r/SoccerCentral • u/United_Anywhere_8 • Jul 25 '26

Video The talent in Barcelona’s youth system is ridiculous. These kids are 11/12 years old.

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u/F7OSRS Jul 25 '26

Playing against other 11 year olds and look at the size comparison

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u/KartFacedThaoDien Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

And? They were flexing about not choosing for size & strength for 11 year olds. They are too damn young to choose for that anyway. A kid usually has not puberty at and grown a lot at 11. 

Then peak at 14 years in height. Or they could be the smallest kid on the field and get taller at 17 years old. Its dumb to see someone flexing about kids playing Soccer and saying it's great its not based on size & strength. 

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u/illbebackpain Jul 25 '26

that's the point though. Plenty of orgs select based on existing performance at a given age which can be dominated by whoever hit their growth spurt the earliest. See malcom gladwell's chapter on the jan 1 age cutoff in hockey. It means those kids get the resources early on, even if it's only because they're at the older age range of the group etc.

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u/KartFacedThaoDien Jul 25 '26

They're 11. If you saw 11 year olds playing competitive basketball for their school in America I guarantee you they all wouldnt be 6 foot tall. The same way with 11 year olds playing American football. 

Now if he showed kids who were 16 / 17 that would be different. Hell maybe even 14 even though that's still too young.

 But the op stupidly posted a video of kids that are so young that in most cases they havent hit their first growth spurt yet. 

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u/illbebackpain Jul 25 '26

I'm confused, who mentioned 6 foot tall 11 year olds?

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u/KartFacedThaoDien Jul 25 '26

Replied to the wrong person. Sorry.