Female physical attributes for positions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soccer is a contact sport. In college and pro it is definitely a contact sport. Size matters. A taller, bigger player will knock a smaller player off the ball.

Tall players make a huge difference heading when the ball is in the air on corners and crosses.

Those are just facts. The rosters are facts too. Taller than average players. Almost always.

Again, if the average height for D1 players is 5'5 - 5'6, and the average height for females in the US is 5'4 -5'5, they are taking the average portion of the female population. The only exception is goalies and CB who are typically WAY taller than the average (by 4-6 inches). If you think an inch gives you a significant advantage you are a fool.

Height doesn't make you athletic.
Height doesn't make you tough
Height doesn't give you a good vertical jump
Height doesn't give you strength
Height doesn't make you fast
Height doesn't make you smart
Height doesn't give you endurance.
Height doesn't give you technical ability

Height gives you advantages in some areas but not others. A difference in an inch or two isn't significant.

I'll take speed over height any day of the week.

It's statistically significant. It's a bell curve. 5'6 seems like just a little taller for females but it puts you in the 75th percentile. 5'8 is 93rd percentile. And sorry - but height makes a big difference on vertical jump. Like inch for inch all else being equal. Try outjumping someone two inches taller on a corner. Good luck. And taller people have a bigger frame to carry more muscle. That's why football players tend to be tall. Tall doesn't mean slow. To make it as a short player you need to be extra fast. So tall is still an advantage.

You may take speed over height any day but the rosters of college teams say otherwise for those making the decisions. Just the facts.

[Anonymous]

The best soccer teams I have seen locally and regionally are full of small and fast players. Fast players are dangerous as they move the ball faster. A tall player can be fast yess but it may be easier to be read. The small and fast gets out of sight.

Maradona and Messi biggest attributes are their size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The best soccer teams I have seen locally and regionally are full of small and fast players. Fast players are dangerous as they move the ball faster. A tall player can be fast yess but it may be easier to be read. The small and fast gets out of sight.

Maradona and Messi biggest attributes WERE and are their size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soccer is a contact sport. In college and pro it is definitely a contact sport. Size matters. A taller, bigger player will knock a smaller player off the ball.

Tall players make a huge difference heading when the ball is in the air on corners and crosses.

Those are just facts. The rosters are facts too. Taller than average players. Almost always.

Again, if the average height for D1 players is 5'5 - 5'6, and the average height for females in the US is 5'4 -5'5, they are taking the average portion of the female population. The only exception is goalies and CB who are typically WAY taller than the average (by 4-6 inches). If you think an inch gives you a significant advantage you are a fool.

Height doesn't make you athletic.
Height doesn't make you tough
Height doesn't give you a good vertical jump
Height doesn't give you strength
Height doesn't make you fast
Height doesn't make you smart
Height doesn't give you endurance.
Height doesn't give you technical ability

Height gives you advantages in some areas but not others. A difference in an inch or two isn't significant.

I'll take speed over height any day of the week.

It's statistically significant. It's a bell curve. 5'6 seems like just a little taller for females but it puts you in the 75th percentile. 5'8 is 93rd percentile. And sorry - but height makes a big difference on vertical jump. Like inch for inch all else being equal. Try outjumping someone two inches taller on a corner. Good luck. And taller people have a bigger frame to carry more muscle. That's why football players tend to be tall. Tall doesn't mean slow. To make it as a short player you need to be extra fast. So tall is still an advantage.

You may take speed over height any day but the rosters of college teams say otherwise for those making the decisions. Just the facts.

All roster heights are rounded up. And yes, you win the header argument. That's why defenders come up for corners

[Anonymous]

If you've ever played sports, you know damn well roster heights and weights are stretched. So doing an analysis on fictious numbers gives you fake results. Subtract an inch and you will be closer to the truth
..which again again puts you close to the average height for females in the US. Now, that's a fact


This year, on the 56-man Senior Bowl North roster alone, 70 percent of the players are caught stretching the truth by more than half an inch in height or more than 5 pounds in weight. Almost 40 percent have lied by an inch or more in height and 10 pounds or more in weight. The fudging in Mobile is consistent with the sleight of hand going on across the sports landscape. In 2012, college hoops blog Run the Floor analyzed the data at the predraft Portsmouth Invitational Tournament and found that of the 62 players measured, 76 percent were at least an inch shorter than they claimed. Brett Brungardt, the founder of Seattle-based Basic Athletic Measurement, which collects anthropometrics for the NBA's prospects and 16 other sports, says the heightening in basketball is so rampant that as soon as he sets up his equipment, "players literally run out of the gym."

