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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to data collected by STATS LLC, a professional basketball player runs around 2.55 miles on average during 48 minutes of the gaming session.

The average NFL player is physically moving for only about 11 minutes per game. Wide receivers and cornerbacks do the most running, covering about 1.25 miles per game.

These are the sports with the best athletes according to some.

Soccer players are averaging around 10K distance covered per game. [/quote]

So is a half-marathon runner a better athlete than a soccer player?

The fastest ever recorded speed in world football is 23.35 mph, achieved just this year by Micky van de Ven.  Prior to that, the fastest recorded speed was under 23.

DK Metcalf clocked 22.23 mph in an NFL game, carrying a ball, and wearing restrictive clothing, a helmet, and pads.     [/quote]

Do you know what marathon runners do?
They only run, at about the same pace continuously without need for agility or sudden change of direction. 
That part of your education complete, the only athletes mentioned on this topic are NFL, NBA and MLB players.

What does a top speed clocking have to do with soccer skills?  [/quote]

Thank you for expressing your concern about my education and attempting to fill it in.  Unfortunately, your help is nonsense and doesn't reflect the messages.  The prior post listed the average distance run by athletes in different sports.  I was pointing out this is NOT a good measure of whether someone is an athlete by asking the rhetorical about half marathoners.  I can run a half a marathon, and am not a good athlete.  The point of including top speed was not to say this replaces soccer skills, just to say there are plenty of athletes in the United States that choose to play different sports.  But speed is a factor in soccer, like all sports.  There are enough athletes in the United States, that if they had grown up in a soccer culture and dedicated the time and love for the game, that the US would excel.  But they haven't and won't.  So why are you so threatened?
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There are millions of kids playing soccer in America. More than most countries.

There is a culture, it's just not conducive to good youth soccer development. [/quote]

That's fair.  [/quote]

Culture is appropriate.in this discussion.  People throw out the millions of kids playing soccer.   Look at those kids. Half of America doesn't play organized youth soccer  The next time you go to a tournament look around.   Not very representative of  today's America.   Maybe it looks   like Great Falls, McLean or Oakton or some of the other wealthy enclaves here but not most of America [/quote]

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