Originally Posted by krazyrobus

I remember one Ajax youth coach saying in a documentary that the 1st thing they measure in their kids is speed. They can have all the talent in the world but without a decent amount of pace they will not make it.

I've seen guys with as much technical ability as your average premier league football but can't make it because they lack either the speed or lung power to cut it. Very few exceptions to this rule and you have to be really out of this world to make it without those physical attributes, guys like Zidane and Riquelme.