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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The multiple sport argument is only made by Americans using predominately American sports as the basis of "proof".

Soccer is a global sport and elite world class soccer players pretty much just play soccer. Messi didn't move halfway across the world to La Masia to be a three sport athlete.

America produces world class gymnasts. I don't think any of them play another sport.

America produces "world class" three sport athletes in sports that only American's generally play.

Of course kids should try and play different sports because it is good for them and they are fun but not because that is what a NFL player did as a kid. That NFL player isn't fighting for a job in a global sport the way a professional soccer player is. [/quote]
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Right because nobody plays baseball, tennis, basketball, track and field, or hockey outside the US --- those sports are mostly ignored outside the US.

America does produce world class gymnasts but in the process it breaks a significant amount on young bodies because the coaches haven't been bright enough to figure out that they could reduce the overuse injuries by getting kids into other sports instead training them year round.

You're right about the NFL player --- he's fighting for a much tougher jobs to get. There are far fewer NFL jobs than are professional soccer jobs world wide.

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For every 1 U.S. Olympic gymnast, there are 1,000 who have quit from burnout or overuse injures. Burnout is notorious in gymnastics. Those girls should be seen as the example, rather than the 1 who is named Simone Biles.[/quote]

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