Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 13600171)

Soccer is such a complex game, with such a particularized set of skills to draw from, that there really are only two physical attributes that qualify as automatic advantages.

Straight-line speed on breakaways and height when performing headers.

Maybe, . . . fast twitch reflexes for a goalie.

So much of the rest of it can be game planned and platooned.

Soccer is so much more about skill, endurance and team synergy than imposing your will physically.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 13602464)

Missing a PK will never not boggle my mind. It's like missing a free throw if the basket was the size of a car hood.

Originally Posted by Why Not? (Post 13602467)

It's one thing if the keeper makes a save or you bad luck off a post or something. But to miss the entire cage is simply a choke. No two ways about it.