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Center mids are the quarterbacks of the team. They really have to be smart. It's proven their IQ is higher/faster processing speed.

Both my kids are center mids and so was I. They both have over 4.3 gpas at tough private school and barely study. I've seen some really technical kids with speed that just suck at center mid. They can't think ahead or process the field that fast[/quote]

My son is a center mid, and I like to think that he's smart, but I do't think that correlates with academic GPA at all.  My son has dyslexia and ADHD, and school is not his thing.  He's on a high-level team, and it doesnt seem to affect him at soccer.[/quote]

No. It's not the GPA, I agree.  My kids always had very good spatial reasoning and quick processing---no learning disabilities or classroom difficulties--but, yes, some of the brightest kids I know are like your son and struggle with the classroom.  My brother was more like your son and played at a professional level.  It took him 8 years to get his undergrad degree  :lol:   and he is incredibly bright in a wide array of subjects but never was a 'student'.[/quote]

I wanted to add that I read a really interesting study about soccer players and the level of IQ and how it correlated to the higher levels across the board.  There was a 'chicken and egg' debate whether playing the sport over time at increasing speed and thinking was part of the reason for the higher IQs across the board the higher success a player achieved.  Or--were these players naturally smart/higher cognitive reasoning.

Executive function predicts the success of top-soccer players:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034731

https://www.wired.com/2012/04/soccer-cognitive-functions/

I think we have all seen 'dumb' gifted ball skilled players that can't read a field and make bad choices...it really starts to come out as they move up in age groups.[/quote]

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