Not even the tallest, richest athletes on earth are immune to the universal desire to feel bigger. In 2016, The Wall Street Journal helped expose just how laughable the program heights can be in the NBA. Really, just pick a name of any "big" man in the league. Kevin Love? Dwight Howard? They're both 2 inches shorter than they claim. In 2015, current Rockets forward Tarik Black was officially 6-11. The next season, he mysteriously shrank to 6-9. A college strength and conditioning coach for 25 years, Brungardt was so frustrated in 2008 by the lack of standard measurements in sports that he quit his job at the University of Washington to start BAM. One of his favorite players at UW was future NBA All-Star Nate Robinson, listed at 5-9. "On his very best day, if we stretched Nate and hung him upside down and put him in space gravity, he might have been 5-7 -- maybe," Brungardt says. (Robinson's agent didn't respond to a request for comment.) "Nate was one of the all-time greatest all-around athletes. So much heart and ability. But man, he still wanted to be 5-9 in that program so bad for some reason."

[Anonymous]

50 percent of the NFL combine participants are at least a half-inch shorter than how they were presented on their school’s roster.

[Anonymous]

On the USWNT you have Dunn at 5'1. Then LaVelle and Pugh are 5'4. The rest are taller. Ok call them 5'0 and 5'3 in real life. The rest of the team are all taller by inches. Same can be said for any D1 roster.

If it makes you feel better to think that everyone completely lies about height and the short players will be totally fine like Messi and Maradona. Go for it. You do you.

[Anonymous]

Usain Bolt is 6'5

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the USWNT you have Dunn at 5'1. Then LaVelle and Pugh are 5'4. The rest are taller. Ok call them 5'0 and 5'3 in real life. The rest of the team are all taller by inches. Same can be said for any D1 roster.

If it makes you feel better to think that everyone completely lies about height and the short players will be totally fine like Messi and Maradona. Go for it. You do you.

Do you think I'm making this up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the USWNT you have Dunn at 5'1. Then LaVelle and Pugh are 5'4. The rest are taller. Ok call them 5'0 and 5'3 in real life. The rest of the team are all taller by inches. Same can be said for any D1 roster.

If it makes you feel better to think that everyone completely lies about height and the short players will be totally fine like Messi and Maradona. Go for it. You do you.

Do you think I'm making this up?

Height is an advantage. You win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Usain Bolt is 6'5

Messi is 5'6

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usain Bolt is 6'5

Messi is 5'6

Is your kid short?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While there are always exceptions but this article shows the typical size and skills needed by positions in women’s college soccer:

https://www.ncsasports.org/womens-soccer/recruiting-guidelines

It seems most positions requires a player to be at least 5’5”.

Lmfao. Dumbest comment of the year

Why? The PP posted a good article explaining what college recruiters look for. Unless you have any better article, please STFU.

When I see dumb comments like this about sports and athletic ability, I like to post Tom Brady's evaluations from scouting reports back some 20 years ago. They go something like this:

"Poor build ... Skinny ... Lacks great physical stature and strength ... Lacks mobility and ability to avoid the rush ... Lacks a really strong arm ... Can’t drive the ball downfield ... Does not throw a really tight spiral ... System-type player who can get exposed if forced to ad lib ... Gets knocked down easily."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While there are always exceptions but this article shows the typical size and skills needed by positions in women’s college soccer:

https://www.ncsasports.org/womens-soccer/recruiting-guidelines

It seems most positions requires a player to be at least 5’5”.

Lmfao. Dumbest comment of the year

Why? The PP posted a good article explaining what college recruiters look for. Unless you have any better article, please STFU.

When I see dumb comments like this about sports and athletic ability, I like to post Tom Brady's evaluations from scouting reports back some 20 years ago. They go something like this:

"Poor build ... Skinny ... Lacks great physical stature and strength ... Lacks mobility and ability to avoid the rush ... Lacks a really strong arm ... Can’t drive the ball downfield ... Does not throw a really tight spiral ... System-type player who can get exposed if forced to ad lib ... Gets knocked down easily."

Yeah. Tom Brady was a bum. Dunn and Messi are short. Gates and Zuckerberg dropped out of college. Every year people win the lottery. Good luck setting your expectations in life based on the world's most notable outliers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While there are always exceptions but this article shows the typical size and skills needed by positions in women’s college soccer:

https://www.ncsasports.org/womens-soccer/recruiting-guidelines

It seems most positions requires a player to be at least 5’5”.

Lmfao. Dumbest comment of the year

Why? The PP posted a good article explaining what college recruiters look for. Unless you have any better article, please STFU.

When I see dumb comments like this about sports and athletic ability, I like to post Tom Brady's evaluations from scouting reports back some 20 years ago. They go something like this:

"Poor build ... Skinny ... Lacks great physical stature and strength ... Lacks mobility and ability to avoid the rush ... Lacks a really strong arm ... Can’t drive the ball downfield ... Does not throw a really tight spiral ... System-type player who can get exposed if forced to ad lib ... Gets knocked down easily."

Yeah. Tom Brady was a bum. Dunn and Messi are short. Gates and Zuckerberg dropped out of college. Every year people win the lottery. Good luck setting your expectations in life based on the world's most notable outliers.