If America's top athletes played soccer how many world cups

africa has 0 cups and they are basically athletic americans.

>>76974077
probably none. Football is not about size but skill.

>>76974129
This

>LeBron 20cm shorter - not even playing in NBA

>Messi 20cm taller - still world class attacking midfielder/striker

>>76974160
If you think there's no skill involved in football, basketball, baseball, and hockey, then you're seriously kidding yourself.

The average person wouldn't be able to catch an NFL pass or run a route

>>76974271
>The average person wouldn't be able to catch an NFL pass or run a route

literal retards do that. See Aaron Hernandez

>>76974233
Height isn't necessary to play in the NBA but it helps

>>76974292
You're implying skill takes intelligence, it doesn't

>>76974077
John Cena would have 5 consecutive golden boots if he played soccer

>>76974271
name one retard that plays professional at club level in any top league in the world.

They are geniuses compared to the average NBA'er or NFL'er

>It's a retarded Amerifat who thinks giganigger athletes are all we need to win in soccer/football.

The sport has been solved already. The only good players in soccer/football are the manlets with low fat percentage bodies that can run for miles as well as having great ball control. Being able to crash into niggers or hit the hoop with your ape arms isn't going to help you for shit.

>>76974318
firstly you'd have to qualify what intelligence even means in this scenario. is it strictly someone's iq? is it whether or not someone has a knack for the game and can think outside the box? is it just memorization or is it also adapting to the play?

>>76974387
>manlets

There are plenty of good players around 6ft, in fact probably more than manlets

most likely all of them since about '96.

>>76974292
Aaron Hernandez was a god at any sport he played his entire life. What's your point?

>>76974271
Obviously there is skill involved in american sports but if Maradona, 5''5 and 150 lbs, was the most talented basketball player that ever lived he would probably never get to NBA level and much less likely GOAT level even though he had the skill and the work ethic. You are competing against a way bigger pool when it comes down to soccer

>>76974271
yeah and now imagine youd have to catch and NFL pass with your feet
that's the skill gap

pretty much any Point Guard in the NBA would be better than Messi if that's the only sport they ever played. Let's be honest, Americans are better than South America and Yurop at literally everything else in the world, why would divegrass be any different?

Assuming it has been the most popular sport since the early 20thbcentury..

Probably 3-4

>>76974581
because americans aren't better at everything

>>76974611

keep telling yourself that sweetie. when we want to be better at something, we are. period.

Some pro nfl guy only got one of these rigth, can you solve it in 40 secs /sp/ ?

http://www.espn.com/page2/s/closer/020228test.html

>>76974504
Mugsy Bogues was 5'3 and played in the NBA and is regarded as one of the best players of all time and this was during the Jordan era

I have a sneaking suspicion that Dustin Pedrioa would be better than Rooney if he'd only played soccer.

Jeter would have definitely been better than Ronaldo.

>>76974506
If you honestly think that kicking a ball to another person is the same as catching an NFL pass then you're hilarious. A football is flying higher, harder, and faster and it's going through traffic, not to mention the coverage you'll have to face on your way to catching the ball

>>76974664

>Mugsy Bogues
>one of the best players of all time

at no point was Mugsy Bouges in the top 50 active players during his career.

>>76974675

it's not an approach, dummy. it's the god damn truth.

>>76974707
Well, he wasn't shit

Im so fucking proud to be american. We literally dominate in everything. God bless the fucking us of a

>>76974160
Its not about just size

Gronk and LeBron and 6'7+ and can run as fast as cornerbacks.. You don't understand how fast these players really are

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>>76974777
Practice?

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>>76974788
>Gronk and LeBron and 6'7+ and can run as fast as cornerbacks

>>76974695
I was talking about receiving a ball. Geting on the end of a pass in football requires all the same skills as in handegg, except with your feet.

it would a literal army of latino manlets to stop a fully enraged Lebron James on a soccer field. We would beat any country by double digits with just our NBA players.

>>76974788
How fast can they run with a ball at their feet

>>76974788
for how long

>>76974931

>ball rolls across grass in your direction and hits your shoe.
yeah. no it doesn't.

>>76974321
underrated post

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>>76974937
Heart disease would beat you first before that ever happens.

>>76974962
>durr i can dumb down everything

>>76974675
no one here likes soccer so yeah, we're not trying
also if you post any americans watching WC in large numbers its because we like memes and WC is just a huge meme
trendy for a couple months out of the year but then its back to NFL

Lebron would run out of stream pretty quickly

>>76974292
>literal retards do that.
intelligence =/= skill

>>76974788
These guys run fast with a ball at their feet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-OhIz4UY

Probably 0 because our top athletes aren't gay

>>76976676
>that random slow woman
wew

>>76974581
I looked at a list of the best wrestlers ever and one is Hamid and the other is Karelin.
in another list the first two are russians

You guys wrestle a lot but don't have the best ever. Proved wrong already.

