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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
actually i will challenge this statement. not that many kids play organized football or basketball at this age. compared to soccer.
but then there are all the ghetto kids that don't play organized anything. so that balances it out.
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Maybe push the age up to about age 12. A lot of kids play soccer at age 9.
In Utah, at age 5/6 everyone plays soccer. By the time they are 12, of the top 20 athletes in a high school boundary, only 1 or 2 is still playing soccer.
Choosing the best 40 athletes across America would leave you with one if you're lucky out of Utah. Chances of the best athlete in Utah being a soccer player instead of football or basketball player is 1 in a million.
I define "athlete" as maximum combination of speed, strength, size, athletic intelligence, and coordination.