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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read a study the other day that indicated higher density populations were at no more COVID risk than very rural areas.   Of course, the authors were high density development policy advocates and were ignoring the quality and availability of healthcare and using death rates as success criteria.

Bottom line, a study can say anything the author wants, depending on how the author decides to control it.  This was data on players playing at the highest levels, not a randomized set of players.  In other words, all other things being relatively equal, skill is a differentiator.  Duh.

Translation: a slow kid can pass the ball as sharply as a tack and will not make it at the highest levels.  Skill and athleticism are both very important, and as has been discussed on this thread, a good portion of "skill" is also an athletic ability.[/quote]

Is your definition of highest level - travel soccer? That’s not a very high level. You can have slow skilled kid, fast unskilled kids and slow unskilled kids in travel soccer at the highest level. I have seen them. Some of those kids will play in college. Elite travel soccer is just not that high of a level. College is not that high of a level either. Just stop with travel soccer is about elite athletes. Yes there are some but there are a whole lot who are not.
If you are the fast player on your team, you are not playing at a high enough level. [/quote]

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