re: What exactly is going on with Pulisic?

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Yaya Toure, Zinedine Zidane, zlatan... tall players with coordination.

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Read what I wrote again. Toure and Zidane are midgets compared to Lebron. Ibrahimovic has insane talent and body positioning and is an outlier in pretty much every respect. There isn't one outfield player I can think of that is as tall as Lebron, and the only one historically that was any good was Jan Koller.

All the players you mentioned also had far better technical educations than Lebron would have received in the states. There is a large body of evidence that suggests Lebron wouldn't have become a professional outfield player. From a study of Danish professional soccer players, who all had a higher proportion of slow-twitch muscle fibers than the average Danish male, to the slew of athletic players who had average touch and could never make a massive impact (there is a literally a genre of these wingers) to the legitimate points about American technical education. It's a nonsensical position to suggest that Lebron would be a professional by virtue of his athletic ability alone. The traditional notion of athleticism favors fast-twitch muscle profiles, explosiveness, speed, etc. Soccer has generally favored slow-twitch muscle profiles. For example, Michael Bradley, who at sixteen, looked like the perfect central midfielder. Tall, rangy, and could run forever. But at times he had the touch of a rapist, and it affected his career, even though he had all the physical attributes. The best players of this last generation, outside of Messi and Ronaldo, haven't been particularly athletic. Xavi, Iniesta, Xabi Alonso, Modric, and most central midfielders aren't what I would call explosive, though all of them have superb stamina. Busquets has a crazy amount of ball skills for his height, but he doesn't exactly look like what Americans picture when they think of athletic, even though he is. Again, most of these players received world-class technical educations. And without technique, you will just be another pacey winger without end product (like Walcott, Wright-Phillips, Callum McManaman, among a ton of others).