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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2767389, member: 1414"]
This reminds me of something I've seen in basketball.  Watched a local youth tournament that my daughter's former school puts on.  It has teams from Providence and the northern RI suburbs.  So you've got an inner city team of 8th graders, and they face some suburban kids and the best player by miles is a 6th grade suburban kid playing on the 8th grade team. His dad was coach.

I was watching with the father of one of the kids on the Providence team, and he said, yeah, the kid has great ball skills, court awareness, passing, shooting, all of it...but he's not a great athlete.  So in 2-3 years, he'll be passed by and probably play ball at a DIII college somewhere (which is what his dad did).   He was right.

I think we see the same in soccer.  Some kid, like the one you mentioned going to Cornell, gets coached up to such a degree and is perhaps quite smart, and understands the game early beyond he peers, and stands out.  But he's not that fast, and he reaches his ceiling much earlier than other kids.  We have to find a way to identify the kids who can become great, even if they aren't getting strong coaching early on.
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