There are many qualities of a good soccer player fabulous dribbling will be behind ball control, first touch, stamina, passing and acceleration to name just a few. More importantly good soccer players are better seen than described.

how many such partners does messi have at Barcelona? The point is of course if I'm 6'4 with a 40 inch vertical I would win more aerial balls but this is really not as much an advantage as simply fielding a good soccer player.

"Many "hold-up strikers" have none of these, and it shows"

so in other words good strikers.

not really. It sounds like a good strategy only if you believe a striker physically and literally needs to do a lot of holding up. Next time you watch a soccer match try to identify the number of times the traits described above help.

sure if you're not good enough to work the ball through the midfield you can pay a long ball strategy but the point man just needs to be a good player not necessarily a limited lumbering striker. The words we use to describe these strikers end up being euphemisms for what they can't do.

assuming there were no symptoms on what basis does a pediatrician go looking for a rare genetic disease? This is exactly why medical doctors ultimately do things that result in worse outcomes for patients but prevent against the type of lawsuit you are suggesting

this idea of big hold up strikers as something required or even helpful in soccer is only something that basketball fans will come up with. Sorry there is no significant back to the basket play in soccer. And for the minimal such play that exists lower body strength is far more important than size.

If its really this obvious why wasn't this article written 2 weeks ago?

Sorry there is any wedding industrial complex conspiracy to tell anyone anything. If it was this easy for businesses to convince you to do things we'd all be using our blackberrys on segways. Businesses mostly exist to fill an existing demand, or simply put out a product and hope and pray we happen to like it. They…

Getting married in itself isn't any more logical than throwing a huge party for it. If the idea is that humans should only do logical things then you have wrong species. We all have a long list of illogical things we love and cherish for reasons that are not immediately clear or explainable. Picking on one of such…

This is up there with 'I've been to every baseball park in the US but NEVER been on the field.'

ok how is it objectively terrible?

Well then... is your wife prefect? Does she have saggy tits or talk too much? Why not dump her. How about your job, is there a better one out there? well then go get it? After all you are true solutionist chief

Good old American exceptionalism on display. "Hey I never watch this cute little sport you have here but do you mind changing like everything to look like how I am used to? Great! Kthxbye"

yeah so just don't turn on the tv again. Problem solved

every 4 years you can count on Americans to wake up from their slumber and begin to make proposals to overhaul something they barely care about. There are many situations where "solutions" only serve to create other problems or diminish an experience... There is no problem with soccer unless you have the solutionist…

I'm thinking they're fucking with us since this isn't even close to what you'd expect by deadspin standards

Yeah not even close to funny.

an igbo here... Nigeria is not any closer civil war as it has been anytime in its history. Boko haram or the Niger delta issues have nothing to do with breaking up the country. In the Niger delta the enemy is western oil companies. In the north boko haram is simply the enemy. They kill as many hausa as they do igbo.…