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[quote=asksoccernova]lol if you have no foot skills and have never manipulated a soccer ball with your foot while someone else is trying to take it away form you, it doesn't matter how great of an athlete you are, unless you are a goalkeeper.

That's like saying soccer players are great endurance athletes, so a few of them would make good basketball players. They have no hand-eye coordination whatsoever if you give them a basketball because they haven't been exposed to it.

It takes thousands of hours to develop the foot skills you need at the pro level, starting from a very early age.

A great athlete is a great athlete, but athleticism alone with zero skill will get you roasted when you play with skilled players that are average athletes. All you can do is defend, but the ball can always "outrun" players - meaning the ball can always be passed faster and be moved around the field more quickly than anyone can catch up with it. You also have no clue what is happening around you - small group tactics, attacking and defending as a group, and all the techniques involved in striking a moving ball with all the surfaces of your feet.

When I was in college, I'd practice and play pick-up soccer indoors in our campus rec center over the winter months when most students were on vacation, and there was always a group of basketball players there who were the best on campus outside of the varsity athletes. They were great athletes, and type A macho guys who had to let everyone know they were the kings of the court.

They'd see a few of us doing all these skills with the ball and occasionally one of them would wander over and "try" to play in our game to prove he could dominate, but he would basically embarrass himself and look completely ridiculous trying to control a soccer ball while decked out in full basketball gear, shoes and everything. The first instinct was always toe ball as hard as possible.

They were so uncoordinated with the soccer ball, especially trying to juggle. To this day it is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.[/quote]

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