1,5 year old and playing soccer like this! Hoax, anyone???

@diamania (7011)
Netherlands
April 25, 2011 5:16am CST
Have you guys seen the 1.5 year old Dutch infant Baer who is able to shoot a ball in a box from a few meter's distance yet? It's here on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZGhGbfzCSU&feature=aso I just can't believe this to be true. Most kids at the age of one and a half learn how to talk and walk and this fella knows how to shoot a ball into a box!? Do you think this is a hoax, a fake?
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• United States
28 Apr 11
My first thought was that it had to be a fake but after viewing the video, unbelievable as it really looks real. Maybe one of the gifted kids and this the child's forte. You never know with so many prodigy children this just might really be the childs gift.
@yugasini (12836)
• Anantapur, India
27 Apr 11
hi Diamania, i have seen the video now itself really it is amazing the small kid hit the three balls in the box correctly, where you find this video clip,have you remembered me i have send several letters to you about kooday site and earning,what is your activity with kooday site at present?have a nice day
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
25 Apr 11
I think that its quite genuine. I have a grandson of about the same age who is just as accurate with kicking and throwing a ball. I (who never had good ball skills) am just constantly amazed at his accuracy! He hasn't learned to catch yet but his sister, who is a little more than a year older can do so and she is even more adroit at kicking and throwing. The hardest part about kicking a ball, of course, is being able to balance on one leg while using the other to kick. Most kids will fall over when they first try but, especially if they are walking early (at 9 to 10 months or even earlier), they soon learn the skill. You will notice that this little boy has only to lift the ball sufficiently to clear the rim of the box. The lid is angled in such a way that, as long as he can do this and is reasonably accurate about directing the ball, it is almost certain to go into the box. He has clearly been encouraged by praise to practice and to think it a clever and proper thing to do!
@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
25 Apr 11
I don't think its a hoax. Why? Well, because I think that if the roomie's great nephew had soft balls like those (and you can see him grab that last ball with one hand) that he could've done it when he was one and a half. The great nephew at 3 has a 4 yr old best friend who is only about an inch (couple of centimeters) taller. This kid is remarkably coordinated for his age and always has been. I'd suspect the child in the video is the same way. Fact is, the nephew is probably from the same genetic "stock" as the boy in the video, Northern European, probably of German/French with a lot of "whatever" in there.