My boy's son comes from Africa & plays football for 1st time 2 yrs ago. Wins MVP at IMG Academy....

[Professor Emeritus]

Facts.

Its a big part of why I love football. Open to a much wider variety of brehs. There isn't the need for hyperspecialization at an early age the way there is in other sports.

Hyperspecialization might be overrated. I just read an article about how Federer didn't settle on tennis until later in his childhood, played a lot of sports not focusing solely on any one of them. Steve Nash has credited his long background playing soccer with helping him out on the court. And you see all sorts of kids coming up who star at multiple sports at the same time. I think it's more viable than the status quo assumption right now. Still good to get into a sport fairly early, but you might develop extra advantages by diversifying yourself with other sports.

There’s CTE in soccer too. If you’re playing any sport named football you can get CTE

I'd be shocked if there isn't way more CTE in football and boxing than in everything else. But people underestimate how much head trauma there is in soccer. I remember even when I was a kid they were talking about headers actually being bad for your brain.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Nah. His dad is just crazy hype type. Lived in Florida for three years and his ass came back being a loud ass Florida acting niqqa. My wife hates that niqqa for being loud as hell at our wedding.

How he feel about The U

Ofasa could take his talents to south beach

 

[#1 pick]

man i wish could up my "i want to open a football camp in west africa" thread from sohh.

at texas half the dline and oline recruits are houston/dallas kids with naiji/ghanaian descent.

I just had a son. He is already in the 88% of height, strong as an ox and was born two weeks early. Sports gonna come easy to him. School and Faith betta come even easier

 

[NYC Rebel]

How he feel about The U

Ofasa could take his talents to south beach

He lived in Gainesville where his family still resides so you know which FL school he wants his boy in.

 

[#1 pick]

I expected to see him running drills with flip flops on

But seriously thats a dope story. Football is an easy game. I've seen too many people get D-1 scholarships and even make the NFL after only a season or 2 in high school...

It's not easy unless your natural abilities is dope

 

[#1 pick]

Lots of untapped Talent in West Africa or even South Sudan for basketball. If South Sudan was stable, they should be able to dominate basketball, I am sure there is a 6'9" to 7'0" dude out there walking around with natural elite basketball athleticism and coordination though a few of them have failed in the NBA.

Lol, you still gotta develop it.

My wives uncles are all 6'4 and 6'5 and was athletic af. Of course none live in America so the only sport they played was soccer which they were too big for and didn't have the time to dedicated like you would in America.

Honestly, I think a lot of Igbos are build for Football naturally. Naturally broad shoulders, length, hand size, strength, agility and speed with height. Hell, even had cousins who were kickers. Igbos don't come from a sporting culture. That's America that has the sporting but 1st gens like me raise our kids playing sports. My parents just put me in shyt to run ragged.

I had no fundamentals in any sport I played. Looked like J.R. Smith out there but the no talent version. By the time my sisters came, you know, they start teaching it a bit.

shyt natural tho. The reason I think it's Football, not Basketball is because hoops take a lot of time and get in the way of studies. Even I have issues with for my son when the time comes.

Kumon >>>

Yorubas got hoops tho. Them nikkas if they tall got game. It's all about the Basketball culture. You either got it or you don't.

 

[dtownreppin214]

I just had a son. He is already in the 88% of height, strong as an ox and was born two weeks early. Sports gonna come easy to him. School and Faith betta come even easier

Congrats breh...I got a daughter on the way. We getting old.

If you want to make him an athlete, Houston is one of the best towns to do it. Lots of performance trainers setup shot down there.

 

[#1 pick]

Congrats breh...I got a daughter on the way. We getting old.

Congrats breh. Beautiful

 

[NYC Rebel]

Lol, you still gotta develop it.

My wives uncles are all 6'4 and 6'5 and was athletic af. Of course none live in America so the only sport they played was soccer which they were too big for and didn't have the time to dedicated like you would in America.

Honestly, I think a lot of Igbos are build for Football naturally. Naturally broad shoulders, length, hand size, strength, agility and speed with height. Hell, even had cousins who were kickers. Igbos don't come from a sporting culture. That's America that has the sporting but 1st gens like me raise our kids playing sports. My parents just put me in shyt to run ragged.

I had no fundamentals in any sport I played. Looked like J.R. Smith out there but the no talent version. By the time my sisters came, you know, they start teaching it a bit.

shyt natural tho. The reason I think it's Football, not Basketball is because hoops take a lot of time and get in the way of studies. Even I have issues with for my son when the time comes.

Kumon >>>

Yorubas got hoops tho. Them nikkas if they tall got game. It's all about the Basketball culture. You either got it or you don't.

Igbos and Yoruba’s are 99.9% genetically the same. I find that Igbos are a bit more liberal than Yorubas, that’s why you see more of them playing sports here. I got to OU weighing 165 and shot up to 190 in three months lifting zero weights (one of the reasons why I got kicked off ). I just grew into the size of the rest of the men in my family

 

[#1 pick]

Igbos and Yoruba’s are 99.9% genetically the same. I find that Igbos are a bit more liberal than Yorubas, that’s why you see more of them playing sports here. I got to OU weighing 165 and shot up to 190 in three months lifting zero weights (one of the reasons why I got kicked off ). I just grew into the size of the rest of the men in my family

shyt, I was shyt class athlete. 6'4 135, 5flat soph playing jv.

One year of weight training where all I did was raise hell, get booted and talk to hoes, I went from 135 to 175. 5 to 4.6 flat. 175 squat to 385. 26 in vert to 35 inch.

Went from being with the loser athletes to being one of the best at the school and in the county and I didn't even work hard ever. Left 188 being fast af.

I still remember when I was getting hawked by my female cousins. I remember my sr year throwing weights from the gym into the hotel pool and ghosting three guards after me.

One of them nikkas was fast af too. Still got ghosted.

Was looking like a Randy Moss in a 90s hot boyz video

 

[KingJay]

He’s incredibly talented but I’d still put him on a soccer or basketball path. Too much data on CTE to be ignored. This kid will excel at any sport.

I'd put him in track and soccer. I agree about football, but he's PG sized for basketball, too late to make up that skill gap probably.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

He’s incredibly talented but I’d still put him on a soccer or basketball path. Too much data on CTE to be ignored. This kid will excel at any sport.

exactly. fukk football.

He's better off at a soccer camp in sweden

 

[NYC Rebel]

exactly. fukk football.

He's better off at a soccer camp in sweden

Youre repeating yourself .

 

[10bandz]

Africans are gifted......if they had all the resources they'd run every sport. Mad africans have taken on bball/football at the later teen ages and gone pro.

 

[#1 pick]

Africans are gifted......if they had all the resources they'd run every sport. Mad africans have taken on bball/football at the later teen ages and gone pro.

What you think Black Americans are? They African and running shyt