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re: What exactly is going on with Pulisic?
Posted on 12/20/18 at 4:08 pm to jackwoods4
Posted on 12/20/18 at 4:08 pm to jackwoods4
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This is the dumbest argument on this board in a long time.
It will be trumped as soon as someone claims Lebron would have been an amazing soccer player.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 5:01 pm to crazy4lsu
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Lebron would have been an amazing soccer player.
If you don’t think lebron James having devoted his life to playing soccer instead of basketball could have been an absolute monster in front of the goal at either end of the pitch I’m not sure what to tell you.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 5:17 pm to Masterag
With current American training techniques, or the ones we used when he was coming of age, he'd be a GK at best, and even that is a long shot. He would likely have never been a professional outfield player. Tall dudes are selected against in soccer and generally are limited to three roles, CB, target striker or GK. There is a litany of super athletic players who lacked the requisite technical skill, and who were nothing more than intermittent role players.
It wouldn't matter how athletic Lebron is, as without skill on the ball and the ability to negotiate tight spaces, he'd be a severely limited player. If he was born and trained in France? I'd be more inclined to think he could have been a professional. French players generally have immaculate technique. American players do not.
It wouldn't matter how athletic Lebron is, as without skill on the ball and the ability to negotiate tight spaces, he'd be a severely limited player. If he was born and trained in France? I'd be more inclined to think he could have been a professional. French players generally have immaculate technique. American players do not.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:08 pm to crazy4lsu
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It wouldn't matter how athletic Lebron is, as without skill on the ball and the ability to negotiate tight spaces, he'd be a severely limited player.
Yaya Toure, Zinedine Zidane, zlatan... tall players with coordination.
coordination is all that matters, not size. most big guys just don't have it. the fact that lebron is supremely coordinated with his hands leads me to believe that he would have been with his feet as well.
people always said a tall guy could never be the fastest man in the world before usain bolt set fire to the record books.
This post was edited on 12/20/18 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:13 pm to Masterag
Thread of the year here for the lulz
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:16 pm to TheZaba
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TheZaba
You need to tell your people to calm down
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:20 pm to StraightCashHomey21
I just think Liverpool has the upper hand in getting Pulisic because of his previous relationship with Klopp
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:22 pm to TheZaba
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I just think Liverpool has the upper hand in getting Pulisic because of his previous relationship with Klopp
Lol why lie to your self to lay bait
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:23 pm to Masterag
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Yaya Toure, Zinedine Zidane, zlatan... tall players with coordination.
Read what I wrote again. Toure and Zidane are midgets compared to Lebron. Ibrahimovic has insane talent and body positioning and is an outlier in pretty much every respect. There isn't one outfield player I can think of that is as tall as Lebron, and the only one historically that was any good was Jan Koller.
All the players you mentioned also had far better technical educations than Lebron would have received in the states. There is a large body of evidence that suggests Lebron wouldn't have become a professional outfield player. From a study of Danish professional soccer players, who all had a higher proportion of slow-twitch muscle fibers than the average Danish male, to the slew of athletic players who had average touch and could never make a massive impact (there is a literally a genre of these wingers) to the legitimate points about American technical education. It's a nonsensical position to suggest that Lebron would be a professional by virtue of his athletic ability alone. The traditional notion of athleticism favors fast-twitch muscle profiles, explosiveness, speed, etc. Soccer has generally favored slow-twitch muscle profiles. For example, Michael Bradley, who at sixteen, looked like the perfect central midfielder. Tall, rangy, and could run forever. But at times he had the touch of a rapist, and it affected his career, even though he had all the physical attributes. The best players of this last generation, outside of Messi and Ronaldo, haven't been particularly athletic. Xavi, Iniesta, Xabi Alonso, Modric, and most central midfielders aren't what I would call explosive, though all of them have superb stamina. Busquets has a crazy amount of ball skills for his height, but he doesn't exactly look like what Americans picture when they think of athletic, even though he is. Again, most of these players received world-class technical educations. And without technique, you will just be another pacey winger without end product (like Walcott, Wright-Phillips, Callum McManaman, among a ton of others).
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:23 pm to TheZaba
I’m getting hungry who’s going to meet me at Sonic.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:24 pm to StraightCashHomey21
Oh man I could go for a sonic blast
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:27 pm to TheZaba
I’m thinking a cheeseburger tots and Motz sticks
No gym today so I’m saying frick it on dinner
No gym today so I’m saying frick it on dinner
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:28 pm to StraightCashHomey21
I’m going back home tomorrow for Christmas so also saying frick it
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:28 pm to TheZaba
I've said I'm going to go to the gym in the morning every day this week and instead I've gotten high and just argued with retards on the internet.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:30 pm to crazy4lsu
I have no excuse to be lazy when I have a gym in my garage
But I need to finish this season of Ozarks
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