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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He has a point, Colleges, ECNL, MLS Next and GA top teams seem to prefer to pick bigger & faster kids typically.  I've seen 1st hand girls who could be 100m track stars show up and automatically make ECNL teams and yet they have very poor ball control.

But, here we are calling little Cavin Sullivan the next Messi and he is already signed a pro contract and follow-on Man City contract.  [/quote]

There is truth and fiction to this. The best elite club teams in the country tend to be pretty normal height wise, they may have a couple tall folks on the back line or wings, but otherwise they look normal as a team by distribution.

There are teams that look like they were formed by a team of genetic scientists that selected for height, and some of them have speed freaks on their team too, but height is not a great predictor of speed - and can be a negative over a certain height for the type of speed you need in football. When you watch ECNL teams at the top level, it’s fairly common for the shorter (on average) team to win. Look at Surf, Crossfire and Slammers for example - they tend to field technical, physical teams, not “BFS Athletes.”

With many many teams you’ll see that in different birth years the teams will tend to have teams that all seem a bit bigger, and then another year, there all shorter and technical. It isn’t by accident! Most of these clubs are trying their best to find and help talented youth soccer players get to college and/or the pros. They all want the bragging rights, they all want the PR of YNT and NT call-ups. And increasingly (thanks FIFA) they are seeking to get reimbursed for the club and athlete success! So the reason you see such variation is that the clubs are told by the NTs, talent id pros and pro analysts on a regular basis what sort of players they’re looking for…and…to nobody’s surprised it’s totally bipolar in nature. One year it’s BFS, another year it’s high technical MFs, etc etc. so teams are formed based on the need of the the moment, and they sort of float along as formed for 5-6 years.[/quote]

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