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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty sure that most athletes in the olympics specialized in 1 sport[/quote]

71% of DI men’s football players were multisport athletes in high school.[/quote]

Football isn’t a International sport and skills are developed upon athletes well after puberty.

This constant comparison of soccer to American football is why folks just don’t get it[/quote]

I keep forgetting soccer is special --- with rules that apply strictly soccer because its different than any other sport.

7 out of 10 US Olympic athletes surveyed grew up playing multiple sports and found the experience valuable.

About 88% of D1 lacrosse players, played another sport in high school.

US Youth Soccer surveyed more than 500 college soccer coaches and asked if they prefer an athlete who played multiple sports. Of the 221 Division I coaches who answered, just 16 — 7 percent — said they would prefer a player who played only soccer and was not a multi-sport athlete.
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Good to know if your goal is to impress college coaches, which is the best most of our kids can hope for.  I have to say though that it's kind of annoying that so many of these college coaches answer the survey one way, and then go out of their way to recruit (and give scholarships to) all these foreign players who only ever played soccer growing up.

Has anyone done a survey on what the coaches for the top professional teams in the world think about this question?  Seems like that would be helpful information. [/quote]

You're a cherry picker. That's your biggest flaw and the reason your argument fails time and time again.

So your argument now is that college coaches are going overseas to find international players to fill the role of student athletes because they specialized in one sport and are therefore better?

Let me help you out. The kids with international level talent will typically specialize. However, they make up less than 1 percent. That's your focus? Fine! We are talking about the 99 percent. 
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What's with the personal attack? There are many of us here making similar points on both sides of what I think is a pretty interesting discussion, and no need for anyone to get defensive.

With respect to your comment about the 99%, you are certainly entitled to keep your focus there, but many of us actually are very interested in the 1% (or 10-20%, because it's not clear when kids are young which ones may make it to the top) and how they got there, and what helped or hurt along the way.  That's certainly who Raymond Verheijen is talking about, which makes perfect sense given that he was a pro and focuses on training pros. [/quote]

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