More like the other way around. You can take a soccer player and put him on the cross country team. In football you can also do the same thing, either way around. In soccer you actually have to know how to dribble, kick, pass and have good periferel(sp) vision. Running is only part of it to keep you going around. A lot of African teams are faster than European teams but they arent better because they cant kick, dribble and pass as good, stupid example, very stupid.