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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe super early on, but once they get older, no. Soccer seems like a weird example to me. Most of the good soccer players I know at the high school level are average size, strong, and agile. [/quote]

Agree completely. Very rare to find an above average height kid in soccer in high school on top teams. If there is one, they are likely a top recruit because you typically don’t get the agility and coordination needed with height on top soccer teams. [/quote]

For soccer in the US, it's usually that, taller athletic kids go into other sports.  Who wants to be a goalie when they can play basketball or be a kicker on a football team, pitcher in baseball.  etc  Soccer is one of those sports where there are places on the team for very tall kids, but they all kind of suck it it's not revered like in Europe or South America.  You can be target man have all the short kids kick the ball at your head or a goalie, dive in the mud while short kids kick at you with their cleats.  It's just not very much fun.  Compare that with being QB.  I don't think anyone would sign up to be QB have everyone in league want to sack you, unless you got to be the star of the team.  IMO that is a big reason USA Soccer is so limited when it comes to the world cup.  Like they go up against the Dutch or English, and you just have the left over from other sports, no big forwards, weak goalies, slow wings.  They have some really good skills players, just missing some things that make a well rounded soccer team.  The people in USA Soccer seem to want to keep it that way.
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I think there is probably some truth to the first part of this. At our large suburban HS, the boys soccer players are definitely overall smaller/slighter than the boys who play football, basketball, or baseball. Probably self selecting. Making any of the teams (football excluded) is very competitive. Not a lot of multi sport athletes in our high school. Also, most of the students played soccer at some point during their youth years. It does seem that the larger boys end up focusing on other sports, rather than soccer.[/quote]

Also, soccer is the one US sport where the best players aren’t allowed to play for their HS teams…whereas the other sports all respect the HS season.

If the best football, baseball and basketball players weren’t allowed to play for their HS teams, all those teams would be shorter on average.[/quote]

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