speed or technical ability? Age 11.

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Exactly right. But Mordric in addition to being 5’ 9” is not stocky. Anything but actually.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, this confirms the 2018 Ballon D’Or winner and one of the baddest ballers of all time (hint it’s not Messi) would not make it the US under this criteria.

My favorite player! The Croatian wizard.

Except that Modric and Messi are both fast and athletic on top of having brilliant skills, same as with every single player in all the top leagues in the world. Even OP’s extremely overly simplistic question doesn’t ask about a kid’s height.

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Anonymous wrote:The people saying size and speed you are what’s wrong with US soccer and why it will never succeed.

+10000

And what most clubs here get wrong. They look for a tall kid, make him punt from the back to the fast kid in the front to take a wild shot. Meanwhile, the skilled kids either drop out or find a club that has more international leadership.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid can't juggle LOL but made huge club 2nd team - out of more than 5. For real. They have lots of speed and pretty good tech ability, aggressive. But no can do on the juggle I say DC has to be the only kid on a high team who can't juggle. I've always wondered exactly how important it is to juggle? That doesn't mean kid can't handle the ball pretty in real time like a throw ins, just that kid doesn't like to juggle as a technical exercise.

oxymoron

Juggling shows balance, touch, control, patience and the discipline to put in work (that's what it tells real coaches)
Impossible that a kid can have touch and control under pressure in game but can't juggle a ball unopposed. Impossible

Here's something you never see at a high level academy. A kid who can't juggle
Here's something you never see on a professional or semi-pro team. A player who can't juggle

Do you have to be able to juggle to a thousand? No
Do you have to be able to control a ball using different parts of your body to be above a recreational level player (regardless of what you call yourself). Yes

You don't have to have juggle to have great first touch.

LOL. This means that this player can only control passes that are rolling on the ground.

Doubt that

Lead foot is lead foot

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Anonymous wrote:Again, this confirms the 2018 Ballon D’Or winner and one of the baddest ballers of all time (hint it’s not Messi) would not make it the US under this criteria.

My favorite player! The Croatian wizard.

Except that Modric and Messi are both fast and athletic on top of having brilliant skills, same as with every single player in all the top leagues in the world. Even OP’s extremely overly simplistic question doesn’t ask about a kid’s height.

Modric and Messi have quick reaction and fast frequency feet

They are not "fast" over distance

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, most clubs including academy will go with the super fast kid that is tall (or just tall) that along with tons of politics. Super sucky!

There's a reason the stands have thousands of seats and TV rights are worth millions

Everyone can't be on the field

Right, I doubt you even watch soccer to even understand what I am saying. Keep lobbying

Marco Verratti is 5ft 5in
If your kid is small, it isn't the only reason he/she isn't getting selected. It is probably one of the reasons.

Little Ballers get selected and play.

No one said they are selected. But if you pay attention, taller kids get more attention. Is the US way. Terrible, but factual.

Verrati? You could of use examples in the US? Of course you have the Iniestas, Xavi, etc. It happened that way for them and other in those countries, becuase real soccer skills are the focus. Not size.

Cavan Sullivan is 5ft 7in

happy now?

Please keep your kids and yourself in American sports.

Seems you hate any and all examples that show many small players excelling.
Probably because it kills your lamenting that your small kid only has a size issue.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG. Parents with lead-footed DCs are justifying size/speed over technical skills, speed of play and IQ. Unbelievable.

Very believable actually

[Anonymous]

Again american soccer will continue to suffer until it becomes a primary sports. We simply are not attracting the kids with the highest ceilings. Im sorry you spent 1000s on technical training on a kid with a lower ceiling.

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Anonymous wrote:Again american soccer will continue to suffer until it becomes a primary sports. We simply are not attracting the kids with the highest ceilings. Im sorry you spent 1000s on technical training on a kid with a lower ceiling.

Case closed. Move along. Let's feel good about ourselves and keep being mediocre.

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Anonymous wrote:Again american soccer will continue to suffer until it becomes a primary sports. We simply are not attracting the kids with the highest ceilings. Im sorry you spent 1000s on technical training on a kid with a lower ceiling.

Case closed. Move along. Let's feel good about ourselves and keep being mediocre.

I feel really good we have big, fast, athletic players. We are going to win the next World Cup just you wait and see!!!!1

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Anonymous wrote:Again american soccer will continue to suffer until it becomes a primary sports. We simply are not attracting the kids with the highest ceilings. Im sorry you spent 1000s on technical training on a kid with a lower ceiling.

Please feel free to present the verifiable data and evidence to make this statement factual truth.
Thanks

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Anonymous wrote:Again american soccer will continue to suffer until it becomes a primary sports. We simply are not attracting the kids with the highest ceilings. Im sorry you spent 1000s on technical training on a kid with a lower ceiling.

Please feel free to present the verifiable data and evidence to make this statement factual truth.
Thanks

Just follow PP’s example and say “something something and Usain Bolt signed a pro soccer contract” in response to an article titled “Why Usain Bolt Never Signed a Pro Soccer Contract.”

Easy peasy!

[Anonymous]

Speed and technical will come all together, Just stupid parents with slow-ass kids always said My kid is very good at technical but doesn't have speed!
Guess what your kid will not cut into a top team!
Stop lying to yourself that you have a Messi! Your kid sucks so do you!!
Go play something else!

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Anonymous wrote:Again american soccer will continue to suffer until it becomes a primary sports. We simply are not attracting the kids with the highest ceilings. Im sorry you spent 1000s on technical training on a kid with a lower ceiling.

Please feel free to present the verifiable data and evidence to make this statement factual truth.
Thanks

you cant be that dumb. im pretty sure in US produce the money maker sports are not soccer. The money talks. Lets compare salaries of those sports in the US. Hmmm yea im going for mls. No im picking football, basketball, baseball.. christ hockey. We are simply not attracting the best. I will repeat until it becomes a primary sport US soccer will suffer.

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We simply are not attracting the kids with the highest ceilings…. We are simply not attracting the best.

LMFAO Messi when he returns to Argentina to run for president after spending 25 years in Florida:

‘When the U.S. sends its footballers, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending players that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing their high school gym teachers. They’re bringing ”American football” coaches. They’re basketball players. And some, I assume, actually play real futbol and not just long-distance hackysack.”

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Anonymous wrote:Again, this confirms the 2018 Ballon D’Or winner and one of the baddest ballers of all time (hint it’s not Messi) would not make it the US under this criteria.

My favorite player! The Croatian wizard.

Except that Modric and Messi are both fast and athletic on top of having brilliant skills, same as with every single player in all the top leagues in the world. Even OP’s extremely overly simplistic question doesn’t ask about a kid’s height.

Modric and Messi have quick reaction and fast frequency feet

They are not "fast" over distance

They are absolutely fast over distance compared to the general population, as well as having all the other things.