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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why don't you take the best players and then see how fit they are instead of taking the most fit and then seeing who is a soccer player.
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No one is saying that just because the coach wants fit players that he doesn’t want the best soccer players. He wants both. Tell you what, name a list of current professional European, top 5 league players that aren’t fit. Show me the fatties please. And no, drugged out Maradona and Renaldo (the Brazilian one) post retirement don’t count. [/quote]

I would be surprised if Lukaku can run a 5:30 mile even though he is quite fit and one of the best strikers in the world. I'll admit that players in the top leagues nowadays are faster than they were 20 years ago, but you can find many examples of great players from the last 20 years that lacked pace. Some examples that come to mind: Riquelme, Valderrama, Zidane, Pique, Xavi. Who cares if these players could or could not run a 5:30 mile. They could make the right play for 90 minutes.

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A 5:30 mile is not "pace".  Pace is sprinting speed.  A 5:30 mile is just a test of fitness.  It's something any athletic 15 year old can do provided they put in a few weeks' work to get fit.

If the coach was asking for a 4:30 mile or a 11 second 100m that would be different - only a handful of kids would be able to manage it and he would be excluding kids who were good soccer players.  At 5:30 he's not excluding anyone.  I can still run a 5:30 mile for heaven's sake.[/quote]

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