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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will tell you from our NBA players like Alen Iverson if he would have soley been exposed and trained to play soccer he would be the greatest American soccer player of all time. [/quote]

I don’t know why you just picked him.

If our fastest and most agile NFL players had just soccer to play as a sport since childhood, the USA would be incredible and dominant. Some players have 4.2 secs 40 yard dash speeds. It might be a little slower with the ball, but you know what I mean. [/quote]

+1 but not necessarily for the 4.2 speed.  The coordination, the agility, the quickness.   Many kids in the US make the choice to play WR or DB instead of soccer because of the culture.   Imagine if that were flipped en masse.[/quote]

This may increase the size of the player pool, but it won't make a big difference.  If soccer was primarily about athleticism and speed, Jamaica would dominate, but they don't.   When Spain won the World Cup, did they win it by out sprinting everyone?  Were they stacked with blazing fast players?  When Germany won four years later, did they win because they were the fastest team in the tournament?  Absolutely not.  Even France, which was probably the most athletic of recent WC winners, had a mix of players with different level of athleticism (Mbappe was incredibly fast, while Giroud was quite slow).  They won because they had a great level of technical skill, tactical discipline, solid defense and several creative players (Mbappe, Pogba, Griezmann, etc). [/quote]

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