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re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 4:38 pm to Tiger in NY
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Kobe was very modest.
:lol: if Kobe was good enough to play soccer professionally he would have, Especially in Italy where there are 100s of professional teams and even more semi-professional teams.
Im sure he was good, much better than myself, but professionals are on an entirely different planet skillwise.
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re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 4:26 pm to lsupride87
Lets revisit this Kobe Bryant article from 2014
Bleacher Report
So there you have it. One of our best athletes of all time, training in probably the best soccer training hotbed in the world at the time (90s Italy) and he wasn't anything special.
Bleacher Report
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FIFA.com asked the Mamba, who has been attending matches at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, about his fandom, and his response was rather interesting. "I am actually [a huge fan]. I grew up in Italy. From the age from six to 14 I played soccer every day. It is actually my favorite sport," he said
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Back in 2006, he discussed his playing career with Luis Arroyave of the Chicago Tribune (via the Los Angeles Times' Mark Medina):
"I wasn't anything spectacular. I would have moments of doing something crazy that really wasn't done on purpose. I'd pull off a nice move that was unintentional.
I started out at goalkeeper because my arms were so long and I didn't really have a good feel at handling the ball. As I practiced and progressed, they moved me to midfield."
So there you have it. One of our best athletes of all time, training in probably the best soccer training hotbed in the world at the time (90s Italy) and he wasn't anything special.
Yeah, it's gonna be worse now that Marvel and Warner are leaving town (or at least significantly reducing their footprint)
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atlanta must not have AI since they are thriving in the movie and film industry
You must not have been paying attention the past 2 years if you think the Georgia film industry is thriving....
re: The shrinking of Hollywood : 72K film jobs lost since 2022
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 3:39 pm to RollTide1987
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Atlanta, GA is essentially becoming the new Hollywood. A lot of celebrities are starting to leave California
Youre a few years late. This was happening a couple years ago but now it is experiencing a downturn as well.
Direct production spending in the state dropped from a 2022 peak of $4.4 billion to just $2.3 billion in FY25
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liberal voting tendencies* not AI
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He stomped on the foot and pulled the shirt to get the ball for the counter. Die on that hill if you want
Yeah, it was a clear foul. Should we also not call back clear offsides if they make a few passes after the initial offsides pass? Of course not. Sure it looks bad, but the alternative is letting an undeserved goal count.
AI/Technology is directly responsible for 75% of these job losses
Citing estimates from Goldman Sachs, BeInCrypto reported that AI-related restructuring reduced US payrolls by roughly 16,000 jobs per month over the past year as organizations rebuilt teams around automation.
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AI is aggressively displacing jobs in Hollywood, cutting production costs by up to 90% in animation and short-form video. Entire staffing layers—including voice actors, 3D modelers, concept artists, and post-production crews—are being replaced by AI tools. Startups now use AI to generate entire 30-minute series for as little as $1,500
Citing estimates from Goldman Sachs, BeInCrypto reported that AI-related restructuring reduced US payrolls by roughly 16,000 jobs per month over the past year as organizations rebuilt teams around automation.
re: We Got 'em Now, Baws. AI just discovered the BIGGEST legal insider trading op in AMERICA!
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 2:54 pm to SludgeFactory
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You can't vote your way out of this. Uniparty forever rules.
I mean we could, but these idiots are too busy voting for one side of the uniparty or the other.
re: Say what you will about soccer
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 1:57 pm to Hangover Haven
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Just once I'd like to watch a game without the Academy Award winning injuries...
the new rule for this world cup where you have to play a man down if your player goes down injured has curtailed this a lot.
but I notice neither of your gif examples are from this world cup anyway
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 1:51 pm to Adam Banks
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It’s if LeBron (and using LeBron basically as a stand in as an elite American athlete) and a few others dedicated themselves to soccer we’d be winning world cups.
We have Antonio Freemans son Alex on the team who spent his entire life playing soccer.
He plays right defense, one of westcoastags examples of positions that our incredible us athletes would be a huge advantage. He still isnt even close to a top 50 right back in the world and wouldn't even make the roster for spain/france/england/morocco
Hakimi is the best right back in the world
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 1:22 pm to Tiger in NY
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Explain. I already said the US program needs to change, but this thread works under the assumption that it would be the primary funded sport in America
Id assume England and Germany are currently the top spenders. England has a chance to win it all this year but they havent won one in a long time.
