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Same here. The better team's basically keep their shape well. The best teams do so in the middle-third and attacking third, middling teams only...

I've seen some similar play from (IIRC) Ajax academy kids around a similar age. Parents would be having a conniption at the level my son's U11...

When they have the skill set to play it? My son's U11 club team played a team in a tournament this year that played at a relatively high level...

I'm into soccer and hence my kids are now into soccer because of TV access. If it weren't for the coverage of EPL on Fox I would probably never...

I think it's also the case that college football is mostly about developing physical capacity rather than the skill to play in the NFL. Soccer is...

I thought that was pretty standard, but I'm not overly familiar with the laws of the game.

My son's U11 team had an interesting game this weekend with a team with a big yeller, bully type for a coach. Nothing really over the top, but...

Interesting, I didn't realize that a ref. could take action against a coach for yelling at his own players. A team my son (U10) played in a...

*Red Flags all over the place. You're confused because you think this guy is a good coach, when he's not. This is a guy who cares most about...

I'll just add my two cents. I didn't play soccer growing up but have watched it religiously for several years now. Consequently I have little to...

Well if you're going to bet the house on Africa that's probably smart, but all of us outside of Africa are more genetically similar than the...

What makes you think Asians are genetically inferior to others when it comes to athletics?

I've read this before and I think something gets lost here. Drogba played lots of soccer as a youth, including time he spent living with his...

If you go watch high school sports baseball, football, even basketball more or less look like the pro version. Not as fast, etc. but still not a...

I think it depends. Most football positions require relatively little skill and a lot of physical capacity. Even the "skill" positions require a...

Right, I was using this guy as an illustration of a person who may have had the athleticism to play soccer at a very high level, but never...

I had a student who was 5'10" if that, ran the 2nd fastest 40 ever at a major University behind a guy we've all heard of who's in the NFL now, and...

I'm always torn with the "our best athletes don't play soccer" argument. On the one hand there is relatively little overlap in body size between...

Right, but no one is making a genetic argument, it's simply a cultural phenomenon. More women with the opportunity to play equals more high...

Given that there is more genetic diversity in Africa than the rest of the world combined perhaps it's not really all that surprising that there...

I don't understand that either, nor understand what it has to do with this thread.

I agree. I'd also add this doesn't appear to hurt the women nearly as much because other countries don't develop amazingly skillful women players...

I don't know. I just know I've yet to hear an American call a soccer game that I felt actually added something to the game, and often enough...

I think he's got two things going against him both of which he could address (not knowing the game and babbling too much, often with pointless...