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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since you asked, a quick internet search reveals that Romelu Lukaku:

Signed a 5 year / £46,800,000 contract with the Manchester United, including an annual average salary of £9,360,000. Say what you will about that club's results on the field the last several years, but they are currently the world's richest club and have a storied past.

He became the all-time leading scorer for Belgium, at only 24 years old.

He has now scored 45 goals in 79 games for Belgium.

By 25, he had already played in 2 World Cups for Belgium, which, as you may remember, finished 3rd last year.

He also became the first player since Maradona to score two goals or more in consecutive World Cup matches. He eventually ended the last World Cup with 4 goals, which earned him the Bronze Boot award.

Maybe you have higher expectations for your child, but my guess is Lukaku's parents are pretty damn proud of what he has accomplished by 26. [/quote]

That is not the point unless you believe you have a Lukaku in your house with your big, strong and fast child.  We are comparing apples to apples.

Lukaku vs. Xavi.  Xavi would not be a highly thought of player in this country by 90% of coaches and by any reasonable person's standards, Xavi was a far superior soccer player even though he was much smaller and not nearly as strong or fast as Lukaku.

I will take a Xavi type youth player over a Lukaku every day of the week because winning games is not even in the top 5 in terms of developing great soccer players.[/quote]

Lukaku isn't the right counter-argument for the size and speed nonsense spouted by the previous poster.

Usain Bolt is.  I'd love to hear about how his size and speed makes him the ultimate soccer player.[/quote]

LOL.  That IS better than Lukaku, thank you.  But we all know tons of coaches and clubs that would throw Bolt out there and just kick it to him to win games.  Not sure what the other 9 field players are getting out of that in terms of development other than cheering Bolt on.[/quote]

This is such a stupid exercise.  Nobody is saying that speed, size and/or freakish athleticism is [b]the only[/b] attribute needed to be successful at any given sport.  A player must also have technical and tactical skills.  That is what separates soccer players like, for example, a Usain Bolt from a Jose Altidore from a Romelu Lukaku.

Similarly, I don't care how amazing a player's technical skills are, or how amazing his/her mind is tactically, if the player is slow as molasses, then that player is never seeing a field for any top team (youth or otherwise).  Same goes for a fully-grown player that is only 4'8".  That may work for an Olympic gymnast like Simone Biles (who is 4'8"), but a girl that height will never make her high school soccer team, let alone a college team.

You get my point.  You need a combination of these attributes to be successful.  In general, the more attributes you have, the more likely you will have success as a player.  This should be obvious.

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