Tall kids playing; Short kids sitting

[Anonymous]

Style of play —- kickball=Big and physical players needed to catch the ball often sent from the back with no purpose (players skip the midfield, no need for technicality) Possession and direct play styles= technical players, skills weigh more than size.

Preferred style of rec teams: kickball due to lack of technical players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

I think you missed my point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

I think you missed my point.

Not the PP, but I think you missed your point. Because the rambling about LeBron James just meant absolutely nothing here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. You're the idiot.

Technical skills are the combination of innate abilities like balance and coordination and hard work. There are a whole host of innate abilities - height, balance, speed, strength, ball coordination, jumping, visio-spatial field awareness.

Of those athletes are usually defined as the ones with speed, strength, and jumping ability.

Soccer players need those skills in the something like the following order: ball coordination, balance, speed, visio-spatial field awareness. Maybe you could switch the visio-spatial awareness with speed - not sure.

Basketball players need them in a different order, perhaps: height, ball coordination, jumping ability, etc.

I don't know exactly what combination of skills LeBron possesses - he may be capable of being a good technical player almost immediately because of his innate skillset. But if so, it will be because he has great ball coordination and the work ethic to practise hard, not because he is tall or strong or fast.

And when a bunch of kids are playing soccer, the ones with great ball coordination are the ones you should be selecting for, not the fast, tall or strong ones. Sure - if a kid has great ball coordination AND has great speed then that's better than great ball coordination without great speed. But if you only get to have one, you pick the ball coordination every time.

For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

Just imagine a young LeBron James playing in youth soccer. Due to size size alone, he would definitely dominate and be recruited by every youth soccer coaches/clubs in the DMV.

At 13 years old, LeBron was 6-feet tall. He entered high school at 6-foot-4, 170-pounds and grew to 6-foot-6, 200 pounds as a high school sophomore.

How would dominate if all he did was play soccer the exact trainings as Messi from the same age. He's is just as fast twice as strong. The only thing stopping him is injury.

Someone tell their village to come collect their idiot.

We're on our way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

I think you missed my point.

Not the PP, but I think you missed your point. Because the rambling about LeBron James just meant absolutely nothing here.

It was a response to the other poster.

[Anonymous]

This has been a dumb discussion for the past four pages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has been a dumb discussion for the past four pages.

Way to raise the level then. Well done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

I think you missed my point.

Not the PP, but I think you missed your point. Because the rambling about LeBron James just meant absolutely nothing here.

I think the PP meant a taller superior athlete is more worth the risk / reward Than a smaller already skilled average athlete. His LeBron argument came after the Messi comment. I think we all Agee Messi would be even better than he is now if he were 6'2".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

I think you missed my point.

Not the PP, but I think you missed your point. Because the rambling about LeBron James just meant absolutely nothing here.

I think the PP meant a taller superior athlete is more worth the risk / reward Than a smaller already skilled average athlete. His LeBron argument came after the Messi comment. I think we all Agee Messi would be even better than he is now if he were 6'2".

Ah, no actually, we don't all agree because I've never seen a 6'2" guy move like that. What in the hell is with your fixation on size? We're now wishing Messi were a little bit taller so that he could live up to his full potential? Jesus...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

I think you missed my point.

Not the PP, but I think you missed your point. Because the rambling about LeBron James just meant absolutely nothing here.

I think the PP meant a taller superior athlete is more worth the risk / reward Than a smaller already skilled average athlete. His LeBron argument came after the Messi comment. I think we all Agee Messi would be even better than he is now if he were 6'2".

You do realize there are certain advantages to being short in soccer, don't you? It's a game played on the ground...outside of GK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. You're the idiot.

Technical skills are the combination of innate abilities like balance and coordination and hard work. There are a whole host of innate abilities - height, balance, speed, strength, ball coordination, jumping, visio-spatial field awareness.

Of those athletes are usually defined as the ones with speed, strength, and jumping ability.

Soccer players need those skills in the something like the following order: ball coordination, balance, speed, visio-spatial field awareness. Maybe you could switch the visio-spatial awareness with speed - not sure.

Basketball players need them in a different order, perhaps: height, ball coordination, jumping ability, etc.

I don't know exactly what combination of skills LeBron possesses - he may be capable of being a good technical player almost immediately because of his innate skillset. But if so, it will be because he has great ball coordination and the work ethic to practise hard, not because he is tall or strong or fast.

And when a bunch of kids are playing soccer, the ones with great ball coordination are the ones you should be selecting for, not the fast, tall or strong ones. Sure - if a kid has great ball coordination AND has great speed then that's better than great ball coordination without great speed. But if you only get to have one, you pick the ball coordination every time.

For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

Peter Crouch.

[Anonymous]

I think the average in the EPL is 5'11.5" tall meaning about half are over 6' tall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the average in the EPL is 5'11.5" tall meaning about half are over 6' tall.

I personally know at least 20 professional players and can tell you that they all measure in boots, which means that the average player is about 5'10" in most of Europe and about 5'9 in South America. In other words, average-sized dudes all around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One. Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6". Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on.

I think you missed my point.

Not the PP, but I think you missed your point. Because the rambling about LeBron James just meant absolutely nothing here.

I think the PP meant a taller superior athlete is more worth the risk / reward Than a smaller already skilled average athlete. His LeBron argument came after the Messi comment. I think we all Agee Messi would be even better than he is now if he were 6'2".

No. We don't agree that. You stupid moron.

umm your wife agrees

[Anonymous]

I never cared that I was short until my kids starting playing sports. 🙁