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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Running a mile in 5:30 does not mean you have good fitness for soccer. It means you can run a mile in 5:30 and nothing more. Soccer fitness is fitness in the context of soccer. A player performs actions upon actions in a game, some of them runs, some of them sprints, some of them may not involve much movement. A player's ability to maintain good actions through 90 mins is soccer fitness. Without defenders, a ball, a goal, and a direction, you don't have any of the context of a game. Stop breaking the game down into neat "sections" you can someone improve individually of each other. You don't get better at chess by playing checkers.

The issue here is that the US is obsessed with the fitness industry and rarely looks beyond that in sports. It's why Adama Traore's arms where newsworthy on ESPN. All of you who buy this as a good measure of fitness, or say that it was done in the past, which is why it must be good, you're just making the same thinking errors that have been made here for 40 years. The US national team has never lacked players who are fast, strong, or whatever other bs term you want to attach to non contextual fitness. Go do crossfit, where the fittest people in the world apparently can only compete at... crossfit. [/quote]
I’m going to venture a guess that no one here (other than you and I (after a little google session)) are familiar with Adama Traore and his over-developed arms. While I think most HS soccer coaches focus on the wrong things, there are worse things to look at as winnowing factors than endurance. My kid’s HS coach cared only about size and aggression, and the season ended with an unusual number of broken bones. I wish there were higher standards for HS coaches in all sports. [/quote]

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