From the rough numbers I could find in a FIFA document, if you even play soccer by their definition, you're in only 4% of global population. That includes scho

From the rough numbers I could find in a FIFA document, if you even play soccer by their definition, you're in only 4% of global population. That includes schools, street football, and occasional players. If you drop the occasional part? About 2% of global population. That's still including schools and street games, corporate teams, etc. So, just playing with any seriousness puts you in the top 2% of global population for soccer. If you're a registered player, it cuts the number down to 1 in 4. So about 0.5% of global population. Im not sure registered players are, as a rule, better, but someone who is a serious player and registered stands a good chance of being top 1% globally -- something I think anyone with effort could do. Being a professional soccer player puts you at about 1 in 100,000 globally, and 1 in 1,000 of people who play more than occasionally. (And 1 in 2,000 of people who play at all.) I suspect that this is because I only looked at the NFL, which would be more like only top-tier teams, not all professionals. The point being: the numbers actually are pretty darn close, and soccer seems to confirm my point about top 5% being relatively doable and top 1% being just effort.