>>76974434
Ackchually the height distribution of pro football players mostly follow the height distribution of average people

>>76974077
it would be guys like Isiah Thomas, peak Dustin Pedroia, NFL receivers and people like that. not some giant nigger

>>76974581
>born talented at basketball
>choose to play an entirely different sport
>become better than the greatest footballer of all time

Do yanks not see the flaw in this logic

>>76974695
>If you honestly think that kicking a ball to another person is the same as catching an NFL pass then you're hilarious. A football is flying higher, harder, and faster and it's going through traffic, not to mention the coverage you'll have to face on your way to catching the ball
That bait is so weak. The German told you it's the same, I tell you it's harder than play babby catch
>ball kicked is obviously faster than a ball thrown by hand
>going through "traffic" too, even more dense because dozens of legs
>while being marked
but you have to catch it with your feet, so it's way harder

>>76974937
Any 210 cm NBA would die of exhaustion after 15 minutes of play, so your phantasm doesn't work, sorry

>>76974129
African Americans are the greatest athletes in the world

>>76977204
Americans compete against themselves and then decide they are the best ever.

>>76977204
That's what I said. And yet you'd have 0 cups

>>76974695
There is a very high% of your brain dedicated towards the hands, there is a reason catching a ball is something you learn by about age 2. Skill with hands and skill with feet are totally different things, and add the fact that basketball and American football players are generally physically quite extreme and specialised means they were be terrible at football. USA should already be very good at football by all accounts because you certainly aren't losing prospective soccer talent to the NBA or NFL.

>what would a larger England be like
I don't know you tell me

We dominate the Olympics. If we gave a shit about soccer there is no doubt we would dominate that as well. It's all about the youth acadamies which we have nada.

>>76976676
This is not fast it's "fast". Fast for a soccer player, but if you genuinely believe any of these players are fast enough to run a sub 4.40 40 yard dash like top NFL players, wew lad.

>>76974271
>Catching a ball is the pinnacle of skill in American sports

Good argument.

>>76982016
Loads of footballers have clocked sub 11 100m. If they were trained specifically to sprint like handegg runners they could.

>>76974374
Are you being serious right now? Guys like Beckham were literal retards, Messi and Ronaldo don't even know that they should pay their fucking taxes, and the GOAT soccer nation is third world Brazil.

>>76974129
Is that why Nigera and South Africa are the all time leaders in gold medals?

>>76982428
What he is saying is African guys are athletic as fuck and they can't win shit. If you're talking about the Olympics put this in your head: Only some Europeans, Russia, China and the USA cares about the Olympics.

>>76982016
>if you genuinely believe any of these players are fast enough to run a sub 4.40 40 yard dash

http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/06/arsenals-hector-bellerin-is-actually-quicker-than-usain-bolt-over-40-metres-5485755/

players dont get trained or tested for these things. literally hundreds of players in the world are as fast as 4.40

>>76982428

Jamaica cleans house at track but is a meme even against us

I think most wide receivers would be somewhere close to Adama Traore, as in they could beat most fullbacks with sheer pace and power, but end product is lacking. With training specific to soccer, most would reach an elite level.

>>76982016
lmao, there are mls players who run 4.2

>>76982485
>After beating Theo Walcott’s long-standing sprint record at Arsenal with a 40m sprint time of 4.41 seconds, many claimed that Bellerin was actually quicker than the Jamaican sprinter.
>4.41

That author is a retard, the 40 is timed completely differently (reaction time is removed etc) so you can't just take Usain's first 40 meters and leave it at that. A real, in-depth analysis of this subject concluded that Usain could probably run a sub 4 40.
https://www.freelapusa.com/how-fast-can-usain-bolt-run-the-40-yard-dash/

>>76982626
obviously. its just tabloid clickbait shite. no one thinks he is quicker than usain bolt

>>76982541
Which MLELS player can run a fucking 4.2?

>>76982771
yedlin ran 4.2 coming out of college

>>76982504
>With training specific to soccer, most would reach an elite level

You can't teach ball control to that standard without talent. Kids are scouted as young as 5 solely on having stand out motor coordination.

>durr hurr top speed matters in soccer

All of the top 10 are manlets with comparatively modest sprinting speed but amazing balance and lower body control because, after all, are running with a ball at your feet

different dynamic dumbasses

>>76982404
Ronaldo has an IQ of 177

>>76983035

Damn, #respect to the man

truly world class

>>76982504
You can't learn "soccer" past 13 yo, as brain isn't plastic enough anymore to master unnatural eye-feet coordination.
So, git gud young or never make it

Mexicans aren't very good at the sport they love so much and Africans peak at """21"""

>>76986797
you need a solid foundation by playing a lot by 13. but the soccer world is littered with wonderteens with amazing skill who never panned out. there's a lot of work to do and a long road ahead if you want to play professionally if you're a 13 yo with great skill. same as any other sport.

one of the things /pol/ loves to do is compare how smart you have to be to play certain sports. but it's never based on anything except existing prejudice and how dark someone's skin is.

>>76982970
this 2bh, you just have to look at the careers of pacebabbies like lolcott and jesus navas to see this

>>76974077
There are more euros with superbowl rings than yanks with champions league medals.