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Post by Soccerhouse on Jul 2, 2018 8:15:58 GMT -5
Mikey has started 5 games this year now, and has played in 6.
The question of the day, He is listed at 5'9, but having stand next to him before, that is a very favorable measurement --- If Mikey group in Atlanta and played fullback, would he even make the Atlanta United Academy? I"m thinking of the 17s/19s, not the younger sides?
My answer is no.
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Post by crossbar on Jul 2, 2018 10:07:18 GMT -5
Yeah, the size bias is an interesting thing... An awful lot of players on the senior team are pretty small, and yet there’s a huge bias toward big kids in the younger age groups. Of course, being big early doesn’t necessarily translate into being big when fully grown. A kid who grows early might get higher level training/playing opportunities during the early years vs. a kid who gets his growth late. I have no idea, but perhaps Ambrose was (relatively) bigger at an early age and thus enjoyed the same sort of favoritism.
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Post by hejausa on Jul 2, 2018 10:16:26 GMT -5
We went to a meet-the-player event and have a picture with a player listed at 5’10”. He is absolutely dwarfed in a picture with my 13-year-old who isn’t quite 5’9”. It’s kind of comical.
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Post by oraclesfriend on Jul 2, 2018 10:42:06 GMT -5
We went to a meet-the-player event and have a picture with a player listed at 5’10”. He is absolutely dwarfed in a picture with my 13-year-old who isn’t quite 5’9”. It’s kind of comical. Read the article in the ESPN body issue on lying on height in professional and college programs. Very funny. It is all sports. Interestingly Kevin Durant likes the other way so he can be listed as a "small forward"
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Post by atlfutboldad on Jul 2, 2018 10:58:08 GMT -5
Speaking of this, watching the AU/Orlando game...it looked like an international professional team against a US men's college reunion team. It was pretty pathetic really. Sort of like watching the Globetrotters vs the Generals. Orlando is big and has good straight-ahead speed, but ATL is so much quicker and more agile.
Old MLS vs new MLS. There's a reason ATL is on top, smart roster building and smart management.
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Post by mistergrinch on Jul 4, 2018 12:16:44 GMT -5
Messi is listed at 5'7".. yeah, right.
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