@Fed_Aykin@YaMyJudgingFace@KylePagan_@KingJames Correct they wanted him to join the national team and then start training in europe at age 13 and he turned it down. He was playing on the elite level teams at age 11. Instead he went to high school and never touched ac soccer ball again.
@PaulSpacey@TalkJuJu Or that our soccer training programs wouldn't measure the same as nfl, mlb or nba developmental programs that all start at age 5 ?
@PaulSpacey@TalkJuJu Do you think if americas best athletes grew up playing nothing but soccer our team wouldn't be way better than it is now? We wouldn't have a steph curry or kyrie of soccer some that's more athletic than 99% of the world with the skills to match.
@TalkJuJu@PaulSpacey Elite is strong but we have plenty of mbapes walking around athldtically its just a matter of which ones are going to be super skilled in soccer. If a reggie bush or deon sanders or even a dk metcalf or calvin johnson gets the skills the match the world will have a problem
@TalkJuJu@PaulSpacey You are hitting the nail on the head. If this is the only sample size of nfl genetics in soccer we have thousands of these guys walking around that have never touched a soccer ball. Even if 1% hit that's 10 - 30 elite level soccer players of a 3k sample size and that's just nfl
@PaulSpacey Who knows if he would be an nfl player plenty of kids don't make it. He does have nfl genetics and made it pro. Sorta proves our point. We have thousands of guys like that, that has never touched a soccer ball.
@Fed_Aykin@YaMyJudgingFace@KylePagan_@KingJames You know your stuff. Odell had to choose go to europe or play football. However there's way more in his situation who have never even touched a soccer ball to have that decision to make.
@AdmiralBear01@FIFABrit You say that but yet the 6'5 striker is amazing. Who's to say lebron wouldn't be that skilled if all he played was soccer. Not only is he an athletic specimen hes also one of the most intelligent players to touch an nba floor.
@KealiiShaw@FIFABrit Exactly all multi sport athletes that dominated any sport they decided to play. Even russel wilson would dominate as a mild fielder the list goes on
@Underwood_szn@savanah2j Tyreke would've had to grow up playing soccer he wouldn't get that skill in a few years. But if he did grow up playing soccer that's different !!!!
@savanah2j So you honestly think an athlete like deon sanders who played pro baseball (hardest skill set spot) played pro football both cb and wr and had d1 scholarships for basketball and had olympic speed wouldn't be good in soccer if he grew up playing it ?
@savanah2j Our best athletes would have the skill if they played soccer. They simply don't. If you don't think all of these 2 or 3 sport athletes couldn't learn soccer if they grew up playing it you are retarded
@Evan_Hand Dk metcalf, calvin johnson, randy moss to name a few and theres plenty of other not as popular athletes we have. The world is lucky elite Americans don't play soccer