Raymond
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I haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if this has been mentioned. People mentioned how small countries (i.e. Italy, Montenegro, etc) have such great soccer teams compared to the US. Well, our best athletes don't play soccer. Maybe they will in the future, but the best athletes growing up eventually get shuttled into the other popular american sports, i.e. football, basketball. That being said, imagine if the best athletes played soccer strictly and then the US fielded a team. We would DWARF any other country EASILY! It wouldn't even be fair....................
The thing is, it was covered earlier in the thread. Most of them are extreme lightweights. They couldn't make it in the other US sports IMO. They are gazelles. Built for soccer. Beasley is 5-6, 137 lbs. Most of them appear to be under 165lbs. This link is all I can find, so you have to open each one for their height/weights.
http://www.espnfc.us/team/united-states/660/squad