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[quote=Anonymous]No.  You're the idiot.

Technical skills are the combination of innate abilities like balance and coordination and hard work.  There are a whole host of innate abilities - height, balance, speed, strength, ball coordination, jumping, visio-spatial field awareness.

Of those athletes are usually defined as the ones with speed, strength, and jumping ability.

Soccer players need those skills in the something like the following order: ball coordination, balance, speed, visio-spatial field awareness.  Maybe you could switch the visio-spatial awareness with speed - not sure.

Basketball players need them in a different order, perhaps: height, ball coordination, jumping ability, etc.

I don't know exactly what combination of skills LeBron possesses - he may be capable of being a good technical player almost immediately because of his innate skillset.  But if so, it will be because he has great ball coordination and the work ethic to practise hard, not because he is tall or strong or fast.

And when a bunch of kids are playing soccer, the ones with great ball coordination are the ones you should be selecting for, not the fast, tall or strong ones.  Sure - if a kid has great ball coordination AND has great speed then that's better than great ball coordination without great speed.  But if you only get to have one, you pick the ball coordination every time.[/quote]

For the love of God...stop embarrassing yourself. LeBron James would be a terrible soccer player. Name one 6'9" soccer player who has played professionally. One.  Oh, there has never been one? Case closed. Meanwhile, you could name a thousand guys who have played professionally at 5'6".  Maradona wasn't 5'6" with heels on. [/quote]

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