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As far as an "all out effort" think about Lebron, Adrian Peterson, Calvin Johnson, etc growing up playing soccer and going to year round soccer academies.

the only thing i would say that if guys like lebron, peterson and megaton played soccer, they wouldn't be the same athlete. soccer players run around for 90 minutes and if those guys played soccer, they wouldn't have the same muscle mass that they do now( or if they did they couldn't play soccer). without the same mass, you wouldn't view them as quite the freakish athlete that they are now. although in general it is hard to argue that our very best athletes are not playing soccer, and having a team of reggie bush's and russel westbrooks would have to be better than what we have now, and make up for some of the difference in technical skill that the euro and south american players have over ours.

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Posted by VABuckeye

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Posted on 7/2/14 at 9:38 am to 632627

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the only thing i would say that if guys like lebron, peterson and megaton played soccer, they wouldn't be the same athlete. soccer players run around for 90 minutes and if those guys played soccer, they wouldn't have the same muscle mass that they do now( or if they did they couldn't play soccer). without the same mass, you wouldn't view them as quite the freakish athlete that they are now. although in general it is hard to argue that our very best athletes are not playing soccer, and having a team of reggie bush's and russel westbrooks would have to be better than what we have now, and make up for some of the difference in technical skill that the euro and south american players have over ours.

Exactly. Great athlete does not mean great soccer player. It doesn't just transfer from one sport to the other or Michael Jordan would have been an all world baseball player.

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