The Problem with Shin Guards 🤕🩼

Have mini shin guards in soccer/football finally gone too far? If science and history are anything to go off — yes. 🥲🩼 #soccer #football #sports #futbol #ronaldo #tackle #viral #tech #science #futbol #cool #shorts #footballshorts #soccershorts #respect #facts #ronaldo

[cocobear]

those tiny ass shin guards must be a joke 😭😭

[ordinaryopinion]

I’ve never had a problem wearing shin guards. Over the years mine got extremely scuffed up, glad it wasn’t my shin.

[IIDynamoDuckII]

I had big shin guards and it never made the slightest difference, so I don't understand the people who say "oh it restricts my movement" no it doesn't, its probably the one part of your body that moves the least

[leo-hao]

That ref held it up like it was a shin-card 💀

[vegets]

Feel like having a leg in 3 peices might inhibit your ability to play a lot more xD

[laststand]

Shin guards have never inhibited me, people just don't like shin guards because it's "cool" to hate them.

[S-AI]

Used to play in some with ankle supports built in, they were sick and improved my game.

[Lucas-hiyi]

I can see why some people don't like wearing them because sometimes they can slip around and get uncomfortable or hinder foot movement and I'd say playing without them is like the same as wearing compression shorts or a shooting sleeve in terms of performance gains

[vipanshetu]

Bro i always hear people saying "oh my shin guards limit my movement" and whatnot, i wear shin guards and they dont even make the slightest diffrence in my movment.

[Nobody_likes_szn_lloyd]

It's called football
I started a war in the comments

[jonathonhazelton]

If the shin guard doesn't fit, get ones that fo fit.

[alexandermeier]

You telling me almost all the top players in Europe and south America aren’t good 💀

[TheItalianMafia]

Bro That Last Sentence is just facts bro, if you cant Play with Shin guards, then your just shit.

they always say that it gets in the way of their control, but some just do to show of their muscles, and If you cant play with Shin Guards, I am 100% sure you cant play with your Legs Broken Into pieces

[usernamenotfound]

Mini shin guards are usless because its purpose is defeated just by it being small.

[SportskeParodije]

I had a match yesterday and if I hadn't wore shin guards my leg would have snapped in half.

[alanbagshaw]

I'm sure they helped escape a number of breaks over the years. And never felt they impacted my ability to play.

[HeyItsSnaith]

i have only ever been grateful to have shin guards

[alainsmoors]

I loves the shin guards with ankle protectors. I'd always thank them when i got a kick on my ankles, basically every game.

[Griemz]

The old shin guards - you know those big ones with a socket for your foot and plastic covers over your inner and outer ankle - certainly limit movement.

Its not impossible to play with them at all and you get used to it quite quickly, but after i changed to the more modern ones myself, i absolutely wouldnt go back.

That being said, wear adequately big modern ones. Wearing this ridiculously small ones absolutely do not make a significant difference.

[magle]

American football fan here: that’s insane. That would be like an NFL player deciding not to wear shoulder pads because it limits their mobility, when before those pads came along they were averaging over 1 player a year dead or permanently disabled due to bone fragments shredding organs