FACT- A soccer player can run 10 km in one game! That’s more than 6 miles!

In 2007, AC Milan’s Gennaro Gattuso ran an estimated 10 km in one game against Manchester United.
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) had been working on a system for calculating things like how far individual players run, and how far and fast the ball gets kicked by tracking them with multiple cameras. The system is accurate within a 3% margin of error. 
To get an idea of how much running that is, 10 km is the equivalent of running across 350 basketball courts. Gattuso’s numbers aren’t all that unusual either. 10 km is actually pretty average.
Remarkably, most of that running is done WITHOUT THE BALL. The average player controls the ball for only 200 meters about 2% of the total distance they run. In addition, soccer players are sprinting for 800-1200 metres (roughly 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile). They also have to accelerate 40 to 60 different times in a game, and change direction every 5 seconds.
In a little more than 4 games, a soccer player will have completed the equivalent of a marathon.