have?

Football and cycling are also popular in Europe, so it is quite normal to like two sports at the same time in Europe. Among the professional cyclists, who is the best footballer? The answer is – the best driver in the car world this year (maybe one of them should be added) Effie Nepoel, who has won the Vuelta and the World Championships… He was a biker before he “switched” to cycling A football player, he was selected for the Belgian U16 national team at that time, but suffered a fracture and a serious injury in an intra-team match, which caused his competitive level to drop sharply, and he retired from football… One can imagine how strong the Belgian national football team is. The football level of Effinepoel can be seen. Football players ride bicycles in their spare time, and cyclists play football in their spare time. Besides relaxation, they also have complementary training effects, killing two birds with one stone.

What if you can’t choose between two sports? In Europe, there has been a combination of football and cycling – playing football by bicycle (English name cycle-ball). It’s similar to polo, except that one plays on horseback and the other plays on bicycles. Both riding and playing are the same. Do you think it’s just for fun? Then you are wrong again, this is an officially certified competition by UCI. The 2019 UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships was held in Switzerland. Austria defeated the German team 8:6 and won the rainbow jersey.

In addition to cycle-ball, there are also a series of technical movements named after bicycles in football games, bicycle-kick, perhaps because this action is similar to riding a bicycle.

Also, the Japanese media once invited professional riders to do a test, and the record for cycling 100 meters on a plastic track was 9.86s! Mbappe, the fastest runner in football, has a limit sprint speed of 36.7 km/h, which is 10.2 m/s in conversion. Therefore, for a distance of 100 meters, cycling has a greater chance of winning, and the shorter the distance, the smaller the chance of winning. Interested riders can try their own 100-meter speed.