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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every sport in USA is structured as hell, almost year-round play. There's no incentive to go out and play in the street when you have gaming inside and air conditioning.[b] American youth is sucked up by four way more popular sports before a boy thinks of soccer after the age of 8.[/b] Girls gravitate to it because only basketball takes athletes away. Don't blame just the kids either... i see the sidelines heaving with heavy-set parents who very likey never usher their kids outside because they too sit on their phones all day.[/quote]

i think everyone is trying to find fault when there is no fault.  Soccer is just a fringe sport in America, it's just the way it is.

The facts are most boys would rather play basketball, baseball or football and it's likely because that's what one of their parents grew up playing or watched or whatever reason.[/quote]

I agree with this.  Our best athletes in the US are not choosing soccer.  If we took our best athletes in the NBA and NFL and they played soccer throughout their lives, we would dominate. [/quote]

Here comes this dumb nonsensical argument again.

Yeah being 6'10 or 275lbs and can run through a brick wall are the traits of all the top soccer players.[/quote]

Tyreek Hill is 5'10
Ladanian Tomlinson is 5'10"
Deon Sanders is 6'1"
Travis Hunter is 6'1"
Champ Bailey is 6'0"
Austin Ekeler is 5'9"
Desmond Howard is 5'10"[/quote]

Adam Gemili spent 7 years in Chelsea’s academy and had a couple of shots to go pro…when that didn’t materialize, he switched to track and came in 4th in the 200M at the 2016 Olympics. There are plenty examples of fast athletes in Europe who couldn’t hack it in soccer…you, and apparently many others, just don’t realize it. [/quote]

i wasn't talking about these players being fast and they weren't the biggest or stronger meat head, i was saying they're athletes (some play multiple positions and 1 played multiple sports professionally) that were at the top of their game - athletes as in people with an athletic ability that exceeds the common person.  If they focused their training and skills in soccer they might of been amazing, there could also of been total crap, we'll never know what could of been. How good could Barry Sanders or Deebo Samuel of been if they decided to play soccer instead of football?  the point is, our best athletes (again people with an athletic ability - not the biggest, strongest, fastest) don't play soccer.  Pulisic is our best player right now and he doesn't even top the world's top 100 footballers - every other sport we have players that are considered the best in the world - you're going to sit there and say it's the training is too hard to master? ok.[/quote]

Oh, our athletes own all the World and Olympic records in every sport and are listed as the GOAT in every sport?

Didn't know that.

If only the best cricketers in England played soccer, they would have won another World Cup
If only the best swimmers in Australia played soccer, they would be a soccer powerhouse. 
If only the best rugby players in New Zealand played soccer, they would be top tier.

THE ARGUMENT IS STUPID!

Every US athlete you named would have been raised in the same weak youth soccer culture and environment that exists. 
So what is athleticism going to do? Make them lose faster?[/quote]

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