A 10.0 meters-per-second soccer player is extremely rare —basically elite, top-tier sprint speed. In practical terms, that speed is about 36 km/h, and the material gathered suggests most high-level players are below that, with only a small handful of professionals reaching or exceeding it in peak bursts.

What that means

  • 10.0 m/s is not a normal “running speed” for soccer over a full game; it is a peak sprint speed.
  • The retrieved material describes sub-1.00 second flying 10s as elite and says that corresponds to 10.0–10.5 m/s.
  • It also notes that most NCAA Division I male soccer players are around 1.05–1.15 seconds in the flying 10, which is slower than 10.0 m/s peak speed.

How many players?

There is no single universal count, because it depends on the league, position, age group, and whether you mean:

  • players who can touch 10.0 m/s at peak, or
  • players who can average 10.0 m/s over a distance.

For top professional leagues, the number is still small, because the Bundesliga top-speed leaderboard shown is around the high-30 km/h range, which is near that threshold rather than something many players clearly exceed. In ordinary amateur or school soccer, the count is effectively near zero at that speed.

Simple takeaway

If you mean “how many soccer players can hit 10.0 m/s?”, the honest answer is: only a very small minority of elite professionals. If you want, I can turn this into a one-line social post or a clean HTML table.