Spending the most money on coaching and training should theoretically result in fielding the best coaches, but it doesnt seem to play out that way historically.
Real Madrid and Barcelona have had the best youth setups since the 90s and Spain has still only finished with 1 world cup as a result.
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 1:17 pm to tiggerthetooth
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The entire premise of this argument is a pure athletic boost ALONE would push the US to the top.
The problem is the CURRENT US players are not getting the level of technical ability other nations get DESPITE being PLENTY athletic enough.
You are literally adding nothing by adding more athlete without MORE technical ability.
The US doesnt need more athletes, it needs more TECHNICAL ability. The US lacks in technical ability alone against European and South American teams.
Taking current US technical ability and giving it to the best US athletes would not improve the team much. Aside from that, soccer ability peaks in much different types of athletes.
Well said, thanks for taking the time to spell that out, i was caught up watching Argentina come from the dead.
His point makes no sense. He is arguing we would dominate if our best athletes trained soccer.
Now he is saying just at a few key positions we would put a tall athletic freak like haaland.
Anyone that watched the game knows we would have lost even with haaland because we are still lacking in technical skills due to training.
Watch Spain play. They dont dominate possession and beat everyone because of their athleticism.
Now he is saying just at a few key positions we would put a tall athletic freak like haaland.
Anyone that watched the game knows we would have lost even with haaland because we are still lacking in technical skills due to training.
Watch Spain play. They dont dominate possession and beat everyone because of their athleticism.
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 11:57 am to WestCoastAg
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Then you understand that the whole point is that we wouldn't be having a full team of lebrons running out there but instead leveraging the one or two that we hit on in the positions that it clearly is benefitical in like the one this norwegian dude plays right
What good would it do if we cant even get them the ball like yesterday?
Balogun is pretty damn athletic.
We would have lost even if we had Haaland yesterday.
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 11:53 am to WestCoastAg
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What in the world are you talking about
Theres a negative correlation between height and coordination. Especially when it comes to agility, which is the most important athletic attribute for most soccer positions.
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 11:42 am to ned nederlander
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Soccer is far closer to baseball than basketball or football in terms of development in terms of what it take to develop players.
Soccer is overwhelming a technical sport that just takes massive amounts of repetition and touches on the ball at a young age. You can’t start that process at age 12, 13, 14. It is too late.
Soccer compounds the challenge by also being a running sport so the prime for a soccer player is shifted younger than a baseball player. There is less time to develop the technical ability before your legs can no longer keep up.
Yeah, i guess some of these people havent watched enough to realize this yet.
Athleticism is great, it almost got senegal the win over belgium
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 11:40 am to WestCoastAg
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its almost like imagine a world where we are able to combine the two. crazy
Thats like asking a guy like Lebron to have the ball-handling skills of Kyrie Irving or Allen Iverson?
Do our best athletes not care about basketball either?
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 11:14 am to Tiger in NY
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You dont need to know. The number is zero. There is no college or pro soccer player that didnt play until 16. Football is the only sport that happens in.
It can happen in the nba as well. But yeah, you will NEVER get a world cup worthy center midfielder that doesnt start playing the game before they are 8 years old. They could have all the athleticism in the world. It wouldn't matter.
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 11:09 am to Adam Banks
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Zlatan is 6’5”
Haaland is 6’ 5”
Ronaldo is 6’ 2” and ripped.
Thomas Mueller is 6’ 1”
And they all play a position we had exactly one player at and couldnt get the ball to yesterday.
re: I know it’s cliche, but our best athletes would dominate Soccer.
Posted by sgallo3 on 7/7/26 at 7:03 am to lsupride87
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If it was our top sporting priority we would be absolutely dominant. How in the frick can you or anyone honestly argue against that
You say this like Argentina didnt just tie Cape Verde.
Cape verde population is 500k. Argentina prioritizes soccer and still couldnt beat them in 90 minutes.
Its a game of teamwork and effort.
Brazil just got knocked out by Norway. Its not because brazil has a smaller population or doesnt care. Its because 11 players from Norway beat the best brazil could offer up
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