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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=asksoccernova]There's a reason I didn't try to go play their sport... because it doesn't cross over. That's my point here - athleticism does not mean you are good at another sport. With all the athleticism that a soccer player has, you still can't dribble a basketball well or shoot accurately.

My point here is that the motor skills required to play soccer and other team sports do not cross over very well. The closest thing out there is NFL kickers.

This is why the American audience doesn't appreciate or understand the sport as much, the thought process behind it is different - it's a totally different game than the sports most people have grown up with. [/quote]

If you don't think the skills required to play football, basketball, hockey, etc. Translate to soccer directly then I'm sorry to say that you simply are not a top level athlete and you have apparently never had the chance to spend time with one to discuss how sports work in their world. There's a reason Alexi Lalas was great at hockey, Steve Nash started as a serious soccer player, Rafael Nadal could have played pro soccer and Odell Beckham Junior could have played national team soccer. There's even a reason Tim Tebow is making a legit run at baseball. Great athletes are great athletes! They choose to train at a select sport because of interests, body types, family pressures, environment, opportunities and future aspirations. But apart from the bobby Hurley/Michael Bradley types who worked tirelessly and had a serious coach dad, I can almost guarantee that most world classs athletes at some point had to chose what they wanted to work toward dominating.

To put it another way. If Allen iverson or Dion Sanders grew with Bob Bradley as a dad, I'm 100% confident they would have been the best soccer players the US has ever produced- even while playing other sports.[/quote]

The problem is you are still using a stopwatch, a ruler and a scale as your metrics. Would the US have spotted Messi or Cryuff?  Because our sports require size and speed we tend to apply that to soccer when it doesn't. Until Jordan grew he was relegated to JV at his High School. That says all you need to know about how we select our athletes.

But, lets play along. Even if Dion Sanders picked up soccer at 13 today there is no chance that he becomes a world class talent. Even Dion Sanders would have had to start playing soccer at 5 like Messi did. Athleticism cannot overcome the thousands and thousands of touches required to have world class technical skill. [/quote]

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