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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no hope for anything that equates to US and soccer. Other than the women's team which who knows how long that's going to last. As long As the rich kids and politiciAn of parents run youth soccer it's going to be shit for the future [/quote]

It's not just that. It's that soccer is a distant 3rd or 4th behind other big youth sports (football, basketball, baseball, hockey).  As long as our most talented young athletes are siphoned off to those sports, US soccer will be playing with our 5th tier talent. [/quote]

Please stop with this tired narrative. Exactly what Argentinian did you see last night that would be a NBA Point Guard or NFL Linebacker, or overweight MLB pitcher? I can't even believe that this is brought up after watching Messi last night. The smallest guy on the field kicked our ass and we think it is because our NBA point guards aren't playing soccer.
Soccer requires more skill and training of those skills than most sports do, not just size and speed. If we don't change our "I can teach soccer skills but I can't teach size and speed", football mentality we will never improve.[/quote]

Can't agree more. [/quote]

The point is that top athletes have a variety of options open to them- more so than most other countries' athletes- and soccer is towards the bottom of the heap when you look for long term potential, success and possibly going pro. Lots and lots of athletes choose between sports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multi-sport_athletes#List_of_athletes[/quote]

Athletes tend to gravitate towards the sport that their physical attributes are better served. Many, MANY of the positions for football have physical attribute requirements that would make for a bad soccer player. In fact, generally only corners, safeties and wide receivers would have the right physical mix of lean size and speed that would translate to soccer. The rest of the positions are just too big and slow. This is an example of the athleticism one of the greatest QBs of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxx_u67eUSA

He clearly missed his calling.

Basketball, please, only some point guards would fit the mold and forget most baseball players. [/quote]

Cristiano Ronaldo
Height 6? 1?, Weight 176 lbs
*could* run the 40 yard dash between 4.64-4.70 seconds[/quote]

And Kobe Bryant is 6'6" 212 lbs. these are attributes. Ronaldo lacks NBA attributes. Kobe's size is not a proven soccer attribute. Exactly what is so hard to understand about that? In fact if height was a requirement then Sweeden would be the soccer Mecca of Europe. [/quote]

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