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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not really the 40 yard dash times.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2bb0/bdf11c9dae4600a31ae82011f93b0d359ff1.pdf[/quote]

So in summary, starting players were similar to non-starters in the things that the combines measure. So that means there must be another reason, other than 40 times why the players are both selected and are also starters.[/quote]

Interesting study.  It looked at one Division I college team, and excluded the injured players and goalkeepers.  So 22 total players were in the study.  These college soccer players were measured for:

30-meter sprint (0-5, 0-10, 0-30 meter intervals);
pro-agility and 60-yard shuttle; 
the Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 1; and
vertical and standing broad jumps.

To quote the study:  "Physiological characteristics between [the starters] and [the non-starters] from the analyzed Division I squad were similar, [b]although [the starters] were generally faster[/b]. The similarities between [the starters] and [the non-starters] may be a function of the team’s training, in that all players may complete the same workouts."

From another part of the study:  "The results showed no significant between-group differences for any of the performance tests[b], except that [the starters] had a worthwhile difference above the squad mean in the 0-10 and 0-30 meter sprint intervals.[/b]"

It is probably safe to assume that any woman on this D1 soccer team is a high quality soccer player, with excellent technical skills and other soccer attributes and that they are all good athletes.  It is also probably safe to assume that the starters are the best players on the team and have the best skills and other soccer attributes.  But it is interesting that the starters also happened to be faster than the non-starters, at least accordingly to this scientific study.[/quote]

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