Peelee wrote:
I know that Bolt is an incredible athlete, but so much of soccer is skill-based and reliant on years and years of practice. Being fast and athletic is one thing, but you also need to have incredible ball skills to make it in professional soccer. I have kids in soccer and watching them progress in club leagues has been a very eye-opening process. I was wary of the sport at first, even dismissed it for a few years. But it is really tough to make it once you're above 15U. It's no just speed and athleticism. There is a cultivated art to the game that demands practice. It has a craft-like quality to it.
A cultivated art where everybody walks , jogs and very occasionally sprints , feign injuries for 90+ minutes and goes to a shoot out .