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[quote=Anonymous]It's an intriguing question, and you'd think just by the odds we'd have significantly more skilled players than a smaller country like Germany, for example.

But it's more than that - look at the fact that some of our starters (3?) spent some of their young years in Germany, playing soccer.  (I know at least one player had a father in the military stationed in Germany).  Surely the pool of kids in the US who spent time in Germany is relatively small, so why the disproportionate representation on the US team?

So in addition to more kids playing in the US, there's also something about training and learning that soccer powerhouses do differently.

But don't necessarily agree that our best athletes are shaped differently than soccer players - some football players are large because the position they play demands it.  But plenty of football players - quarterbacks, running backs, safeties, receivers - would make excellent soccer players - look at the number of collegiate football players who run track.  Basketballers are taller and ganglier, but not all of them.  Point guards would probably make excellent soccer players.

I guess there's probably a point where kids who have great skills choose - and despite all the suburban soccer fields, the same pipeline doesn't exist, probably because of money.  [/quote]

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