yes and it so happens the US isnt even much of a field hockey nation, certainly not compared to the likes of pakistan,holland and england, but what im saying is that in hockey you dont get the diving, and the players being on the floor for 20 mins over a minor scratch like you do in football, its quite a physically challenging game especially for a defender who cant rely on the offside rule like footballers do since there is no offside, so they have to keep up with their markers at all time, even for a gk they are allowed to go sliding into a player and break his leg and there wouldnt even be a booking, hockey is a sport which ive been brought up to play on even with a broken foot, in my experience a fractured toe, unlike in football in which the player walks off crying and is out for the next 5 months earning 100k a week. the only thing similar to football is how tactical it is