Percentage Of Left Footed Soccer Players. Interestingly the statistics are markedly different for left-handers. This is slightly more left-footed players than what you would expect. Only 18 of the players in the five leagues are equally strong with both feet. Two famous examples I will give from world football today are Lionel Messi and Neymar.
As a percentage this means that of the top 20 soccer players in the world 65 are right-footed and 35 are left-footed. Leo Messi has already won a whole careers worth of awards and yet he is only 24. Wikipedia says that 810 is right footed meaning that 190 is left footed. Overall there were 616 percent right-footers 82 percent left-footers and 302 percent mixed-footers. However when we consider some of the greatest names to play the game we do start to see a trend what we see is that although only 1 in 5 players are predominately left footed some of the best players ever have been leftys. Only 45 of left-handers are left-footed and 57 of left-handers are left-eyed.
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Left-handers make up only 10 of the general population and. Only 45 of left-handers are left-footed and 57 of left-handers are left-eyed. Only 19 of professional footballers have a preference for their left foot but surprisingly four out of six greatest players of all time are left-footed according to IFFHS including Johan Cruyff Ferenc Puskas Diego Maradona and Alfredo Di Stefano. Remember that the study above showed that around 79 of soccer players are right-footed. However when we consider some of the greatest names to play the game we do start to see a trend what we see is that although only 1 in 5 players are predominately left footed some of the best players ever have been leftys. This is slightly more left-footed players than what you would expect.