Teach your children to play soccer instead of football

[BINGO]

Floyd Mayweather is United States' best-paid athlete - ESPN The Magazine - ESPN

 

[deep9er]

even if not for the money in the sport of soccer, soccer makes good sense for the youngest of kids. i recall YEARS ago a Hawaii football coach saying its the first sport kids should take up.

soccer obviously develops running coordination, endurance, and leg strength. all sports require good running whether track, football, basketball, baseball, and even tennis. non 'running' sports also require good leg strength (ie good lower body foundation) such as hockey, field events, boxing, weightlifting, etc..

makes sense to me plus, when i watch kids (real young) do it here, its natural for them to run around. whereas teaching a 6 year old to field a grounder......geeezus!

 

[spacedoodoopistol]

Here's another reason:

ESPN The Magazine Sportingintelligence Global Salary Survey - ESPN The Magazine - ESPN

Amazing that for how money-obsessed our sports are, Euro soccer is like as big as the NFL, MLB and NBA put together, with dramatically higher growth potential.

 

[huskers1217]

I will be raising a running back. Ballet for him

 

[bvanthielriceyoung]

Its crazy how much boxers can make. Wheres all that money come from? It doesnt seem like that many people are all that interested in it.

 

[clyde_carbon]

Holy overraction. Will people stop jumping to conclusions? The case hasn't even been officially ruled as a suicide yet.

 

[mem49er]

Holy overraction. Will people stop jumping to conclusions? The case hasn't even been officially ruled as a suicide yet.

Holy over-defensive...did you read the link?

 

[luckyluke22]

Amazing how much motocross and formula one pay too.

Makes you wonder how Mike Tyson went broke right? Nah, not after that tattoo lol

 

[h-hour]

Holy overraction. Will people stop jumping to conclusions? The case hasn't even been officially ruled as a suicide yet.

Medical examiner rules Junior Seau's death a suicide - latimes.com

Sad stuff.

 

[clyde_carbon]

Holy over-defensive...did you read the link?

Yes. Did you read the thread title?

 

[clyde_carbon]

Here's another reason:

ESPN The Magazine Sportingintelligence Global Salary Survey - ESPN The Magazine - ESPN

Amazing that for how money-obsessed our sports are, Euro soccer is like as big as the NFL, MLB and NBA put together, with dramatically higher growth potential.

Soccer allows much less room for advertisment and corporate sponsors than football, basketball, and baseball. Combine that with the fact that the MLS is pretty much a second rate product, and no way soccer is a premier sport in the US in the near future.

It's unfortunate because soccer is absolutely amazing to follow, and I really believe that pro soccer players are the best athletes in the world.

 

[NinerSickness]

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[kennyt12]

Soccer allows much less room for advertisment and corporate sponsors than football, basketball, and baseball. Combine that with the fact that the MLS is pretty much a second rate product, and no way soccer is a premier sport in the US in the near future.

It's unfortunate because soccer is absolutely amazing to follow, and I really believe that pro soccer players are the best athletes in the world.

I coach basketball here in Shanghai. One thing that I've realized is that playing soccer can help on the hardwood as well. One of the younger guys that I coach is a soccer player but when he's on the court he has amazing vision to find open players.

 

[clyde_carbon]

I'm trying real hard not to neg you Sick!

 

[Bemular]

I coach basketball here in Shanghai. One thing that I've realized is that playing soccer can help on the hardwood as well. One of the younger guys that I coach is a soccer player but when he's on the court he has amazing vision to find open players.

A very good friend of mine is a 5-sport athlete - 3-sport MVP and he has said precisely the same thing. You wouldn't think soccer translates to basketball (one is all feet* the other is all hands) but to hear him say it every sport has aspects of all the others. He claims defending corner kicks as goalie helped him greatly win jump balls as a WR.

(*With the exception of playing goalie of course.)

 

[MHSL82]

A very good friend of mine is a 5-sport athlete - 3-sport MVP and he has said precisely the same thing. You wouldn't think soccer translates to basketball (one is all feet* the other is all hands) but to hear him say it every sport has aspects of all the others. He claims defending corner kicks as goalie helped him greatly win jump balls as a WR.

(*With the exception of playing goalie of course.)

I am not an athlete but I usually play basketball. One day the group decided to play soccer instead. I told them I'm not that familiar with the technical aspects of soccer, which someone who had joined that day took that as me saying I've never seen soccer or didn't know anything about it. He tried to lobby for me to be goalie and told me nobody could touch the ball, including the goalie. I told him, you either know I could beat him (I'm faster than he is)or he thinks that I'm that stupid. I'm not the smartest guy in the world (I know, shocker) but I'm not that stupid. Suffice to say, none of us invited him back.

 

[Bemular]

I am not an athlete but I usually play basketball. One day the group decided to play soccer instead. I told them I'm not that familiar with the technical aspects of soccer, which someone who had joined that day took that as me saying I've never seen soccer or didn't know anything about it. He tried to lobby for me to be goalie and told me nobody could touch the ball, including the goalie. I told him, you either know I could beat him (I'm faster than he is)or he thinks that I'm that stupid. I'm not the smartest guy in the world (I know, shocker) but I'm not that stupid. Suffice to say, none of us invited him back.

What a dweeb, I wouldn't have invited him back either.

 

[Kinzu]

Floyd Mayweather is United States' best-paid athlete - ESPN The Magazine - ESPN

I think they made a typo
They meant to say Floyd Mayweather United States most overrated athlete

 

[arsenal6106]

I remember watching a Steve Nash interview a while back and he said that he credits soccer for his passing(vision) abilities in basketball.

You don't see many point guards making these kind of passes in the NBA.

 

[MHSL82]

I remember watching a Steve Nash interview a while back and he said that he credits soccer for his passing(vision) abilities in basketball.

You don't see many point guards making these kind of passes in the NBA.

That's John Stocktonesque! Without the short shorts or hard picks, of course.