He was VERY good - the best on all of his teams through middle school. But he's also VERY good at football. And the soccer coaches in his area made him choose - if he was going to play soccer he had to do it year-round and not play any other sports. He wasn't about to give up football, so he chose to play football in the fall and run track in the spring.

I don't know if the year-round soccer thing is the case broadly, but most talented black athletes who are good at multiple sports aren't going to choose soccer if it means they have to give up everything else.