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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boys soccer is actually a pretty good choice if your kid is a good but not great athlete. The best female athletes in the US play soccer and basketball (and a little volleyball). In contrast, the boys predominantly play basketball and football in high school. We'd be a much better soccer nation on the men's side if even 20% of our best athletes played soccer.[/quote]

Based on what facts and verifiable data do you present a narrative that the best athletes for boys go to basketball and football?

Please pause, take a minute or more, go through each position and game role activities in basketball and football, including the body types and fields of play.
Then tell me again with applicable logical reasoning how you reach a conclusion that soccer players are less athletic. [/quote]

Not PP and not going to present any proof just some thought:
$ influences and promotes decisions.  $ flows towards athletes in football and basketball in the US.  SPay to play in soccer in US: $ flows away from player families.  In Europe and Latin America $ flows towards athletes in soccer.  USMNT imports foreign born players.
Defensive backs and receivers in football are going to be significantly better athletes than soccer players in speed and strength as a general rule and experience.  And some of that is also because they train specifically for that improvement over a sustained period of time.  NFL has no need to go abroad to recruit athletic ability unlike the USMNT.
One interesting way of looking at it: https://www.widerightnattylite.com/2019/7/9/20686053/what-could-the-usmnt-look-like-if-soccer-was-our-most-popular-sport
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NFL is  a terrible example because american pigskin football is not a global game, who else plays it? Germany...? If you want to to compare with an established american sport, it has to be basketball which has a deep talent pipeline domestically, but elite players can come from Serbia and Greece too, and there are certainly scouts scouring the globe for talent. NFL not so much, cause the world doesn't care about american football[/quote]

the question was whether elite athletes in the US are more in soccer or other sports!  So the US model is the only example that is relevant

ODell Beckham was invited to the USMNT system at 14 and chose to stay in football, in Germany he would not have US football as an option so he would have stayed in soccer.  NBA holds true as well: Steve Nash of Canada chose basketball over soccer.  Kosta Koufos was born in Ohio and played for Greece U-16 national soccer but chose basketball. There are unlimited examples.

Another way to put it, many US NFL players were elite track athletes and chose NFL over Olympic track pursuits.  Are any USMNT players former elite world-class athletes in another sport?   Pulisic is awesome and could have played P5 college football as a WR or DB but he does not have speed like NFL players.

US culture and money influence athletes choices.  
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