If more black americans played soccer we would dominate everyone like basketball

[Apollo Creed]

Didnt read thread, just came to post this

 

[Cynic]

No one country will ever have a stranglehold on football equivalent to America's basketball dominance. Too many countries throw money into football and too many kids play it with varying styles and levels for that to happen.

And breh 6'3 plus ppl soccer is not a recipe for success at all

Thread is asinine because NCAA and NFL would never let their source of talent go to another sport....

But hypothetically if soccer was the main sport in America....argentinian/brazilian talent would flock here

Africans who don't want that Euro-monkey racism would flock here too

We'd have the biggest and best league in the world...

As for the national team ? I dunno ....it could be one of a gazillion stars with no chemistry type teams

or a nightmare for the whole world

 

[Max Power]

Thread is asinine because NCAA and NFL would never let their source of talent go to another sport....

But hypothetically if soccer was the main sport in America....argentinian/brazilian talent would flock here

Africans who don't want that Euro-monkey racism would flock here too

We'd have the biggest and best league in the world...

As for the national team ? I dunno ....it could be one of a gazillion stars with no chemistry type teams

or a nightmare for the whole world

In this hypothetical world do ameriCACs and their "win with class ", draft system, "they must go to college and be paid nothing " mentality etc exist? If it does then it'll be more of the same tbh. That mentality is the antithesis of success in football. One country with a vaguely similar mentality is England and they haven't won shyt since a rigged world cup on home soil in 66.

 

[CoochieMane]

Think athleticism is all it takes to dominate soccer brehs.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Yes.

Messi (5'7), Iniesta (5'7), Aguero (5'8), Hazard (5'8) etc.

Can't find a worldwide number for average height but most of these guys are close to the average. If being shorter was an advantage, I'd expect to see a more significant variance from the mean (i.e. look at how much taller the average pro basketball player is compared to the average male in north america.)

Messi is from Argentina where the average height is 5'8.5"
Iniesta is from Spain where the average height is 5'8"
Aguero is from Argentina where the average height is 5'8.5"
Hazard is from Belguim where the average height is 5'10"

Looking at other top soccer players (according to google):
Cristiano Ronaldo is 6'1" from Portugal where the average height is 5'8.5"
Neymar is 5'9" is from Brazil where the average height is 5'7"
Zlatan Ibrahimović is 6'5" from Sweeden where the average height is 5'11.5"
Gareth Frank Bale is 6'0" from UK - Wales where the average height is 5'9"
Luis Suárez is 6'0" from Uruguay where the average height is 5'7"


I'm sorry I don't see a short advantage at all

 

[Illuminatos]

If Africans played soccer they would dominate

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I wouldnt quite call it a disadvantage, but the movements required in soccer, especially in the striking and midfield positions, require alot of short quick movements. Starting and stopping, turning on a dime etc. The best midfielders are usually stocky, short leg types. Height changes your center of gravity and makes a lot of movements more difficult and slower to pull off. There are tall players but for every skillful giant, you have way more shorter, typical players. Anything above 6'3 is an anomaly and even those players are usually seen in defense, in goal, or are destroyers (players who are there to break up play and make life harder for opposing skill players; protect the defense)

These are anomalies, not the the norm. For every Pogba and Zlatan, you have multiple times more average to shorter players. It's like me posting Spud, or Nate in an NBA discussion to prove a point about height not mattering. My favorite player ever is Henry, a 6'2 legend at striker.

Anything over 6'3" is an anomaly in life period. If height is not an advantage it's no surprise that the best (or even the field of pros in general) hover around the average height.

 

[Hyman Roth]

Can't find a worldwide number for average height but most of these guys are close to the average. If being shorter was an advantage, I'd expect to see a more significant variance from the mean (i.e. look at how much taller the average pro basketball player is compared to the average male in north america.)

Messi is from Argentina where the average height is 5'8.5"
Iniesta is from Spain where the average height is 5'8"
Aguero is from Argentina where the average height is 5'8.5"
Hazard is from Belguim where the average height is 5'10"

Looking at other top soccer players (according to google):
Cristiano Ronaldo is 6'1" from Portugal where the average height is 5'8.5"
Neymar is 5'9" is from Brazil where the average height is 5'7"
Zlatan Ibrahimović is 6'5" from Sweeden where the average height is 5'11.5"
Gareth Frank Bale is 6'0" from UK - Wales where the average height is 5'9"
Luis Suárez is 6'0" from Uruguay where the average height is 5'7"


I'm sorry I don't see a short advantage at all

Those are the average heights for regular people, not athletes.

The average height for professional soccer players is 5'11" and it's no coincidence the very best players are below that height.

 

[FaTaL]

africans play soccer

soccer is lame, who cares

 

[OneManGang]

Anything over 6'3" is an anomaly in life period. If height is not an advantage it's no surprise that the best (or even the field of pros in general) hover around the average height.

Good point. But keep it in context of professional sports where you see more of these type of heights than in everyday life.

 

[Mr swag]

Explain so I can diss out that ether

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Those are the average heights for regular people, not athletes.

The average height for professional soccer players is 5'11" and it's no coincidence the very best players are below that height.

I'm not sure where you got that 5'11" number. I can't find that number on google, it's a hard number to define, but the average height of the 2014 World Cup was 181.8 cm or 5' 9.5 according to this site: Age, Height and Weight of Players in the 2014 FIFA World Cup | Visual.ly

We're teetering on the edge of finding numbers to say whatever the hell we want at this point tho...

 

[Hyman Roth]

I'm not sure where you got that 5'11" number. I can't find that number on google, it's a hard number to define, but the average height of the 2014 World Cup was 181.8 cm or 5' 9.5 according to this site: Age, Height and Weight of Players in the 2014 FIFA World Cup | Visual.ly

We're teetering on the edge of finding numbers to say whatever the hell we want at this point tho...

Here's the link but let's just agree to disagree.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

Why aren't Blacks dominating the QB position?

 

[GzUp]

it wouldnt be lebron, mj or kobe... it would be other type of athletes