Europeans still misunderstand this argument.
There are ~192 wide receivers in the NFL. These guys are 6+ feet tall, fast, strong, quick feet, powerful jump, great reflexes, elite positioning, spatial IQ etc.
We’re not saying if you gave them a soccer ball today they’d outscore Haaland.
But if you gave those 192 NFL receivers a ball at their feet instead of in their hands at 5 years old, and you trained them to be strikers with the same intensity that took them to the NFL?
I promise you’d have at least one elite number 9 among the bunch.