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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Line up 1000 women.

Only 7-10 will be as tall as Ordonez and Morgan. Or Sam Mewis, Sauerbrun, Davis or MacDonald.

500 will be as tall at Kerr and Lavelle. So I get how out of 1000 or more players maybe you find a Lavelle.

But why are so many tall players selected if this is all random?

They are so so rare in the population.

It’s mathematically impossible. There is only one answer. They are selecting for height. At all levels. Otherwise there is no way to explain it. Otherwise there should be more shorter players than tall players right? These 1% should be the anomaly.[/quote]

Alex Morgan is listed at 5'7".  17.7% of females age 20-29 are that height or taller.  That is 177 per 1,000.

Many of the best male soccer players were relatively short.  Maradona at 5'5", Messi at 5'7", and Pele at 5'8" are often cited as three of the best.  Although they were short, they were quick, and strong, with a low center of gravity.  Pele could even make up for lack of height because he had great leaping ability and was an extraordinary header of the ball.  Mia Hamm was 5'5".  She was quick.  I think the reason women soccer players are comparatively taller is because the shorter women do not have comparable physiological advantages.  They tend not to be noticeably quicker (Hamm and Lavelle are exceptions) than taller women.  [/quote]

You really can’t compare Maradona and Pele to today’s games. Messi was great but is not the rule. There are many more tall quick player Ronaldo, Haaland, Robert Lewandowski, Kevin De Bruyne, Harry Kane, Paul Pogba, Virgil van Dijk vs short players.

Short player below 5’8 will struggle to establish themselves as professionals. Average height for premier league -5’11.5”, Bundesliga 6’ 1/4”, La Liga 5’10 3/4”. In addition to being taller vs average men, they also out mass your typical average men till about 24. After that average men are...let’s face it fatter vs pro soccer players. Those are average heights so the few players under 5’8” really bring the average.

Only 67 European clubs out of 572 (11.7%) fielded players on average shorter than 180cm. https://football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/atlas/en/[/quote]

Yep, Harry Kane is lightning.  I am sure prime Maradona and Pele would struggle to play at Kane's high level of athleticism and skill.  (Speculation here, but if you had a team of Maradonas playing a team of Kanes the ball would be in the Kane side 90%+ of the time.)  These guys may be fast, but not necessarily quick.  And not one has top level close control.

As of summer the most valuable players (transfer value) were:  Mbappe - 5'10"; Sterling 5'7"; Sancho 5'11"; Alexander-Arnold 5'9"; Rashford 5'11; Salah 5'9"; Mane 5'9"; Griezmann 5'9"; Davies 6'0"; Kane 6'2"; Firmino 5'11"; Bernardo Silva 5'8"; Gabriel Jesus 5'9"; Joao Felix 5'11" . . . Do you see a pattern?

The issue in the women's game is there are comparatively fewer counterparts to the list above.  But if you did have a team of prime Martas vs pick a tall current player on U.S. team, I'm betting on the Martas.

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Martas vs abby wambach?[/quote]

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