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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every sport in USA is structured as hell, almost year-round play. There's no incentive to go out and play in the street when you have gaming inside and air conditioning.[b] American youth is sucked up by four way more popular sports before a boy thinks of soccer after the age of 8.[/b] Girls gravitate to it because only basketball takes athletes away. Don't blame just the kids either... i see the sidelines heaving with heavy-set parents who very likey never usher their kids outside because they too sit on their phones all day.[/quote]

i think everyone is trying to find fault when there is no fault.  Soccer is just a fringe sport in America, it's just the way it is.

The facts are most boys would rather play basketball, baseball or football and it's likely because that's what one of their parents grew up playing or watched or whatever reason.[/quote]

I agree with this.  Our best athletes in the US are not choosing soccer.  If we took our best athletes in the NBA and NFL and they played soccer throughout their lives, we would dominate. [/quote]
It's not just that our best athletes are in the NBA and NFL. It's that all our best athletes are TRYING to be in the NBA and NFL. That 5'6'' kid whose body type would work great for soccer, but maybe not for basketball because they aren't very tall, is still playing basketball but their playing career ends in high school. Imagine if that 5'6'' kid didn't spend the first 15 years of their life trying to become a basketball player, and had started with soccer instead. Those are the players that we're missing out on because soccer isn't popular. [/quote]

So help us to understand how you draw a line between basketball skills equating to soccer skills?

The stands at soccer games are filled with people with the 'right body types' who played soccer all their lives and couldn't get to the top tier.

btw..... where are these results of the athletic testing done on all children in the USA at elementary school before the best were filtered into nba and NFL and baseball?[/quote]

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