re: How does it feel for the rest of the world watching our 2nd tier athletes drag them?

As freak of an athlete as he is imagine LeBron fricking James trying to play soccer. Dude would be awful.

Odell as a goalie would’ve been fricking insane

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But think about if the best from football, basketball, and baseball chose soccer.

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Baseball is immaterial.

You’d still have to develop the football players and basketball players and I’d argue they wouldn’t necessarily have the skills to dominate the world. One our development sucks arse, two there are plenty of speed and strength merchants who aren’t elite players.

I wouldn’t say Tyreke would be a shoe in even with great development. Still need the touch, the brains, and the creativity to do more than run fast down the sideline.

I see plenty of the elite football players my son plays with (the ones who are touching the ball and running every single play carving up defenses) basically resort to just chasing other kids with the ball in soccer once they hit like age 8…and they play A LOT of soccer. Meanwhile kids who are a step down athletically like mine and some others naturally have the ball stick to their feet and just run them ragged because they’re playing with their head up and able to actually see the field.

Athleticism will take you decently far if you’re really dedicated but a lot of the fastest twitch kids just can’t develop touch.

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Odell Beckham Jr was invited to be a part of the National Academy but he chose American football instead.

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Played against HS Odell & Ronnie Vinson in a pickup game. You could tell OBJ dabbled in the sport.