Multiple Sport Athletes

[Anonymous]

yeah, go play full contact rugby or MMA fighting in the off season. You will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Sooo..... look at MLS's homegrown talent signings in the last 10 years. Look at youth players who get their first contracts. How many of them were playing another sport at an elite level?

[Anonymous]

Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

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https://www.biography.com/athlete/ronaldinho

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

Ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yeah, go play full contact rugby or MMA fighting in the off season. You will be fine.

MMA training has huge benefits in terms of developing flexibility and stamina.

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Anonymous wrote:This constant comparison of soccer to American football is why folks just don’t get it
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More likely, men's soccer is a blip on the American sports radar. People just don't care.

It is a soccer forum so people here do care. Comparing developmental models of successful European soccer academies, in a internationally competitive environment to the development methods and cycle of a completely different sport played only by one country is what is stupid.

The two sports do not resemble one another at all. Success in football after starting the sport after 15 years old does not equate similar success in soccer on the same timeline.

Nobody's comparing the "developmental models of successful European soccer academies, in a internationally competitive environment to the development methods and cycle of a completely different sport played only by one country" [I bet you worked a long time on that sentence and must feel pretty proud of it]. The point has to do with athletes playing multiple sports and being successful.

In the point above, football was an example --- which if you kept reading was followed by other examples.
If you think american kids start football after 15 years old and that's when they start developing, I'd invite to visit summer camps in Florida, Texas, and California --- you might learning something.

In any event, my point was that I believe multi-sports athletes can be as successful than specialized athletes with less risk to their bodies and minds.

American football is a poor sport to use as an example of success off multi sport athletes.

Why would say that? There are numerous examples at the pro level...as indicated, many college players played multiple sports at the high school level.

MLS is a Looooong way from Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga

Oh, the previous poster misspoke...

MLS = Major League Soccer = soccer,
NFL = National Football League = American Football

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

I played multiple sports growing up. Soccer is not any harder or easier to learn, and team “movement” sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, and lacrosse are all very similar as far as movement off the ball, finding space and teammates, tracking opponents on defense, etc. If you played any of these you’d know that.

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Anonymous wrote:Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

I played multiple sports growing up. Soccer is not any harder or easier to learn, and team “movement” sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, and lacrosse are all very similar as far as movement off the ball, finding space and teammates, tracking opponents on defense, etc. If you played any of these you’d know that.

Different poster, but I only partially agree with this. All sports require skills that you have to learn, and it will take a lot more than hitting the weight room to be great at any of them. But some require more early training than others. An athletic phenom absolutely can pick up American football for the first time in HS and be great. It's harder to do for basketball, but there are many examples of college players and pros who did. Virtually all top soccer and hockey players started playing as young kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

I played multiple sports growing up. Soccer is not any harder or easier to learn, and team “movement” sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, and lacrosse are all very similar as far as movement off the ball, finding space and teammates, tracking opponents on defense, etc. If you played any of these you’d know that.

It is hard to employ the tactics of movement if you can’t control the ball. This is the part that American’s have a hard time understanding as the difference.

Running fast with the ball in your hand is not the same as running fast with the ball being manipulated with your feet.

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Anonymous wrote:Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

I played multiple sports growing up. Soccer is not any harder or easier to learn, and team “movement” sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, and lacrosse are all very similar as far as movement off the ball, finding space and teammates, tracking opponents on defense, etc. If you played any of these you’d know that.

It is hard to employ the tactics of movement if you can’t control the ball. This is the part that American’s have a hard time understanding as the difference.

Running fast with the ball in your hand is not the same as running fast with the ball being manipulated with your feet.

Last time I checked lacrosse players use sticks to carry the ball, hockey players use a puck and a stick, basketball players have to dribble the ball and can't "run with it in their hands." Learning to play with your feet, thighs, chest, and head is like any other skill, it must be learned. Kind of like shooting a basketball. Your comments further validate my original reply about your lack of knowledge and experience. I love soccer and it is my favorite sport to play and watch, but it is no more difficult than the others, just different.

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Anonymous wrote:Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

I played multiple sports growing up. Soccer is not any harder or easier to learn, and team “movement” sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, and lacrosse are all very similar as far as movement off the ball, finding space and teammates, tracking opponents on defense, etc. If you played any of these you’d know that.

It is hard to employ the tactics of movement if you can’t control the ball. This is the part that American’s have a hard time understanding as the difference.

Running fast with the ball in your hand is not the same as running fast with the ball being manipulated with your feet.

Last time I checked lacrosse players use sticks to carry the ball, hockey players use a puck and a stick, basketball players have to dribble the ball and can't "run with it in their hands." Learning to play with your feet, thighs, chest, and head is like any other skill, it must be learned. Kind of like shooting a basketball. Your comments further validate my original reply about your lack of knowledge and experience. I love soccer and it is my favorite sport to play and watch, but it is no more difficult than the others, just different.

Learning to dribble a basketball and shot it is sooooo much easier than learning to dribble a soccer ball with your feet and shoot. Maybe you are some anomaly. Maybe from another planet.

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Anonymous wrote:Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

I played multiple sports growing up. Soccer is not any harder or easier to learn, and team “movement” sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, and lacrosse are all very similar as far as movement off the ball, finding space and teammates, tracking opponents on defense, etc. If you played any of these you’d know that.

It is hard to employ the tactics of movement if you can’t control the ball. This is the part that American’s have a hard time understanding as the difference.

Running fast with the ball in your hand is not the same as running fast with the ball being manipulated with your feet.

Last time I checked lacrosse players use sticks to carry the ball, hockey players use a puck and a stick, basketball players have to dribble the ball and can't "run with it in their hands." Learning to play with your feet, thighs, chest, and head is like any other skill, it must be learned. Kind of like shooting a basketball. Your comments further validate my original reply about your lack of knowledge and experience. I love soccer and it is my favorite sport to play and watch, but it is no more difficult than the others, just different.

They are all using their hands.

Have you ever even watched soccer before?

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Anonymous wrote:Most american sports you can pick up quickly if only you hit the weight room and learn a couple of skills. Soccer doesn't work like that.

I played multiple sports growing up. Soccer is not any harder or easier to learn, and team “movement” sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, and lacrosse are all very similar as far as movement off the ball, finding space and teammates, tracking opponents on defense, etc. If you played any of these you’d know that.

It is hard to employ the tactics of movement if you can’t control the ball. This is the part that American’s have a hard time understanding as the difference.

Running fast with the ball in your hand is not the same as running fast with the ball being manipulated with your feet.

Last time I checked lacrosse players use sticks to carry the ball, hockey players use a puck and a stick, basketball players have to dribble the ball and can't "run with it in their hands." Learning to play with your feet, thighs, chest, and head is like any other skill, it must be learned. Kind of like shooting a basketball. Your comments further validate my original reply about your lack of knowledge and experience. I love soccer and it is my favorite sport to play and watch, but it is no more difficult than the others, just different.

Learning to dribble a basketball and shot it is sooooo much easier than learning to dribble a soccer ball with your feet and shoot. Maybe you are some anomaly. Maybe from another planet.

People, please remember soccer is special, Americans don't understand, you have to start juggling in the womb and be placed in an academy upon birth or you will always be bad at soccer

[Anonymous]

Using your feet is so much harder than any sports you do with your hands.

You can’t pick up soccer skills at a later age. You need to be developing both feet from a very young age.

Yes— keeping head up, looking for passes, reading the court/field are similar and complimentary to other sports like basketball, lacrosse, etc. but that’s it. The body/foot thing can not be picked up late in development. American soccer maybe—kick and run, but you will never play like a European.