re: When soccer was first conceived, invented, codified, whatever...

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t is my true belief that you could take America's best athletes who have never previously played soccer, practice them up for a bit, send them out on the soccer field, and they'd be lights out on defense. They may not score, and probably wouldn't, but they'd be just about as good as anybody else on defense.

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Nope. Even the highest paid defenders, brazils cb pairing. Are skilled passers of the ball. I follow Arsenal, and for all of mertesackers defecencies, he's a great distributor. You still have to get the ball out of ur own half.