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In football the ball is carried, it is either handed off or passed forward but it is carried. To be effective at carrying the football requires speed, elusiveness and power. But few players have all three but they have two of the three. You are born with the ultimate potential of speed. You are born with being elusiveness. And ANYONE can add power.

In order to stop the carrier requires size speed and strength and agility in order to physically subdue the ball carrier.

Most off season NFL players work on their physical attributes. Very little time is spent on the skills because, quite frankly, there are few of them to work on. Time is better spent perfecting knowledge of the game via film than it is spent perfecting "skills". Football is simply a series of set pieces that are rehearsed over and over until the timing is right. But the success of the set piece is totally reliant upon picking the right set piece against the oppositions set defense.

Absolutely none of that is relevant to soccer. None of it can predict who would or wouldn't be an elite soccer player.

I doubt we hear this argument in England where they are certain that if only their Rugby players would choose soccer that they would finally win the World Clup again. [/quote]

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